Robert Young fakes run across America

Thanks for posting that. That was the other point I was going to mention but forgot. It seems one of the stranger lines of argument on here questioning whether he could be both a triathlete and a couch potato, ignoring the ten year gap between them.

On the mapmytun I am guessing this is an error easily made. Nobody took any notice of my endomoneo stats until I reached the top of a leaderboard when an eagle eyed Ukrainian spotted some of my runs were doubled up. It was an innocent mistake not realising two devices were uploading. Mapmytun is different to Strava and endomoneo. You can map your run then go and run it. I imagine there is some error due to that. It is not particularly relevant to all this though. You pretty much have to take his word for those. There are plenty of events he ran - go and check results on those. Start with the Sca Fell trail marathon where I met him. A marathon up the highest mountain in England (ok we don't do big mountains but still a tough course). That was part of his year of marathons. He didn't have to choose to include mountain marathons but like as challenge!

Lebow already has a statue in NYC and they move it around depending on the season.

Statue Spotter wrote:

Phoobic Placer wrote:

2300 post troll?

That's why they are erecting a statue of him in Lebo.

That is a 1:28 HM runner, not 1:08 lol. MFer has man boobs for effs sake!

Heavyd84 wrote:

man boobstits wrote:

Wow, he's fat.

1. Looks like he's running sub 7:00 pace

2. He appears to be struggling as hard as one does in a hard tempo or VO2 max repeats, which would mean he could only hold that pace for 2-30min, why would you strain that much doing insane long runs?

3. Too much body fat.

4. Poor form, not taking enough steps for that much distance.

I thought they were talking about the John J. Kelley statue in Mystic Connecticut.

Ulister here wrote:

Listen you brash little LR twits putting down Laz and ultra running. Let's see you get out here and run a hundo or 24 hour. We'll see how tough you are then. I'd wager you'd be in the corner crying after 5 hours.

What part of "we dgaf about running really slow over really long distances" don't you understand?

We all know the record belongs to Forest Gump. To top it off dude did it without any aid. Then when he got there he did it again.

Know your history boys.

It's about 11:35 PM Central time, and RY's tracker has covered 19.9 miles in the past 5+ hours since he started this afternoon between 4-4:30. So not quite 4 MPH for this stretch.

On this long thread, I was the one who had been questioning why it seemed that there were two narratives to Rob's backstory. In retrospect (and this is why I reread the opening of his book), I may have been more influenced by articles in the Telegraph, SI, etc that I had read first and those simplified his story and didn't mention him as a triathlete. Of course, to gain readership and ratings, they would play up the amazing coach to multi-marathoner angle. But in Rob's own words, he acknowledges his competitive background and the 7 year gap til he took up marathoning. And when I first read his opening chapter, he downplays his endurance background but he does acknowledge it.

I still have issues reconciling the mapmyrun data and his description in the book. He acknowledges in the book that he would need to verify this record attempt at a sequence of marathons, but he says that gps data would not be necessary. Just two witnesses and he chose Eva and Joanna. But his description of them witnessing his initial marathons doesn't match what he posted in mapmyrun which causes problems.

Rob certainly is an endurance runner. I don't question his London or Brighton Marathons because of the photos and splits. But that doesn't resolve the main issue of this long thread--has he been running all the way across the US or has he been getting a lift in the RV for parts of it. I have little to contribute to that discussion. I took it upon myself to examine his book instead to see if there were falsifications there. There are still irreconcilable differences between his descriptions in the book and his mapmyrun data.

Ulister here wrote:

Listen you brash little LR twits putting down Laz and ultra running. Let's see you get out here and run a hundo or 24 hour. We'll see how tough you are then. I'd wager you'd be in the corner crying after 5 hours.

Haha and you fellas go on about kids in their moms basements and brash little twits.

"hundo" sounds like something my 10 year old would say.

"hundo", friggin hilarious.

Pvt. F. Gump wrote:

We all know the record belongs to Forest Gump. To top it off dude did it without any aid. Then when he got there he did it again.

Know your history boys.

Hate to break it to you, but Forrest lied.

In the movie, Forrest claims to run for 3 years, 2 months, 14 days, and 16 hours.

At the beginning of his run, he passes the barbershop and there's a news blurb mentioning President Jimmy Carter had passed out in Maryland due to heat exhaustion. That was September 15, 1979.

