Looks like Matt Choi cheated the system at Boston

he needs to go away wrote:

I was looking forward to not seeing this swelled head with his bicycle video crew running at Boston since I knew he failed to qualify, but just for the helluva it I checked for his name on the BAA website. He was there! How?

Cutoff time was 5:29 or 2:54:31

He failed to run a qualifying time and yet is somehow in wave 1 corral 7 with the real qualifiers.

His marathons since September 1, 2022:
Tunnel Vision (2000' downhill) - 2:57:24
New York 4:15:40
Houston 2:59:35 (Disqualified for being a bib-mule)
Austin 3:17:14
Los Angeles 3:17:59
Boston 3:24:53
Dallas Triple 3:49:00
Grandma's 3:24:52
San Francisco 3:28:20
Berlin 3:24:55
Chicago 2:59:37
Austin 3:03:03

11,039 people with qualifying times were denied this year. Some people missed by seconds and were denied. His best was down the side of a mountain and was only 2:36 under - he missed the cut by 2:53! And now he has a bib in wave 1? If the BAA wants to give this clown a bib he didn't earn, give him a bib with the charity runners in the back.

I think everyone who was cut this year ought to flood the BAA's email with complaints.

Choi, I know you read this board. Show a little integrity and don't show up. Some of us still respect the sport. You already displayed a total lack of integrity by bib-muling and getting DQ'ed in Houston. Do your ridiculous clown show somewhere else.

If you do show up, I'll enjoy watching Cailyn Miller kick your @ss again like she did last year. She beat you by 25 minutes! LOL!

he needs to go away wrote:

I was looking forward to not seeing this swelled head with his bicycle video crew running at Boston since I knew he failed to qualify, but just for the helluva it I checked for his name on the BAA website. He was there! How?

Cutoff time was 5:29 or 2:54:31

He failed to run a qualifying time and yet is somehow in wave 1 corral 7 with the real qualifiers.

His marathons since September 1, 2022:
Tunnel Vision (2000' downhill) - 2:57:24
New York 4:15:40
Houston 2:59:35 (Disqualified for being a bib-mule)
Austin 3:17:14
Los Angeles 3:17:59
Boston 3:24:53
Dallas Triple 3:49:00
Grandma's 3:24:52
San Francisco 3:28:20
Berlin 3:24:55
Chicago 2:59:37
Austin 3:03:03

11,039 people with qualifying times were denied this year. Some people missed by seconds and were denied. His best was down the side of a mountain and was only 2:36 under - he missed the cut by 2:53! And now he has a bib in wave 1? If the BAA wants to give this clown a bib he didn't earn, give him a bib with the charity runners in the back.

I think everyone who was cut this year ought to flood the BAA's email with complaints.

Choi, I know you read this board. Show a little integrity and don't show up. Some of us still respect the sport. You already displayed a total lack of integrity by bib-muling and getting DQ'ed in Houston. Do your ridiculous clown show somewhere else.

If you do show up, I'll enjoy watching Cailyn Miller kick your @ss again like she did last year. She beat you by 25 minutes! LOL!

CopperRunner wrote:

he needs to go away wrote:

I was looking forward to not seeing this swelled head with his bicycle video crew running at Boston since I knew he failed to qualify, but just for the helluva it I checked for his name on the BAA website. He was there! How?

Cutoff time was 5:29 or 2:54:31

He failed to run a qualifying time and yet is somehow in wave 1 corral 7 with the real qualifiers.

His marathons since September 1, 2022:
Tunnel Vision (2000' downhill) - 2:57:24
New York 4:15:40
Houston 2:59:35 (Disqualified for being a bib-mule)
Austin 3:17:14
Los Angeles 3:17:59
Boston 3:24:53
Dallas Triple 3:49:00
Grandma's 3:24:52
San Francisco 3:28:20
Berlin 3:24:55
Chicago 2:59:37
Austin 3:03:03

11,039 people with qualifying times were denied this year. Some people missed by seconds and were denied. His best was down the side of a mountain and was only 2:36 under - he missed the cut by 2:53! And now he has a bib in wave 1? If the BAA wants to give this clown a bib he didn't earn, give him a bib with the charity runners in the back.

I think everyone who was cut this year ought to flood the BAA's email with complaints.

Choi, I know you read this board. Show a little integrity and don't show up. Some of us still respect the sport. You already displayed a total lack of integrity by bib-muling and getting DQ'ed in Houston. Do your ridiculous clown show somewhere else.

If you do show up, I'll enjoy watching Cailyn Miller kick your @ss again like she did last year. She beat you by 25 minutes! LOL!

I honestly think Matt Choi is good for the sport and has gotten a lot of the gymbro type guys into running which is cool. I think it’s fair to put him in boston as an influencer but I don’t get why we are throwing him in with like the 2:40 guys and gals. He should be in the charity wave until he earns the ‘competitive’ heats.

It does annoy me how self important he is though. I remember like a year back a video of his called “Elite Runner Matt Choi gives advice on marathon training” popped up in my feed and he was interviewing with some fitness influencer. It just irks me that he is basically a self proclaimed guru when he has next to no idea what he’s talking about. I watched his video on how to race a 400m and he said you should take the first 200m easy so you have energy for the final 200m and he ran like a 68. Or his “mile training for beginners” that included 3 speed sessions, a hill session, and an 8 mile long run.

In my opinion he should market himself just as a gym dude who likes to run marathons and cut out the coach/guru/elite act until he can actually run fast. I ran around 2:48 for my first and only marathon so far and I was kind of embarrassed about it, let alone proclaiming elite status.