According to Murphy, Agnew “turned in his timing chip and left without much of an argument.”Īgnew has also been retroactively disqualified from all his previous Across the Year races. Race officials then confronted Agnew with the evidence and told him he would be disqualified. HE SPENT JUST OVER 7 MINUTES IN THE TOILET. IT’S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT I KEPT MY EYES ON HIM THE WHOLE TIME - I DID NOT LOOK AWAY OR GET DISTRACTED AT ALL DURING THE 10 MINUTES I WATCHED. ALSO, I THOUGHT IT WAS SIGNIFICANT THAT HE CLEARLY GLANCED DOWN AT HIS WATCH AS HE ENTERED THE PORTABLE TOILET - AS IF HE WAS MARKING THE TIME HE STEPPED IN. And if you’re wondering whether Melton might have gotten distracted or wandered away, don’t! Here’s what he told Murphy (in all caps): ![]() When he emerged, Melton says he saw him cross the timing mat again, thus registering a lap he didn’t complete. According to Melton, after the 17th lap, Agnew crossed the timing mat, spent some time looking at the monitor nearby, and then went into the port-a-potty where he spent a full ten minutes. ![]() ![]() His crushing victory drew suspicion among race organizers, and in December 2017, officials discovered that Agnew had a stinky secret: He was cheating by hiding in a port-a-potty and recording laps he didn’t take.ĭerek Murphy, who runs the blog Marathon Investigation, spoke to Mike Melton, the timing official who was tasked with keeping an eye on Agnew during the race. Agnew first won the 48-hour race in 2013, when he ran 201.5 miles in 41 hours, beating his runner-up by 55 miles, despite having stopped the race seven hours early. For the past four years, a man named Kelly Agnew has won Across the Years, a multiday, fixed-time footrace in Arizona where people (willingly!) sign up to see how many miles they can run in 24, 48, or 72 hours, or six days.
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