Robert Young fakes run across America

Does the Limey have a work visa?

rules is rules wrote:

Can I suggest that for every person who has written a bad comment that you pledge to donate $1.00 if Rob succeeds in this challenge and to double it if he is proven to have done it without cheating.

I'll pledge to donate $1.00 for his data regardless of whether he succeeds or has cheated.

Deal?

Racergirl wrote:

A recap:

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Nice recap Racergirl. this could be used as the basis for a front page story here.

Bob:

I concur, but didn't want to bring up timed events since distance events seem to be best understood by the LetsRun crowd.

writer of bad comments wrote:

rules is rules wrote:

Can I suggest that for every person who has written a bad comment that you pledge to donate $1.00 if Rob succeeds in this challenge and to double it if he is proven to have done it without cheating.

I'll pledge to donate $1.00 for his data regardless of whether he succeeds or has cheated.

Deal?

^^^^

This, the comments in here are becoming disgusting, his childhood or personal life/past have nothing to do with his sporting claims or achievements.

Metric running dude wrote:

I like to record all my runs in Centimeters instead of a Meters. Is it wrong if i don't tell people up front when I quote my fastest times?

I suggest reporting your "5k PR" for 5000 yards. Much more subtle.

He still needs to finish at a coastal city according to his website. Even if he can change his plan from the announced finish at Times Square, given his current location what is the closest coastal city that could be considered a finish. The distance to that location is the minimum he still needs to cover.

In fairness we did all think, as soon as this broke, he was about feign some injury so he could quit. But he's carried on. Plus there are two crews on the ground now and both are reporting openness and willingness to be scrutinised.

2 x claim wrote:

sasquatch wrote:

Um, isn't multi-day running his claim to fame?

Almost. His claim to multi-day running is his claim to fame.

The art of the left handed compliment is lost to Letsrun.

RobsMom wrote:

rules is rules wrote:

As far as "The Kids" go, this really gets my goat and I'm not going to have a rant but i'm going to point a few things out.

Hi CoachKev!

Tell us a bit about little Olivia, please.

http://imgur.com/a/HQczs

there is no fvcking need for stuff like this is there

So if he needs 58 a day but is doing 50 a day then after 7 days he'll be short 56 over the daily 58 with 6 days left. So he would need 6 days of 67 to do it.

If he can he should try:

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At some point he has to either go for the record or the finish

writer of bad comments wrote:

rules is rules wrote:

Can I suggest that for every person who has written a bad comment that you pledge to donate $1.00 if Rob succeeds in this challenge and to double it if he is proven to have done it without cheating.

I'll pledge to donate $1.00 for his data regardless of whether he succeeds or has cheated.

Deal?

I think pretty much everyone on this thread would be willing to donate $1 if Rob succeeds, and $1,000,000 if he can prove he didn't cheat.

Patience and planning wrote:

So thanks to Asher, 113, team1.klm, The day the RV broke down, Just finished a 64 mile run, Markus, noobrunner, rhizomes, and Real Laz. I apologize if I forgot anyone else who has been "doing the math". You are all doing an impressive job of keeping Rob's feet to the fire.

+100

It's impressive to see the collection of skills it takes to call out this guy.

thank you.

rules is rules wrote:

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Another long ad hominem attack about those raising questions. Yawn.

Just post the data.

rojo wrote:

I don't agree that the crew "has been very open". Release the watch files.

rojo,

Quick summary on the watch files...

TomTom users with experience can correct me if I'm wrong, but the TomTom files are synced or uploaded to the TomTom website. I think it's called "MySports." From there you can export the files as .tcx, .kml, .gpx, and .fit (https://www.tomtom.com/en_us/mytomtom/mysports/). You can also publish them to strava using TomTom GPS Watch to MySports Connect (https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918027-Automatically-uploading-to-Strava-from-your-TomTom-device).

As far as what he HAS shared, there are a number of screenshots from Firefox open to his MySports profile. Each entry has the start time, the miles run, the pace, and a small thumbnail map of the route. We have been able to link up most of the thumbnails to his route and cross-reference those with the GPS tracker (which seems to almost always been in the RV).

There are many inconsistencies, but a few here have focused on the May 18 day in which the RV got stuck in the sand. I'm not sure if you saw these graphics that summarize some of what we know about that day:(http://imgur.com/zjXpAoP) and this one (http://i.imgur.com/HdyOwyd.jpg). They need some more updates because we have deduced more since those were made.

At this point, even a screenshot of that thumbnail for the 21.97 segment entering Laughlin would be helpful. You can doctor gpx files and upload them to the TomTom MySports website, but it would still be helpful to see what route is claimed because the timeline supports either 1) 22 miles straight across the Mohave wilderness unsupported in 80 degree temps under full sun, 2) 14 miles along the Hwy are "missing", or 3) There's a third segment for 14 miles which were run in less than an hour. Even if they doctor the data, it would be good to make official what their claim is. I also recognize they can (and should) read this before making their official claim but wth, here we are on an anonymous message board :-)

Note that he wasn't too knackered when he got to Laughlin not to play roulette and sit by the pool...

Patience and planning wrote:

I think pretty much everyone on this thread would be willing to donate $1 if Rob succeeds, and $1,000,000 if he can prove he didn't cheat.

Not me.

a. unlike everyone else on this board, I don't actually have $1,000,000.

b. I'm pretty sure he cheated, but not $1,000,000 sure.

RobsMom wrote:

rules is rules wrote:

As far as "The Kids" go, this really gets my goat and I'm not going to have a rant but i'm going to point a few things out.

Hi CoachKev!

Tell us a bit about little Olivia, please.

http://imgur.com/a/HQczs

I think Rob rode in the RV, but please don't drag the family in this, even if it's in his book.

CoachKev please disregard that comment.

Breer, I'm from Iowa wrote:

He still needs to finish at a coastal city according to his website. Even if he can change his plan from the announced finish at Times Square, given his current location what is the closest coastal city that could be considered a finish. The distance to that location is the minimum he still needs to cover.

There's nowhere he can run to that is closer than NYC that will count. From his own website: "Any two coastal cities may be chosen as long as their distance apart exceeds the 2,766 miles from Los Angeles to New York."

Since he started in L.A., any new city he chose would have to be farther away than L.A.

All of that business he was talking about in that Facebook video re: running 3,000 miles or 3,1000 miles or whatever is just nonsense and has nothing to do with the actual record attempt. It's pretty typical of how they've responded to every question: change the subject to something unrelated and more complicated.

He can save about 5 miles going to Atlantic City instead of NYC. Not worth the trade off