This man works very hard to scam people into thinking he runs marathons
The greatest marathon cheater ever. And no one knows how he did it.
Is Kip Litton a Marathon Fraud? : The New Yorker
On January 11, 2011, a poster called Liptodakip wrote, “Still curious about the west Wyoming marathon. 29 runners total. And he won it. Anyone know anything about it? Is it a real race? The main page is down and now the results are gone. (was up last week). did he make up an entire race? That would be bold!”
Yes, it would. And, yes, he did. LetsRun exploded: West Wyoming was Litton’s pi�ce de r�sistance, and even his most indignant accusers had to concede their perverse admiration. In this race, the key to winning was ingeniously uncomplicated: Make the whole thing up! For his fabricated marathon, Litton had assembled not only a Web site but also a list of finishers and their times (plus name, age, gender, and home town), and created a phantom race director, who responded to e-mail queries. It occurred to Kyle Strode that six months earlier, when he had raised questions about Litton to “Richard Rodriguez,” the reply (“Wow, that’s quite a scenario!”) had omitted a crucial detail. When Richard Rodriguez looked in the mirror, Litton looked back.
In concocting the fantasy, someone had gone so far as to create a post-race testimonial for the Web site Marathon Guide.
