Ok Ken
Ok Ken
I'm going to ignore you now Ken because I can't talk to you whilst you're in denile. You're just trying to change the subject so that you don't have to admit the 22 for a 5k and a 3:30 marathon are not slow times because you can't deal with the fact that Mike could be good at anything. He's a good runner. You obsessing about these things that are completely untruths is what makes all your ideas crazy
CORRECTION: Mike is a good solid runner by general population standards but not such a great runner by letsrun standards.
He IS in pretty good shape though for someone his age.
Question:
Is it possible Mike actually believes he ran a 3:11 legitimately but Mike unknowingly took SOME shortcut to the finish on a point to point course like Lehigh? That is to say that Maybe Mike gets mad at us and defends himself because he thinks he actually ran a 3:11, but because Mike doesn't understand that a marathon is 26.2, he ran a 15-17 mile route instead and either thought it was 26.2 or that Lehigh is just a fast course and the burpee crossfit shit he did the night before the race led to a 30min PR and the "race of his life?"
Rojo, I played him and he fell for it. He posted a photo of his finisher medal and I called a sub 22 (which is being very generous)... and what happens next? An immediate twitter outburst from Mike. He even threw in some jokes offending a single leg/foot runner for some reason. It basically proved he's obsessed with this thread... a gift from heaven indeed.
rojo wrote:
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.
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.
Did you make up what race he ran too? Not that it matters too much, but if Rossi did actually run this race, he definitely came in over 21 minutes, since the photo of the 1st place overall finisher is at 21:09 (without a dog)
I think it is because few of his followers are runners and less are knowledgeable of the sport. I suspect many are fans of his letter denigrating the principal. They have no idea of what it takes to run a 3:11 on a warm, humid day when you are a 22 min runner. It takes cheating.
SaraB wrote:
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
I made that up, but I might have gotten it right. Had he run even close to 21min he would have bragged about it. I think you're confused though. The first place guy lost control of his dog over the last mile and the dog crossed in 9th place.In other news, the other gift that keeps on giving, Kenny, is a tweeting machine (somebloke, I knew you'd enjoy this one):"@mikerossi22 I can't tell the difference between the pumpkins or your wife's face. Somebody hit her with an ugly stick."
Hobby Ironmanner wrote:
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.
Did you make up what race he ran too? Not that it matters too much, but if Rossi did actually run this race, he definitely came in over 21 minutes, since the photo of the 1st place overall finisher is at 21:09 (without a dog)
Trollminator wrote:
I made that up, but I might have gotten it right. Had he run even close to 21min he would have bragged about it. I think you're confused though. The first place guy lost control of his dog over the last mile and the dog crossed in 9th place.
In other news, the other gift that keeps on giving, Kenny, is a tweeting machine (somebloke, I knew you'd enjoy this one):
"@mikerossi22 I can't tell the difference between the pumpkins or your wife's face. Somebody hit her with an ugly stick."
Hobby Ironmanner wrote:Did you make up what race he ran too? Not that it matters too much, but if Rossi did actually run this race, he definitely came in over 21 minutes, since the photo of the 1st place overall finisher is at 21:09 (without a dog)
I read on Twitter, so it must be true because everything Mike tweets and says is true, that while he came in first in his age group, he was the only runner of his age group and that he came in 9th out of 10 human runners.
Assuming he ran this race, was it shrewdly chosen for its apparent lack of results ?
“Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famousâ€.
ExpertKipWatcher wrote:
Assuming he ran this race, was it shrewdly chosen for its apparent lack of results ?
That sounds so.....
like our Mike.
iiagdtr wrote:
“Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famousâ€.
Well said and very appropriate for Rossi.
abingtonrunner2 wrote:
I read on Twitter, so it must be true because everything Mike tweets and says is true, that while he came in first in his age group, he was the only runner of his age group and that he came in 9th out of 10 human runners.
Are you saying that it is possible that some dogs beat Mike?
If so, they obviously cheated. Perhaps they drove down I-78 to the finish line?
I would guess the majority of dogs could beat Mike Rossi at a 5K. I've been to "Run with your dog" race before and usually it is the human holding the dog back rather than the other way around.
I am the one who posted the Dog Race. It makes sense that he ran it with the information on their site. Finisher medals for 1st and 2nd AG. He posted a medal. Also the race mentions prizes of gift cards, fast folks don't go to races with gift cards they go to races with money. So a small race and no competition, I can see him winning his AG and being 9th overal with a 21:00ish time (maybe even 20:00 high).
Oh and if Pretzel Sports was the timer we should know today being their website states they post results on Mondays.
I am wondering though if this animal shelter race even used chips though. I can not find a result any where for previous years. There is another Dog Race that is run, but it looks like it was done earlier in the month according to the Prezel Sports timing company.
finisher medal wrote:
Oh I found it!
Page 724 I believe. Me an Ken have a little talk about his mental state.
If I am ken, then Rossi can run a 311!
I wouldn't worry too much about that.
SaraB is just as paranoid about every other poster on this thread being Ken as Ken was about every other poster being Rossi or one of his "minions".
She's already wrongly accused me of being Ken, which I disproved to anyone who has spent much time on Letsrun with my letter featuring memes from this site over the past decade.
Like you, I'm a fan of some of the things that SaraB has brought to this thread, but I could do without the self-righteous attitude towards anyone who doesn't share her thread ethics, especially since she isn't even a regular Letsrun poster, as far as I can tell.
Also, SaraB, stop changing the title of the thread every time that you show up here. I wasn't the one who changed the title to "Bart Yasso enables cheater Mike Rossi" but it certainly fits the narrative of this thread better than "lets mull things over" or whatever you replaced it with. Every time you drop in on this discussion, you are changing it to something as bland and inoffensive as possible.
In short, thank you for your investigative skills and for personally calling out Mike, but please stop trying to control the thread.
T minus 6 days... be sure to buy some popcorn this week and download the tracker app. He's up, #24,718. See Mike, you have even more fans than you ever imagined.
http://www.tcsnycmarathon.org/race-day/mobile-app-and-runner-tracking
Does the app work in the Subway ? Or in Subway ?