"- the weird overreach. Why did he aim for a high ranking? If he'd come 50th no one would have cared. Why did he talk to someone from the new yorker? Why did he

"- the weird overreach. Why did he aim for a high ranking? If he'd come 50th no one would have cared. Why did he talk to someone from the new yorker? Why did he make up a whole event?" This is what surprised me about him. If he had more respectable times, he could've run the scheme for much longer, and avoided the scrutiny of the community. Even the author at the end said his sub 4 hours times were believable and gave him credit for those. As always, his greed got the best of him.