NYC Marathon cheaters

Did it occur to you that these may be the result of chip/timer malfunctions?

Those are great, but I think this one is at least plausible:

Bernhard Krischer (Germany). 1:58 at half, missing from 25-40k, finished in 3:52. Funny how everyone gets faster when the mats malfunction. In Bernie's case, he was running consistent 27/5k and then sped up to 25/5k.

yes - chips can malfunction, but some of these splits are implausible. A quick scan of the results shows plenty of cases of 1-2 splits missing, but when there are 3+ consecutive ones missing and the "runner" gets markedly faster in that span, it sure looks like cheating.

flyinghighrunner wrote:

Those are great, but I think this one is at least plausible:

Bernhard Krischer (Germany). 1:58 at half, missing from 25-40k, finished in 3:52. Funny how everyone gets faster when the mats malfunction. In Bernie's case, he was running consistent 27/5k and then sped up to 25/5k.

agreed. that one is iffy - 3 consecutive missing mats at a spot where it's easy to take a shortcut - but not nearly as damning as the others.

Several of those guys are on the terrorist watch list. We'll get 'em flying out of JFK.

Chips do malfunction, I was talking with a guy in Berlin who's watch time was about ten min. slower than his chip time. He had no idea what had happened.

* Michael Schmiltz (Italy) 3:06 first half. 1:17 second half.

* Arianna Lazzaro (Italy) ditto

* Chiara Villa. (Italy) 3:04 for the first half. 1:24 for the second half.

Wow, talk about negative splits! Too funny.

I was cheering on 5th avenue today, and let me tell you, some guys don't want to cheat to "finish" in 4 hours...they want to finish with the fast guys!

As I was cheering my teammates on pace for 2:45-2:55, I saw a middle-aged guy, about 30 pounds overweight, making strange noises. It was hard not to notice the guy among all the skinny runners. His stride was off, and he was wearing too much clothing. He was puffing and making faces as he was playing the role of the marathoner in pain.

He was on pace to break 2:50, or even better if he crossed Central Park to Tavern on the green.

i always love the catching cheaters threads after big marathons.

i hope soemone on this list had a ligit reason for this adn ends up suing this board for defmation of charector

Too funny. Great post. I hope the folk that cheated have there mugs plastered all over and are banned from ever entering a race.

I know a guy who was a volunteer marathon instructor for for a group of rookie wanna be marathoners. Great students they were. This instructor had a huge ego! Married he is. He and his wife would run / race, etc. and do marathons all in the quest for a BQ. Neither were "fast" runners, but were at least respectable.

From a very reliable source I was told the wife cheated once in a marathon. Anyways time goes on. Eventually the wife BQ's for the first time this year at two marathons. Hubby runs the same marathons as the wife, but has yet to BQ. Wife is running Boston '08...she already signed up (must be a newbie BM'er..lol). Husband has not cause he has not BQ'd. Oh yea, point is...hubby outright cheated at a marathon a few years ago. Last shows up on mile 13.1 and then not again until around mile 19. Stupid ahole was ahead of sub 3 hour marathoners at one point. Duh. What an ass. Yes, this moron was DQ'd.

Too bad folk have to cheat. In the end I hope all who want to BQ eventually do. If you can't / don't ... tough. Don't cheat your way in. You will for the rest of you life be labelled as a "cheater" whether you BQ or not.

I confronted the guy and suggested he come honest ASAP. He never did. His excuse rambled on and on and on ... longer than the "never ending story". What a jerk.

Attention, a BQ is not as big a deal as you make it out to be.

nashville wrote:

i hope soemone on this list had a ligit reason for this adn ends up suing this board for defmation of charector

and i hope that the spelling police come and haul you away.

There was a similar thread last year after NY and all of the runners listed were removed by NYRR within 48 hours.

LOLZ RE: NYC Marathon cheaters 11/4/2007 5:09PM - in reply to Just another BQer > Attention, a BQ is not as big a deal as you make it out to be.

Neither is a sub 2:10 LOLZ...what a jerkasuarus you are.

nashville wrote:

i hope soemone on this list had a ligit reason for this adn ends up suing this board for defmation of charector

And some day I hope that you make your English teachers proud.

I would rather suffer and die in attempting to break 4 hours than cheat and accomplish this time.

Wow! I knew there were cheaters at major marathons, but I never realized there were so many of them. How did Mr. W. Jurena do?

What does BQ mean?

that's what happens with 38,000 runners

probably 32,000 were penguins

What does BQ mean? = Boston Qualifier

http://www.bostonmarathon.org/BostonMarathon/Qualifying.asp