WE wrote a piece detailing how the evidence was beyond a reasonable doubt.
WE outlined the evidence against Rossi in a lengthy nearly 3,500-word article.
WE were so convinced that it was physiologically impossible (that sounds fancy) for the novice runner Rossi to have run the 3:11:45 Boston Marathon qualifying time that we offered him $100,000 if he repeated the feat in the next year.
WE were so certain that it was obvious to any student of the sport that Rossi had cheated ...supporting our assertion.
We’re so confident that it’s physiologically impossible for Rossi to have run 3:11:45 that we are going to double our sub-3:11:45 challenge to $200,000.
The Rossi cheating saga has certainly touched a nerve in the running community as more than 20,000 posts were posted in 2015 on the Mike Rossi thread on our message board: MB: Did Mike Rossi (viral marathon dad) cheat his way into Boston?
*Payments will be made over the span of 10 years – $20,000 each year – and all we require is it be done on a non-overly aided course (can’t be run down a mountain) and that we are given one week’s notice so we can ensure Rossi doesn’t cut the course and so we can set-up one pre- and one post-race drug test.
(That sounds like a lot of MONEY for a bet with Mr. Rossi.)
The LetsRun.com alpha male racing singlet has been very popular with the running community and has really generated a lot of money for wejo, rojo, and auto( = self-generated).
It looks like the LetsRun.com racing singlet page had 3 views... in 3 years.
It had 5 likes.
https://www.facebook.com/LetsRundotcom/photos/a.464438900355548.1073741825.464434047022700/464443100355128/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/LetsRundotcom/photos/a.492794634186641.1073741829.464434047022700/849214791877955/?type=3&theater
The photo has some dark clouds coming in the future.
Mr. Obvious knows that Schadenfreude is a German word...which is a very popular word with Nazis.
Chasing cheaters has won LetsRun fans. But not everyone’s impressed. Says Scott Douglas, a contributing editor at Runner’s World, “One problem I have with the site and the Johnson brothers’ presentation is a willful lack of distinction between something they did—broke a story or advanced a story—versus something somebody posted on the message board that becomes ‘LetsRun broke this story!’".
Indeed, by “we figured out,†RoJo really meant posters like gatorade&VODKA who did much of the early legwork on the Rossi story. (That thread stretched to more than 1,200 pages.)
Have you ever thought about who gatorade and VODKA really is???
(It turns out that I have thought about it.)
Because the site is home to both a LARGE and active posting community and original reporting by its founders—and because the line between the two is often BLURRY—LetsRun as a whole can sometimes shade from journalism into witch-hunting. “Many of the people behind these alleÂgations are anonymous posters on a notoriously BIASED and SENSATIONALIST website,†Rossi told Runner’s World as his story was being picked apart in the forums.
“There is a distinction between the community and the editorial side,†WeJo INSISTS. “‘LetsRun’ can refer to both, but we try and give proper credit on WHO IS DOING WHAT. As to whether that DISTINCTION matters, I’m NOT SURE. I’m glad cheaters get exposed.â€
“It was the moment of the Games for me,†WeJo says. “Running was suddenly very Âunimportant.â€
It was LetsRun at its BEST. They had broken a big story with a QUESTION that had come straight from the message board.
RoJo filmed her crying. “I always feel bad,†he told me after. “But it’s part of the drama.â€
Karma is also just part of the drama.
No worries for wejo, rojo, and auto.