Suspicious top female result at Paso Robles half marathon

There's also a pretty big difference between the Paso result and this HM a couple years ago:

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2016 Yosemite Half Marathon

The 2016 Yosemite Half Marathon is on Saturday October 8, 2016. It includes the following events: Yosemite Half Marathon, Yosemite Half Marathon Charity Bibs, and Pacers.

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Let me guess: Girls weekend with college friends to Paso for wine and running. Start jogging the HM but had a little too much wine the night before, so you skip to the finish to collect a medal.

I'm guessing she's had no idea and skipped the awards ceremony.

Does Derek do half ‘Thon cheaters?

Yes, I just don't see how someone can go from a 2:15 half to a 1:16 without any results to support such a progession.

Especially at age 42.

Here are the half marathon results showing her at 1:16.

https://raceresults.eternaltiming.com/20221113_Wine_Country_Half_Marathon_and_10K.htm?Fuseaction=Results&Class=Half+Marathon+Individual%7EAll

I don't know if Derek does half marathon cheaters.

Did she claim her prize and the trophy? This could be someone who cut the course just to 'finish' and go home. Probably didn't even know she won.

I don't know yet if she claimed the prize, but she definitely would have known, as the announcer was very on top of things and would have made a big hullabaloo about the first female finisher.

Even if she didn't claim the prize, the website still lists her as the winner, and the 2nd place female, named Mary Noel, is an accomplished runner and should be awarded the prize.

Btw, Jordan Hasay won the 10k event.

While her IG is private, her tag line is “I love tacos.” 😂 Since burritos are code for PEDs, maybe it’s cousin, tacos, translate to course cutting.

To the person above though, if she’s done a handful of races before, she should know what cutting her time in half means. Not sure why we’re assuming she hasn’t claimed the prize money. Cheaters cheat.

If she’s the type of person willing to course cut for a medal and then continue through the tape as the announcer is making a big deal, she may not have the conscience to stop her from accepting a check of $1500? She could justify it to herself by saying it’ll help with the family the way she’s justified the rest.

I second this. If she did not show up to pick the prize, I would think this was not intentional: she has a number of previous results suggesting she jogs races for fun. Not the typical serial course-cutter pedigree. Sometimes people just passes close to the finish line to pick their bag and is registered as finishing; she may have left before the award ceremony and never known she "won".

Did you email the race director?

Your 2017 Houston time is wrong, it's 4:31:45 by chip.

Also a 1:31:34 10-miler in 2014

And the 1:54:54 half-marathon in 2016

Regardless, 1:16 seems a little out of the trend.

😂yeah. Happens all the time.

You guys are comparing times with 5 or 6 years ago. It only takes 2 years of hardwork to go from hobbyjogger to decent times. And shes had more than twice that long. Still to run 1:16 female youd need genetics and some sort of sports background as well.

This assumes she was running on the course and not just walking past the finish on the other side of the barriers. The mats pick up chips either side, you dont have to run directly over them.

Did the 10k start at the same time? Maybe she just decided to run/walk that instead and didn’t realize the problem it would cause?

One thing I notice is the large gap between the runners in front and behind her.

1:14:23

1:16:11

1:19:51

If she did try to jump on the course later, it would have been highly unlikely that any other runner would have seen her.