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

Now that is funny you can't even break 20 min 5K & run a 1:30 half marathon, i am sure you are looking for a new race to cut the course lets see Atlantic City or Pittsburgh

Maybe Rojo can take another look at the IP addresses again. That was my favorite part of this whole thread btw. Rojo, can you at least do that since you've been completely mute about that article you were supposed to release? Remember that article? I know the NOP meltdown is still happening but my god how long does it take to write an easy article like this? All you have to do is surf this thread and copy and paste. Not sure what's going on in your head and what the hold up is but you know you owe us big time! Pure disappointment

Where's the DQ? wrote:

Maybe it's just me, but while I believe that MR is actively posting in this thread. I believe that he is actively posting under various douche nozzle identities and his posts are as vitriolic as his narcissistic personality.

Anyone who is posting representing themselves as him I take to be total troll. If it is him he's a bigger douche than I think because he is replying and leaving the name of his company in the title of his reply. Which is funny.

Either way, you cheated Mike, you're a wanker. #SueMe

concernedBQer wrote:

4. Odds of bib 2161 being missed by random chance at these

three locations: (25/200)x(2/200)x(7/200) = 1 in 22857. Put another way,

that makes it a 99.996% chance he didn't run through those locations.

You do not seem to understand statistics. This is a very common failing among the human species.

Please note:

A) "Given that someone ran through those three locations what are the odds that they would fail to show up in any picture taken at said locations?"

and

B) "Given that someone failed to show up in any pictures at those three locations what are the odds that they actually ran through all of them?"

are two fundamentally different questions.

I am Mike Rossi wrote:

It has become apparent, however, through the 5000+ responses that you are unable to CONCLUSIVELY PROVE that I did not complete the course.

The RD does not have to prove that you did not complete the course.

"I agree to abide by any and all rulings of event officials, even if such ruling results in my disqualification."

If you are DQ'ed you can appeal but reinstatement would be a the discretion of the RD.

Corral #1 statistics:

http://community.runnersworld.com/topic/2014-corral-cut-off-times

That took a 2:45 last year. 6:19 pace.

Corral 1 wrote:

Corral #1 statistics:

http://community.runnersworld.com/topic/2014-corral-cut-off-times

That took a 2:45 last year. 6:19 pace.

MR can't qualify for a corral 1 bib, not even with Centro's juice in a Rupp certified course.

GregTR wrote:

Is that Corral 1 of Wave 4? Details... details...

Of course he cut his response.

And, by the way, free entry to this year's race for all that you have had to put up with, Mike.

Is there any word that can be used to describe a person who always denies the truth?

By "denying the truth." If you mean the person lies a lot, then the proper term is "pathological liar." If you mean that the person is willfully oblivious to obvious facts (i.e. refuses to acknowledge things), then the person is said to be "in denial.

The simplest answer is 'liar'

These jokes are getting old. At this point it's safe to say he has gone through a lot (not that I feel bad). At what point will we be satisfied with this witch hunt? We have our opinion and the DQ was not given, but there's not much more that can be done (despite the persistence of some on this message board). This topic is now lame, time to give it a rest.

Who remembers the Zeigle sister's thread? I think that was longer than this one, although it was constantly getting chopped up by the moderators, so hard to tell for sure.

eaglesfan wrote:

These jokes are getting old. At this point it's safe to say he has gone through a lot (not that I feel bad). At what point will we be satisfied with this witch hunt? We have our opinion and the DQ was not given, but there's not much more that can be done (despite the persistence of some on this message board). This topic is now lame, time to give it a rest.

I wouldn't call it lame but it has certainly ran its course.

eaglesfan wrote:

These jokes are getting old. At this point it's safe to say he has gone through a lot (not that I feel bad). At what point will we be satisfied with this witch hunt? We have our opinion and the DQ was not given, but there's not much more that can be done (despite the persistence of some on this message board). This topic is now lame, time to give it a rest.

Thanks for taking the time to add to a lame topic.

GregTR wrote:

eaglesfan wrote:

These jokes are getting old. At this point it's safe to say he has gone through a lot (not that I feel bad). At what point will we be satisfied with this witch hunt? We have our opinion and the DQ was not given, but there's not much more that can be done (despite the persistence of some on this message board). This topic is now lame, time to give it a rest.

I wouldn't call it lame but it has certainly ran its course.

Unlike Mike.

BA-DA-BING! wrote:

GregTR wrote:

I wouldn't call it lame but it has certainly ran its course.

Unlike Mike.

lolololol

eaglesfan wrote:

These jokes are getting old. At this point it's safe to say he has gone through a lot (not that I feel bad). At what point will we be satisfied with this witch hunt? We have our opinion and the DQ was not given, but there's not much more that can be done (despite the persistence of some on this message board). This topic is now lame, time to give it a rest.

eaglesfan wrote:

These jokes are getting old. At this point it's safe to say he has gone through a lot (not that I feel bad). At what point will we be satisfied with this witch hunt? We have our opinion and the DQ was not given, but there's not much more that can be done (despite the persistence of some on this message board). This topic is now lame, time to give it a rest.

Hi Mike

Corral 1 wrote:

Corral #1 statistics:

http://community.runnersworld.com/topic/2014-corral-cut-off-times

That took a 2:45 last year. 6:19 pace.

I am not worried. With proper training and the correct course 2:45 is in the bag!!

If Mike Rossi does have "evidence" he will never post it online as it will have been doctored-up. He has had over a month to photoshop himself on to sections of the course, while removing other runners and cropping the frame to make it look like a unique photo. Any amateur photographer can easily do this with free software and it will look real if all you get is a quick glance. However, if Mike were to post such a picture online, this whole community would look at things like his shadow, the lighting on his clothing versus other competitors on that part of the course and zoom in really close to see if any pixels indicate that he pasted himself in the frame. He would likely be busted.

Same thing with his Nike GPS. It's extremely simple to alter the data and it looks as though he may have already altered it on one of his training runs. However, posting his doctored data online would open it up to scrutiny.

Obviously, it goes without saying that, if Mike really had this data, he would have posted it to his Facebook page, right at the start of the cheating allegations, when his acquaintances asked to see it. If he had made this data available immediately, it would have been worth something, now however, it can't prove his innocence but could very likely offer more proof of him being dishonest when we discover that he doctored it.

Ok you are not Mike. I believe he said he was injured and recently got an MRI. Running Boston was probably a bad idea if he was injured (not that I wouldn't do the same) so not sure anyone will have the opportunity to analyze other races anytime soon. I know his 3:11 is a long shot but I am keeping an open mind until someone posts some real evidence he didn't run it. If he timed his training and workouts properly that time is not inconceivable. I know a guy who recently ran 3:50 out of very little training but he was really a 3hr runner. When he jacked up the training he ran 3:15.