Potentially Suspicious Runner To Run 836 Miles in 9 Days for "Charity"

Hmmmmm, interesting wrote:

More on Nicky wrote:

Nicky Gilkes was in the auto biz before joining Mattressman. His LinkedIn page here:

Nicky killed his Linkedin page, plus Mattressman scrubbed FB to rid themselves of DR. Interesting as they were his biggest sponsor as to advertising.

I thought Nicky was a woman? Now I'm really curious what his personal link to the Readings is.

Who was driving the van in his "training" videos on Youtube ? Could they feasibly have been unaware what was going on?

Just came across this....https://www.rafa.org.uk/blog/2016/09/28/dave-readings-story-so-far/

"As an RAF Reserve, I was away at Halton for a couple of weeks on a training exercise when Neil sent me a training plan to follow as closely as the one I was doing. Training with Neil is always challenging, but training hard meant I ran the London Marathon in 2016 in three hours 12 minutes."

Still not seeing that 3h:12m marathon in the results...

[quote]Tinfoil Hat wrote:

Dave and Terrie, it looks like time is running out for you. Still not too late to confess and come clean

Hmmmmm, interesting wrote:

More on Nicky wrote:

Nicky Gilkes was in the auto biz before joining Mattressman. His LinkedIn page here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicky-gilkes-11266453/

Nicky killed his Linkedin page, plus Mattressman scrubbed FB to rid themselves of DR. Interesting as they were his biggest sponsor as to advertising.

Nicky's page is still up and running.

Following up on this thread. I DNF'ed the POT150 at mile 110.

No foot strikes though, so technically I may have cheated. Does that make me a finisher?

#AskingForAFriend

Neil wrote him a training plan to get sub-3:30 at VMLM last year. This would apparently gain him another £5k "sponsorship", from individual/company unknown. Other than one session which he attended - the infamous post-30 mile combat yomp one - and at which he struggled, he did not partake of any of Neil's actual sessions. He proffered no data from his training programme, other than to say each time that he'd completed it. The excuses for having no marathon time included, inter alia, non-functioning tag and that Special Forces personnel results were never published, for security reasons. And then, miraculously, the 3:12 time claim appeared, having been "sorted with the organisers".

I told Neil that there was no way that he was SF - that, for many, many reasons, it just didn't ring true. Neil distanced himself from that point on, whilst trying to steer a middle line...because, after all, he was doing this for WWTW. And, just maybe, Neil is far less cynical than me. At this point, no one was thinking he was much beyond him being a Walt about his forces record.

We are all guilty of having 20/20 hindsight. Neil is a loyal guy, who will go out of his way to help anyone - unless he gets his leg lifted, which happened on this occasion. Like I said previously, direct your ire and efforts at the principal players in this: no one else is involved in the scam.

OK 20/20 hindsight but nobody I know who is shaped like Dave goes anywhere near 3:12 for the Marathon, the only video of him doing anything resembling running is the ridiculous treadmill sequence where he moves like a much older man who isn't a runner.

Runners don't tend to say it out loud but we all sum up someone we haven't seen run before in a few minutes based on what they look like in running kit then in the first few minutes of a run.

It is rare and remarkable when someone - usually a stocky bloke in their 20s surprises you by being much more able than they look (by which I mean - looks like a 9 minute miler, is witnessed putting in a 10K training run at 6:30 minute miling).

So did he do it by never being caught runnnig?

video of Dave running 2:02 at Birmingham Half Marathon last year:

http://www.greatrun.org/photos/bib/3866/Sports/GRUK/2016/Great%20Birmingham%20Run

he actually hit the 10K timing mat, so run looks legit. I expect Duncan realised that Dave was talking out of his arse about his 3:12 at London after this performance

http://walkingwiththewounded.org.uk/blog/2016/10/18/thank-you-birmingham/

Better to get his leg lifted instead of being a shirt lifter.

We already know that the 3:12 marathon claim is fake. What Shite Hawk is saying is supporting what we already know in that Neil was not part of making that bogus claim and was also being duped.

Tinfoil Hat wrote:

We already know that the 3:12 marathon claim is fake. What Shite Hawk is saying is supporting what we already know in that Neil was not part of making that bogus claim and was also being duped.

Yes, this was established on page 1, what I am asking is how could anyone else who knew anything about running not have had huge red flags at this stage.

Hey, what happened. A very juicy post got deleted. It was getting really interesting too. That was weird.

Final Countdown wrote:

Hey, what happened. A very juicy post got deleted. It was getting really interesting too. That was weird.

I think it involved other people not part of this scam so out of respect we should not post it here since it is very personal.

The Reading family is f'd up.

That's just a formation company when first set up. It would be interesting to find something further with the Shinglers as they must have had a pretty good reason to change names. Maybe it was simply the debt taken out against one of those companies and they had to change to get away from it. We really just need anwsers to the £5k chariity money and all the other fundraising dosh that has gone AWOL. Maybe Dave went AWOL from the army or whatever and that's why he changed his name...

3.12 My Ar$e wrote:

Just came across this....

https://www.rafa.org.uk/blog/2016/09/28/dave-readings-story-so-far/

[quote]"As an RAF Reserve, I was away at Halton for a couple of weeks on a training exercise when Neil sent me a training plan to follow as closely as the one I was doing. Training with Neil is always challenging, but training hard meant I ran the London Marathon in 2016 in three hours 12 minutes."

Still not seeing that 3h:12m marathon in the results...

Tinfoil Hat wrote:

Look harder.

Terrie Reading just clensed her FB page. Can't see friends any more either. No lejog references as well.

We know they ate reading this thread. The walls are closing in Terrie.

I could not write a mystery thriller as weird or compelling as what we have seen. Life is really stranger than fiction.