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

I believe he ran 3:11 wrote:

Kenny your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Kenny whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Kenny and Greg mike ran 3:11 it is as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Aerage hoes who picked up running and surprised themselves. It would be as dreary as if there were no Emil Zatopek. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence.

We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which athletic endeavor fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe. You might as well not believe in breaking records. Could the 4 minute mike be broken ? No. But Bannister believed and he did what they said could. It be done. Nobody sees Possible in the impossible. but that is no sign that there is no Possible The most real things in the world are those that neither defeatists nor resigned men can see. Go to the moon? Break 4 minutes? Can't be done. Just because you can't doesn't mean someone else can't. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart mikes race and compare it to your own average rests, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. It is called hope and guts and determination.

No Pre?! He lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Kenny and Greg nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make people strive to break their barriers.

Can't run 3:11? 1 in a million chance?

Mike did it. Good for him. All your crying and whining on this board can't change that he did it. Whether you believe or not doesn't change it.

Use him as an excuse for why you can't meet your own dreams and goals or let him inspire you to go out and do what others won't because they think it is too hard. It's up to you

Word out

LoserMikeRossi wrote:

I believe he ran 3:11 wrote:

Kenny your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Kenny whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Kenny and Greg mike ran 3:11 it is as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Aerage hoes who picked up running and surprised themselves. It would be as dreary as if there were no Emil Zatopek. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence.

We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which athletic endeavor fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe. You might as well not believe in breaking records. Could the 4 minute mike be broken ? No. But Bannister believed and he did what they said could. It be done. Nobody sees Possible in the impossible. but that is no sign that there is no Possible The most real things in the world are those that neither defeatists nor resigned men can see. Go to the moon? Break 4 minutes? Can't be done. Just because you can't doesn't mean someone else can't. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart mikes race and compare it to your own average rests, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. It is called hope and guts and determination.

No Pre?! He lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Kenny and Greg nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make people strive to break their barriers.

Can't run 3:11? 1 in a million chance?

Mike did it. Good for him. All your crying and whining on this board can't change that he did it. Whether you believe or not doesn't change it.

Use him as an excuse for why you can't meet your own dreams and goals or let him inspire you to go out and do what others won't because they think it is too hard. It's up to you

Word out

Can Mike play guitar, drums, and a some piano? Can Mike draw and paint? Can Mike edit video? Just barely. But nowhere near the skill and artistic level as I. When I played baseball as a teen I made city All-stars for pitching.

God gave me artistic talent from birth and it has brought me 46 years of joy.

God gave Mike no talent except a desire to make money. And at the ripe old age 45 he suddenly found a desire to run. And to this date it's brought him injury, pain, depression and infamy.

Mike can keep thinking he wins because he's got his Boston Medal that can be bought on eBay for $12. We all know the truth.

RossiCheated wrote:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

^ That's Mike Rossi's post on his Facebook page.

Mike, you do understand that this would apply to you if you had the courage and integrity to fail while daring greatly. But you lacked that courage. You cheated. You set out to do great deeds, with great enthusiasm and with some devotion. When you wrote "must run Boston," it was a grand ambition and worth the pursuit.

Sadly, when you realized that goal was beyond your reach, you weren't man enough to fail. You didn't understand the last line, that even in failure you would never be among those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat, provided you made a real, honest effort in the arena.

You started out with a meaningful goal that is shared by many and realized by some. But you lacked the courage to fail.

And so you cheated.

Theodore Roosevelt would count you among those cold and timid souls. You are everything he railed against.

LoserMikeRossi wrote:

I believe he ran 3:11 wrote:

Kenny your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Kenny whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Kenny and Greg mike ran 3:11 it is as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Aerage hoes who picked up running and surprised themselves. It would be as dreary as if there were no Emil Zatopek. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence.

We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which athletic endeavor fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe. You might as well not believe in breaking records. Could the 4 minute mike be broken ? No. But Bannister believed and he did what they said could. It be done. Nobody sees Possible in the impossible. but that is no sign that there is no Possible The most real things in the world are those that neither defeatists nor resigned men can see. Go to the moon? Break 4 minutes? Can't be done. Just because you can't doesn't mean someone else can't. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart mikes race and compare it to your own average rests, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. It is called hope and guts and determination.

No Pre?! He lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Kenny and Greg nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make people strive to break their barriers.

Can't run 3:11? 1 in a million chance?

Mike did it. Good for him. All your crying and whining on this board can't change that he did it. Whether you believe or not doesn't change it.

Use him as an excuse for why you can't meet your own dreams and goals or let him inspire you to go out and do what others won't because they think it is too hard. It's up to you

Word out

Can Mike play guitar, drums, and a some piano? Can Mike draw and paint? Can Mike edit video? Just barely. But nowhere near the skill and artistic level as I. When I played baseball as a teen I made city All-stars for pitching.

God gave me artistic talent from birth and it has brought me 46 years of joy.

God gave Mike no talent except a desire to make money. And at the ripe old age 45 he suddenly found a desire to run. And to this date it's brought him injury, pain, depression and infamy.

Mike can keep thinking he wins because he's got his Boston Medal that can be bought on eBay for $12. We all know the truth.