Not to be a critique, but doesn't that mean she's just completed a 1000 marathon races? Cause if I was a betting man I'd wager a ultra runner like Anton done over 1000 marathon distance runs in training before the age of 30. This record is BS to be honest.
Was there (ran the 1/2). Wondered what on earth was going on as I was pushing towards the finish line and all of the sudden I have to navigate around this costumed mass of people plodding along 7-8 abreast across the course.
You should report her and the group to Derek Murphy so he can harrass them and post photos on his website to publicly shame them for taking up space like he has done to other runners running side by side.
In case you have no wit, the above was sarcastic and meant to show how out of touch and pretentious Derek Murphy is.
The world needs more people like Derek Murphy and others who expose cheats and scammers. I don't agree with all his takes and I personally sure as hell don't follow all the rules in life but it sounds like you're just bitter about being outed.
For the most part, Tortorice chooses to walk/run a majority of her races – completing them between six and seven hours (nine and half minutes per kilometre). Her personal best time is five hours.
6 hours is commonly the time limit for city races. I've seen 6:30 and 7 in some particularly huge races but usually it's 6. Did she pick and chooser her marathons so that she doesn't have to hit the cutoff times? Otherwise her 1000 finishes might be contested over a technicality.
6 hours is commonly the time limit for city races. I've seen 6:30 and 7 in some particularly huge races but usually it's 6. Did she pick and chooser her marathons so that she doesn't have to hit the cutoff times? Otherwise her 1000 finishes might be contested over a technicality.
You bring up a very good point that with how slow she is that there is no way she could have finished inside the official time limits for many marathons and thus she would not be an official finisher. But since she is white, Derek Murphy has already wrote a Tweet saying she is legit (not joking, check his Twitter). Contrast this with how Derek Murphy criminally harasses a black woman for years for the same thing, a la Laytoya Snell.
You should report her and the group to Derek Murphy so he can harrass them and post photos on his website to publicly shame them for taking up space like he has done to other runners running side by side.
In case you have no wit, the above was sarcastic and meant to show how out of touch and pretentious Derek Murphy is.
The world needs more people like Derek Murphy and others who expose cheats and scammers. I don't agree with all his takes and I personally sure as hell don't follow all the rules in life but it sounds like you're just bitter about being outed.
Ha! So why don't you go exposing the many pedophiles in America instead of exposing and publicly shaming runners that ran side by side like Derek has done?
In her races, she's a middle of the pack runner. Nice way to finish this linked race after marathons the three previous days - 10 minutes faster on last lap than on previous ones. Again, this is after marathons on the three previous days. Beastmode.
6 hours is commonly the time limit for city races. I've seen 6:30 and 7 in some particularly huge races but usually it's 6. Did she pick and chooser her marathons so that she doesn't have to hit the cutoff times? Otherwise her 1000 finishes might be contested over a technicality.
So I did a bit of digging on Angela Tortorice's marathon at Irving Marathon on April 2, 2022 that she is claiming as her 1000th marathon. First, here's Derek Murphy's official Twitter tweet saying "Angela is legit." in response to a news article about the 1000th marathon:
But there's a BIG problem with Angela's times at Irving Marathon 2022. The official Irving Marathon participant guide shows that the earliest official start for any group is 7:30am and the course is closed at 2pm. This means that the maximum time anyone could be on the race course is 6.5 hours. But what is Angela's race times and splits you say?.....
RACE DAY SCHEDULE
5:00 AM - PARKING GARAGE/VENUE OPENS & PARTICIPANTS/SPECTATORS ARRIVE
Marathon, Half Marathon, 10k, 5k Run/Walk on April 1, 2023 at Toyota Music Factory in Irving, Texas. A Boston Marathon Qualifier. Fast and flat USATF certified race courses. The best marathon in North Texas/DFW. The race rout...
Uh, oh! Angela's recorded finish time of 7:11:29.6 is way over the maximum 6.5 hours that could be possible in the race schedule. And from the last two splits at 24.7M and 26.2M, she took over 2 hours 26 minutes to travel the last 1.5 miles too the finish line. This has all the signs that Angela did not actually run/walk the whole marathon in the officially allowed course schedule and that last ridiculous split is very suspicious, like she got swept up in the broom wagon picking up runners that are too slow and driving them all together to the finish line where they then crossed over the finish line. You know, like what happened with Laytoya Snell, the black woman Derek Murphy has been criminally harrassing for years for doing the same thing, even going after her employers and sponsors.
I think elite marathoners do 100 to 150 mpw. Even assuming just 100, that is 5200 per year, and equal to 1000 marathons in 5 years. To account for time offs, injury breaks, etc, let's add a couple of years. Thus, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of runners around the world that have done what she has done 2-3 times already, with paces that are more than 2x faster than hers.