Robert Young fakes run across America

If this is him he had a Soleus GPS watch in 2014

https://www.strava.com/activities/155068378

doubler wrote:

Dragon Runner wrote:

YES, I laughed hard when I saw the video. To see a lone RV driving slowly across the country to mimic the pace of a runner is absolutely hilarious.

But if you want to break a record for running a marathon on a chip tiimed course wearing a hot dog costume, you need video of the whole thing, or independent witnesses (not crew), and pictures at every mile marker.

And you know this , how?

From this article I'm sure: http://www.runnersworld.com/fun/how-to-set-a-guinness-world-record-for-racing-in-costume

Claven wrote:

doubler wrote:

But if you want to break a record for running a marathon on a chip tiimed course wearing a hot dog costume, you need video of the whole thing, or independent witnesses (not crew), and pictures at every mile marker.

And you know this , how?

Looks like his "live tracking" hasn't updated since 10:19 this morning! Been following this thread for a day or so and just realized he's only about 40 or 50 miles from where I live... Is anyone else close by? Any "boots on the ground" around where he's at (Jefferson City, MO)?

CoachKev wrote:

http://ultrakev.blogspot.co.uk/

I will upload some videos of one of the run's I did with Rob when he ran 373 miles without sleep and it has some of the footage of my watch recording him doing sub 7 min pace.

Running sub-7 min pace at the end of his 373-mile run is completely out of character for Rob Young.

At Race Across USA, a fellow participant claimed Rob would start fast (5:00 to 5:30 pace) and then finish jog/walking.

At his only 2 certified marathons, London 2015 and 2016 (one of the fastest flattest marathon courses in the world), he started fast and progressively declined to jog/walking. He didn't run a 5K split in sub-7 pace after 25K (15.5 miles) in his 3:07 London 2015 race or after 10K (6.2 miles) in his London 2016 race. And this was the race that allegedly inspired him to start marathoning in April 2014.

I wonder how Rob was so fresh to run sub-7 pace as he was 350 miles into his 373-mile alleged non-stop, non-sleep WR run?

London 2015 in 3:07

[name]=Young&search[firstname]=Rob&search[sex]=%25&search[nation]=%25&search_sort=name&search_event=MAS

5K splits: 17:31, 19:00, 19:49, 21:28, 21:32, 23:08, 23:54, 31:52

London 2016 in 4:02:06

[name]=Young&search[firstname]=Rob&search[sex]=%25&search[nation]=%25&search_sort=name&search_event=MAS

5K splits: 19:53, 21:24, 22:20, 23:08, 24:35, 26:53, 33:08, 50:34

tonythetriguy wrote:

Looks like his "live tracking" hasn't updated since 10:19 this morning! Been following this thread for a day or so and just realized he's only about 40 or 50 miles from where I live... Is anyone else close by? Any "boots on the ground" around where he's at (Jefferson City, MO)?

Oh my God, this is so awesome.

It's like watching a train wreck, except of course the train is riding inside an RV, doing 10 miles an hour.

curiously interested wrote:

So in summary, Rob claims to have become an instant marathoner. Not only does he claim to run his first three marathons ever all within a 30-hour period of time which included less than 4 hours sleep, but he got progressively FASTER as he did so: 4:07, 3:28, 3:19.

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And over 260 miles in the first week he took up running! And then he just kept going! It's amazing how many people he's gotten to eat this shite up with a smile on their face.

As the Brits like to say, this is "bollocks". Pure rubbish. Rob Young is a scam artist.

When will this man be fully outed? Is RW and SI working on an investigation? Paging doubler!

This is a shame.

One way we can test this is to throw down a spike strip and see if he stops "running" s the RV tires are punctured.

tonythetriguy wrote:

Looks like his "live tracking" hasn't updated since 10:19 this morning! Been following this thread for a day or so and just realized he's only about 40 or 50 miles from where I live... Is anyone else close by? Any "boots on the ground" around where he's at (Jefferson City, MO)?

Wow you're right, but he could be taking a break. He usually runs during the night. I'm not sure how many hours he has been sleeping, or what time zone the tracker is in. Is it in EST or local time?

tonythetriguy wrote:

Looks like his "live tracking" hasn't updated since 10:19 this morning! Been following this thread for a day or so and just realized he's only about 40 or 50 miles from where I live... Is anyone else close by? Any "boots on the ground" around where he's at (Jefferson City, MO)?

Miss being young and single, I'd drive down from Iowa in a heartbeat.

I can imagine how the conversation would go today.

"Honey, I need to drive down to Missouri tonight and follow an RV that's pretending to follow a guy pretending to run across America. Tell the kids good night for me."

Wah Wah wrote:

When will this man be fully outed? Is RW and SI working on an investigation? Paging doubler!

This is a shame.

One way we can test this is to throw down a spike strip and see if he stops "running" s the RV tires are punctured.

We need boots on the ground. Any LRC folks near the race course, hop on your bikes or in your cars and shadow this fraudster. Take photos, upload periscope, etc. Get him.

Can someone post the security camera footage on his FB? I really want to see people try to justify it lol.

Heavyd84 wrote:

tonythetriguy wrote:

Looks like his "live tracking" hasn't updated since 10:19 this morning! Been following this thread for a day or so and just realized he's only about 40 or 50 miles from where I live... Is anyone else close by? Any "boots on the ground" around where he's at (Jefferson City, MO)?

Wow you're right, but he could be taking a break. He usually runs during the night. I'm not sure how many hours he has been sleeping, or what time zone the tracker is in. Is it in EST or local time?

I'm wondering if (knowing their bluff about 'come on out to run with him' is about to get called - perhaps by more than one party) they're dumb enough to drop off the radar, alter their route, and suddenly turn up again many miles further on with a story about how they had to change their plan to avoid getting 'interfered with' by horrible people who refuse to believe in 'Tinkerbell' and could have derailed the entire heroic effort with their 'negativity?'

They must be liberals. If you disagree with them you are in the wrong.

tonythetriguy wrote:

Looks like his "live tracking" hasn't updated since 10:19 this morning! Been following this thread for a day or so and just realized he's only about 40 or 50 miles from where I live... Is anyone else close by? Any "boots on the ground" around where he's at (Jefferson City, MO)?

They are too busy following this thread and on conference calls with their PR firm determining how to best spin this and engage in damage control. Probably going to hire a bunch of millennials to flood positive comments on the boards and social media.

fadffafdsafaf wrote:

Can someone post the security camera footage on his FB? I really want to see people try to justify it lol.

Someone posted it, but they took it down

'notherUlister wrote:

I'm wondering if (knowing their bluff about 'come on out to run with him' is about to get called - perhaps by more than one party) they're dumb enough to drop off the radar, alter their route, and suddenly turn up again many miles further on with a story about how they had to change their plan to avoid getting 'interfered with' by horrible people who refuse to believe in 'Tinkerbell' and could have derailed the entire heroic effort with their 'negativity?'

It'd be great if someone could sneak up and put a gps tracker under that RV.

New to this thread...

I read the first post and watched the videos. I don't really want to wade through 18 pages.

Hard to make out most of the photos and videos, but there appears to be two very clear videos of the RV cruising down the road without anyone running.

Has there been a straight forward answer as to why?