If you knew anything about me you would know that I would never cheat.
If you knew anything about me you would know that I would never cheat.
She didn’t admit she went off course in her recent post. She made a post previously to this won and was called out by the guy that came in behind her and was confused at where she passed him. He went to the results booth and found out she ran through the finish with her hands up excited to win. She posted how she hit the hills which you can see on her watch had none where she ran and actually had down hill on her route. Meanwhile the runners she was running by finished in 1:17. 3 minutes slower. So the runner that checked the results and those behind him all went to the race director and turned her in. He was not aware of it and from her recent Instagram post of changing her story she claims she went up to the race Director by one of her followers Jorge. She created a nightmare for the race officials and bailed once seeing a mob by the official. They had to delay results and awards. The runner calling her out in her posts is a master elite runner and well known in the community. He is legit. He was backed up by several witnesses all going against her posts. The reason she changed it.
Oh man you must not be married. If you were your going to get it tonight!
Paging Doubler.....
We need marathon investigation to do a write-up so her ethics can come up prominently in Google searches.
Because angered runners who were looking for her once they saw the results and talked to the race director and turned her in. It was one of the Instagram posts by an angered runner that called her out for integrity like the lady and her son in the following comments.
Cather of the wry wrote:
Because angered runners who were looking for her once they saw the results and talked to the race director and turned her in. It was one of the Instagram posts by an angered runner that called her out for integrity like the lady and her son in the following comments.
Exactly why we need a post on marathon investigation and screenshots of her posts so we have full control of the narrative, and her name is forever associated with being a known cheater. It's time for a major outing of this fraud.
Thank you. I stand corrected.
Who knows whether she cut the course intentionally or not - impossible to prove.
But the problem is that she knew she cut the course by her own admission, yet she crossed the line celebrating, and by the sounds of it tried to cover it up by speaking to men after the race about passing them in the final stages. Appalling.
When she realised she had gone off route, she should not have crossed the finish line - completely unfair on other athletes. It just makes her look like a massive liar. So that brings her claims about not being a doper into complete disrepute as if she's lying about this and cutting courses and trying to cover it up in a very manipulative fashion, what else is she lying about?
Bit sexist
What a f****** idiot
"popcorn is my go-to! I can't get enough!"
OP here -
I find the investigative work to be good to disprove she rode her bike that seems to legit be some kind of glitch in that type of watch- I think we should remove that from the narrative for now.
As for the course cutting that still is 100 %legit. My question is why did she claim she won the race and when she began to get flamed did she come forward saying it was known all along that she accidentally cut the course. I’m curious if the RD supports that she ran to him to admit she accidentally ran off the course..?
Also good job Letsrun she locked her strava now so if she was cheating on other courses now we cannot even tell.
I was there waiting in the results line when the 4th and 5th place winners went to the RD to talk to him about it. None of the staff knew and neither did the RD. It was once the lady and her son confronted her and she saw the mob talking to him and growing in numbers because the 4th place runner was explaining his side and the 5th place guy was as well. That’s when things got crazy! She bailed! There is a screen shot on the 5th place Runners social media account I will try getting. It clearly shows she ran off the course. That’s why he called her out on it. Then she changed her story. There is an original post and pic on her Instagram on this thread clearly throwing her hands up in the air. She cheated.
Sweetie, you literally have a poston this thread that goes to a doping allegation. Denial is not just a river in eqypt.
The 5th place guy in the race just posted this on his personal site. You can see it’s a concern. Just like taking enhanced supplements that are illegal, the way you conduct yourself at these races reflects right to the top of those making all this happen. You can call the whistleblower hotline and explain your side of the story. I private messaged the guy that posted this but he said he is not trying to hurt Ashley. He said “we are all friends and I don’t know her but I associate with her friends. We need to let the race director and those that are hurt to use judgement.”
USATF Code of Ethics
October 14, 2006, amended October 11, 2014 and October 6, 2018
The USATF Code of Ethics (“Code”) applies to its Board, at-large members, independent contractors, volunteers, and chairs and members of committees, sub-committees, councils, task forces, and any other decision-making body of USATF. The Code became effective on January 1, 2007.
