Next vid will be an actual documentary this time, I promise lmfao

Congrats to the kid that ran down and dropped a former D1 runner that started part way through.

4:14 Dude if someone cheered for me like the guy who yells “Let’s go Jack! Go give it to ‘em, son!” I’m pretty sure I could lift a car off the ground with my bare hands.

Bro couldnt even win😭😭

As a former college XC and track runner I'd love to be able to compete in some races again in an open/alumni field. I'd never dress up and pretend to be a student though.....thats weird/cringe as fuck lol

He jumped in at around 800m. He didn't come in from the neighborhood. About 2 minutes before the start, I saw him in spikes and a uniform in the grass by where the course loops back on itself. I didn't know it was Hebert at the time, just weird that this guy was standing way away from the start in spikes. I didn't see him jump in, but based on where he was standing and the video, if you look at the course map, he jumped in on the section where the course does a close U before going back around the lake.

I am honestly laughing at the fact that someone actually did this. Like holy smokes. My buddies and I have cracked jokes about doing this (we coach high school), but never did we intend on actually doing this. Absolutely crazy this happened. I feel bad for the kids.

Imagine coming back from college and losing a high school XC race ☠️

For one, I'm glad the kid that won was able to catch him, from his response it sounds like he saw something that threw him off or frustrated him (maybe he saw him pop out of the neighborhood or he trolled him or something). Also, this is inexcusable because there was an organized run in downtown Austin on Sunday, 10 miler, so plenty of races for adults in the area

I have a couple of friends who ran that meet, but I could not see this unfold in person as my state meet was a couple weeks before. I will say I would have never expected something like this >10 miles away from my house. If you wanted to see the angle from some of the runners there I would be happy to help

He could of honestly waited for his local Turkey Trot and actually won some money against same level high school students.

I ran that meet, and I personally had no idea who he was either. I know pretty much every person who is capable of placing top 10 at state, but had no clue who this person was

For me, I wouldn't really care and I actually find it a bit funny, but not at a state meet. If he did this at a random tri meet that no one really cares about it would be kind of funny, but states is taken so seriously that he could've messed up someone's pace or mindset

Yo, is there a chance that he genuinely didn’t realize how weird it was until the reporter pointed it out to him lol that would be so much funnier

I was at the meet when this happened, this was my first year at state and my friends I were all dying laughing. Can't believe it's made it this far.

Imagine being a grown man and not being able to win against a bunch of kids. Clown behavior.

This is the first time I’m able to say, I was there. Was at State to support a teammate and Kevin Sanchez passed him at the 2.25 mile marker… going up hill…

Grown ass man runs less distance than high schoolers, loses.

Perhaps as a cross country runner, this is the 'weirdest'. However for other running events there have been plenty of other stranger incidents Including multiple people who entered marathons but cheated (I think one woman took a public bus, until she was only a couple miles from the finishing line, and then entered to 'win'. Also the strangest case of a runner is James Hogue. His life and scandals are covered in the Podcast: Swindled Titled: The Ivy Leaguer (Esther Reed / James Hogue). He is a former Kansas State Champion Two Miler. He went on at age 26 to commit identity theft and enroll at Palo Alto High School as a full time student/athlete competing in various high school races.

As an XC this is the most talked about thing to happen in the last half decade

My team captain ran in this ran his name is Thierry Garcon and he placed 21st he said he saw Hebert during the race and was very confused bc he recognized him from UT as he just visited the campus and talked to the coach.

It's always nice to discover a new channel that focuses on cheating scandals. I'm not a huge sports fan but I'm always happy to gawk at their dirty laundry.

I just discovered your channel and I'm glad one like it exists. Not enough people are covering running compared to the huge amount of people who participate in it, so it's nice to see quality videos about running events that even non-runners can appreciate. It's obvious that you know what you're doing so keep it up and I'm sure your channel will be on the scale of Total Running Productions in no time!

I think it’s crazy how every time something like this happens the media and everyone pretends to care about high school cross country for 15 minutes. The guy is a weirdo for doing this but this could absolutely happen in big meets in my state and no one would give a shit because it’s high school cross country.

2:10 so no one is going to talk about his bib is an entirely different color haha whoever put this race on needs to be shamed good lord

I have a friend who also did this. He was 20-21 and jumped into the California state meet. He somehow snuck in but half way during the race got yelled at then someone grabbed him and pulled him out lol.

