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

hart crane wrote:

We should make Mike Rossi an offer. If he apologizes, we offer to coach him once he gets healthy from his butt pain or whatever he has now.

I think Rojo and the other great coaching minds here can bring him down to 3:20 or whatever he needs to actually qualify for Boston. I don't think he should run Boston again, obviously, as he already got to enjoy that experience.

It would be cathartic for all involved and would be a good ending to a really bizarre story.

Not a bad idea at all. But, it's likely he would sabotage it.

Read Again wrote:

NowFindJimmyHoffa wrote:

Yeah. Read a page or so back. poster said felice knew but "sat on it" until the dude went all people magazine on the world. Posted it on Rwol. Didn't reach out to RD. Not ranting. Just feel bad for that one guy.

Read the post again "Should Mr Hoffa should wait until Mr Felice confirms", some anonymous "poster" is not Mr Felice.

yeah we are here to apply the blow torch to rossi belly not felice

Nothing to add.

Great post.

Every once in a while someone shows themselves to be a human being on these boards. Today it was you.

Made my day.

I'll have a deconstructed martini...wise choice...what exactly is a deconstructed martini?

It's the perfect thing to drink while reading articles about Mike Rossi's demise. It's one thing to mess up, it's another to mess up, get caught and then not own up to it.

Thanks for all your hard work on the spreadsheet, guys!

Who's torching whom wrote:

Nothing to add.

nothing to add

What's with the cone obstacle course they had to go through at the end of this race?

Invisible Man wrote:

Not all of his results are on his Athlinks page. Here he is finishing the Haddonfield Adrenaline 5k on March 21, 2015. You can see him crossing the line right at 22:19 on the race clock. He's wearing a dark blue or black shirt. Is that the Boston Marathon emblem on his shirt?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=8m9s&v=RRFtBK7p2ac

Here is a link to the full results.

http://haddonfieldadrenaline5k.com/results/

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Here is the timeline of what's going to happen next since the thread is slowing down.

1. More media groups will pick up the story over the next few days

2. The RD will announce Rossi is DQ'd

3. Even more articles will be written.

4. Rossi admits to cheating

5. This thread goes down as one of the best ever on Letsrun.

WWRD wrote:

What's with the cone obstacle course they had to go through at the end of this race?

Potholes. Gawd some people are overdressed.

Fake Name wrote:

Here is the timeline of what's going to happen next since the thread is slowing down.

1. More media groups will pick up the story over the next few days

2. The RD will announce Rossi is DQ'd

3. Even more articles will be written.

4. Rossi admits to cheating

5. This thread goes down as one of the best ever on Letsrun.

it's slowing down because it's 11:40pm on the east coast on a week day. Don't worry, it'll pick up again tomorrow during office hours

Who's torching whom wrote:

Nothing to add.

GregTR wrote:

Maybe he is not that much different than the rest of us, he just went about it the wrong way because that is all he knows.

OK, I know you want to keep on cheating, but he IS different. Apparently the only cheater at the qualifier. Up until maybe 12 hours ago was defending his cheating. Threw some nonsense online to bully the school his kids attend because he can't be bothered to know or follow simple attendance rules.

That's not me. Hobby runner me looks at Boston qualifier time and compares my pitiful 10k turkey trot times and does a little figuring and the facts don't add up. No Boston for pop_pop. Find my peak experience somwhere else. This human also is aware of my kid's school attendance policy. That is what an adult human does.

Again, this is why I love this story. "Let's give Rosie Rossi a break. Shortcuts are okay. Don't work hard and fail! Work hard and cheat so it's not a fail. Just bend some rules. He'll feel bad.. We can't have that."

What is your point? Do you have another page confirming the proper use of contractions?

pop_pop! wrote:

OK, I know you want to keep on cheating, but he IS different.

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Again, this is why I love this story. "Let's give Rosie Rossi a break. Shortcuts are okay. Don't work hard and fail! Work hard and cheat so it's not a fail. Just bend some rules. He'll feel bad.. We can't have that."

1) I'm not sure if you just called me a cheater and using Rossi to justify my cheats or you just think I am Rossi in disguise. I'm neither a cheat, nor Rossi so I have no intentions to "keep on cheating", I never cheated in the first place.

2) I want him to be DQd from Lehigh and Boston, banned from both races for life, dropped from Chicago and I'm pretty sure all these things will happen. I also wish he would confess and come clean but I'm not sure that will actually happen, it simply does not fit his profile.

Just because I feel compassion for him on a human level doesn't mean I don't think he should be punished for this. Quite the contrary. But on some level I can almost feel his pain. Maybe it's for naught as he might not even feel such pain. I don't know.

I WANT BL___

Everyone, report this clown. Not funny. Gives LRC a bad name.

Brojos, think this guy posted on that San Antonio thread too.

hart crane wrote:

We should make Mike Rossi an offer. If he apologizes, we offer to coach him once he gets healthy from his butt pain or whatever he has now.

I think Rojo and the other great coaching minds here can bring him down to 3:20 or whatever he needs to actually qualify for Boston. I don't think he should run Boston again, obviously, as he already got to enjoy that experience.

It would be cathartic for all involved and would be a good ending to a really bizarre story.

Can I dope him?

I keep saying I'm going to write my story. And I will do it tomorrow.

In it, I think I'll offer a gurantee he'll never break 3:20. Of course, then I got worried and thought, "What if he gets on EPO and steroids and bumps his mileage from 20 to 100 mpw."

Confuzzled wrote:

CyberCop715 wrote:

Since he supposedly had his cell phone with him during the race, maybe the cell companies would have data as to what cell towers his phone was bouncing off of, and when. Since it was a point to point race, I'm sure if he kept his phone on, there'd be a sequence showing how fast he was traveling towards the finish. Call the NSA. These allegations are serious enough.

This is actually a great angle. Not sure we need NSA :) It is another thing ol Mikey boy could provide to prove his innocence.

Finally!! At last, the liberals on here will be be happy that my dad worked in the Bush administration for all 8 years. I should be able to get what we need by tomorrow - unless the recent supreme court decision will have blocked President Bush's access.

Last time I visited President Bush, I hopped on his computer and was reading Alberto's emails to Galen.

rojo wrote:

In it, I think I'll offer a gurantee he'll never break 3:20. Of course, then I got worried and thought, "What if he gets on EPO and steroids and bumps his mileage from 20 to 100 mpw."

he could break 3:20 if he hires a coach and stops being an idiot. Don't bet on it, though.