When I got to work, I was thinking I should go back through the photos from Frank’s Phoenix race, too, since Doubler has already extensively covered that one, and there’s a continuous video at mile 22.
Note—this photographer was capturing all the runners—both the full marathon and the half. I have deleted photos of the ½ marathon runners, focusing on the full marathon runners who have white bib numbers. This is why the sequencing of the numbers is off, but I looked carefully at all the photos of the ½ runners to ensure I wasn’t missing Frank behind one of them.
Frank claimed a 2:53:54 at this race.
Contact sheet #1
The first runner with a full marathon bib is #10974. She ran 2:44:08. Um…wow. But, I digress. The last runner on this sheet is #10354, who ran 2:54:06, just behind Frank’s finish time. The guy right before him, #10358, ran 2:54:43.
Contact sheet #2
Going on to the next sheet, pay attention to #10405 in the second row, who ran 2:51:49. Back to him in a minute. The last runner on this sheet, #11252, ran 2:58:12.
No Frank in either of these sheets.
I point out #10405, because if you go to his gallery of photos at
https://freephotos.finisherpix.com/gallery/2019mesaphx/10405/1
You’ll note Frank appears in some of the photos. It would therefore stand to reason, I believe, that Frank would have appeared somewhere in the two contact sheets listed above.
But that invisibility cloak that went missing from the Hogwarts School of Wizardry? I think I now have a theory on what happened to it.