This post pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter
Results wrote:
rojo wrote:Can someone give me a cliiff notes version of what's going on. I had no idea these runs were going on until yesterday.
What pace are the two women on?
Anything exciting happened?
What are their backgrounds?
Are there any doubts as to the legitimacy of these runs?
Good to see you Rojo! In summation, there are very significant concerns about Mimi Anderson's attempt.
Her tracking has been down for hours at a time. The owner of the company that provided her with trackers states definitively that the tracker was turned off for at least 20 hours of the run and also allowed to run out of battery for at least 20 hours more. She now has Garmin tracking, but for whatever reason starts and stops it randomly, and includes rides she takes on support vehicles thus rendering it useless. There are also multiple stops (sometimes as frequently as every hour or hour and a half) along her route which have not been explained but could in theory be opportunities to pass the tracker back and forth with her team (which includes other ultrarunners).
We have no footage of her running at all even at this point in the attempt. We do have video of her being helped up the stairs of her RV in the middle of a day where she had supposedly just completed 30 miles and was going out for another 25.
To our knowledge, there have been zero outside observers of her attempt. No eyewitness accounts whatsoever.
She claims that someone from this website came out to see her, obstructed traffic, and after her team phoned police, was arrested. We have seen no evidence to support this, and the details provided by Mimi and her team are hard to believe. I'm sure you would want to know if someone from LRC was engaged in this sort of activity. I feel confident that did not happen.
There is much more, but the thread is being trolled by someone who would prefer we not be able to discuss the obvious inconsistencies apparent in this attempt. I encourage you to reach out to user Scam_Watcheroo, or vice versa, who will clarify the extent of these issues. We don't have proof of anything and most of us would rather just know one way or another if Mimi's attempt is legitimate. You can help answer this question. Thank you for giving us a platform to observe and discuss this circus. It has been a wild ride. :)