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I think he should upload his Garmin GPS Data for everyone to be able to look at.

Then it will be sorted.

Just watched Mr Sloan on TV. The programme and witnesses summed it up quite nicely as did the close up shots of him being interviewed. All the signs of a liar present. One thing to note. I've got a Garmin GPS sports watch. I've had it working accurately on the Metro, Buses, and even at 36000 feet mid atlantic through the windows on a Boeing 757. So Mr Sloan I don't think the 30mph signal from the spectators bus you caught would pose any problems!

I'd like to comment regarding the Garmin GPS unit.

I have a Garmin 305 running watch and the satellite retention is excellent. I can use it on any form of transport, including aeroplanes. It would have no problem continuing to receive a signal on a bus.

In addition it is almost certain that the unit will have a google earth download facility, showing an almost exact track that the unit followed. It should be accurate enough to show the inevitable, albeit maybe just a few yards, route variation that the bus will have had to take.

C'mon on Rob, own up!

The Garmin GPS Data will also show the route taken, this could have been should during the interview. My Garmain watch worked fine for the entire course (even within the trees), I was checking it frequently to monitor my pace and the signal strength was fine.

Rob should take a lie detector test.

Has anyone spoken to the bus company? A marathon runner heavy with perspiration would be easy to remember. I'm sure there were other people on the bus who may also like to come forward. Surely the risk of being caught would have been enough to deter anyone, well most people.... If he really wants to run next year I believe this should be allowed, but he must raise money for charity. If he has cheated he hasn't brought the race into disrepute, he's only put himself down by cheating himself.

For what it's worth, I use a Garmin 705 cycle computer and it routinely spikes some strange results. For example, I live in Bristol and my training rides almost always takes me out through Ashton Court, about 2kms from my home. My post-ride Garmin reports nearly always show my heart-rate spikes to more than 190% of the preferred training zone, for about a minute just past the entrance of Ashton Court. Furthermore, during one Etape du Tour sportive in France, I registered a downhill speed of 170 km/h. I know I was fast, but ...

The Garmin log just stops at about 22 miles, so I don't see how it illustrates anything about "the last couple of miles of the race". Last time I looked, marathons were 26.2 miles.

It looks like watch was either stopped manually or the battery ran out - I don't buy the 'poor reception' explanation. My Garmin 405 is pretty good at keeping satellite reception, only completely losing it when I run through an old railway tunnel on one of my routes. And even then, it soon picks up reception on the other side.

As a former club athlete and long distance runner I would have liked to have heard the comments of the runners placed 5th to 10th to support those of Steve Cairns. When you are in the top 10 battling against other top athletes over a marathon distance you know who is around you and where they are in relation to your position. These runners will be able to verify whether Rob Sloane passed any or all of them after the 17th mile. I can only assume that the producers of the programme were happy to let Rob dig himself an even deeper delusional hole.

This latest pronouncement from this individual have done nothing to support his far fetched claims, he got caught and should stop trying to justify something he cannot prove. I hope Steve Cram stands by his statement that he is not welcome at the Marathon of the North and I would hope that Help for Heroes have nothing to do with his claim to want to run for the charity - he is not worthy to be associated with those that this particular charity supports.

You Take The High Road
And I’ll Take…………….. The Bus


I didn’t take a drug or act like a thug,

just jumped on a bus, so what’s all the fuss?

Got a bronze, and robbed a copper,

of what was his, good and proper.


Wasn’t my doing, couldn’t help it, you know.

T’was drivers fault, for tempting me so.

I play by the rules, don’t normally cheat,

But I was ‘done in’ at Halfway, dead on my feet!



Won’t happen again, never happened before.

You got me all wrong mate, as I’ve said before,

‘Cheats never prosper’, I can hear my mum sing.

(And if you believe that ‘Sonny’ you’ll believe anything)





But no one really cared; they thought I was cool,

Nothing illegal, just ‘playing the fool’.

Even Steve Cram smirked as he talked to the press.

So, I’m no cheating b**stard, I’m up with the best!

Freeze-framing his mile splits then did he indeed appear to go through the half way point (13.1 miles) in 1:27 as it says in the full Inside Out programme. Yet he crossed the line in 2:51:01 so already he would have needed a huge "negative split" and of course he would have to have passed people "like a train" to do so.

The splits after that indicate he is steadily slowing and by mile 19, I make him pretty much bang on 3:00:00 pace. The last split around 22 miles suggests he is then down to about 3:04:00 pace.

So he would have needed to run the last 4 and a bit miles in exactly 16 mins - sub 4 miling! Nobody can or is ever likely to do that even when fresh!

Having come 7th in this race, and remembering Mr. Sloane's distinctive haircut as I passed him at about 15 miles, I can confirm that he didn't pass me again on the way to the finish. I can also vouch for the excellent signal I had from my Garmin throughout this beautiful race. This guy is without doubt a very good runner, (I doubt if I could have run a fast 10K the day before the race and managed a 1.27 for the first half!) so running a marathon on the treadmill on TV to prove a point was ridiculous!

I think the solution is that Rob should take a lie detector test.

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