Is posting your Strava time instead of your result cheating?
Zach Bitter calls them clowns for stopping their watches mid-race, and an online watchdog group is naming names. Meanwhile Tove Alexandersson won again, and two Reddit runners finally cracked three hours.
The week's biggest
Posting a Strava time over your official result: cheating?
The Athletic asked whether posting a faster Strava time instead of your official marathon result counts as cheating, reporting that an online watchdog group is exposing runners over the gap while some of those runners say they have faced harassment. Zach Bitter says this is not small GPS error.
These clowns are stopping their watches while taking breaks and/or prior to crossing the finish line.
Races and results
Alexandersson wins Tsaigu 50K, still unbeaten on trail in 2026
Tove Alexandersson won the Tsaigu 50K in China for the seventh win of an undefeated trail season, per Travis Loncar. She was fifth overall and 6.26% behind men's winner Yang Chunlong. Loncar puts her season average margin at 12.7% over the second woman, and only 8.2% behind the first man.
Two sub-3 race reports, and what each runner did with fuel
Two r/Marathon_Training posters broke three hours this week: 2:59:33 at Lausanne and 2:58:41 at Frankfurt. The Frankfurt runner, 42 and 67 kg, ran even watch splits around 4:11 to 4:13 per km off a nine week, 578 km block, and carb loaded at 9.8 g per kg on Friday.
And the wall never came.