park forrest scenic 10

If so, he's aged quite a bit over the last three years.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/report.php?board=1&id=975769&thread=975746&page=

I'm guessing some joker, other than the doper, used this fake name. Unfortunately, it kinda mars the last edition of a storied race.

Sorry, the article I posted is two years old and from the Scenic 10 results I confused his number with his age. Still, seems odd that after being caught in '05 he would still be running under this false name.

Noz4nuz wrote:

Unfortunately, it kinda mars the last edition of a storied race.

i am not sure this race is over. i checked the minutes from the PFRPC that puts on the race. the last minutes from a bard meeting posted indicate they are concerned the race loses money as is the city of park forest, but they seemed to be considering keeping the race with NO prize money or elites. the minutes have not been posted in several months, so that may well have changed.

i would be interested if anyone knows anything about this.

bumpity bump

same guy, wins or places high in one or two races every weekend, check any good search engine and you can find them easy. Sticks with the name and gives himself a birthday every two or three years, though I did see him as 24 at a race one year and he was 22 at the same race the next year. He isn't banned and RD's still let him race, some still fund him coming in so what can you do. I will say he strictly runs races that don't test.

This race is nearly done. While the city wants to have it again, sponsors do not want to anty up the same money and I have heard that the race director is retiring.

Pretty cool that he was 29 at the Memphis half marathon in 2005 and now he is 25.http://www.stjudemarathon.org/results/2005/STJUDE_HALF_TOPDOWN05.TXT

same guy wrote:

same guy, wins or places high in one or two races every weekend, check any good search engine and you can find them easy. Sticks with the name and gives himself a birthday every two or three years, though I did see him as 24 at a race one year and he was 22 at the same race the next year. He isn't banned and RD's still let him race, some still fund him coming in so what can you do. I will say he strictly runs races that don't test.

The Park Forest Scenic 10 is owned and paid for by the city of Park Forest. The Park Forest running club has no real say in it one way or the other. I read that the race loses over 20k a year, due to the prize money and paying for transportation and such.

In a poll of the running club, it was overwhelmingly agreed that it would be best to cut out the prize money and perks for the elite runners and just continue to run the race.

I expect it to continue in one form or another. It's a good race with a thirty year history.