runningantelope wrote:
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:
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
NoSleepTilBoston #1
I must run Boston.
This is my new goal...no, it's my new committment.
I started running (seriously) just 16 months ago.
In that time I have completed three 5 Ks, one 5 miler, two 10 milers (Broad Street Run), 3 Half Marathons, and a full marathon.
This year I have 4 more 5Ks, 2 more halfs and 2 full marathons on the schedule.
I guess you can say I caught the running bug.
But the holy grail...the race of all races...the one I strive for, is...Boston.
I know it may be a little bit of a reach, to qualify for the world's greatest marathon in only my second year of running. But I am going to do whatever I can to qualify for the Boston Marathon.
For the next several months, I will be blogging about my training.
I hope to qualify for Boston at the VIA Marathon in the Lehigh Valley this September.
Until then I'll be keeping you updated on my races, my training, my diet and my state of mind.
Running a marathon is not easy. How may people do you know that have completed 26.2 miles?
Running the Boston Marathon is the ultimate.
I must run Boston.
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!!!!