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

beastmodethread wrote:

Prediction contest: when does this thread hit 2000 posts? I say Friday, May 7th at 11:45 a.m. EDT.

Other than your typo (should be May 8th), I'd say your prediction was damn good!

Just received an email from Mike and this is the IP ADDRESS

209.85.216.49

IP ADDRESS wrote:

Just received an email from Mike and this is the IP ADDRESS

209.85.216.49

That's a Google mail server in Mountain View, California.

Raysism wrote:

Can't remember if we've seen this one:

http://parkland.thelehighvalleypress.com/2014/09/11/thousands-run-lvhn-marathon

This guy must have more starting line photos stored somewhere.

Sorry but I can't get that link to work. I looked through about 30 photos from google image searches of the marathon start. I couldn't find Mike Roddi on an of them

How do I find the right IP? Google Email

SaraB wrote:

this is the final one. There was two post from him at the top of the conversation but it's very very long and they've already been shared on here so I started screen shoting from when he re-entered the conversation. Also, am not really sure why he is in the Dopey Challenge group. He is not registered to do it and he hasn't done it in any recent years.

http://imgur.com/a/Wljer

Great posts.

His posts are laughable. I'm going to wokr on our article today. I promise.

Mike writes on facebook "I don’t need to prove I ran LV. Someone needs to prove I didn’t."

Ok. This is what pisses me off. People don't get there is ZERO chance he ran it. Zero. If I'm multiplying by 100 and rounding the nearest percent that he ran it, it's zero.

He's comments of someone needs to prove he didn't do it are stupid.

Mike, Please prove to me that George Washington didn't watch TV. Prove it to me. Please.

"But TV's didn't exist then."

How do you know? show me proof. George was an amazing man. I heard from a relative that he invented and watched it with Martha.

IP ADDRESS wrote:

Just received an email from Mike and this is the IP ADDRESS

209.85.216.49

Why did you get an email from Mike?

IP ADDRESS wrote:

How do I find the right IP? Google Email

Open the email in Gmail, look to the right near the top of the message and you will see a drop-down arrow. There are about 10 options. Pick "show original". This will give you a text-only, stripped-down version with a lot more routing info, including the possibility of his actual IP rather than the mail server, if he is posting from home.

If it confuses you, copy and paste the lines dealing with his routing info here.

I think all the pics were posted, bc I remember seeing 107 pages when 180 pics were on each page. This would equal 19,260 pictures.

Living in the past wrote:

How do we know his sub 22 minute 5k is legit?

Can someoen send me a link to the sub -22? Thanks.

the back should say either:pics?or pics or it didn't happen, bro

easy weeks wrote:

p00pbreathbillionaire wrote:

Also, curious if anyone knows where I can buy this t-shirt

http://twitter.com/EVERLASTvegan/status/589947689208418305

it is sure to be a cult classic for runners years to come.

That would be an awesome shirt to have, especially if some sort of LRC-related humor was printed on the back.

This photo of the shirt design is actually more than good enough to create a replica by simply creating a vector outline and re-submitting the new high-res image to whatever shirt-making company desired (cafepress, etc). It would look exactly the same.

I could do this, if enough people are interested. I feel bad for being one of the grouchy people that slammed the brojos' Rupp-certified shirt. :)

Something substantive to add wrote:

ROSSI RUIZ wrote:

Can someone post the other Spreadsheet Link that is being worked on? I have this one:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s0f2sI8FvoD4nFriEngQQXhwBqYbVLq0V5VjI2ARRp4/edit#gid=0

Would like the other one or just add it to the above document.

Thanks all for the hard work you are doing on your respected employers dime!

Don't think anyone else had re-posted it yet. Here's the spreadsheet Rojo set up w/ photo tracking, etc.:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o6QNphLQ7ZV_sPSCyaFV4Tm1rmOlol_AO5cxF3Lam-Q/

Need to cross-reference these in both the above spreadsheets / documents. Makes it easier to find both and see the progress!

GREAT WORK EVERYONE!!!!!!!

Any new news stories today on the ass clown?

rojo wrote:

Living in the past wrote:

How do we know his sub 22 minute 5k is legit?

Can someoen send me a link to the sub -22? Thanks.

Ok, it was at the Rock n Roll Philly 5K. If you type in his name at this link, you can see the 21:52.

easy weeks wrote:

p00pbreathbillionaire wrote:

Also, curious if anyone knows where I can buy this t-shirt

http://twitter.com/EVERLASTvegan/status/589947689208418305

it is sure to be a cult classic for runners years to come.

That would be an awesome shirt to have, especially if some sort of LRC-related humor was printed on the back.

This photo of the shirt design is actually more than good enough to create a replica by simply creating a vector outline and re-submitting the new high-res image to whatever shirt-making company desired (cafepress, etc). It would look exactly the same.

I could do this, if enough people are interested. I feel bad for being one of the grouchy people that slammed the brojos' Rupp-certified shirt. :)

It's a one color image.

-download it.

-Contact a t-shirt screener and ask for image specs

-Convert the image to the screener's spec. It will scale just fine because it's one color.

-Order some shirts.

You don't need photoshop if you don't have it. Use the GIMP.

I'd change the "Run, Daddy, Run" to something else though. IMO that crosses a line.

oldbie runner wrote:

Newbie Runner wrote:

I've always questioned those old timers who claim that "back in the day" runners were so much faster - everyone ran under 3 hrs, blah, blah, blah.

So easy to cut a course back then with no chips or photographers.

Wonder how many of those races had people cutting the course.

You're so far off here you are probably in the wrong galaxy dude.

The elites today are faster than the elites of yesteryear. But the masses of yesteryear were WAY faster than the masses of today.

The explanation is very simple and has nothing to do with cutting courses. The running culture was very, very different. Back then lots of people trained reasonably hard and very few raced to get a participant medal (which didn't exist). Today lots of people "race" to get a participant medal and only a relative handful train hard.

Or a good amount (definitely a higher % than today) cheated. Too easy to do back then. Plus, you had mismeasured courses.

Which was an out and back course probably cut the course there as well

I checked the top 10 male finishers in age groups 18-54.

I haven't cross referenced the pix for ones not found in mile 4 (4-6).

However every runner has a photo on the bridge, and no less than 7 photos, unless shirtless or crumbled bib.

I have looked at every photo at mile 4 (or 6) and every photo on the bridge. Rossi isn't in one of them.

Mike loves his BAA Shirts, looks like he actually ran philly 5k though...

http://imgur.com/iFsMlAL

No longer wondering wrote:

Are the photos time-stamped?

I would be interested to see the timing of all the photos of that stretch, to see if there is a gap or no gap in the sequence.

Although it is not really needed - I already have reached my conclusion.

Typically buried in exif data assuming the images shot were jpeg. I don't know why they would shoot tiff, but I'm not an event photographer.

Did the exif data make it into the pictures posted on the Internet? Do you have an application that can read the exif data?