I had previously commented on the unrealistic performance of KL in the 2010 Gasparilla Distance Classic. 2nd thread, summarized here:
"The 15K starts at 7:05 am, and the 5K at 9:30 am. Litton would have finished at 8 am. Now consider that his 15K time would have been a 4 1/2 min. PR past age 40. Are you then going to come back after this and run a 5K with only 1 1/2 hrs rest, and run within 17 sec of your PR? And -- at age 48 -- do all this before running a marathon the next day within 2 1/2 min. of your PR? I don't think so!"
It was after this that someone added the asterisks around KL's name on the wikipedia page for this race.
GK discussed the 2009 race at the top of 2009, and SoKLR nicely summarizes all 3 races here:
http://kiplitton.blogspot.com/2011/01/gasparilla-distance-classic-2009.html
Looking at KL's athlinks.com page, his 2008 performances look no more realistic taken as a whole. Looked at individually, and something interesting is revealed. Races in 2008 were sequenced the same way: 15K and 5K on Sat. 2/9, Marathon on Sun. 2/10 (active.com has the date wrong below).
15K: 1:30 start delay. 104th of 3948 in 59:57 (6:26/mile)
http://results.active.com/pages/oneResult.jsp?pID=40449980&rsID=59335&pubID=3
5K: 0:13 start delay. 330th of 7650 in 22:52 (7:20/mile)
http://results.active.com/pages/oneResult.jsp?pID=40442556&rsID=59334&pubID=3
Mar: 2:33 start delay. 22th of 989 in 3:02:38 (6:58/mile)
http://results.active.com/pages/oneResult.jsp?pID=34442380&rsID=59366
Something's very different about the 5K race. He started just 13 sec behind - not in the back of 7000+ people. This actually helps confirm his m.o. When he doesn't start in the back, he runs an unexceptional performance. It would appear this was the only race that weekend he actually fully ran.
By the way - this 2008 marathon performance clearly needs to be added to SoKLR's list. No "Split 1" and "Split 2" times, whereas checking a few racers in front and behind show complete splits.