This thread was originally titled, "Incredible development in the $612,000 Transcon Goodge run, currently ongoing" but the new title is more descriptive. The description of the run is here.
Willvlc is really jealous and hates these young guys doing what he never could so he sits behind his keyboard spouting rubbish about heart data and occasionally flys over to Amaerica and still can’t prove any wrong doing so he clutches at straws and thinks he’s doing a huge service to the whole running community when in reality it’s about 10 people on this running board. Boring now. I’m surprised WG doesn’t sue you for defamation of character. Then again seem he is quite busy jet setting around the and seemingly living a good life and helping charities and stuff, probably doesn’t even give you a second though.
The reason why WG doesn't sue Willvlc is easy. He cheated an he knows it. As somebody who has done trans continental running, everything what Will says make sense.
Willvlc is really jealous and hates these young guys doing what he never could so he sits behind his keyboard spouting rubbish about heart data and occasionally flys over to Amaerica and still can’t prove any wrong doing so he clutches at straws and thinks he’s doing a huge service to the whole running community when in reality it’s about 10 people on this running board. Boring now. I’m surprised WG doesn’t sue you for defamation of character. Then again seem he is quite busy jet setting around the and seemingly living a good life and helping charities and stuff, probably doesn’t even give you a second though.
The reason why WG doesn't sue Willvlc is easy. He cheated an he knows it. As somebody who has done trans continental running, everything what Will says make sense.
Correct. If what I was saying is untrue, it would be off the scale on the libel and slander charts - at least 100k each to RB and WG. Probably more. But I'm not an idiot, so got my facts right before going for them.
Two others I've gone for are Andi Rivett and his brother Ivor Lloyd of Jogle infamy. It's all over the internet that their record is fake and they're frauds. But not so much as a whimper from them in 7 years. They just pathetically opine to GWR that I might perhaps have a personal vendetta against Andi, and Lloyd then promised to release the log book to set me straight. [That was 2018].
Exactly the same with WG and RB: they just say I have mental health problems and never got over the death of my mother. And like Rivett promised to release their logbook [Whoop], but never did.
If someone said I was fraudulent when I wasn't, I'd issue them with a C&D in two seconds flat. I'd be outraged that someone would say I faked a major sporting event, when I did it properly. And I'm saying it for them for at least six! What does a C&D cost? About two grand? Worth every cent.
But of course they don't touch me with a barge pole - it would be inviting a full scale nuclear war and their worlds would collapse. Best just to keep shtum and hope I'll go away, which I will. I made my point, and stopped them ever pulling a stunt like this again.
When the likes of Goodge and Balenger do off the books multiday fundraising extravaganza's they're super effective and basically world class, with no mistakes, blow ups or any issues. They basically match noted world class multidayers for quality, but all off a pulse of 105-110 when it should be 130-140. They have done this for around 20,000k over the last 5 years and six events and about 6 different watches.
The funny thing is when they do sanctionned events they're worse than hopeless. Goodge had a horror at MDs, then dropped out of Cali 100 at 60 miles, and now here maybe he would be an hour or so behind Molinaro, but 2:40 behind?! It's so lame.
They both turned pro runners in 2019 off little to no proven ability but market themselves as Ultra gurus and up with the top ultra men in the world. They great supporter Rich Roll describes Goodge as "an absolute beast in ultra." So it's all smoke and mirrors and marketing to con the companies into sponsoring them. And all the fanboys call Goodge the 'Goat' and his speeds as 'mad' and 'insane'.
They can't really be busted for their lies, but they can be outed, and now WG is clearly staying away from the unsanctionned stuff, and just does dreadful efforts in real events. Fine by me, no problem with that. But he does called himself the British record holder for Transcon, and pushes that feat massively in all his marketing, and his second half split was the 7th quickest of all time from the last 100 years. All off a pulse of 105 to 110 and almost unheard of speeds like 9 miles in 80 mins. Even Kostelnick is not getting that.
His defenders say maybe he had a sweaty wrist or a loose watch. But he's always perfect outside these events, as he was of course yesterday.
It's a saga but we're fighting back well and showing we won't let our sport be run over by charlatans looking to make a fast buck. We live in a world of "say anything on the internet, and get the adulation." Pretty gross. Down under we have Aussie Nedd Brockmann claiming he'll run 1,000 miles in 10 days. Totally delusional. But he'll get an awful lot of press and funding for that.
It's amazing how in this world of presumably easier access to information, what we observe are pockets of disinformation and deceit, no different than in the days before radio, phones and TV. You could show up to some town and with some basic skills do a nice con job and be gone before anyone noticed. The townspeople were gullible and in their simpleton minds wouldn't think to question much. The people haven't changed and now reside in social media pockets which the con artists can easily target. Things haven't changed much.
When the likes of Goodge and Balenger do off the books multiday fundraising extravaganza's they're super effective and basically world class, with no mistakes, blow ups or any issues. They basically match noted world class multidayers for quality, but all off a pulse of 105-110 when it should be 130-140. They have done this for around 20,000k over the last 5 years and six events and about 6 different watches.
The funny thing is when they do sanctionned events they're worse than hopeless. Goodge had a horror at MDs, then dropped out of Cali 100 at 60 miles, and now here maybe he would be an hour or so behind Molinaro, but 2:40 behind?! It's so lame.
They both turned pro runners in 2019 off little to no proven ability but market themselves as Ultra gurus and up with the top ultra men in the world. They great supporter Rich Roll describes Goodge as "an absolute beast in ultra." So it's all smoke and mirrors and marketing to con the companies into sponsoring them. And all the fanboys call Goodge the 'Goat' and his speeds as 'mad' and 'insane'.
