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

ROFL. Looks like someone had a great weekend!

Yes, for what else is a real monster to do? Looking forward to Monster Mike entering local races instead of running away. What does a monster fear anyway? Oh, the truth.

SaraB wrote:

iiagdtr wrote:

Hilarious Mike thinks Ken is Shrek and Mike is Lord Farquaad. Moron Mike has no idea of the message of that movie.

He's just trying to deflect my question with bully tactics. Well questions really. The one I always ask lovely Mike, where's the GPS data, and the new one is simple really. What was the race? It was only yesterday but it would seem he has forgotten already.

He's not a monster. It's not like he killed hundreds of people or anything. He's just a cheat with a big ego. If he'd "let it go" (I may take back the monster thing, Frozen, yuck) he would be banished to the back of the wardrobe with Kip and all the other cheaters right now but his smugness and need for attention keeps the flame alive. He moans about trolls and haters but he loves that they're giving his life significance and something to tweet other than mediocre wedding videos. He is right on one regard though, some of you have some serious anger issues and may be projecting that anger onto Rossi rather then dealing with your issues and facing them. You should just tune in when there's new evidence, which is what I do. One day there will be something that proves that he didn't run the whole race because these things always come out. There's no way to cover your back 100% especially not with the internet. Cheaters always get caught, just need to be patient and only pay attention to actual evidence otherwise you are all going to drive each other more nuts than you already are.

P.s. Mike you might want to get another twitter account that's not linked to you to post all your hate on. Potential employers and customers can read your twitter and it makes you sound kind of crazy. Pretend you're not you and read your posts some time, you have maybe 20% genuine tweets and the remainder are rants. I'd move the rants. You can tell us the new twitter account if it makes you feel better to say what you can't say using your LR profile(s) :)

Whatever, don't say I didn't warn you. The things you are posting will come back and bite you some day and nothing is every gone once you've posted it online. In a few years you're going to be able to look at what you have posted objectively and regret what you wrote. You're ego will never allow you to admit it out loud of course. Can you answer my questions now? (P.s. Just for reference, asking someone direct questions is not trolling. Pissing around and posting random crap is. Your twitter feed has more posts that meet the definition of trolling than my posts on LR do). If you're not going to answer i'll come back when the next lot of evidence turns up.

finisher medal wrote:

How AWESOME would it be if we found out that Mike made his own 5k up?

Straight Kip Litton loser territory!

Until he posts the name of the race I feel this is may be a reality.

You're doing conspiracies instead of evidence again. There's no need for him to make up his own 5k. His normal race times (Like a sub 22) could have got him a 1st place for his age at a smallish 5k. Sub 22 is not a slow time. It's slightly above average.

Trollminator wrote:

He ran the Almost Home Dog Rescue 5k in Ft Washington. It's a certified USATF course and he managed a screaming fast 21:56. As far as his podium finish, hint: he was the only runner without a dog.

How do we know he ran 21:56? I don't see the result anywhere. Can someone tell me how te know he ran that?

People are mocking that time. It's horrible for a 3:11 marathoner but I think it's pretty good for Rossi. If true, it's only 4 seconds off his PB.

JK converts it to 3:40s for the marathon. McMillan says 3:30s.

rojo wrote:

How do we know he ran 21:56? I don't see the result anywhere. Can someone tell me how te know he ran that?

People are mocking that time. It's horrible for a 3:11 marathoner but I think it's pretty good for Rossi. If true, it's only 4 seconds off his PB.

JK converts it to 3:40s for the marathon. McMillan says 3:30s.

No one has confirmed where this came from. In the photo he does look like he is in shape so it could be true but the race that every one thinks it is hasn't released any results and Rossi is not in the photos on their facebook page as far as I can tell.

Sara, why are you saving Mike from himself with the sound advice of pulling the rants from his Twitter? Others following him must surely think something's up. If I had a close friend posting those sorts of things, I'd definitely be curious. Mike uses the word haters quite a bit. The simple question one should ask Mike would be why are these people haters? He would be a great interview. Lastly, I agree with you about you calling out the anger on some of these posts. Anger and lots of really juvenile comments that I skim over and don't even read. Occasionally there is some good stuff here to keep me coming back.

NYC Runner wrote:

Sara, why are you saving Mike from himself with the sound advice of pulling the rants from his Twitter? Others following him must surely think something's up. If I had a close friend posting those sorts of things, I'd definitely be curious. Mike uses the word haters quite a bit. The simple question one should ask Mike would be why are these people haters? He would be a great interview. Lastly, I agree with you about you calling out the anger on some of these posts. Anger and lots of really juvenile comments that I skim over and don't even read. Occasionally there is some good stuff here to keep me coming back.

I felt sorry for the guy, he's gone complete nut job. His tweets don't even get one like and one day he is going to seriously regret putting all these comments out there that make him sound like he has a screw loose. Any one with half a brain knows he cheated but his actions now after the fact are the ones that are not going to be undoable and I don't think he realises what he is doing.

finisher medal wrote:

He got 9th place....

At a made up race.

LOL!

Seriously, this is why people troll and attack you

While I think I'm a compassionate person, it is hard to feel sorry for him the way it is hard to feel sorry for Lance. Mike is pouring gasoline on his own fire and instead of trying to quietly fade into the background, he has revealed a lot of his own hate and vindictiveness. I feel the most sorry for his children who will one day know the truth about his father.

SaraB wrote:

finisher medal wrote:

He got 9th place....

At a made up race.

LOL!

Seriously, this is why people troll and attack you

spot on.

828 follows. Only two people favoured that he'd done his first 5k in months and got a place. I applaud even my worst enemies making a comeback but no one did. Well done anyway Mike, I wouldn't begrudge anyone a good race after not being able to run for a long time

What exactly happened this weekend that has Rossi so riled up on Twitter? Seriously, someone struck a nerve with him. He's never stopped throwing out the occasional, weekly tweet thumbing his nose at Letsrun, but I don't recall him being this riled up since that first week after he was outed for cheating at Lehigh. He tweeted plenty during his DJ job last night, and now he's ignoring his beloved Eagles to read this thread and tweet pictures from Disney Movies. Someone posted false 5k results after he tweeted a picture of his medal... So what? Ken has posted and tweeted some really vile and disgusting things about the man's family, and Rossi barely even responds. But give him a time of 21:56 for a 5K and cast doubts on his race, and he blows his top. Seriously, what the hell?

We've tried to tell you many times Ken, Rossi isn't slow. He has genuine good race times. He isn't capable of a 3:11 (As far as all evidence suggests) but that does not make him slow by any means. You can call him what you want but you can't disregard that he is a capable runner. Many would be very glad to get the 3:30 3:40 e is capable of (Which is still a fast time, well above average)

No shortcuts wrote:

What exactly happened this weekend that has Rossi so riled up on Twitter? Seriously, someone struck a nerve with him. He's never stopped throwing out the occasional, weekly tweet thumbing his nose at Letsrun, but I don't recall him being this riled up since that first week after he was outed for cheating at Lehigh. He tweeted plenty during his DJ job last night, and now he's ignoring his beloved Eagles to read this thread and tweet pictures from Disney Movies. Someone posted false 5k results after he tweeted a picture of his medal... So what? Ken has posted and tweeted some really vile and disgusting things about the man's family, and Rossi barely even responds. But give him a time of 21:56 for a 5K and cast doubts on his race, and he blows his top. Seriously, what the hell?

The tweets where he posted the closeup of medal and after are directed at me with a few insults thrown at others. He don't like me much I don't think because he can't distract me from my questions (which he still hasn't answered) with insults. He used to do the same on Facebook

I've said this before, but if we had the abilities like law enforcement to be able to actually go into local businesses along the highway and along the Lehigh VIA marathon course and get copies of surveillance footage, we could conduct our own forensic investigation and pretty much leave no doubt that Rossi didn't run the whole course the day he finished in 3:11. The Interstate highway may have some surveillance footage as well as local businesses in Allentown PA (or wherever in shit this race took place - I have no clue)

Think of what it took for the FBI for get surveillance of the Tsarnaev brothers on Boylston St near the finish line. The FBI got access to the Starbucks store surveillance camera as well as probably 9-10 others within close proximity to the Boston Marathon finish line.

NYC Runner wrote:

While I think I'm a compassionate person, it is hard to feel sorry for him the way it is hard to feel sorry for Lance. Mike is pouring gasoline on his own fire and instead of trying to quietly fade into the background, he has revealed a lot of his own hate and vindictiveness. I feel the most sorry for his children who will one day know the truth about his father.

Keep the kids out of it. They're nothing to do with us so why even mention them. The runner in me just feels a bit sad for him that if he made this massive comeback and got a good time at his first race back people should be saying well done and it don't look like he has that much support. Even my stalker got a clap from me when she finished her marathon because she finished a marathon. It doesn't take away their actions in any way but it also doesn't lesson what they have achieved and first race back can feel like a marathon. Instead of taking pleasure it that though as he should be he's just going mental and I thought maybe if he could see how crazy that is then there's hope