Did Mike Rossi (viral marathon dad) cheat his way into Boston?

easy weeks wrote:

It just went past Down Goes The Dow. Wow.

Is this a new let's run forum record? Got to give Mike Rossi credit for one thing, he sure knows how to make things go viral.

Its all about the micropenis

Reg Fields wrote:

easy weeks wrote:

It just went past Down Goes The Dow. Wow.

Is this a new let's run forum record? Got to give Mike Rossi credit for one thing, he sure knows how to make things go viral.

MRtruther wrote:

Its all about the micropenis

I don't think it's nice to bring his micropenis into this. It may explain his behavior, but it's a medical condition and you shouldn't make fun of him for it.

On behalf of runners everywhere, I'm sorry that people are bringing up your micropenis, Mike Rossi. That's not very nice and they shouldn't do that.

I'd like to ask everyone, from now on, if you want to mention his physical disability, his micropenis, can you please do so in a kind respectful way. Making fun of a persons disability is not right.

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Never mind his dick what about his fake orange hair.

Keep it above the waist wrote:

MRtruther wrote:

Its all about the micropenis

I don't think it's nice to bring his micropenis into this. It may explain his behavior, but it's a medical condition and you shouldn't make fun of him for it.

On behalf of runners everywhere, I'm sorry that people are bringing up your micropenis, Mike Rossi. That's not very nice and they shouldn't do that.

I'd like to ask everyone, from now on, if you want to mention his physical disability, his micropenis, can you please do so in a kind respectful way. Making fun of a persons disability is not right.

No micropenis - got it!

Can we make fun of his hair plugs?

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TinWhistle wrote:

Seems PaulPillow's video is disabled...wonder how that happened and what it cost

PaulPillow wrote:

Let me know what you think. It's not the best, but it is something to show people without having to pull up hundreds of pictures on their own.

https://youtu.be/pcLc6_X9Ubg

It is still up. Thanks Paul!

GENIUS!!!

Very impressive.

(Btw, if someone has trouble playing the .gif file, just play it in Firefox.)

The thing is, even if Mike Rossi is outed as a cheat or at least if there are enough search results of his cheating like there are now, it won't really affect his life much because he's old enough that he probably gives up running and just isn't involved much at all in the running community. He will stay low key like Dr. Litton. The general public, especially the types who buy his event planning crap are too stupid to know what's going on so he wins by having that article that just came out on him saying that nobody saw jack so he must have run the whole thing.

Yeah

People have heard about this everywhere it seems but the stories are garbled.

Maybe you are being sarcastic but you make sense

So what if he ran on the other side of the road at the bridge would not be in line if photos then

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So Mike changed his banner photo to the medals hanging on his wall. By doing so we were able to see all the races he had run. Which in turned revealed that he had run the Blue Cross Broad Street Run, which is a ten miler. He ran this on May 3rd, which is 3 weeks after he claimed to be injured when running Boston and 3 weeks before he told the reporter from Phillymag.com that he would get back to running when he recovered from an injury.

So it would appear the "serious hip injury" that he told NBC News he had when running in Boston had miraculously healed in 3 weeks, but then he went and injured himself again by running in the Broad Street Run. Do serious hip injuries heal in 3 weeks?

Now today that banner is gone. I'm guessing he didn't think we'd be checking the results of every race he ever ran again.

BTW - he ran the 10 miler at a pace of 8:03/mi, which is 35 seconds slower than he ran it last year at 7:28/mi.

On behalf of everyone on Letsrun.com I would like to say that I look forward to the day when Mike is completely healed and he can run that 7:19 pace again. I'm sure it will be very soon.

I am 5k wrote:

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5k?! Are you kidding me? Mike Rossi didn't even run 5k during the LVHN Via Marathon.

Did anybody ever go and check out the results from some of his other races? I'm looking at the numbers for the 2014 Rock and Roll Half Marathon and they look very suspicious.

At the 5K mark his pace was 8:00/mi. Then at the 10K mark his pace was 11:52/mi. Yet he finished with a 10:42 and his 10 mile time was not recorded.

It wouldn't be very hard to slip into the woods right around the Strawberry Mansion Bridge and cross over the river. Once on the other side the 10 mile mark is right there and he just has to stay in the woods and join the race right after the thing mat and he could always say it malfunctioned.

maybe somebody could contact the RC of this race and see if they want to check it out. Here are the numbers -

http://running.competitor.com/cgiresults?eId=4&eiId=215&seId=709&pId=147903

Here is the course if you want to check out how feasible my theory is.

http://www.runrocknroll.com/philadelphia/the-races/course/