{"id":30832,"date":"2019-02-18T03:57:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T08:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=30832"},"modified":"2019-02-18T03:57:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T08:57:43","slug":"february-18-2019-the-hong-kong-marathon-results-something-is-not-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=30832","title":{"rendered":"February 18, 2019 &#8211; The Hong Kong Marathon Results &#8212; Something Is Not Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qgqJSxviu6Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I checked my online results from the Hong Kong Marathon, it was clear that something was not right, something was all wrong.<\/p>\n<p>My Garmin watch, my body, and my finisher photo all can attest that I ran something just under a 3:27 for the race.\u00a0 And yet the official certificate the <a href=\"https:\/\/results.sporthive.com\/events\/6501067205981731328\/races\/451896\/bib\/A2478\">MYLAPS\/SportHive event timers<\/a> sent me would seemingly indicate I PR&#8217;d.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s just not the case:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-17-HK-Marathon-Certificate-page-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30871 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-17-HK-Marathon-Certificate-page-001-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-17-HK-Marathon-Certificate-page-001-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-17-HK-Marathon-Certificate-page-001-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-17-HK-Marathon-Certificate-page-001-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-17-HK-Marathon-Certificate-page-001-660x934.jpg 660w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-17-HK-Marathon-Certificate-page-001-450x637.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, this certificate shows me as having missed a timing mat, which doesn&#8217;t seem possible as I was on the course route the whole time &#8212; honest.\u00a0 You can see I&#8217;m there via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=30634\">the photos I shot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve contacted the timing company; a copy of my email appears below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi.\u00a0 I ran the Hong Kong marathon today and when I checked the results my time seems off.\u00a0 By my garmin&#8217;s record I ran something just around 3:27. I can send the details if that would help.\u00a0 But I know I didn&#8217;t run the 3:01 and change your results page is showing.\u00a0 Could you check on this for me?\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I also reached out to that Marathon Investigator guy who loves culling through race result data to catch cheaters at marathoners here, there and everywhere.\u00a0 The people have a right to know that &#8220;run Kevin run&#8221; isn&#8217;t a cheater&#8230;. and I&#8217;m not a cheater.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi.\u00a0 Something screwy seems to have happened at the Hong Kong marathon today.\u00a0 My watch, finisher photo, and body all know I ran just under a 3:27&#8230; but the official results show me as having run a 3:01:52.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve contacted the timing people so we will see what they say but something is off.\u00a0 They say I missed two mats too which is odd because I definitely crossed every single one.<\/p>\n<p>Believe me, I wish I could&#8217;ve run a PR but I definitely didn&#8217;t.\u00a0 Weird, weird, weird.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Hanna<\/p>\n<p>Link to results:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/results.sporthive.com\/events\/6501067205981731328\/races\/451896\/bib\/A2478\">https:\/\/results.sporthive.com\/events\/6501067205981731328\/races\/451896\/bib\/A2478<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What an odd thing to have happen.\u00a0 Makes me wonder how many other results are &#8220;off&#8221; from yesterday&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p>This post is filed under the heading &#8220;Things that make you go &#8216;hmmmmmm.&#8217; \u00a0 Or maybe &#8216;mmmmmmm-Bop.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, my favorite &#8220;Madeline&#8221; song is by Hanson:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Uq2SaWAOeA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I checked my online results from the Hong Kong Marathon, it was clear that something was not right, something was all wrong. My Garmin watch, my body, and my finisher photo all can attest that I ran something just under a 3:27 for the race.\u00a0 And yet the official certificate the MYLAPS\/SportHive event timers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}