You say that no other athlete was affected, but it's perfectly possible that other runners blew their race trying to keep pace with him. Some of the runners will have trained all year for this, so it was a doubly shitty thing to do.

Many of my friends and teammates ran this meet, and it became the talk of the locker room for a while

LMAO i click on this random video and its about a meet I RAN IN?? It was a shock lol somehow i missed all rhis drama! Good video thanks for repping travis county haha

Holy shit. I found you again, organically. I knew it would happen, I didn't know when. Congrats on the rebuild, good of content as always.

I heard about this on the way to my state meet, it was so funny to hear that the guy didn’t even win

College kid living his glory HS days..and still lost to a high schooler lol..weak

great work as always etienne

To these high school runners the state championship is a huge event for them. For a college guy to jump in to get attention is an act of pure ego and selfishness. His only motivation that I can see is to get attention for himself. Some people are calling this a joke or a prank but as far as I can see this guy is a total jerk. I actually would like to see him punished for this. Getting a little tired of people like this crying out for attention.

4:12 love this guy's support for (presumably) his son

I think my cousin ran against his brother Andrew Herbert in the track and field state champion chip, it was the 1600m, and my cousin got 4:15 and he got 4:14, crazy to think, can someone confirm this please, also he probably raced brenden in other meets as well cc and track

How was Sanchez's race "tainted"? He crossed the finish line first and legitimately won the title. Just because this clown sneaked into the race, for whatever reason, it didn't affect Sanchez's result. He merely managed to garner some of the attention afterwards. If I were Sanchez, I'd just laugh it off.

that reporter using an annoyed mom voice, hahah

Yeah, I was there! I’m fairly certain that he snuck in around the first mile mark. The course winded around for the last 2 miles but was fairly straight for the first mile. Because of that most people cheered the runners on over the last 2 miles so they could catch them 3-4 times but there were less people present over the first mile, making it fairly easy to slip in without any coaches noticing.

Years ago, I went to a park nearby to run and there was a meet going on there. It was near the end of the day, and all that was left was a boys' JV race. I let them start, waited about 10 minutes, then began running the course. I was just kind-of jogging and not doing anything hard--I think I was about 30 years old at the time. As luck would have it, some of those JV runners were really slow and I caught up to them, even being 10 minutes behind. I was wearing a walkman and no uniform and training flats, so people knew I was not in high school. Several people shouted at me, even though I was staying to the outside and not interfering with the race. But I felt really bad, so I dropped out and left the course at like the 2 mile mark of a 3 mile (non-repeating) course. I figured there was no way in hell I would catch up to the stragglers, but I still did. I think some of those at the back were walking/running alternately. I don't think I hurt anyone because there were still like 100+ runners in front of me, and it was a JV race. But I would never want to have that happen to me again. I should have just run somewhere else once I saw the meet going on. I can't fathom showing up and trying to win, looking like Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite, trying to get back to 1983.

Tbh this funny asf

My favorite part is that he didn’t win despite having the better PRs. hope it was just for shits and giggles vs him going through something mentally and emotionally

Just because you do something stupid and inexcusable doesn't mean you are mentally unwell.

Let’s think critically about this though. This dude was able to basically hop into a STATE CHAMPIONSHIP meet (the literal biggest one of the year) undetected. This is a security risk that needs to be addressed with more flaggers on the course. No nothing severe happened; just some weirdo living out his dream of running the state meet for a second time, BUT something crazy COULD HAVE happened.. this is honestly embarrassing on the UIL’s part. Maybe this dude did them a favor and they’ll implement something to keep things like this or even more severe from happening in the future.

The third place guy held up 2 fingers then changed it to 3 🤣🤣

Tell me you peaked in high school without telling me you peaked in high school 😂

Was there! RRHS freshman watching our varsity runners was fun but i definitely didn’t recognize this adult runner and was wondering who he was. Our coach was posting about it.

Most people have nightmares about going back to high school. Apparently not this guy.

He wanted to relive another victory in his high school days... wait a second...

He's not a "college kid" he's a freakin' grown-ass adult! He's 23!

This is like when your a parent and you wonder what you would score on the SAT / ACT when you see your kid preparing for it. I can’t imagine actually doing it though.

It’s funny how the reporter told him it’s not allowed like he’s going to get thrown in prison for it.

