Potentially Suspicious Runner To Run 836 Miles in 9 Days for "Charity"

Can somebody contact the Geezers ASAP? We need the help of the geriatrics.

Robbie24 wrote:

It came up on the Ultra Running Community on Facebook and the usual defence of "he's not done anything wrong" and "maybe he is just an undiscovered superstar like Yiannis Kouros" are sitting well with me.

Either the people in that group are stupid or they carry out their own cheats and scams.

These new CheaterLiarFrauds are pathetic.

There is a new one every single day now.

I already did over 800 miles in 8 days during my US Transcontinental Record Run. I ran a marathon every single day for 365 days in a row. I was a World Champion triathlete. I am MarathonManUKâ„¢.

Have you read my autobiography about…ME?

British people love this stuff and eat it up.

Why are British people so stupid?

I dunt no Y.

I'm British dude & I'm not swallowing it for one second.

As in any society there are enough eejits to get behind people like this. Given the current political situation in the US I feel you are a man in a glass house throwing stones.

Robbie24 wrote:

I'm British dude & I'm not swallowing it for one second.

As in any society there are enough eejits to get behind people like this. Given the current political situation in the US I feel you are a man in a glass house throwing stones.

Dude, just leave. Haha

I hate all that ultrarunning campaign stuff. I don't necessarily hate the distance, or the people that do it, but it's just so over the top all the time. Either its a poser with tons of gear on, or goals that are beyond outrageous, with no real data or experience to support that the runner can actually reach those outrageous goals.

To me, real runners run, and put up factual data of what they do. You don't see tons of photos of themselves, or outrageous gear all over the place. You may see pictures of their times and bibs, but that is about it.

Marathon swimming is totally different. There is no way you can fake that or cheat, because you have to be in the water, and officials and people will be watching over you. Marathon swimming is so strict that, if you wear anything more than a pair of swim trunks, goggles, and a swim cap, then it is not marathon swimming. And your time and distance are not legal.

Are you guys ready for bombshell of an example of this David Reading guy failing to do yet another run as he claims? This time there is photo and race result evidence that he hired a bib mule at the Norwich Half Marathon 2015 to run for him (ie: cheat).From his self biography listed as news on the Royal Air Forces website that contains a picture of him (make sure to look at what he looks like):

I carried on training and completed the Bournemouth marathon, the AJ Bell London Triathlon and the Norwich half marathon in 2015.

Now, the Norwich Half 2015 results are in PDF here but there are no timing splits for anybody (WTF race organiser?). From it we see a David Reading with bib 474 finishing in a time of 1:42:12. A way better time than his Birmingham Half time.:

Now, the clincher is that the Norwich Half 2015 has race photos. Searching for bib 474 shows two photos and it is definitely not our Mr. Reading:

This is a guy half the age of Mr. Reading running as his bib mule. Now the question becomes, who is this bib mule and does he show up anywhere else?

Go to his Facebook page and message him asking for a response.

KP Jelly wrote:

Go to his Facebook page and message him asking for a response.

I'll leave that to another troll who does the Facebook flaming angle. My work here is done. I should take over Derek Murphy's job.

I found his London Marathon 2015 result. Sometimes he registers with "David" as the first name instead of "Dave":

It shows he finished in a time of 5:04:14 WITH split timings this time. This is over an hour slower than his 2016 result (where there are no timing splits recorded):

http://results-2015.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com/2015/?content=detail&fpid=search&pid=search&idp=9999990F5ECC8300001700D9&lang=EN_CAP&event=MAS&search%5Bname%5D=Reading&search%5Bsex%5D=%25&search%5Bnation%5D=%25&search_sort=name&search_event=MAS

No splits from the 2016 London Marathon and all the photos appear to be from miles 25 to the finish so no proof he ran the whole thing.

David is a "Real 5:04 Marathon Man"!

That is 11:36 average pace per mile…so David is a fast BritWalker.

He should contact SKINS.

He can become a "SkinWalker" celebrity.

Why did David hire a human mule to run a 1:42 Half-marathon?

What does David get out of that?

Has David been arrested and charged with Fraud?

When will he shut down his Facebook and Twitter and/or Instagram accounts?

The tension must be building for this Brit 5:04 Marathon Man!

I've found his Bournemouth 2016 Marathon result. Search just for "Reading". He is bib 3106 with a finishing position of #359. Here is his finishing time and half way split. Either he is a super athlete that utterly shattered his recent PR or there is something fishy. His half way split time is also suspicious because he would have had to seriously negative split the second half of the Marathon. Need to review photos and videos.....

3h 43m 50s

Half way: 2h 1m 32s

26.poo wrote:

No splits from the 2016 London Marathon and all the photos appear to be from miles 25 to the finish so no proof he ran the whole thing.

Yep, sprung big time, plus the other bogus results.

Also Suspicious wrote:

And yet the London Marathon 2016 shows he finished in 4:19:38 with zero timing splits.

Marathonguide doesn't list him for London 2016.

He is listed for London 2015 at 5+ hours.

So this big humongous fella who:

"On the last Friday of November 2014 I smoked my last cigarette. After 35 years of heavy smoking..."

then sixteen months:

"but training hard meant I ran the London Marathon in 2016 in three hours 12 minutes."

You know, the one where:

"No splits from the 2016 London Marathon and all the photos appear to be from miles 25 to the finish so no proof he ran the whole thing."

https://www.rafa.org.uk/blog/2016/09/28/dave-readings-story-so-far/

I've found the Ultra Running Community Facebook page discussing this Dave Reading. I really question the intelligence and motives of some people there....:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/259647654139161?view=permalink&id=1075938195843432

Super Dave's gone from:

"847 miles from Lands’ End to John O’Groats in 12 days"

to:

"837 miles 100 miles a day for 81/2 days"

to write to Prince Harry to tell him he's going to:

"attempt to break the world record of running from Lands’ End to John O’Groats world record".

Also Suspicious wrote:

I've found the Ultra Running Community Facebook page discussing this Dave Reading. I really question the intelligence and motives of some people there....:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/259647654139161?view=permalink&id=1075938195843432

Here we have their nazi admin gary kierman closing the thread to further comments, in order to defend this scammer.

Brit scammer, Brit group Brit admins, pathetic