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

Bc his face is everywhere wrote:

Enjoy!

http://imgur.com/a/nlp4C

Enjoy back at ya!

its back in the 70s... wrote:

Raysism wrote:

Stop whatever you are doing, go to the finish line video, and go to clock time 3:06:30. Watch the guy with the dog for the next 20 to 30 seconds.

This is the funniest thing I've seen in a while. When he falls over with the dog, I nearly wet my pants.

http://results.chronotrack.com/event/results/event/event-10268?lc=en

Thanks for posting this. I found another site where it linked to this same url as well - but this site appears to no longer have the finish line video up ? This is just the searchable results page and I don't see a video or link to a video. Hmmm, I wonder if it was removed based on the whole, you know, "thing".

seriously... wrote:

All the work that's been done here and not one mention of letsrun in that article.

Typical.

Maybe I'm wrong, but the people that did the work did it for their own reasons. I don't think anyone was sorting images imagining "this is how I get my 10 minutes of Internet fame."

What was accomplished, by the individuals who did the work, was actually the opposite of Rosie Rossi.

Except me. I've got a selfie where I'm looking very stern at my PC monitor. I've contacted several news organizations taking credit for all of it, including my "stern selfie." Mike and I will be on Oprah real soon now.

The person that wrote the script testing the "lost and found" hypothesis? All me. Am I right numbersguy? SaraB? I contacted her directing her because I'm omnipotent Internet Master.

My reality show dreams might come true yet!

Nevermind - I'm an idiot.

So I've ran the Philly Marathon and you put down your predicted finish time in order to get into the correct waves (corral colors). His bib for Philly states "GREEN CORRAL" which if I recall is a much slower time than 3:11. I think RED was first and had up to the 3:10 pacer, I was in the BLACK corral and I ran with the 3:15 pacer. So he obviously didn't put down 3:11 or anything close to it as his predicted time for Philly...even though he just ran that at Lehigh? Odd.

Bc his face is everywhere wrote:

Enjoy!

http://imgur.com/a/nlp4C

A few new ones at the memegenerator.

http://memegenerator.net/Mikerossicheat1

http://memegenerator.net/Mikerossicheat

FMD there's some morons around wrote:

Irony Killed the Cat wrote:

same idiots repeating the same thing.

What pisses me off is the idiots who keep coming on here saying idiots keep repeating the same thing.

Sort of ironic that

Deadman Running wrote:

This guy represents a lot of what is wrong with this country, society and culture we live in today. .

Which, IMO, why the story is almost 2500 posts long. There are so many different facets to it that appeal to all kinds of people.

The simple fact his BS letter got 10 minutes of fame is a clue of the huge numbers of people that are almost living their lives like it's a fantasy.

Corral wrote:

So I've ran the Philly Marathon and you put down your predicted finish time in order to get into the correct waves (corral colors). His bib for Philly states "GREEN CORRAL" which if I recall is a much slower time than 3:11. I think RED was first and had up to the 3:10 pacer, I was in the BLACK corral and I ran with the 3:15 pacer. So he obviously didn't put down 3:11 or anything close to it as his predicted time for Philly...even though he just ran that at Lehigh? Odd.

Bc his face is everywhere wrote:

Enjoy!

http://imgur.com/a/nlp4C

Can anyone refresh my memory about theories as to why Rossi would fake a finish time that was so much faster than what he needed to make it to Boston? After all, if you're going to cheat a BQ, I'd assume you try not to draw unnecessary attention to yourself doing it. In every other aspect of VIA, he went as incognito as possible -- dark clothes, head down, no GPS record, minimal post-race commentary -- very out of character for him in his other runs. So why raise suspicions by dramatically exceeding his expected pace? IIRC, someone early in this thread was pointing out that VIA started 10 minutes late. If this is true,has anyone theorized that Rossi didn't stick around for the start of the race, and therefore didn't know about the delay? I can't remember if there's evidence of him crossing the start line, or just a selfie proving he was there pre-race. If he left before it started, and didn't know that the runners were 10 minutes behind schedule, he would have thought he was timing his re-entry to finish around 3:21 -- not so fast that it really raised eyebrows, but with a comfortable enough margin that he'd be likely to make the cut. But because of the late start, he landed at 3:11 instead, and the last thing he'd want to do was remind anyone of that.