The wellness and safety of our athletes is of paramount importance. Every member of USATF is responsible for ensuring a safe environment for which our athletes can train and compete. This Code is intended to work conjunctively with the USA Track & Field SafeSport Handbook, and sets the ethical standard for USATF and its membership.
Further, because USATF operates in the public spotlight and is expected to conduct business on an ethical basis, we must ensure that our leadership never puts, nor is it perceived to have put, personal interests ahead of or in conflict with the interests of USATF. No Code of Ethics can substitute for each person's own internal sense of fairness, honesty, and integrity. Therefore, it is important that every person representing USATF support the values and principles that are critical to USATF's continuing tradition of excellence.
This Code is not designed to address how to handle misconduct or abusive behaviors; however, the USATF SafeSport Handbook provides guidance and mandatory reporting requirements for sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, as well as harassment, bullying, and hazing incidents. Additionally, SafeSport misconduct may be reported anonymously on our website, or by phone to the U.S. Center for SafeSport at 720-531-0340. A USATF Whistleblower Hotline (317-713-4702) is available to report concerns related to the Code of Ethics. The USATF General Counsel’s office, along with the Ethics Committee, is always available to answer questions.
Ashley, some college coaches and a few high school coaches and the 5th place runner have been chatting together and they feel you need to have a USATF drug test and apologize to those affected by your actions, the race director, and the athletes. If you pass your drug test than that’s it. It’s over! We move on. We continue competing. If you continue to just ignore your consequences then as a group of athletes ourselves seeing this we will send out letters to USATF and all race directors of races you have been involved with showing your ignorance to there hard work. If I was being called out it would be simple. But I’ve never cheated so it’s easy for me to say. I competed in Chicago this year and they won’t let you take any prize money at all if you have a previous allegation.
She did admit she knew she went off course during the race.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BpvGPvEATC0/
That was a follow up to this post where she never mentioned anything about it in her first post
https://www.instagram.com/p/BpvGPvEATC0/
That's why I'm suspicious, she only admitted on Instagram after people questioned her.
The second link was meant to be this
Runmaster wrote:
He was one minute ahead of Ashley at the 15K. She never passed him on the course, but somehow came in at 1:14 when his finish time was 1:17... I measured the difference between the two routes at .24.
How did she gain 4 minutes in 6k by only cutting off a quarter mile. Not that I doubt you, something just doesn't add up.
Hmm, I don't get it wrote:
Runmaster wrote:
He was one minute ahead of Ashley at the 15K. She never passed him on the course, but somehow came in at 1:14 when his finish time was 1:17... I measured the difference between the two routes at .24.
How did she gain 4 minutes in 6k by only cutting off a quarter mile. Not that I doubt you, something just doesn't add up.
I feel like that is a very good question. The answer comes in two parts,
1) the incorrect route that she took continued downhill to the finish. A totally straight shot on a parkway with one 90 degree turn. The correct race course has significant uphill, and several 90 degree turns ( and one 270 degree turn where you run under the parkway) as the course winds thru some neighborhoods. If you look at the results for this race, you will see most people slowing down significantly in that uphill section. It is the only part of the course that goes uphill. Up to that point, the race is a pretty steep downhill, so you trash your legs flying down the hills, then have to switch to uphill running with multiple turns when your legs are hamburger. It is a hard switch to make. On some of the uphill part, my pace had slowed by 90-2:00 per mile. (Sadly- wish it could have been better) She got to run a straight downhill course with one turn on her hamburger legs. HUGE difference.
2) He had been slightly injured in the 8 weeks leading up to the race, and had been mostly cross training on a bike, very little running. His fitness was not at its peak, so when he got to this section of the race, he was dying and slowing down more than he normally would. Until mile 10, he was on pace to run about 1:11. But due to the lack of fitness, he was slowing off that pace badly by the end. My guess is that she was catching him and would have passed him before the finish line, had she stayed on the correct course.
Hope that makes sense. I feel like the first part of the answer to this question also helps to highlight why so many are upset about this situation. In her first Instagram post she states “Yes, the hills at the end hurt but just ran faster to get them over with. “ she NEVER ran the hills at the end. She ran a different shorter way that had NO uphill. Only more deliciously fast straight downhill. She didn’t have make the hamburger-leg switch to uphill running with many turns.