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

Outbound wrote:

The Nike+ watch can also be used with a foot pod. If we know his email someone can try to login to his Nike+ account. The password is probably mikerules or boston2015.

Not any more. He's reading the thread, remember? It probably changed today.

no mid-course photos? wrote:

Not saying he cheated or not, but that inference from training runs is pure horse manure. People can run their training runs way too fast.

Sure whatever you say Kip.

Crazy that the IP address from M. Rossi's email confirms that he was the one posting on here other all those aliases

Not an IP Guy wrote:

IP ADDRESS wrote:

I was curious if Mike was the one posting in the board using fake names so I sent an email to his event company pretending I needed a DJ for a wedding.

Does anyone have the IP's from the fake accounts?

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Received: from mail-vn0-f46.google.com (mail-vn0-f46.google.com. [98.235.239.44])

From Rojo

rojo wrote:

The following posts all came from IP: 98.235.239.44 which when I look it up is Comcast Cable - Camp Hill, PA.

"Soccermoms", "fasterthanyoudbag", "Sub3HourMarathoner", "BostonBQ" and "SpeedyGuy" are all the same person or at least from the same IP.

Wejo, Rojo,

I know there's a darn good reason for this, but guide me to water:

Why are you not advertising this thread/story on the front page?

Those are good.

ZIP wrote:

runningbadger wrote:

Title it "A Bridge to Far"

Or "The Bridge over the River Lehigh" or "Bridge over Cheated Waters"

OK I'll go home now.

SaraB can you add a screen cap of that post to your spreadsheet? This is amazing stuff. Mike Rossi was here all along reading our thread in tandem with all of us.

Rossi cheat wrote:

Crazy that the IP address from M. Rossi's email confirms that he was the one posting on here other all those aliases

Not an IP Guy wrote:

From Rojo

I do believe this quote from MR

"I know it may be a little bit of a reach, to qualify for the world's greatest marathon in only my second year of running. But I am going to do whatever I can to qualify for the Boston Marathon"

SaraB wrote:

He seriously has a shoe pod on his right foot. I've seen it in quite a few races but I've found a photo that shows it from the side. It's Philly RnR half

http://imgur.com/Hd0Sdev

Could it be one of those "ID on the Run" type of things? I have a friend with one of those, looks similar but hard to tell...

"I learned more about pacing/splits/training in five days being the subject of a letsrun.com investigation than I did from a years subscription of runner's world"

~Mike Rossi

ZIP wrote:

runningbadger wrote:

Title it "A Bridge to Far"

Or "The Bridge over the River Lehigh" or "Bridge over Cheated Waters"

OK I'll go home now.

So Jeff Bridges gets the lead? The Dude Lehighs

(To Lehigh = pull a Rossi Ruiz)

I don't know if this is on the photo spreadsheet, but I looked at all the pictures of the half marathon participants who finished after Rossi, and he doesn't show up in any of those pictures, either. There are several pictures showing marathoners passing the slower half marathoners. Two marathoners I spotted in different pictures finished in 2:58 and 3:17.

These slower walkers/runners may have seen something, so I hope the RD plans on interviewing them, too.

Maybe it should be "A Bridge Too Far" since he never made it there.

Cheat mats should from this day forth be called "Rossi mats."

p00pbreathbillionaire wrote:

SaraB can you add a screen cap of that post to your spreadsheet? This is amazing stuff. Mike Rossi was here all along reading our thread in tandem with all of us.

Rossi cheat wrote:

Crazy that the IP address from M. Rossi's email confirms that he was the one posting on here other all those aliases

Done :)

You should change the BAA shirt from this year to read "Not Rossi Ceritified" and put # 162 inside the bib.

Also today is the anniversary of the V-E day.

WooWoo wrote:

Maybe it should be "A Bridge Too Far" since he never made it there.

Cheat mats should from this day forth be called "Rossi mats."

Lshek wrote:

Uninterrupted sequential photos and no sign of him. Just to confirm - all runners were photographed on this bridge who finished the course within any kind of reasonable range around the time with which Rossi was credited? No one else was missed? That seems to be one of the hardest pieces of evidence. Lots of other good stuff, but that's excellent. Nice work.

Everyone who finished within 10 places of Rossi appears on the bridge. That is the second photo check point after the start. So all runners who finished within 10 paces of Rossi were photographed at the first checkpoint between 7:48 and 7:52 AM. All runners who finished within 10 places of Rossi were also photographed at the second checkpoint between 7:56 and 8:01. They remained in roughly the same order with a few people moving up.

CHECK POINT 1

No. Photo

1444 6-535

1163 6-510

1185 6-581

1388 6-595

1603 6-584

2550 6-574

2544 6-574

1242 6-577

2531 6-550

1823 6-544

2161 ROSSI

1997 6-597

2028 6-563

1711 6-567

1950 6-594

2233 7-602

1880 6-528

2372 6-544

2515 6-532

1933 6-570

1255 6-560

CHECKPOINT 2

No. Photo

1444 12-1199

1163 12-1125

1185 14-1301

1388 14-1325

1603 13-1286

2550 13-1270

2544 13-1267

1242 13-1277

2531 13-1223

1823 12-1210

2161 ROSSI

1997 14-1328

2028 13-1253

1711 13-1259

1950 14-1302

2233 14-1335

1880 12-1151

2372 13-1207

2515 12-1162

1933 13-1266

1255 13-1245

Just throwing it out there....

Could he have started from the half-marathon starting line?

1) buy a racing bib from a participant who' selling the bib.

2) Remove half marathon chip.

3) place marathon bib underneath shirt.

4) run slow until the marathon packs catches the half marathoners

5) hit the potty and change bibs.

NO KIDDING.The guy is an ego maniac and probably a psycho.Of course he has been reading all along, he loves the attention you're all giving him.

p00pbreathbillionaire wrote:

SaraB can you add a screen cap of that post to your spreadsheet? This is amazing stuff. Mike Rossi was here all along reading our thread in tandem with all of us.

Rossi cheat wrote:

Crazy that the IP address from M. Rossi's email confirms that he was the one posting on here other all those aliases

TournieTime wrote:

Just throwing it out there....

Could he have started from the half-marathon starting line?

No. His chip crossed the starting mat of the full so it had to make its way from the start to the finish one way or another.