Frank Meza 2:53:10 at LA Marathon (70 years old) unofficial time (just finished)

Zoomed in you can see the blue Nike swoosh on the right shoe. Plus the watch...on his right wrist...and the dark blue cap with curved brim, and the fluoro green socks. What is the likelihood that some rando just happens to be pedaling by parallel to the Marathon course wearing the same attire as Frank?

Michiganian wrote:

Never Quit, Ever! wrote:

+100!

Agreed. He picked on the wrong age-group to pull off a stunt like that and that's the part that pissed me off the most. I agree, this fake runner is not good enough to be at an aid station handing out water to any race the ED had raced in. For this clown to think that people would believe he could run faster than ED and Gene is laughable, but he did mess with the wrong age-group as I too would not stand by and let ED be surpassed by this phony excuse for a runner. The apparel change during a race at that pace and the effort that it would take sounds Litton-ish to me!!!!!!

You don't have to be good to help at aid Stations? Have you ever volunteered? Did you ever get up hours before the runners to attend a logistics meeting? Have you ever felt the pride of having run 5.000 marathons when collecting the paper cups of 5.000 runners?

Roderick Powell wrote:

The red white blue shoes...FYI...photo blows up real clear on my iPhone

So these “marathons”are actually “duathlons”...

Local news... wrote:

...(ABC 7) reported that Loyola said Frank stepped down in June as assistant coach for "health reasons" and that Loyola had "no comment" because this wasn't Loyola related. Or something like that. Also, Aztlan Athletics CEO Jose Zavalos was in the piece supporting Meza...Zavalos is not convinced Meza cheated because of how good Meza is on the trails. Almost got seasick watching doubler's Skype interview. The report mentioned that Meza's Phoenix marathon is being looked at. Frank's "team" says that all of the allegations will be responded to in due time, but now's not the right time lol.

Frank on a bike? wrote:

Picture of Frank on a bike?

That's our boy, no doubt about it.

Well done. I did the same as you yesterday and picked a couple of marathons and runners photos around his times, but no luck.

You hit the jackpot with that one, go out and buy some lottery tickets.

It's Frank wrote:

Zoomed in you can see the blue Nike swoosh on the right shoe. Plus the watch...on his right wrist...and the dark blue cap with curved brim, and the fluoro green socks. What is the likelihood that some rando just happens to be pedaling by parallel to the Marathon course wearing the same attire as Frank?

Oh, it's him alright. The turtle jowl is unmistakeable.

Roderick Powell wrote:

The red white blue shoes...FYI...photo blows up real clear on my iPhone

So these “marathons”are actually “duathlons”...[/quote]

You beat me to the punch, but I was working on this.

Where did Frank and 53 seconds go?

Local news... wrote:

...(ABC 7) reported that Loyola said Frank stepped down in June as assistant coach for "health reasons" and that Loyola had "no comment" because this wasn't Loyola related. Or something like that. Also, Aztlan Athletics CEO Jose Zavalos was in the piece supporting Meza...Zavalos is not convinced Meza cheated because of how good Meza is on the trails. Almost got seasick watching doubler's Skype interview. The report mentioned that Meza's Phoenix marathon is being looked at. Frank's "team" says that all of the allegations will be responded to in due time, but now's not the right time lol.

Zavalos, Diaz, Bland, Dominquez, WTF is it with these people?, are they dead set friggin idiots?, haven't they looked at marathon investigation or the photos on here?

Someone, anyone who knows them, FFS direct them to the last few dozen pages on this thread, they don't even have to read it, just scroll through and look at the photos.

"Frank on a bike?" - yes, no question. wrote:

Frank on a bike? wrote:

Picture of Frank on a bike?

That's our boy, no doubt about it.

Well done. I did the same as you yesterday and picked a couple of marathons and runners photos around his times, but no luck.

You hit the jackpot with that one, go out and buy some lottery tickets.

So the hats and dark sunglasses were not just about skin and eye protection.

Definitely him. So in the pic he's cycling up to just before the next mat (which is?), gets the trackie pants off, runs over the mat, pulls off the course, runs back to bike (what, 300/400 yards all up?), rinse and repeat.

He could even ride over it lol, why go to all that trouble.

Frank, you stand out like a sore fecking thumb. wrote:

deadesq wrote:

No sign of Frank in the first photo in the series. Then, draw your own conclusions from these three photos.

https://iconic-imagecdn.azureedge.net/MFT2017-02/81/808781/1004/0006.jpg?preset=p

Loled at the way he nonchalantly stands there taking in the view and then jumps in like he's the invisible man.

Frank has to jump in with the "speedsters". No HM finishers for him to blend in. How could his re-entries not be noticed once in a while...

KudzuRunner wrote:

LR should offer a $5000 reward for a photo of FM in race clothes actually getting in or out, on or off, a motorcycle, e-bike, or bike.

Congrats to Frank on a bike for finding the elusive holy grail.

The sunglasses also provide cover so he doesn’t have to look people in the eye when he jumps on and off the course.

Holy crap! This guy cheated? I haven't read the thread since page 1. When/how did they discover this?

I was originally damn impressed with the time.

RELAX! Don't do it when you want to cheat.

Frankie's lying...

And still lying

Rinse and repeat wrote:

Definitely him. So in the pic he's cycling up to just before the next mat (which is?), gets the trackie pants off, runs over the mat, pulls off the course, runs back to bike (what, 300/400 yards all up?), rinse and repeat.

Rinse and repeat. wrote:

He could even ride over it lol, why go to all that trouble.

You know what, for this marathon I think that's what he did, for virtually the whole distance, check out his photos, there's only ones at the finish. Easy to do on a bike friendly course and no photographers at the timing mats.

The cunning old cheating fox.

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