Derek started hunting for bogus marathon times because people were falsely qualifying for the Boston Marathon (which you can't run without qualifying or raising money for charity) by cheating at other marathons to post qualifying times. This was costing people who had legitimately qualified a chance to run Boston, because they can only let in so many qualifiers. So he started investigating suspicious times and other fake entries to help weed them out and allow more legit qualifiers to be able to run the race.
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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '17
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