Jehosephat wrote:
I'm not sure anyone ever saw the magic ESPN crew. ESPN is not going to fund a person, much less a 3 person crew, to follow this unknown random guy around. BEST CASE, they met him (or planned to meet him) at some point along the way to record 10 minutes of footage and soundbites.
I saw a legitimate film crew with Rob east of Emporia during the day on June 4th. I don't know for sure that it was ESPN, but it seemed to match up with his blog (indicating the film crew was not with him continuously).
"...ESPN TV crew turned up to film Rob for the next day or two. The rest of that day was ESPN taking Rob off to film him in various situations..."
He didn't make much progress during the day on the 4th, (the tracker was even turned off for the afternoon).
"Rob made pretty good mileage through the night with ESPN joining us at about 4am to get some footage of Rob running at night and with the sun rising. For the rest of the day Rob allowed ESPN to interview me and him and to get other bits of footage that they wanted..."
I noticed the GPS data shows a 35 mi run starting at 10:10pm (which would include Emporia and the Lebo incident), and the next run starts around 3:37am (getting ready for the film crew at 4:00am?).
The blog also talks about not getting much rest because of the film crew. Maybe that was a good excuse to ride in the RV that night.
blog:
http://www.marathonmanuk.co.uk/2016/06/07/day-22-24-june-0306-were-not-in-kansas-anymore/