If that were the case, how would his chip have registered as crossing the start mat?

The race started on time at 7:10. Rossi probably either mistimed or was too overzealous in making sure he made the cutoff. There's a photo of him before the start of the race at the start line.

Corral wrote:

So I've ran the Philly Marathon and you put down your predicted finish time in order to get into the correct waves (corral colors). His bib for Philly states "GREEN CORRAL" which if I recall is a much slower time than 3:11. I think RED was first and had up to the 3:10 pacer, I was in the BLACK corral and I ran with the 3:15 pacer. So he obviously didn't put down 3:11 or anything close to it as his predicted time for Philly...even though he just ran that at Lehigh? Odd.

Bc his face is everywhere wrote:

Enjoy!

http://imgur.com/a/nlp4C

Great catch, it goes gold, then maroon then black. Rossi is wayyy back, guess he forgot not only to brag about his Huge breakthrough race on social media but he also didn't update his corral which takes seconds at the expo. Does Rossi strike anyone as the type that would turn down a chance to be in the maroon or black corral had he really run that time, not a chance!

Irony Killed the Cat wrote: There has been very little to update for at least 3 days. The big winners in this are the Brojos and will remain winners until Mike gets DQ'd which is NEVER or he admits to cheating which is NEVER.

He will never admit cheating but he will likely get DQ'd.

The fact that photographers shot photos nearly every second in the middle of the course and got multiple photos of literally every other runner except Mike is the smoking gun. There's a lot of other stuff that suggests he cheated, and there's a lot of pointless stuff analyzing photos of someone in the background that sorta might look like Mike and other rabbit trails, but the photos prove he didn't run the whole race.

You're all mentioned in my blog and it's had 700 odd views so far so you're kinda famous in the UK now :)

Deadman Running wrote:

This guy represents a lot of what is wrong with this country, society and culture we live in today. .

what this thread represents is far worse.

You all need to admit to yourselves that this torch-and-pitchfork mob is about you, not the guy you're after. It doesn't matter how guilty he is. If not for him, you'd find some other bad person to go after. Witch hunting is a top internet pastime and a serious cultural sickness.

SaraB wrote:

You're all mentioned in my blog and it's had 700 odd views so far so you're kinda famous in the UK now :)

I googled "Mike Rossi" with the "past 24 hours" filter and your blog came up. Excellent summary.

If someone just skims this LRC thread, it'd be hard to discern the real cheating evidence from the noise, but your blog does a great job laying it out.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Deadman Running wrote:

This guy represents a lot of what is wrong with this country, society and culture we live in today. .

what this thread represents is far worse.

You all need to admit to yourselves that this torch-and-pitchfork mob is about you, not the guy you're after. It doesn't matter how guilty he is. If not for him, you'd find some other bad person to go after. Witch hunting is a top internet pastime and a serious cultural sickness.

You may be right. But witch hunting wins over attention whoring this time.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Deadman Running wrote:

This guy represents a lot of what is wrong with this country, society and culture we live in today. .

what this thread represents is far worse.

You all need to admit to yourselves that this torch-and-pitchfork mob is about you, not the guy you're after. It doesn't matter how guilty he is. If not for him, you'd find some other bad person to go after. Witch hunting is a top internet pastime and a serious cultural sickness.

So... does that mean that your condemning of the mob is not about the mob, it's about you?

Bad Wigins wrote:

Deadman Running wrote:

This guy represents a lot of what is wrong with this country, society and culture we live in today. .

what this thread represents is far worse.

You all need to admit to yourselves that this torch-and-pitchfork mob is about you, not the guy you're after. It doesn't matter how guilty he is. If not for him, you'd find some other bad person to go after. Witch hunting is a top internet pastime and a serious cultural sickness.

Bad Wigins, a self-righteous prick and hypocrite.