Mike has never been right in the head. With tomorrow being a holiday and all, let's do a Throw Back Wednesday to the Rossi Blog from his pre-LVM days:
What I always wonder is, did Mike plan to cheat even at this point? Or was he actually deluded enough to think he could run a BQ by that September?
My guess is that he was already planning to cheat when this was written, since he had decided that he would be running the VIA Lehigh Valley Marathon for his BQ attempt. A rare marathon with no intermediate timing mats.
So, he probably knew full well he was going to cheat at the race when he wrote that blog post. So that his eventually "triumph" would look that much better. Mike could never have gone the charity route into the Boston Marathon. His ego wouldn't allow it.
How telling is it that he had a blog post like this ahead of time, then only a single, tiny mention of his time at LVM (and he didn't note the 3:11 time) and then his wall-to-wall personal coverage of his Boston Marathon. Makes me think he didn't mean to cheat to quite that fast of a time and realized that it could lead to scrutiny from those who know him if a big deal was made of it. So he kept quiet. By the time Boston rolled around the next spring Mike thought he had gotten away with it so he couldn't resist blowing his own horn about running Boston again and again. This includes the letter, which solely existed to let everyone know that he ran the Boston Marathon. AND THAT'S WHEN IT ALL WHEN BAD FOR OLD MIKEY!!!!