Robert Young fakes run across America

rojo wrote:

He said they mainly track him by driving ahead and waiting for him but also at times hide guys on the side so it's not predictable.

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This made me spit out my coffee. I love how ridiculous this whole thing is. They get a team of guys to go down there and watch him, but they don't even watch him, instead they would rather drive ahead and wait? Priceless. When driving slowly is too much work over just sitting, you can't make this stuff up.

Respect for Laz!

But can someone verify this?

Robert (Rob) Young is Marathon Man UK. You may have heard of Rob – the man (and his incredible on-going feat of super-human endurance) is thankfully becoming better known by the day. Rob has been featured on TV several times, on the Mail Online website, in a feature in The Times newspaper (and several other nationals). Rob has met Richard Branson (whose Virgin Trains business is sponsoring Rob’s train travel to distant marathons). Rob’s supporters include major sporting figures (not least from the world of running and endurance running – including Mo Farah, Paula Radcliffe and world ultra-marathon champion Dean Karnazes). Prominent figures from rugby union support Rob (including the All Blacks, Harlequins, and Martin Bayfield). The band Coldplay has donated their music free of charge to Rob’s Marathon Man UK website.

LR is bad for athletics wrote:

If you were on record pace 2/3 across the country, you would hand all your date over to a well known psychopath who wants nothing better than to destroy all you've worked for. BS, no you wouldn't. You're just trying to destroy what he's doing, and they're right to not even talk to you.

rob could just link a public strava account to his tomtom account and let everyone see the data. Nobody could alter or destroy it. It would take a minute or two, max. So your objection holds no water.

Weight wait wrote:

He writes for a living, yet can't spell 'wait'?

It's intentional. KInda like the use of "moran" to insult someone online.

Markus wrote:

Shadowhawk Flashlights wrote:

We at Shadowhawk are looking to find Robert to offer him full Flashlight Sponsorship to help him in this amazing quest.

Please have his people contact us -

https://shadowhawkflashlights.com/ss1/index.php?AFID=12&SID=GS

As an added benefit, with out superior lighting technology, it will be easier for him to read his multiple Garmin watches, and to upload his data onto the internet to hush the naysayers. Also, this light will temporarily blind anyone who attempts to run with him.

I hope Asher Delmott gets one of these so he can find Robert at night next time.

That would be good. I was using this when I ran up from behind

The data has been uploaded from his watch to his TomTom sports account. No one needs to touch the watches.

Get someone there with a video (from a phone) to log into his TomTom account (he has already uploaded the data) click on the suspect sections one by one. This will then bring up a map showing where he ran, his splits (if he has auto-miles turned on) and his cadence.

This is all that needs doing. You don't need to fly a Strava employee out there or touch his watch.

Professor Run wrote:

what has beein uncovered so far in terms of his financial affairs?

How much raised and given to which charities?

Racergirl looked into this on the British side and said it looked legit for the British charities. Go to the letsrun main forum page and do a search for the last 3 days for "racergirl." You should find her post.

Tab wrote:

Nice.

Is rojo kicking in any $$ to help defray your costs? Do you know if any of the LRC keyboard jockey brigade has kicked in $$?

I asked them if they needed more money and they said they hadn't spent what they raised yet. Still al ong way to go though.

RYinvestigator wrote:

Rob's Flybys have received a message asking if they saw him running.

No response yet.

Unfortunately, it looks like he was moving at walking pace past all of the fly-bys so it's most likely that they saw him walking along with the RV.

Watch experts, I need your help. I just got an email from someone here it is.

Here was an excerpt of my reply.

I don't know much about these watches. Many questions.

1) Would the TomTom site show cadence?

2) Is it possible to doctor with TomTom data?

3) Can't one just sync from Tom tom to strava?

4) What does Strava show that TomTom doesnt.

I'd be happy to pay for TomTom to fly out if that would solve this.

I just don't know what we need from the watches. I have emailed a contact that does PR for Strava to see if they'd be willing to fly out to sync the data. What do you guys think is the best option?

Also, if anyone has the CO photos, please email me

rojo wrote:

Watch experts, I need your help. I just got an email from someone here it is.

rojo - with all this talk of offering money, flying people out, etc. Why doesn't LRC assemble a group to wait in NYC, at times square, with a fat check in hand to trade to the RY team for the ability to look through/video the data when the RV pulls up?

1. TomTom automatically shows cadence

2. I don't know how to - the watch is pretty dumb, you need to upload it to see your splits during a run for example.

3. Yes, 1 click, on the Apps section

4. No idea, Strava isn't really needed just look at the TomTom sports page after clicking on each suspect section

Fly DC Rainmaker in from Paris. He is a neutral third party who can be trusted to make sure the data is transferred properly without being tampered with. And the best part is that when he sees the data he can expose Rob in his blog, which is likely read by many of Rob's disciples.

Vanessa and robert (shacky) her husband are in on it. Lots of links between these people. Get a pencil and follow along and get ready to have your mind blown by the level of grifter and mentally ill you're about to read, which is a small portion of the story.

