Bryson the Fraud wrote:
Hey dudes , I have no doubt that this woman is a fake .
I am speaking about a book that a British shyster wrote about twenty years ago .
Why?
That seems way off the topic of Ms. Bertollini.
I think the Greek Goddess Alexi Pappas would like to make a film about this epic hero/goddess journey. Alexi will write it, direct it, produce it…and star in it.
Ms. Kaiha Bertollini will be lucky if she is even mentioned at all in the film by Alexi Pappas.
Oh boy.
Remarkable parallels to the Rob Young saga.
Claims of abuse
Moving at night
No athletic CV
Lack of GPS/ SPOT evidence
The 'It's all for charity" line.
Supporters who aren't runners/walkers and say things like 'you are a wonderful person' etc.
I'm sure that there are probably some more that I can't think of right now.
Bryson the Fraud wrote:
Hey dudes , I have no doubt that this woman is a fake .
I am speaking about a book that a British shyster wrote about twenty years ago .
You confused a book Bill Bryson wrote 20 years ago with a Facebook post that a guy calling himself Bryson wrote about Bertollini yesterday?
I read that book. Bryson is a real d*ck. No wonder he couldn't get anyone to hike with him and the partner he did find abandoned him quickly. I would have abandoned him or pushed him off a cliff after one day.
That's the only Bryson book I've read. I'm shocked he's popular and they made a movie of that book last year. But he's good at ridiculing people and painting everyone except himself as an idiot, so I guess some people like that.
stevepope wrote:
Remarkable parallels to the Rob Young saga.
Claims of abuse
Moving at night
No athletic CV
Lack of GPS/ SPOT evidence
The 'It's all for charity" line.
Supporters who aren't runners/walkers and say things like 'you are a wonderful person' etc.
I'm sure that there are probably some more that I can't think of right now.
Both like being photod topless.
Spotter of bareness wrote:
stevepope wrote:Remarkable parallels to the Rob Young saga.
Claims of abuse
Moving at night
No athletic CV
Lack of GPS/ SPOT evidence
The 'It's all for charity" line.
Supporters who aren't runners/walkers and say things like 'you are a wonderful person' etc.
I'm sure that there are probably some more that I can't think of right now.
Both like being photod topless.
Telling the critics to be patient and they'll produce all the data soon.
Pudgy pedestrians with no look of fitness from a multi-week endurance event.
Random observers easily poke holes in the claims.
Each having a little too much fun in the midst of the alleged record attempt.
(grand canyon visits, touch football, handstands, sex shops, booze, cigarettes, zero days)
So according to this blog post from 2015, she also thinks it's OK to scream at children. She also has a kid?
I wonder where her kid is while she's fake hiking the AT?
Oh girl human. Please stop it. wrote:
Hi there Kai ha Bertollini (angry/assault, smoker, drinker, lysergic acid diethylamide tripper over your own feet, hitchhiker of the universe, fake goddess/victim liar fraud female human)
LetsRun.com:
Where your fake dreams are obliterated…and your horrible self-created nightmare…becomes reality.
Yeah, take credit on LetsRun.com after whiteblaze.net shut her down.
I give full credit to WhiteBlaze.net on this in my posts. Not sure why others on here didn't or pretended like they found it.
Is it possible that the OP on here is also a member of WhiteBlaze or saw the GearJunkie article first?
And a little racist? Idk what the definition of racism is now-a-days, you decide.
Thank goodness everyone who was standing near was Mexican. They acted like my behavior was normal. No one said a thing. This is why I love Mexicans; they always mind their own business. I was thankful for that small kindness.
Wait...this wench has a daughter?!?!
ShooterMacGyver wrote:
Is it possible that the OP on here is also a member of WhiteBlaze or saw the GearJunkie article first?
I heard of this woman a couple weeks into Karl's attempt. I think someone mentioned it on the white blaze Karl thread which I followed. Then the day he completed it, a hiker on Facebook brought attention to her finish, which I linked. Several people knew her intentions early in her solo hike but were shocked at her finish since she did it "ninja" style and claims to trump the record.
Part of me thinks Jurek went out to hike with Karl so he could tell Karl to finish and beat him since he did not want the ninja trying to get the record. Karl also know about ninja. Then she shows up out of nowhere later in the day. What a stalker.
It's a fantasy scenario but does add some flare to the myth.
Can we all just agree this woman is the worst?
Good grief - she is turning into the gift that keeps on giving - She really has no idea how much worse she is making this for herself - She just wrote this, LOL
https://www.facebook.com/notes/kaiha-bertollini/how-i-did-it/1308399739190899?hc_location=ufi
Still looks like a viable scenario a few days later:
Infidel Gastro wrote:
From the spreadsheet estimates here:
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php/120840-Kaiha-Bertollini-Real-FKT/page5it starts to look like: She started out to beat Anish's record by fair means, going along at a pedestrian 30-miles/day or so for two weeks, then while disillusioned with getting Anderson's record by legit means, caught wind of Meltzer's ("that S.O.B.") attempt right ahead of her. Something really snapped and she starts "logging" 50+ mile days (after months already on the trail...right;), with forays up to 80+ miles as she desperately sought to make some sort of "statement" and "impact", not unlike the douche who ran into the Munich '72 stadium ahead of Frank Shorter, or even the Irish "priest" who tackled the Brazilian marathoner in '04.
If she wasn't going to get a record she could try to throw a wrench into the works, in this case Meltzer's efforts, and incidentally smearing all the FKT's ever set on the AT.
Attention gotten, at a frantic cost.
runawaythefastestyoucan wrote:
It's her own will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxws0Cmn0HA(All of these precious minutes are forever lost, damn interweb;108 views so far)
OMG...!!?
I just watched that YouTube video. It's clear that this woman is struggling with mental illness, and I hope she gets some help. Her claims are obviously false, and arguing with her would be as productive (both for her and us) as arguing with a homeless person who says he's faster than Usain Bolt. All of this attention is just feeding her current manic state (or whatever state she's in).
Appellation Trail wrote:
Wait...this wench has a daughter?!?!
Yet another similarity to Rob Young
She walked about 20-30% (being generous here) of the AT-SOBO. Rob Young ran about 20-30% of the route across America. Both stayed skinnyfat and fairly well-groomed (shaved face for Rob, legs for Kaiha). Another similarity.
"everyone is just going to have to deal with the fact that a woman, with only military training, a past of trauma that has made me hard as nails, a smoker, and a big ass heart walked the Appalachian Trail in record time"
she's going with nails, dropping the hammer here
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Strava thinks the London Marathon times improved 12 minutes last year thanks to supershoes
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts