Can't find one story about this on-line. Just the results of the Feb 9, 2019 Sprouts Mesa Phoenix Marathon. This may be the fastest 70 plus marathon ever. (point to point so may not get sanctioned as all time best) Still, no mention anywhere? This was bound to happen as he gets faster every year. No fluke either, he ran 2:53:27 about 4 months prior in Long Beach, Ca.
Not to take away from such an amazing achievement, but I don't think he's 70 or older yet. 69, so dancing at the edge :)
Oops, maybe i was wrong. I saw a website that said he turned 70 in Jan. (A previous website I saw had his birth year at 1950, so there is a discrepancy).
Frank Meza, otherwise known as "Doc," was one of my high school coaches! He is an assistant coach at Loyola in LA, and is an amazing guy. Super accomplished doctor, runner, and overall knowledgable and thoughtful guy. Much love for Doc!
Careful... we need better info before we will celebrate the taking down of alltime legendary performances....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/sports/ed-whitlock-dead-masters-marathon-record-setter.html
Is he a shoe cheater wearing the 4%?
fastoldmen wrote:
Is he a shoe cheater wearing the 4%?
He is not. Usually does all of his racing (and training) I think in saucony or brooks flats. Very much not a believer in "fancy technology"... he is very old school.
Frank Meza is running the LA Marathon this Sunday. (3/24/2019)
Tracking for the LA Marathon tomorrow.. http://results2.xacte.com/#/e/2232/trackers
A Doctor you say?
Did he pass the drug test?
2:53:10 at LA yesterday. Way to go Doc! Changing kids life and breaking records. Outstanding!
Frank ran back to back 2:50 somethings within a couple of months of each other at age 70? Ummmm ok.
I did, too! And a third earlier in the year. And... I ran a 50K and a competitive marathon on consecutive days just two weeks before my fastest marathon at Jacksonville. Two months between fast marathons really shouldn't raise eyebrows.
Yes but you sir have believable splits and your Strava tracking to back you up. You are incredibly high profile and I’m sure any that have doubts about your achievements have tried(unsuccessfully) to poke holes in the possibility that of your amazing accomplishments. This guy is a fraud and at the first whiff of notoriety his resume is being blown to bits. He’s a disgrace to you, Ed Whitlock and our noble sport.
kegboy wrote:
Frank Meza, otherwise known as "Doc," was one of my high school coaches! He is an assistant coach at Loyola in LA, and is an amazing guy. Super accomplished doctor, runner, and overall knowledgable and thoughtful guy. Much love for Doc!
This didn't age well...
We showed our love for Doc in an indirect way; we told him the truth.
Jesseriley, you are one very immature person. Frank Meza was the most audacious cheater in marathon history. He could almost certainly not break 7 minutes for a mile. Yet "we" debated and felt it necessary to "prove" he did not run sub 3 marathons. Who has the balls to repeatedly sneak in and out of these marathons to produce such fast times and high placements? Even keeping it up after being caught multiple times. One minute slower at the LAM and he would be running Long Beach next Sunday. Phillip Bland, one of the so-called "3 banditos", is running the half marathon, as am I. He is in my age division. I would love to be able to grill him about Frank Meza. (and the Pasadena half marathon that he and Francisco Meza and Sara Tartof ran but none showed up in the results) Of course I would want to tell him I'm sorry about what Frank did in the end. My gut feels that Phillip and some others knew or suspected what Frank had been doing for so long. AND what he might do if he was "caught". Phillip was at many of Franks races. At the United Airlines Rock N Roll Half-marathon last October Frank finished first in his age division with a 1:28. Second place went to Ed Drees with a 1:43. Ed, about Franks age and has just been running these races for a while. I actually felt a twinge of anger that Frank had "stolen" first place from my friend. Jesseriley, I truly hope you can come to realize that YOU were not EVER showing Frank Meza love. AND, Frank already knew the truth. We were just telling him that we knew the truth.