Vanessa and Shacky are in on this scam. As are the 2 american charities which are fake charities. The "Race Across The Usa" RY "won" last year is put on by one of the fake anerican charities he is now "running for".

The American charities are run by RY's pals. He claims he is running for charity. People donate to the "charities" which are actually RY's pals. The money "for the children" goes to RY's pals, the y split the money "for the children".

Anerican charity 1: 100 mile club. Run by kara lubin. Who put on the "Race Across The USA" last year that RY conveniently won. It is possible that is when this current scam was hatched. Fake charity. It is "to bring awareness of childhood obesity and get kids to move at least 100 miles per year." (For the children)! Their founder is 50 lbs overweight making people "aware" of childhood obesity as she uses donations not needed to encourage kids to move that doesn't require money to fly around the country and selfie. The excuse for her using funds for her living expenses and luxury travel to try to ingratiate herself to people she perceives as the run community is she needs to set up new chapters of the "club". A few others involved in this fake are Vanessa and Shacky who gave up their non jobs for years to "crew" the "Race Across The Usa" runners last year. Vanessa is a successful author. So much so that she sets up go fund me accounts for gas money during the fake "Race across the Usa" (for the children)! Others part of this fake, the aforementioned by others Alex Ramsey, Jup Brown, (he needs your money for a go fund me for a flight home after taking time off his not having a job and doing the fake "Race Across the Usa" last year for the fake 100 mile club charity for the children! last year), and Patrick Sweeny among others.

Fake American charity 2 on this one scam. Tyler Robinson Foundation. The same charity Lisa Smith Batchen (mentally ill and has paid her bills her whole life by scams such as the fake badwater quad she never ran among others), was going to do her transcon for this year "for the children"! Until she got caught on her transcon a less than a week in. Oops, I mean had a "medical emergency." So brave. Here's some more reality for you: Lisa originally claimed she was doing her (fake), transcon this year for a legitimate charity, except they didn't know she was using their name. She gave interviews they were partners. They had no idea. That is the level of crazy here. She was setting up a website using their logo but directing to external donation site (her, even though that legitimate charity has huge legal and legitimate full time dedicated fundraising departments). The legitimate charity got tipped off. Ready for more crazy? Lisa went into panic mode and flew unannounced to their headquarters across the country sure she could manipulate them into letting her use their name. She'd already given interviews they were partners. They gave her a tour and got her out of there. They told her no. She continued to try to use their name even after that, (people in the usa are well aware of her mental illness, faked runs, she needed a charity to try to legitimize her fake transcon). Legitimate charity stopped her, after she kept trying to attach her name to theirs well after they her no. At that point she started her posts about "God testing her" on her facebook page (run the nation with lisa smith batchen), soon after, (because they wouldn't let her use a fake run with no gps and no tracking of donation dollars going to her under her name and once they figured out her mental illness that is "God testing her"). Enter Lisa's high school pal jimmy place of chicago who fancies himself quite a media mogul with his production company no one legitimate has ever heard of who volunteers for "tyler robinson foundation" to get them to let Lisa use their name (the new cause she is "passionate about" in days), to try to make her transcon look legitimate. She got caught in less than a week on the road. Now RY's biggest supporter until yesterday when she tried to put some distance, (no we aren't affiliated so we can set up our next scam).

Lots of other grifters and other fake charities as a smokescreen tied to the same core group of people. This is how these people make a living (and destroy the sport). Also, quite possible vanessa couldn't keep up with a hobby jogger even on a bike, she is a larger lady.

Here you all guy. I'm sure you can figure out which one is me.

RYinvestigator wrote:

Bluemt95 wrote:

Maybe I'll email Rojo my pics.

Just use

http://www.imgur.com

Very easy.

DMulvee wrote:

The data has been uploaded from his watch to his TomTom sports account. No one needs to touch the watches.

Get someone there with a video (from a phone) to log into his TomTom account (he has already uploaded the data) click on the suspect sections one by one. This will then bring up a map showing where he ran, his splits (if he has auto-miles turned on) and his cadence.

This is all that needs doing. You don't need to fly a Strava employee out there or touch his watch.

Thanks for explaining it. I still thing having a Strava employee fly out would help.

So he's got proof he ran but won't share it? He's either an amazing PR man (hold it until the end) or an utter fraud.

One last tech question, do you think the TomTom data would make it clear ot everyone one way or the other as to whether he cheated or not?

rojo wrote:

Tab wrote:

Nice.

Is rojo kicking in any $$ to help defray your costs? Do you know if any of the LRC keyboard jockey brigade has kicked in $$?

I asked them if they needed more money and they said they hadn't spent what they raised yet. Still al ong way to go though.

Thanks for the response.

I kicked in $50 last night.

This is seriously the best person we could come up with?

They don't even ride with or behind him? You've got to be kidding.

They are advising RY not to give over the GPS data.

SMH

The kind your mama likes....