Not to pull a single quote out of your post, but this just can't be lost. It's too good.

Hmmm....she posted a half-assed apology and then deleted it....I think that answers the sincerity question....

ST has quote technology as we all know, well maybe except her. So of course it can't really be deleted.

Needs to be an apology like this one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFvujknrBuE

And just as the thread was about to die......

Here's the story. I have been racing 6 years. I have used coaches the last 3 years.

My first coach was good. It was husband and wife team I progressed and Pr'd in running and tris. I have a hearty virtual life haha and had come across the couple on the internet. They were good enough that I recommended them to several people. One friend who was solely a runner, wanted to work on her HM and Marathon times and hired them for a few months. After struggling for a bit my friend stopped using them. Fine it was a bad fit. No big deal. After 2 years and some strange circumstances I decided to part ways with them and did so amicably. That was a year ago.

Come to find out my fast friend ran a large branded HM yesterday. She ran a respectable 1:30:** for I believe 3rd in her AG. Winning the AG was our old coach running a 1:29:**. Without even looking at photos or results I knew that short of a miracle that this was not physically possible. In looking at the race photos you can in fact see that the person wearing my old coaches bib is a man.

With a brief amount of google searching I came up with 4 other races in the same branded race series where my old coach, a woman in the 45-49 AG gave her bib to the same bearded guy who would proceed to run a medium smokin time in the 1:30s. The guy would in fact mug for the camera showing off his finishers medal.

So what I was to know is why would someone do this? This woman is a coach. She took an AG award from someone she previously coached. The myriad of pictures of some bearded guy running as her are so damn blatant I don't know how in the name of god she wasn't caught before.

I work hard and train my ass off and on a good day run under 1:30:** for a half and usually earn every mile dammit. The fact that this woman knowingly blew up the 45-49 AG using a man blows my mind.

Am I overreacting? God at this point I don't care. The question is how much shouting will I do to make sure it is known she cheats. With a smile no less.

For her sake, I wish it had. The apology was not exactly convincing but at the end of the day how truly miserable do we have to make her before everyone is satisfied that justice has been served?

I'm not defending her and she deserved to get busted, but at a certain point the whole thing just becomes more sad than anything.

Hmmm....she posted a half-assed apology and then deleted it....I think that answers the sincerity question....

It occurred to me in the car on the way home tonight that my Double Letter Cheater Identification Protocol is holding true

Litton
Rossi
Miller
Sweet

Slowman, the fact that the "apology" got pulled speaks volumes here.....so I don't think it actually was sufficient.

Hmmm....she posted a half-assed apology and then deleted it....I think that answers the sincerity question....

so, get in your last comments, bar's closing shortly.