Kip Litton is registered for the 2012 Boston Marathon. Kip likely used his performance at the Charlotte Thunder Road marathon on 12/10/2010 (finishing pic below) as his Boston Qualifier. We don't know of any other marathons he's completed recently that are within the 2012 BQualifying window (they have to be from 9/25/10 forward).
Boston Marathon photo credit - Google/Flicker pix
I guess it's safe to assume then that this performance has been accepted by the BAA, despite reports we've received that Kip had not actually completed the full distance (please see http://kiplitton.blogspot.com/2010/12/kip-litton-at-charlotte-marathon-dec.html). The Charlotte race director had questioned Kip, but decided that because Kip had crossed all the mats and had denied any wrongdoing, he would not be DQ'ed (full report).
Note that 3:00:24 was his gun time. His chip time was 2:55:20.
Kip last made the trip to Boston in 2010, where he completed the 2010 Boston Marathon in 2:52, despite an outfit change (see below). He also blazed the BAA 5K course the day before in 17:17 (5:34 min/mi), despite a 4:04 gun/chip differential and a photo showing Litton finishing stride for stride with 21min 5k finishers (please see this link for more info).
2010 Boston Marathon (outfit comparison)
2010 BAA 5K Finish
If it's not too much trouble, you might want to back up the letsrun thread again.
ReplyDeleteThe have been tons (over 20) legitimate posts deleted in the past 24 hours. It would suck if the wrong moderator (or whoever) decided to press the delete key on the entire thread.
how can we back them up if they get deleted so quickly?
ReplyDeleteYou misunderstand what I'm saying.
ReplyDeleteObviously, the 20+ posts that were deleted are gone. I don't know why posts are suddenly being deleted so frequently. It is a recent change in behavior from what I can tell.
My concern is for the 1700+ posts that still exist. Obviously some LetsRun moderator has lost it, or is on a power trip, or whatever to delete the legitimate posts he just deleted. It would only take that same moderator ONE keystroke to delete the entire thread. Whoops - it's gone... sorry! It has already happened to 2 previous threads about Kip on LetsRun.
My hope was to preserve the majority of the thread here before something potentially happened to it.
OK I see what you're saying. admin will try to do
ReplyDeleteThe first 86pgs have been backed up at http://kiplitton3rd.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteThanks for doing the back up! I'm glad you did, considering the LetsRun thread just disappeared again. Who knows what is going on there.
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