Many a mystery race flies under the radar nowadays, but Loughborough's Pete Matthews seems to be involved in an awful lot of them. Last year, the Lufbra Echo revealed how the most famous athlete never to have broken 4 minutes for 1500m had lied to get himself included in the field for the U23 AAAs Championships. Lessons were learned and that was that - it would never happen again and the red head was set to "go places" as of right.
But what's this? The entry lists for the forthcoming BUCS Indoor Championships. A rather dubious entry for a one 'Peter Matthews' appears to have his personal best for 3,000m at 8:40. Surely some clerical mix up as the famously accurate and on the ball Power of Ten appear to record it at 9:10.31. What could have gone wrong? An underworld race meeting that no one was invited to perhaps? Or is it simply reckless cheating that continues to bring Loughborough's name into disrepute?