The interview is hilarious 🤣😆😂

Imagine wanting to relive high school dreams as an adult man. What a little beta boy

The long silence at the end of the interview 😂

I'd see doing it for fun if you don't think about the consequences but that's a dummy decision

My uncle did the same thing in Texas along time ago except he went to the school as a student because of the time I believe it was the 70s. Crazy

Weird that a guy with a sub-4 mile on his resume would want to do this.

From someone who was there, it was a really strange thing to watch unfold. It even tricked down to the other races that weekend including mine. Just strange

Crazy story, guess I'm glad it's bringing attention to running but not exactly what I had in mind lol

The Milesplit website is so annoying. I'm just trying to see if I can find me at the starting gun or during any pictures but it's behind a paywall. I can't even see my own scores collected under my runner profile without paying

I was in class watching the live results come in on a non UIL website. was weird because right as the final results were posted, the top 10 were excluded at first (so it said #11 won the race) probably entirely due to this guy suddenly being there that wasn't. While kevin wasn't affected, I'm good friends with the #2 and #3 runners, and recall jack holding up a 3 on the official UIL post because he thought he was actually beat out by this dude. made for a great story and public bashing on insta, but wow do i feel bad for my fellas.

the running speaks for itself

I've joined in track meets at the local high school but never a race lol

Bro the video at the end in the porta potty is from my hs team where did you even find that video

I saw the thumbnail and knew I recognized the course.

I’d question that sub 4 mile as well.

“Everybody’s on steroids” - Nate Diaz

Dear Diary: Crushed those 16 year olds!

Is the opening footage of the Goucher XC course? 😏

the only controversial thing to ever happen in the world of high school running, everyone be milking this one 💀🤣

04:18 Bro got roasted on Strava.. 😭😭

Doxxing people, playing armchair psychologist, and intimating that the bandit deserves physical violence is far more harmful than bandits running races. Bandits don’t present a harm unless they attempt to claim a prize/notoriety. Merely asking people to not attack this bandit with a quick sentence in the final seconds of this video is bullshit. The fact that the Karen who produced this garbage even snuck that legalese into the video means that are fully aware of what their comments earlier in the video are/were doing. If something happens to this bandit and the perp watched this video, I hope the Karen who produced it is Alex Jones’d into poverty or prison.

What a year or few months for cheating scandals

Is that Goucher college in the background?

Today I learned there's actually a huge community of running fans out there

Motive: dude was trying to get some high school tail. I'll knock some sense into this boy

Was he pacing someone at the end perhaps? Maybe a rogue assistant coach? 😂😂😂

Crazy he lost when he didn’t even run the full race lmao

In the early 1980s at Tustin high in s. Cali. An adult passed himself off as a student who ran cross country. He even had relationship with a minor .

Hebert is a sub 4 miler and ran the course short and lost lmaoooo

the Manhattan bandit is my hero

More people should do this. It's objectively funny.

reminds me of that story of that guy who played hs football until his 30's.... lol.

I ran xc and am a serious runner now, but y’all take this stuff too seriously man. Manic episode? Really? It’s not that deep. What he did was stupid but dang

Dude there are other races besides high school races lmao, I cant imagine why you go through all that training in college just to go race high schoolers again lmao

Maybe he said he identified as a high school runner so what's the problem? I'm kidding of course. Since states is generally in mid November, two weeks later there were probably 27 Turkey Trots to choose from if he needed to race that badly. Props to the HS kid who came back and beat him.

He just wanted to go back to the good old days.

Calling this a Cheating Scandal is nearly as odd the act it self.

Maybe he was held back about a decade 🤣

Man thought we all wouldn't notice the complete different race bib

this guys an absolute g. bro just wanted to run again lmao. he probably wasnt legitimately scored anyway bc at a state meet they probably had trackers anyway

Its awesome that he started late, has more experience but still gets beat by a high school kid.

Assistant coach acted like a 13 year old in basketball recently lol

This story is not at all unique. The most famous imposter is John Hogue but there have been others including a college runner who ‘won’ the Colorado State meet in the 80’s. He ran the whole race but at the end did not go through the finishing shoot

Many many things I would love to see the aliens faces when someone tries to explain the idiotic shit we do. Like running.

Trying to bring back those glory days

Honestly he was probably just tried of losing in college and wanted to win a race. Glad he got smoked by a high schooler lol

This is the first time many of us have ever given a shit a out cross country so there is that

This silence was embarrassing