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

Doubler wrote:

I really don't think writing the sponsors will have an effect. I am strongly opposed to that. This is a marathon that supports a local charity. Do we really want to try to hurt these charities because of one cheater.

There are unfortunately dozens of incompetent RD's. I've run into a few that won't issue even DQ's to even more obvious cheaters than Mike.

I suggest everyone take a step back.

I am of the opinion that Barb's hands are probably tied - she may not be solely to blame for this debacle. She is not as innocent as the principal mentioned in Mike's viral letter--but I doubt she had the authority to issue a DQ unilaterally once this hit the media. The board, or committee, or whatever probably figured the damage was done and didn't want to deal with Mike any more. Despite the waves many have made on their FB page..they can easily ignore that. They probably felt that disqualifying Mike was the path of least resistance (they were wrong).

At this point, there will be no more direct evidence. We can package the photos however we want--the photos won't result in a DQ.

Going forward, they are adding mats. That's probably the best we could hope for after they made the decision not to disqualify Mike.

Participation is not going to decline because of this--and what would we gain if it did? Less money to the charity.

I hope there is some sort of mainstream article showing the Father of the Year's lame attempts at intimidation as well as proclaiming that he did cheat as fact. Ken would likely get caught in the cross-hairs of any such article--but he doesn't seem to care. That would be as good as an actual DQ in my mind. He ran Boston no matter what happens with his Lehigh Valley result.

That's where I stand. I probably won't post again unless there's a real development. So now the trolls can swing the pendulum back from saying I am obsessed to saying that I have been quiet and Mike silenced me. I just don't see the need to get in the middle of the personal battle between members of the Greater Philadelphia area wedding industry that this has become.

Doubler wrote:

I really don't think writing the sponsors will have an effect. I am strongly opposed to that. This is a marathon that supports a local charity. Do we really want to try to hurt these charities because of one cheater.

There are unfortunately dozens of incompetent RD's. I've run into a few that won't issue even DQ's to even more obvious cheaters than Mike.

I suggest everyone take a step back.

I am of the opinion that Barb's hands are probably tied - she may not be solely to blame for this debacle. She is not as innocent as the principal mentioned in Mike's viral letter--but I doubt she had the authority to issue a DQ unilaterally once this hit the media. The board, or committee, or whatever probably figured the damage was done and didn't want to deal with Mike any more. Despite the waves many have made on their FB page..they can easily ignore that. They probably felt that disqualifying Mike was the path of least resistance (they were wrong).

At this point, there will be no more direct evidence. We can package the photos however we want--the photos won't result in a DQ.

Going forward, they are adding mats. That's probably the best we could hope for after they made the decision not to disqualify Mike.

Participation is not going to decline because of this--and what would we gain if it did? Less money to the charity.

I hope there is some sort of mainstream article showing the Father of the Year's lame attempts at intimidation as well as proclaiming that he did cheat as fact. Ken would likely get caught in the cross-hairs of any such article--but he doesn't seem to care. That would be as good as an actual DQ in my mind. He ran Boston no matter what happens with his Lehigh Valley result.

That's where I stand. I probably won't post again unless there's a real development. So now the trolls can swing the pendulum back from saying I am obsessed to saying that I have been quiet and Mike silenced me. I just don't see the need to get in the middle of the personal battle between members of the Greater Philadelphia area wedding industry that this has become.

Peaze Out wrote:

Since you haven't contributed anything positive for months, you won't be missed.

Doubler wrote:

I really don't think writing the sponsors will have an effect. I am strongly opposed to that. This is a marathon that supports a local charity. Do we really want to try to hurt these charities because of one cheater.

There are unfortunately dozens of incompetent RD's. I've run into a few that won't issue even DQ's to even more obvious cheaters than Mike.

I suggest everyone take a step back.

I am of the opinion that Barb's hands are probably tied - she may not be solely to blame for this debacle. She is not as innocent as the principal mentioned in Mike's viral letter--but I doubt she had the authority to issue a DQ unilaterally once this hit the media. The board, or committee, or whatever probably figured the damage was done and didn't want to deal with Mike any more. Despite the waves many have made on their FB page..they can easily ignore that. They probably felt that disqualifying Mike was the path of least resistance (they were wrong).

At this point, there will be no more direct evidence. We can package the photos however we want--the photos won't result in a DQ.

Going forward, they are adding mats. That's probably the best we could hope for after they made the decision not to disqualify Mike.

Participation is not going to decline because of this--and what would we gain if it did? Less money to the charity.

I hope there is some sort of mainstream article showing the Father of the Year's lame attempts at intimidation as well as proclaiming that he did cheat as fact. Ken would likely get caught in the cross-hairs of any such article--but he doesn't seem to care. That would be as good as an actual DQ in my mind. He ran Boston no matter what happens with his Lehigh Valley result.

That's where I stand. I probably won't post again unless there's a real development. So now the trolls can swing the pendulum back from saying I am obsessed to saying that I have been quiet and Mike silenced me. I just don't see the need to get in the middle of the personal battle between members of the Greater Philadelphia area wedding industry that this has become.

Ain't that the truth! wrote:

wins the battle, loses the war wrote:

The outcome in all of this is better than the running community could have really hoped for.

We will never see a Rossi DQ or a confession, so let's just drop that fixation.

What we DID get is the whole running world (plus quite a few others besides) know that MR is a liar, a narcissist and a cheat. If he'd just kept his stupid letter off social media, he'd probably have got away with it - but thanks to his thunderous ego, his reputation is ruined, and his NOT getting DQ'd has helped fuel the outrage. The story lives on.

Overall, I'd say the outcome is pretty good for the overwhelmingly large percentage of the running community who are honest, and this episode has possibly deterred some (but not all) other losers from cheating, too.

Result.

What are you on?

"The outcome in all of this is better than the running community could have really hoped for."

Idiot, no it's not, he wasn't DQ'ed, he's officially innocent. All you got moron was a few losers without a life getting their panties in a knot on here.