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Come Run With Us!

    posted: 7/26/2007 at 10:19 PM
    I read a reply on the "The Woman That Started it All" and saw jeffgoblue's mention of Rosie Ruiz. LOL! So here she is. I am going to induct her as the first charter member of the Runner's Hall Of Shame! If anyone can think of anybody else, feel free!
    trishierunner


    esq.

      posted: 7/26/2007 at 10:56 PM
      In 1982, Ruiz was arrested and briefly jailed for stealing $60,000 in cash and checks from a Manhattan real estate firm where she was employed. She spent a week in jail and was given five years' probation. Nineteen months later, after moving home to Florida, she was arrested for arranging to sell two kilos of cocaine to undercover agents in Miami. Ruiz spent 23 days in jail and received two years probation.
      The woman has some SERIOUS issues with honesty!
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      Blogrunner


      Come Run With Us!

        posted: 7/26/2007 at 11:06 PM
        Damn! I guess the Boston Marathon was her practice run to run ..... from the law!!!
        KennyRun


          posted: 7/28/2007 at 11:39 AM
          In the 2004 Richmond Marathon, James Rhyne finished in the marathon in 2:45:12 and accepted the $250 masters first place prize money check. Alerted by a suspicious runner the next day, it was discovered that Rhyne's split at the half was 1:59. He had no 20-mile split time. They race organizers disqualified him for cheating. I nominate that guy for the Runner's Hall of Shame
          nbweis


            posted: 7/31/2007 at 6:04 PM
            modified: 7/31/2007 at 6:04 PM
            How about the 325 people who cheated the 2005 Marine Corp marathon. They cheated all the people who donated money. Pathetic. http://www.mynextrace.com/Article195.htm
            Markfive


            Me and my gang in Breck

              posted: 7/31/2007 at 8:06 PM
              Quote from nbweis on 7/31/2007 at 6:04 PM:
              How about the 325 people who cheated the 2005 Marine Corp marathon. They cheated all the people who donated money. Pathetic. http://www.mynextrace.com/Article195.htm
              WOW! Thats hard to believe. I can't understand why anyone would want to do that. Why bother even getting out of bed.

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              reneemc


                posted: 8/1/2007 at 5:14 AM
                So many cheaters! The only thing I knew about the Rosie Ruiz scandal, until literally yesterday, was the Boston win, but I just finished Kathrine Switzer's book and Ruiz apparently also cheated in NYC, finishing in the top 10. Then she went on to Boston. And she still swears she didn't cheat.
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                Fanatic #3965

                  posted: 8/1/2007 at 6:02 AM
                  Quote from reneemc on 8/1/2007 at 5:14 AM:
                  ...I just finished Kathrine Switzer's book and Ruiz apparently also cheated in NYC, finishing in the top 10. Then she went on to Boston. And she still swears she didn't cheat.
                  A bit OT, but I should be receiving that book any day from Amazon and several of us are planning to discuss it once we've all had a chance to read it. You should join us: www.runningahead.com/groups/read_run/ What I've wondered with these stories of people skipping portions of courses is how no one sees them drop off the course and then re-emerge? Wouldn't someone be paying close enough attention to the runners to notice this? They must be counting on this anonymity to do such a thing. k

                  Kirsten

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                  trishierunner


                  esq.

                    posted: 8/1/2007 at 4:59 PM
                    Quote from nbweis on 7/31/2007 at 6:04 PM:
                    How about the 325 people who cheated the 2005 Marine Corp marathon. They cheated all the people who donated money. Pathetic. http://www.mynextrace.com/Article195.htm
                    You know ,that DID piss me off, until my place at MCM jumped by a couple hundred Wink
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                    paavoman


                      posted: 8/11/2007 at 9:00 PM
                      I guess with Boston being so huge...all those spectators...it's easy to blend in the crowd. Although today it'd be basically impossible to cheat, with chip timing and such.

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