Here ya go:
The 3:11 has no pictures except start and finish.
Regardless of pictures or not, no one, not one person in that time range remembers seeing him at 5 miles,10, 13, 18, 22, etc... He was not passing people the whole way nor was he being passed. He would have had to run several miles in the presence of some of the same runners. Where are they? Who did he run with? Why would they not come forward and say that they remember him?
Boston...a reality time and race as there are too many mats to deal with. So he's now injured, how convenient.
When he's not injured, he's training 18 miles per week to run a P.R. by how many minutes? What does he run when he's healthy?
Being healthy he should be able to run 3:15 easily on the same course running 30 miles a week...based on his logic.
How will it go down? He'll claim that he's injured "if" he does run another marathon and even then it won't be the same race.
There are not many for sure things in this world, but I've been running long enough to personally believe that it would have been very tough for him to run that time with his body. He seriously looks like a slightly above jogger. In addition, there's not one credible witness or photo or official split to back himself up. His head down, lack of major sweat and/or distress, not boasting about a huge pr, etc...don't know for sure but I'm not buying it.
Like Oscar Miranda, I predict he will not run another marathon again and probably not a half either. Again, if he does it'll be a "fun run" and that he wasn't running for a fast time.
I recall reading Will Cloney (1979 Boston Race Director) stating that if Oscar could have run a 10k at that 1979 Boston Marathon pace, he would have given him his due. A 53 year old breaks 2:20, sets an age group record, and won't run a 10k at marathon race pace???
Predictably, he chose not to run and predictably, I believe, Mr. Rossi will do the same (not including fun runs and supposed injuries). The BIG difference is the information world that we live in today versus Miranda back then. Had he not been so boastful about himself and the letter to the principal, things may not had gotten to this point.