No regrets at all about pushing the panic button on this. It shook the apple from the tree and got them to finally engage. If not for me, no-one would have confirmation all the funds made it. Many of us have asked for nearly a year, "where are the press releases?" "Who got what?" And all we got was arrogant, dismissive, hateful silence. We ask American Cancer, they were totally bemused. They seemed to have no sort of relationship with him at all. Finally after a week long search they came back with 7k. Only then did the team pipe up and make the correction. It doesn't need to be all like this. Treating an entire community with contempt.
The far greater issue though is how the influencers are poisoning the sport for their own personal gain, and grabbing all the endorsement money from the far more deserving. And Balenger and Goodge do all their challenges without a human pulse. Sneakers' outrageous claim and pathetic defence is that we don't know how to read data. It's only them who run like this, always glued to each other's side.
More than happy to down tools on this disgusting business because although I've lost some battles, I've won the war. And the war is that Goodge and Balenger can never again do a huge multiday fundraiser to earn them huge publicity and personal gain. It's gone, that route's cut off. WG's stuck in a nightmarish no man's land of having to do real ultras [see the horror of the Cali 100 or the pathetic MDS, or the upcoming Moab 250 - good luck with that.] Or derisory 2.57/8 marathons, or the bonkers, cultish Speed project which is so cloak and dagger that it even pisses off WG.
We're there. I am so glad the charity funds made it [give or take some oddities] and all have been appraised who I alerted when American Cancer said 7k.
If they release a good Whoop showing that the missing 4 hours from May 22 was an anomaly that would be great. But they won't.
There are two things we know, and that are cold hard fact: No one in history has returned the data of the likes of WG and RB, and no-one ever will again.
Cheating in endurance sport is a massive issue and extremely dangerous and damaging on so many levels. We will not stand for it, and Sneakers your solo support of WG and RB, whilst loyal, is not going to cut it. The truth will out, and as noted elsewhere, it already has. I'm preaching to the converted.