MarathonInvestigation

  Photo taken approximately 1-1/2 miles from the finish The initial 2nd place finisher of the Ft. Lauderdale A1A Half Marathon was disqualified Sunday night. She cut the course. Splits: 10K - 44:22 13.1  - 1:21:46 These results would equate to a 7:09 minute/mile pace for the 1st 10k and...

I've been wanting To Write This Post For Quite Some Time. Whenever there is an article or an interview posted about the Boston Marathon results review, I get emails and comments about runners worrying that they will get flagged. This will be an attempt to...

I came across this runner during a review of 2017 Boston registrants. This runner's only qualifying time was from the 2015 Philadelphia Marathon. She finished the race in 3:52:46.     2015 Philadelphia Marathon Results Looking at her Philadelphia result, the questionable time is between the 30k and finish....

I am republishing this article, I originally posted this on May 6, 2016. The overall feedback I have received from the public regarding my work on the blog and the Boston reviews has been positive. (At some point I will try to clarify the review...

Karen Hutzell has run Boston twice - in 2015 and 2016. She will not be running it a third time. I don't believe she should have ran Boston at all. The below story ran on her local television station prior to The 2015 Boston Marathon (Click...

A couple weeks ago I wrote 2 articles about the Disney Marathon. As a result, I've received messages regarding a  slightly different type of cheating. Cheating to avoid the balloon ladies. These runners aren't cheating to run Boston by claiming illegitimate 3 hour Boston Qualifying...

Bandits exist at every race. Boston used to unofficially welcome them. That was before the 2013 bombing. I wrote a number of articles after Boston 2016. There were runners that forged bibs, or used their bib from 2015 to get through security and into a starting...

A review of the Miami Marathon showed some questionable results at the top of the leaderboard.   Male - 1st Overall - Disqualified Immediately 10K 18:16 1/2    1:01:44 19     1:37:11 23     1:58:32 26.2  2:18:12 Looking at the map, I am unsure how anyone would have physically made...

Dr. Kip Litton DDS. He was the first recreational marathon cheat that I heard of. His story fascinates me to this day. Never before were one runner's results scrutinized to the level that Dr. Kip Litton's were. Even today, 6 years after his last...

I was first made aware of "Linda" and her husband a couple of months ago.  It did appear that her husband had carried her bib in some races, but I didn't see the motivation. There was no Boston Qualifying time, so I set aside...