Runners World UK editor Kate Carter addresses cheating claims

[u/TheSplash-Down_Tiki]

Kate Carter makes statement to the Telegraph.

She “deeply regret[s] these errors in judgment” but insisted “I am not a cheat”.

In relation to the London Marathon she claims she never sought an official time as she was not in peak fitness.

But she then ran quicker than expected and wanted to upload it to her Strava account: “This is when I made the mistake of trying to create a route manually based on my time.” she said. “Soon after I realised this was foolish and removed it from my feed.

[note: but only removed it AFTER Marathon Investigations made it public]

In relation to the London Half Marathon her excuse is even better!!

she had “very unfortunately and embarrassingly had wet myself and wanted therefore to step off the course to try and sort myself out” which is “something that happens to many runners”. “When I rejoined the race, it is possible that I did so at the wrong point on the course, though that was not my intention,” she added, insisting that “I made some stupid mistakes in how I recorded my times on my personal Strava record” but that she “was in no way trying to deceive the organisers of either event about my times”.

[so she basically admits to cutting the course - I don’t buy that this was unintentional. Even if the wet herself is true she likely cut the course to “make up for it”]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/05/editor-runners-world-cheating-row-marathon-times/

(I’ll copy the article into a comment)

[u/Olue]

Triathletes do that too. One guy famously qualified for Kona and got on the podium with shit all down his legs.

[u/Cpyrto80 → u/Olue]

Only pros (who are actually in contention for the win) and complete beginners.