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

Mike or the fake you can knock me all you want , let's put my race time up against your race times it's not even close , I have done over 175 days and not once did I ever cheat , and I never doged the Boston gear three months before the race

Lehigh-fiving wrote:

If he cheated, I wonder what he told his friends and family when he "qualified" for Boston and how he could live for months having people pat him on the back.

In the article the OP linked, he said the school administrators knew in the fall about his BQ. Must have been boasting then.

"The plan was always to bring them with me, and do this trip as a family," he said. "The school has known unofficially about it since the fall. The teachers have discussed it, so it hasn't been a secret."

With the only "evidence" being a lack of photographs, this will die a slow death.

Criminal Minds wrote:

With the only "evidence" being a lack of photographs, this will die a slow death.

Yeah, just as slow as the death of Kip Litton's case.

"Hang em'High"

[quote]fdsfdsfds wrote:

do you people really have no care for the idea of redemption.

/quote]

This guy isn't the type to redeem himself without getting caught. He's a cheater. He thought he got away with it. He wasn't seeking redemption.

He's made all of his social media private so I can't quote it exactly, but he said he ran over 1000 miles in 18 months of training and got up to almost 50 miles a week. I don't see how that level of training is enough to take someone from a 3:45 marathon to a 3:11. It's feasible for some people, just not someone in his late 40's with this guy's profile.

He has deleted all of his accounts. For someone who was so willing to defend a letter to not defend something so black and white, it suggests very strongly he cheated.

My offer of $1000 to his favorite charity for him to run within 15 minutes of his boston qualifier still stands.

Seriously guys, do we really need to post on the principal's son's facebook page that Rossi is a douche nozzle? It's one thing to catch a cheat but when you stoop to his level then the accuser is just as bad. Just for once can someone here try to have a little class? As much as I like a good "outing" it's pretty obvious that over half of these posts on here are posted by the same guy.

dfadsfasfd wrote:

the principle's son has been informed of Rossi's cheating, someone linked him the thread in his Facebook post

https://www.facebook.com/lee.marbury/posts/10103631038791008

He didn't mind trying to shame his kids' principal in the media, did he? A principal trying to do her job. He can dish it out, but he can't take it.

Of course, the saddest thing about this whole saga is the number of idiots who applauded his letter--rather than dismissing it as the work of an attention-seeking jerk who considers his hobby more important than his kids' education.

guys please wrote:

" it's pretty obvious that over half of these posts on here are posted by the same guy.

Incorrect.

Top Noticer wrote:

guys please wrote:

" it's pretty obvious that over half of these posts on here are posted by the same guy.

Incorrect.

So that's the part of my post you have a problem with? I honestly think the same guy is posting multiple times here (and on FB and twitter and other blogs). Of course I can't prove it but you can't prove it otherwise.

I guess you think it's perfectly fine that a createn with way too much time on his hands can spew hate onto facebook. Let's make sure the entire world knows just how shitty we at letsrun can get.

Looks as if this guy stole a page out of Kip Litton's cheating manual. Wonder if he ripped out a few pages of dane's book as well and used an RV? I know people tear out pages of these narcissists books but it is to mainly wipe their a$$es with it while TRULY running. Cheating sacks of crap!

How you know it is same person?

Doubt wrote:

How you know it is same person?

Are you replying to citizen kane or me?

I would bet that there is just one person (Mr. Rossi or his accomplice from Lehigh) posting under different user names saying to "take it down a notch" etc. anyway, Mike (Mikes "friend"), welcome to LRC, it's going to be a great ride and we are just getting started!

I think it's fine to out a cheater. I don't think it's fine to post candid photos of the cheater with his daughter. That seems icky to me--and, more importantly, not at all relevant to the mission at hand.

I think it would be helpful at this point if somebody here went back through the thread and posted a bulleted, point-by-point brief for the prosecution. The case for MR having cheated is....? Lack of during-the-race photos that one would expect? Lack of expected bragging about the race in question, compared with much bragging about other races? Sum up the case, please.

The general, non-running nerd, public will never condemn this jackass based on analysis of his previous times. Your general person has no idea about pace extrapolation. I won a local 10 miler running a pace of 6:15/ mile and people at the end asked me if I was a professional runner,

We need more undeniable proof to hang this douchebag...like some Lehigh runners coming forth and making statements.

We don't need more evidence. The evidence seems rock solid. It's not a question of gathering more evidence for the general non-running public - we have evidence he cheated. What is more important I think is whether the general non-running public will CARE that he cheated.

If he cheated in Boston or a big city marathon then I think people would agree he's a bad cheater, but I worry that since it was such a tiny backwater marathon that most people won't care.