Iron fat hate Reposting the Ironfat race cheating excuses. FPH I was running a bit late, and as I fast- walked the block from where the Uber dropped me off  it became clear that I was in blister territory and I should have done more than the Body Glide. Both of my feet were hurting.  Such an athlete! It wants to emphasize that it “fast-walked” a block to the 5k revealing that it's prior intense ‘training’ had caused ‘injury’. After 2 years of ‘training’ it is befuddled by blisters.  At that point I should have decided to sit it out -that it wasn’t worth messing up my training to do a 5k for fun, but I had organized it and I wanted to hang out with the cool group of people, and it’s only 3 miles so I decided just to do it.   It's a 5k. Non-fakers incorporate this into their schedule. It's a time to see how training is progressing. Importantly, any occasion that gets someone out and “training” in real life is now engaged in “sport”.  Further, this was just a stroll with other, unfit, unpracticed fat people. This activity poses no risk whatsoever to someone who is actually in training. Additionally, it's 3.1 miles. I walked the dog more than that this afternoon. I hadn’t seen a map of the course yet and was planning to check it at registration but I decided to sit and rest my feet instead – it appeared to be a simple out and back with good signage. Fat translation: “Having read r/fattit and fph I'm foreshadowing my lying that will occur in 3,2,1.’ To be clear the Fat Boy 5k and 10k are not set up to trick participants into course cutting when they don't grab a map. Also course signs and volunteers.  Most tellingly, once again, Ragen’s race and training always involves a rest strategy. A half mile in, my feet were on fire.  My friends were doing their very best to keep me entertained and distracted, and they did an awesome job, but it was bad.  “My untrained, unathletic friends were doing better at this race than I. Damn these guhnetics!” At some point I realized that though I had worn my GPS watch, I hadn’t turned it on so I wouldn’t even have the info for my coach. Sigh.  I cant believe its fat luck! Like for years now it's forgotten to turn on the Garmin or had it malfunction! All the time you guyz!!! Because it's the watches fault. After what seemed like an eternity we finally completed the loop and got to the finish line.  This is as difficult as Ragen’s competing gets? That's just fucking stupid.  A volunteer gave me a medal as I crossed it, my friend took a picture of me and we went to find some breakfast in the shade.  (Someday I want to live in a place where you can’t get a sunburn at 8 o’clock in the morning, but that’s a subject for another time.) r/fathappened. This is the opposite of what is on video. So Reee and all that, but what the words it has written are diarrhea salad.  I found out later that I had made a mistake.  The actual course passed by the finish line, did a short loop, and then we were meant to cross the finish line in the same direction that we crossed it to start.  If I had remembered to turn on my watch I would have realized the mistake.  If the volunteer who gave me the medal had told me that I was going the wrong way I would have realized the mistake.  But I didn’t and she didn’t (and it’s not her fault, it’s entirely  mine for not looking at the map) and now it was too late. Knowing that my trolls show up at events I go to, I also bet one of my friends that this would end up on my troll sites.  If she had been foolish enough to take the bet, I would have won. It was the watch right? If only it had used the watch! Walking a race on paved and level ground in daylight with signage and volunteers to assist the participants is sooo complicated that one needs a GPS device to do it.  And yes, it is in no way the volunteer’s fault. She should not even been mentioned. Casting blame about while disingenuously acknowledging her innocence is a coward move.  The volunteer was doing her job. Her position was give medals to bibbed participants who finished the race, not to assume some clown slide-stomping in the finishers area is lost.  It's almost like this whole walking thing was an organized event or whatever? Like someone organized a race of a set distance?This was done by using a start and end point with a course between them??? Some sort of line must have been established to mark the end of that distance!?! (For shits: let's call this a “Finish Line”.) Now, having made this so called Finish Line, you put a volunteer past that line so when she sees bibbed participants on her side of the line, she would automatically think they had finished the race? I e-mailed the timing company as I was directed to let them know that I made a mistake and hadn’t finished and should be DNF’s or DQ’d or whatever, and moved on with my life. For anyone else this would be a simple mistake, no big deal. But most people, happily, don’t have internet forums and websites devoted to hating them. So I get to deal with people trying to make this into some kind of huge scandal – claiming that I cheated on purpose (I guess so that I could get the prize money and sweet, sweet, accolades that come with getting 178th place in a local 5k?) So I woke up to it being posted in the comments of every Facebook post I had made in the previous week, and on twitter. It seems they also messaged the race director, timing company and, oddly, my Best Friend, and lord only knows who else. Blah, blah, blah. r/fathappened. This is all staged bs where the “As I was directed to” and “It seems” indicates that Chestpain was totally making a natural mistake and totally doing the right thing you guys! and then all these ppls were just all over it with the emails and messages and crap and it was already taken care of.  Obviously I didn’t purposefully cheat (though I definitely made a mistake, it was absolutely irresponsible not to know the course ahead of time.) For the record though, if I was going to cheat I wouldn’t do it by going through the finish line backwards when I knew that it was being photographed and filmed. So that’s fun, and I do appreciate the extra blog traffic (though whoever sent the Facebook message to my Best Friend – that’s just weird, maybe rethink how you spend your free time…) Keep it classy y’all Really? It didn't have to know the course, just walk it. Ending with a hypothetical defense as if it's 12 years old. Apparently it knew it was being photographed and filmed where video stills are considered photographs. This information went out to all runners on an email that detailed how anyone who accidentally course-cut should wait a week before contacting “the timing company” and fixing everything.  This whole thing, this whole 'Ironfat' thing is reminiscent of the Julie Miller drama-excuses with the exception that Julie actually trained and competed in distant events before she started cheating.  But, once the irregularities started she doubled down with the: I would never cheat/why would I cheat?/it's a smear campaign/jealousy excuse when questioned. Yet, she kept losing the timing chip out of the strap in multiple ironmans and the number on the bikes, the only way the bike races were timed, came off of her bike.  To her it makes perfect sense that accidents happen so everyone will just accept that and move on. The only problem is when those accidents happen to only one person and no other competitor has those mishaps, the problem most likely lies with that person. Because they cheated.  Postscript: As much as it thinks that posting a pic of its foot blister gives weight to the whole mess, besides the fact that it's body is so fucking fat that adipose tissue is being deposited on the soles of its feet, there is nothing on that foot that indicates running and biking. It, not having experience actually training, doesn't realize that the complete absence of calloused pads on the ball and toes demonstrates no impact on the foot. Edit: previous post url