Leachman DNF 5k at Portland - Splits 3k at US #1 9:17

I was there and saw when Leachman collapsed on the track with just under 4 laps to go. She did not get up even after medical aid arrived. When the leaders began to complete another lap and approach her, two medical aid people lifted her off the track and moved her a few feet to the infield and off the track. Once on the infield she remained down for several minutes (with medical aid present with her). Later, she was able to get up and walk off.

I hope she is able to recover from this and run the other races she has planned in the upcoming week (U20 and Nike, and maybe one other).

The anger that "the430miler" has towards Elizabeth Leachman doesn't have anything to do with anything Leachman did to him or her parents did to him.

The430miler, who claims his name is Barrett Dahl, has been lying about being a college coach in San Antonio for many years, and he has told many fake crazy stories about how he coaches the team he doesn't really have. These lies started long before Leachman started running.

He also lied about being a college professor, lied about owning tanning salons and lied about lots of other things too. Some people knew he was constantly lying and they ignored his insane posts. Others thought he was an actual college coach, just a strange one.

But when, by complete accident, Elizabeth Leachman from San Antonio recently became one of the top girls distance runners in the country, fake San Antonio college coach "the430miler" made a bunch of posts saying that he was going to recruit her to his college team so that she could stay locally at his college in San Antonio. Some other posters made fun of his recruiting nonsense, pointing out correctly that fake college coaches can't actually recruit anyone.

Eventually he got so mad about being called out as a fake college coach, that he flipped the other way and started saying really horrible things about Leachman in an effort to convince real college coaches not to recruit her. He decided that if he can't have her then he would ruin her reputation so badly that she couldn't run at any other college either.

He's so delusional that he actually thought college coaches wouldn't recruit her because of bad things a random anonymous poster wrote on a message board. (I won't repeat all the bad things he has said about her but it's a long list of very offensive things over many months and hundreds of posts. This guy is really bad news.)

His posts kept getting more offensive towards Leachman but those posts also kept getting deleted. So he used literally a hundred other screen names besides his main screen name (which is "the430miler" aka fake college coach Barrett Dahl) to try to pretend that there was a whole slew of people in San Antonio that hated Leachman. Those posts kept getting deleted by mods as fast as he could post them.

Eventually the430miler went completely batsh!t crazy and he registered the screen name "Elizabeth Leachman" and pretended he was actually her. While impersonating her he "admitted" to doing lots of bad things. Him impersonating a 16 year old girl was the last straw. The mods had enough of his awful behavior and banned his long time screen name "the430miler".

The430miler begged the mods to get unbanned and to get his screen name back. Eventually they gave "the430miler" screen name back to him and unbanned him, which was a big mistake.

Now he still says negative things about Leachman but usually from a bunch of other screen names besides the430miler screen name, because he imagines that will prevent the mods from banning his "the430miler" screen name again. I hope he's wrong and he gets that screen name banned permanently. He is a complete nut and sick in the head for spending the last 7 or 8 months posting one lie after another about a 16 year old girl.

the430miler should be banned permanently! He is a big liar and a total menace!

Thank you for taking the time to write this up. Every handle associated with the430miler and his

lying and stalkerish and time-wasting posts should be banned immediately, since they just make this place a bigger crap-hole than it already is.

Any poster that supports his shenanigans here, thinking they are somehow funny, are part of that problem.

We are going to require registration on all posts involving minors. This is crazy. People are ripping HS sophomores?

Good. it wont stop people with real mental issues from making terrible posts but its a step in the right direction. but Im curious how this will be enforced. will you add "post about a minor" to the reporting list?

As for the topic, I hope Leachman is ok. Had she fully healed from her hamstring issues? I hope it was just a matter of "blowing up" and nothing else. selfish about wanting to see her race that potentially legendary 2 mile race at Brooks but if shes not healthy call it a season.

Please do so. Thank you, Rojo.

We have to protect these young athletes from internet stalkers... especially the young females who have been targeted repeatedly this year. It's absolutely the creepiest thing I've ever seen in the running world.

Why not take it a step further and require registration for anyone who wants to post on the boards?

They can register with Letsrun. They can keep their anonymity. Although, I disagree with that part, I know it is a big deal to some because there are a few sensitive issues that come up from time to time. Anonymity might be important in those situations (I'm thinking of the coaching jobs threads).

I also know the site might die if people had to actually show their true identity if they wanted to post here.

Oh well.

too old for this

(Burke Binning = true identity)

Thanks for doing this - the behavior towards Sadie Englehardt, Leachman, Addy Ritz, and other high schoolers has gotten out of control. But how about doing that for all non-professionals or at least up to the NCAA level? I can't imagine what it would be like for any number of college athletes to log on here and find posts by random anons conjecturing about everything from PEDs and their personal lives. If you're a pro, at least it comes with the territory and you're ideally mature enough to handle that, but so many young athletes are emotionally fragile about their self-worth and image. Why allow anonymous creeps to contribute to an environment that had the potential to hurt them badly?

Amen. Also, how can anyone click the down arrow on a post that suggests protecting young female athletes? I'm sure it's the same creep clicking on it with all 7 of his accounts that he/she uses to bash young women.

Smart.
Whats going on? People have been getting *really* weird with HS female athletes this year. It’s unsettling, especially considering what a talented crew this year has been.

You’ve got to be unhinged if you’re attacking teenagers you’ve never met.