Runner’s World Editor’s Races Under Scrutiny

Wow!!!

Very surprised!

Good work Derek

That does not look good. Yikes!

Love it.

Of course the only comment so far is blaming Derek for not giving her more time to respond. Like someone who posts every single run to Strava isn't checking their social media multiple times per day, even on vacation.

I don’t see a problem with giving her a week, trying to follow up, and giving her another week. You never know what might occupy someone’s attention at a given time, regardless what their habits are generally.

It’s not like this is highly time-sensitive breaking news, is there some great malfeasance could occur in the intervening period, or that Derek has to worry about really losing out by being scooped by somebody. That’s not to suggest that he’s really at fault; I’d just expect him to err a little more on the side of caution.

You have to be pathetic and mentally unstable to cheat in races.

And people wonder why Rojo doesn’t run races anymore? He doesn’t need this kind of scrutiny.

Umm, he wrote she was provided four days to respond. She's a member of the media, an industry in which communication is the foundation.

I graduated from university with a communications degree and was a print journalist for eight years, internships included. If I went four days without checking my email, social media, I'd have been booted really fast. It was my job to stay on top of my beat, which involved communicating by social media.

She's also been uploading to Strava and posting in the comments section of those activities during the period.

That mag is hot feminst trash anymore. Typical that this would happen.

The 2023 London Marathon activity cited as part of the evidence is no longer viewable on Strava at time of this posting.

Wow, that is impressive detective work. He should be employed by WADA and sent to investigate the top Kenyans.

Now why would someone hide one activity but not have their entire profile private?

I don't understand these cases. It takes a certain amount of coordinated planning and forethought to cheat like this. What does it accomplish? Outside of one's self nobody cares how you do and you know your result is fake.

It's the social media mentality of needing validation from others for your behavior.

You ran a race. You post about it on social media. You get likes. It's basically you saying "look what I did, I did good, right?" Obviously in a lot of cases its also the humble brag of "I did this, I'm awesome and better than the average person".

Very very very very few of your followers are ever going to question whether you actually did it or not amd actually look at the data.

You know you cheated, but your followers will never and having those likes is all that matters!

Stroking your own ego I guess.

In this case there may have been some professional motivation behind it as well, she might have been planning to write something about it, participation might have granted her certain access, or maybe there's simply an unwritten expectation that an editor of runners world runs regularly.

But now she will get fired.

Derek AND the Daily Mail will both be looking for an explaination. That's a tough spot to be in.

Would some of you really need 4 or more days to respond to something like this regarding a sport you take seriously? I don't know about you, but I've never come close to cheating in any race and I'm pretty sure I could formulate my response in a matter of minutes.