yes, spelling trolls, I know it's MUSTANG....that was a typo.
yes, spelling trolls, I know it's MUSTANG....that was a typo.
When people would find out that I was a distance runner they'd ask me how fast I could run a marathon and it did not matter what I told them as far as time - they would say the same thing "that's pretty fast." So I thought I'd see what they would say to something really fast. "I usually run about 2 hours flat." They would still say "that's pretty fast."
Martin Franklin spent some time in Boulder too.
Not only was he a fraud, he was also a thief.
Courtney,
After recalling my bio-background and educational history, it was my brother, guidance counselor, and Kevin O'Neil that made me realize I had to start a clean image two years ago. As I got tattooed months after that episode and as you saw it at on my bicep at the school gymnasium the day of this past NBHM, the armband design really showed I had to start clean all over, improve my image, andsurprise others that I'm capable which was why, in the last post, you saw the recent results from 2006 into this year.
Anthony Crudale
No one has said Dean K yet?
Dude lies about his times and got people to give him money - thats a true con job.
Regina Jacobs - she took the doping to new highs and cheated other chicks out of $
NY Runner wrote:
No one has said Dean K yet?
No, someone has. He's the king.
Ron Dogsicko wrote:
NY Runner wrote:No one has said Dean K yet?
No, someone has. He's the king.
Oh I skipped the second page.
Agreed. Dean K = end of the thread.
victoria, b.c., canada, runner wrote:
Rosi Ruiz?
I think they were looking for amateur cons/cheats.
Rosie was cheat on a professional scale, it was BOSTON.
In my city we have a 34 year old guy who ran 2:19 at Chicago last year, and the local newspaper have deemed him our next olympic hopeful. They just did a half page spread on his quest for olympic glory. He's even taking a full year off of work to train. I have no quams with the olympic pursuit, but the guy is a little self-obsorbed.
Get this, he's a senior reporter for the same newspaper. Nothing like getting a buddy to do you a favor. "Hey Fred! You wanna write about me and make me look like a god". The article centered around him running the London marathon to get his qualifying time. He dropped out at 13km. Now he is writing a weekly update, in the paper, on his training for the Olympics. It's a lot of self indulgent tripe.
You know, the kind of stuff that goes, "I woke up this morning and could barely walk. The training wears on the mind, body and soul. If it wasn't for all those who believe in me, I don't know if it this would be worth it. Yadda yadda yadda." It's tough to read, but it's like going by an accident scene, I just gotta take a peek.
Don't get me wrong, 2:19 is a good time (20 years ago I could have gotten within an hour of that). But in Canada, to qualify for the olympics you have to run at least in the 2:13-2:14 range. Probably faster. Last time around, we sent no one. Maybe he does have a shot. Personally, I don't think so.
So a guy runs 2:19 while working full-time, decides to take a year off to pursue his dream (which requires an improvement of only 5 or 6 minutes) and he is a con artist? Maybe he won't pull it off, maybe he is a bit full of himself, but he is hardly relevant to the topic of this thread.
any way that someone could direct me to the Moen article? I'm a big fan but didn't know about this most recent happening.
He's a con artist for passing himself off and hyping himself up as a potential Olympian.
Ron Dogsicko wrote:
He's a con artist for passing himself off and hyping himself up as a potential Olympian.
If he is a Canadian, as the previous poster implied, then he actually isn't that far away. Not many Canadians have run faster than 2:19 in the past couple of years.
Courtney,
After recalling my bio-background and educational history, it was my brother, guidance counselor, and Kevin O'Neil that made me realize I had to start a clean image two years ago. As I got tattooed months after that episode and as you saw it at on my bicep at the school gymnasium the day of this past NBHM, the armband design really showed I had to start clean all over, improve my image, andsurprise others that I'm capable which was why, in the last post, you saw the recent results from 2006 into this year.
Anthony Crudale[/quote]
Anthony,
Could you go into a little more depth about what these people are blaming you for. What you have done to correct these problems. And how exactly your tattoo ties all of these things together? What tattoo do you have?
Thanks
Ron Dogsicko wrote:
He's a con artist for passing himself off and hyping himself up as a potential Olympian.
Didn't Brian Sell have a massive improvement from around there to his incredible performance at the last Olympic trials?
His chance might be remote but he's certainly not a con artist for thinking he might be able to do it.
one summer job i had in college at a warehouse, one of the guys there heard that i was a current 'college runner'. He asked what I ran and my best time; I told him the 800m and my pr was 152.3. He then said that he ran in college for a year before quitting to work at the warehouse fulltime and that he ran a 1:51. From that time on, we called him "one-up". It was a pattern with him; what ever you did or had, he'd done it bigger and better. the guy was about 5'9" and about 190 lbs. Didn't even look like a runner, more like a wrestler.
I read the guy's entire message, did you?
Yes I did. That's why I don't understand how you can call him a "con artist". He's no such thing.
William Jurena is a con artist. This guy, based on the post, not so much, regardless of who he works for.
I remember a Senator from Massachusetts claiming that he ran the Boston Marathon, but he couldn't remember which year or what his time was. I don't know what ever happened to that man. Someone told me that he even ran for President.
did he run it? that would be easy enough to verify. I know he was a presenter of awards there, before.