https://www.marathoninvestigation.com/2018/07/disqualified-triathlete-anita-carcone.html
those messages she sent to me (the pollack)
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are you the blogger that caught her initially? i read this on Marathon Investigation this morning, and man some of the things she says are disturbing.
What a piece of work that one is. She cut the course and claims victory, gets caught the denies, then edits files to try and match the course, then admits that probably they hate people from Arizona and sent her on the wrong course. The cheating in this one goes deep, and super glad she is not my kids teacher.
The vitriol she spewed at the end was so classless that I now think this should all be brought to her bosses attention. Let them know who they really have working for them…
I love how almost all of you now have to have a gadget to race with, all she had to do was just race blind and her cheating ways would never have been known. And then to post up the evidence of her cheating online, and she is a teacher, priceless…
Wow. Just, wow. I got onto her FB page and started ‘liking’ one or two of the comments pointing out the problems with her ‘explanations’ and I was quickly blocked. A teacher. Geesh.
those messages she sent to me (the pollack)
WOW!!! That’s some fucked-up Mike Rossi-level abuse
And bad fucking grammar/spelling, besides
Things like this are so interesting from a personality/psychology perspective. Did she knowingly cut the bike course, or accidentally do it and then got so much validation from the results, that she either convinced herself she didn’t cheat or decided to lash out at anyone calling her out for cheating (even if it was inadvertent) rather than admitting the mistake (or the wrong doing)? Then going so far as to edit the ride, then doubling down and resorting to name calling when continued to be called out.
A stark contrast to some of the posts I’ve seen where someone accidentally cut the course and then DQ’d themselves once they realized it.
I had no idea there was a cold war between Cali and Arizona. You learn something new every day.
She’s unhinged and it’s disturbing. Can only hope she gets help.
Next thing you know, she’ll be punching someone at a Kenny Chesney concert
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Rather that than the alternatives that she alludes too.
Very interesting read. Thanks for sharing.
I’m mid 30’s and it still baffles me, how to manipulate an post workout garmin file, but I guess I’m very non-tech savy with stuff like that.
ETA: Like how to make sure you covered every detail of the new corrupted file so that it’s a seamless no questions asks new workout file, is above my pay grade.
BTW: He’s had a couple other triathlon stories on there
https://www.marathoninvestigation.com/category/triathlon
… but nothing like this
BTW: He’s had a couple other triathlon stories on there
https://www.marathoninvestigation.com/category/triathlon
… but nothing like this
both in San Diego area ? Giving SD a bad name eventhough she was from AZ
Things like this are so interesting from a personality/psychology perspective. Did she knowingly cut the bike course, or accidentally do it and then got so much validation from the results, that she either convinced herself she didn’t cheat or decided to lash out at anyone calling her out for cheating (even if it was inadvertent) rather than admitting the mistake (or the wrong doing)? Then going so far as to edit the ride, then doubling down and resorting to name calling when continued to be called out.
A stark contrast to some of the posts I’ve seen where someone accidentally cut the course and then DQ’d themselves once they realized it.
Let’s say she accidentally cut the bike course and didn’t realize it. A person of reasonably sound mind when informed by the RD might initially be upset but then realize when they looked at their data that they made a mistake and didn’t ride the entire course. They would admit their mistake or just keep their mouth shut rather than becoming unhinged and threatening everybody.
are you the blogger that caught her initially? i read this on Marathon Investigation this morning, and man some of the things she says are disturbing.
No I didn’t catch her… Even though day of race I suspected something strange people getting the course CR with the shorter distance race, I shrugged it off thinking it was a Strava glitch.
I had no idea there was a cold war between Cali and Arizona. You learn something new every day.
She’s unhinged and it’s disturbing. Can only hope she gets help.
Yes there is, many “zonies” come here to escape the heat and trash the beaches
I’m mid 30’s and it still baffles me, how to manipulate an post workout garmin file, but I guess I’m very non-tech savy with stuff like that.
ETA: Like how to make sure you covered every detail of the new corrupted file so that it’s a seamless no questions asks new workout file, is above my pay grade.
All she did was manually change the total distance. Of course, the plots all ended early, so it was a pretty dumb coverup.
The easiest way to tag on the extra distance is to go back out there, ride the extra 6 miles, then merge the two workout files. The date/time stamps in the tcx file would reveal your cheatery, but strava would not give you away. Some sort of python script could go through every line of the second ride and adjust the date/times to match the first ride. If you do every second recording, it would be easy to do it manually.
I’m mid 30’s and it still baffles me, how to manipulate an post workout garmin file, but I guess I’m very non-tech savy with stuff like that.
ETA: Like how to make sure you covered every detail of the new corrupted file so that it’s a seamless no questions asks new workout file, is above my pay grade.
All she did was manually change the total distance. Of course, the plots all ended early, so it was a pretty dumb coverup.
The easiest way to tag on the extra distance is to go back out there, ride the extra 6 miles, then merge the two workout files. The date/time stamps in the tcx file would reveal your cheatery, but strava would not give you away. Some sort of python script could go through every line of the second ride and adjust the date/times to match the first ride. If you do every second recording, it would be easy to do it manually.
F that… I’d rather DQ myself… even easier
I’ve never worked directly with .fit files, but if one were to convert it to .gpx you could import it into your favorite GIS software, edit/add vertices to the polyline along the known course, then add data into the attributes so the new vertices have manipulated metrics, and then when you import it back into garmin/strava it should look normal. . . I think :))
That’s what I mean, like if you don’t “cover it up” properly you look like an doofus. You can’t just change the end miles because the graph/gps points will still show only 12 mile ride, etc. So then it kinda makes you think…if someone really can doctor a file properly, how would you know the difference?
https://www.marathoninvestigation.com/2018/07/disqualified-triathlete-anita-carcone.html
those messages she sent to me (the pollack)
I was going to look at the results after reading her initial post about 3 minutes behind the males pro coming off injury and a hospital stay. Went to look at the results… why are there no swim times for anyone?
I’m mid 30’s and it still baffles me, how to manipulate an post workout garmin file, but I guess I’m very non-tech savy with stuff like that.
ETA: Like how to make sure you covered every detail of the new corrupted file so that it’s a seamless no questions asks new workout file, is above my pay grade.
All she did was manually change the total distance. Of course, the plots all ended early, so it was a pretty dumb coverup.
The easiest way to tag on the extra distance is to go back out there, ride the extra 6 miles, then merge the two workout files. The date/time stamps in the tcx file would reveal your cheatery, but strava would not give you away. Some sort of python script could go through every line of the second ride and adjust the date/times to match the first ride. If you do every second recording, it would be easy to do it manually.
I’ve never worked directly with .fit files, but if one were to convert it to .gpx you could import it into your favorite GIS software, edit/add vertices to the polyline along the known course, then add data into the attributes so the new vertices have manipulated metrics, and then when you import it back into garmin/strava it should look normal. . . I think :))
Or Photoshop the screenshot
I think that’s what the original T3 did, but I could be wrong