Cheating in marathons

September 10, 2012 by Tom Barrett   Comments (3)

How easy is it to cheat during a marathon?

Hilarious article in the August New Yorker about a man driven to run a marathon in all 50 states but raising a lot of suspician that he is actually running them.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/06/120806fa_fact_singer?currentPage=all

What do you think?  How could he pull off this hoax?  Or, is he for real?

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Rohan Pai 4602 days ago

It's an amazing story!  Can't believe the alternate universe Kip Litton built for himself - so much subtrafuge to support things he didn't do at marathons!  Sounds a little like the VP contender, Paul Ryan... Oops, that slipped out!

Ron Andruff 4602 days ago

Seems that exaggerating running results is a big deal... Read an interesting article in the Health section of yesterday's New York Times (Gina Kolata) about the human psyche: Easy Detection for Those Who Exaggerate Results.  Well worth the read:http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/exaggerating-your-race-results/ 

Ron Andruff 4593 days ago