When Forrest gets home from running, he gets Jenny's letter and the TV news announces that President Reagan had been shot. That was March 30, 1981.

That's only 1 year, 6 months, and 15 days. That's 563 days. So Forrest averaged about 27 miles a day. But evidently, he didn't run for 3 years, 2 months, 14 days, and 16 hours as he claimed.

curiously interested wrote:

Just two witnesses and he chose Eva and Joanna. But his description of them witnessing his initial marathons doesn't match what he posted in mapmyrun which causes problems.

We know Joanna was his wife, but who's Eva, Dustin Brooks wife? They all live in East Sheen so not a bad conspiracy theory to kick the thread along while we wait for Asher's video to be posted.

Trusty McTrusterson wrote:

Heavyd84 wrote:

Link: gofundme.com/293rkfw7

Awesome! Just donated $69

Great cause, thanks for doing this!

Nice.

Phoobic Placer wrote:

Lebow already has a statue in NYC and they move it around depending on the season.

Statue Spotter wrote:

That's why they are erecting a statue of him in Lebo.

Lebo, Kansas, dumbdumb, for Asher - you know, the OP of this thread? A statue of Asher for discovering the RY fraud in person. This whole thing works better if you can keep up rather than me having to explain every little thread inside joke.

Calling Eva. wrote:

curiously interested wrote:

Just two witnesses and he chose Eva and Joanna. But his description of them witnessing his initial marathons doesn't match what he posted in mapmyrun which causes problems.

We know Joanna was his wife, but who's Eva, Dustin Brooks wife? They all live in East Sheen so not a bad conspiracy theory to kick the thread along while we wait for Asher's video to be posted.

In the parts of the book I've seen on amazon.co.uk, Eva's last name is not provided and she's simply a friend he asked to witness his running with no further description of her (at least in the pages accessible on amazon.co.uk).

Calling Eva. wrote:

curiously interested wrote:

Just two witnesses and he chose Eva and Joanna. But his description of them witnessing his initial marathons doesn't match what he posted in mapmyrun which causes problems.

We know Joanna was his wife, but who's Eva, Dustin Brooks wife? They all live in East Sheen so not a bad conspiracy theory to kick the thread along while we wait for Asher's video to be posted.

Eva Katzler, East Sheen, writer of children's books:

Dustin Brooks, East Sheen, publisher of children's books:

How are old are you. wrote:

Ulister here wrote:

Listen you brash little LR twits putting down Laz and ultra running. Let's see you get out here and run a hundo or 24 hour. We'll see how tough you are then. I'd wager you'd be in the corner crying after 5 hours.

Haha and you fellas go on about kids in their moms basements and brash little twits.

"hundo" sounds like something my 10 year old would say.

"hundo", friggin hilarious.

your "10 year old"...sure thing, kid.

This Eva? wrote:

Calling Eva. wrote:

We know Joanna was his wife, but who's Eva, Dustin Brooks wife? They all live in East Sheen so not a bad conspiracy theory to kick the thread along while we wait for Asher's video to be posted.

Eva Katzler, East Sheen, writer of children's books:

http://mysheenvillage.com/just-kids-magazine/books-for-children/an-interview-with-eva-katzler/

Dustin Brooks, East Sheen, publisher of children's books:

http://www.digitalleaf.co.uk/

Well, he is doing it for the children so this makes perfect sense.

A-Day-in-the-life-of-Dustin-Brooks

Dustin Brooks, a children’s writer and

publisher, lives and works in East Sheen

and creates children’s stories as apps

http://www.digitalleaf.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Day-in-the-life-of-Dustin-Brooks1.pdf

The man who says "I love apps and technology", but not enough to publish Rob's data.

This Eva? wrote:

Calling Eva. wrote:

We know Joanna was his wife, but who's Eva, Dustin Brooks wife? They all live in East Sheen so not a bad conspiracy theory to kick the thread along while we wait for Asher's video to be posted.

Eva Katzler, East Sheen, writer of children's books:

http://mysheenvillage.com/just-kids-magazine/books-for-children/an-interview-with-eva-katzler/

Dustin Brooks, East Sheen, publisher of children's books:

http://www.digitalleaf.co.uk/

I have no idea nor any way of knowing anything about either of them.