They can't really be busted for their lies, but they can be outed, and now WG is clearly staying away from the unsanctionned stuff, and just does dreadful efforts in real events. Fine by me, no problem with that. But he does called himself the British record holder for Transcon, and pushes that feat massively in all his marketing, and his second half split was the 7th quickest of all time from the last 100 years. All off a pulse of 105 to 110 and almost unheard of speeds like 9 miles in 80 mins. Even Kostelnick is not getting that.
His defenders say maybe he had a sweaty wrist or a loose watch. But he's always perfect outside these events, as he was of course yesterday.
It's a saga but we're fighting back well and showing we won't let our sport be run over by charlatans looking to make a fast buck. We live in a world of "say anything on the internet, and get the adulation." Pretty gross. Down under we have Aussie Nedd Brockmann claiming he'll run 1,000 miles in 10 days. Totally delusional. But he'll get an awful lot of press and funding for that.
It's amazing how in this world of presumably easier access to information, what we observe are pockets of disinformation and deceit, no different than in the days before radio, phones and TV. You could show up to some town and with some basic skills do a nice con job and be gone before anyone noticed. The townspeople were gullible and in their simpleton minds wouldn't think to question much. The people haven't changed and now reside in social media pockets which the con artists can easily target. Things haven't changed much.
Thanks, neat piece.
The riches on Insta are vast for fantastically little outlay. Where else can you make 100+k p/a for working a 15 hour week? Wonderful way to make a living. And the only currency is followers. Get them two ways: by buying them or spouting b/s.
Nedd is the perfect example. Just today someone has written to my piece, "he'll be raising $ for charity, so does it matter?" Yes. He's disrespecting and cheapening a sport, and an all-time running god, and paving the way for others to do the same. No-one could pull this stuff off with distances people understand like the marathon or the 100k, so they have to go super big, way out of people's - and the media's - scope. Fact is, Hardest Geezer's 351 days is dreadful. It does not take a year to cross a continent. The brilliance is in the marketing. If he had done it in two years, the adulation would be similar... and three... and four. What a great headline: "Man takes 4 years to cross Africa... gets kidnapped, nearly boiled alive twice in a day, stung, bitten by a bee, rained on, sunned on, and caught in sandstorms and nearly gets hit by cars and gets clipped twice by a scooter. Here, buy his book!"
Imo Boddy has recently got lots of publicity for her 3 peaks challenge. No-one has the faintest clue of what a good time is for it, but she's had her day in the Guinness World Record offices. Said she was the world record holder overall, came to pass she was nowhere close. But switched to the female record. It is a rather manufactured event to say the least and any half decent runner would have her - she recently ran 11:49 for the Nice 59k to the leading lady's 7:38.
In a nutshell, the spoils of runfluencing don't go to the quickest, but who barks the loudest. And no-one barks louder than WG, PJ and Nedd.
I think that the reason we couldn't see page 196 was that the first few posts on it had been deleted. Must be a bug in the site, but worth knowing about in case it happens again. Presumably once I posted, it just reset.
Things seem pretty quiet on the dodgy running front at the moment- we need someone to announce something ridiculous.
Things seem pretty quiet on the dodgy running front at the moment- we need someone to announce something ridiculous.
someone already has.
Ned Brockman will be running 1000 miles in 10 days around an athletics track. I think it’s happening early October.
Yep and the gushing media plaudits are now incoming. The Sydney Morning Herald have done a huge feature with NB on the cover, saying how Australia has fallen in love with him. All for boasting he'll do something clearly impossible.
Nedd is doing some serious distance in training - I think he'll do well, but not the 1000. I do however see that Hardest Geezer Russ Cook has conveniently found a back injury the day he was meant to do the first serious distance of his "Please Give Me Free Soccer Tickets Tour"...
Nedd is doing some serious distance in training - I think he'll do well, but not the 1000. I do however see that Hardest Geezer Russ Cook has conveniently found a back injury the day he was meant to do the first serious distance of his "Please Give Me Free Soccer Tickets Tour"...
How...unsurprising.
Yep, 500k in 4 days would have been a funky little romp, but no steps taken. Boooooo.
Nedd is running well. I think something's lit a fire under him...
a massive fake session put on Strava by WG. Really shameless stuff. He fully admits he flunked in a big Insta video and yet transcribes it from excel as he hoped to do it. 20x400 all with perfect 45 second recoveries. It's a perfect insight into what's going on here for the last 5 years.
This email sent to his sidekick Balenger, who as ever was glued to his side, and Strava customer support copied in:
Robbie WG has put up a fake session from your 20 x 400. There's no way in the world he could have done that off 45 sec recs, you know it, he knows it. He even admits it in his notes, and now the Insta video is up of him blowing after about 5 reps. As he's clearly just transcribed the session in from excel - which has always been a grave fear for much of his running - we have no way of knowing what the recoveries really were. Perhaps they even went above 90 once or twice. Please ask him to just put the proper session up there. We are not going to stop challenging you guys if you keep faking your runs to get endorsements, glory, kudos and to make a living from the sport. It's a crime against our noble pursuit of running, and fraud, and it's got to stop. If you had any excuses for any of this you would give them, but you and all your crowd simply resort to disgusting insults. Why can't you all just play it straight? W
He will have programmed 45 second rest into his watch you wet wipe, you can't change the rest period once you've started the workout, probably why he's put it in the notes on his Strava and mentioned it on Instagram, hardly shameless, fake or transcribed from Excel.
Clutching at straws as usual, about time you admitted to yourself you've got nothing but a personal vendetta against this guy.
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