EZPass Mike wrote:
The Scot wrote:tracker just reversed back in direction of airport. Or they could be popping into the auto spare parts shop,
Maybe they are going back to California to start again?
He's about to run past a haunted house and plasma donation place.
stop aiding the cheat wrote:
All we need is a kid with a bike and an iPhone connected to a drone.
Fixed your post
Indy watcher wrote:
Geezers are not entertaining us sufficiently. Hence the need for different boots on the ground.
Boots? What we needs are socks. Did you see those socks on RY? Essentially non-existent. What he needs are the Vibram Five Finger Shoes. All the wacko plodders wear them.
RYinvestigator wrote:
Interesting: Rob Young's supposed 85 mile day during TransCont Run & 540 mile week -
https://imgur.com/pVtOG3f
So let's see. 85 miles, then 70, then 74, then 70 and a game of football, then 75, then 76.
Nothing unusual there. Only thing that stands out is that football game.
I'm still thinking turf toe.
Uups that was just a short stop.
Tracker is on the move again.
Back to 80 mile days with some sightseeing along the way.
It was way more comfy than the last week.
reading is hard wrote:
The geezers just get the job done.
That's not good enough.
No offense, Indianapolis, but:
Discount Quality Vacuums
Generals Sales Barn
At least 3 Cash Advance Stores
A few Salvation Army locations
Multiple fireworks stores
All within a mile or so of Speedy Rob's run this morning. Yeesh.
Cemetery on his left soon
Almost to Karma Records which may be the only records he sniffs this trip
probably been covered, but it is illegal to be a pedestrian on most all interstates. have they been ticketed for this yet, told to move to secondary roads? this is amurica after all.
This is one of the saddest and most depressing parts of Indianapolis.
Indy Gun Bunker right around the corner. Could be handy to have something against those nightly ax wielders.
Bernie&Chet wrote:
probably been covered, but it is illegal to be a pedestrian on most all interstates. have they been ticketed for this yet, told to move to secondary roads? this is amurica after all.
He is too fast. Every time a citizen jaywalking report comes in he has moved to a new policing jurisdiction.
Rob is now passing through one of the happiest and scenic parts of Indianapolis.
GO ROB
RobsMom wrote:
Like it has been mentioned before, his cult will make a martyr of him.
If Rob quits now, he loses his godlike status and become a mere mortal.
The fanboys only accept either the record or his death.
Actually, his cult will deify him as a god, and they already have.
It's his critics that will unintentionally make him a martyr if they interfere. That's why it's good that the ultra guys just observe.
The problem with a mortal achieving immortality in any field is that it's hard to maintain it, whether an athlete, a musician, or whatever. Rob flew too close to the sun on this one and might still survive it and remain immortal to the masses.
RY get up you sonuvabitch cause Mickey loves ya!
Don't give the geezers, American rebels and LRCers the satisfaction.
Roll Brittania. For the kids.
He is definately walking and not running. Did anyone wake up Laz? He could be all the way to Ohio before the wizard arises with his words of Ultra wisdom.
in the final tally,
I am done because I do not want to be party to putting RY in the hospital.
last night, when he did go, was enough.
having seen his physical condition when we left,
I was afraid he might have serious issues.
the "run", for all intents and purposes, is over.
the required daily average, and his maximum daily potential met yesterday.
it was his second 60 mile day while we were here
and, this time it took the entire 24 hours to get it.
the death spiral was complete.
just to stay on pace he had to match yesterday's effort.
with no rest in between.
and he had to do that every day the rest of the run.
that is out of the picture.
looking at the tracker, he has still not moved today.
it is over.
From ulist:
I don't plan to ever write a report about everything I saw
or everything that went on while I was here.
suffice it to say,
that this was not always easy to watch.
this much I will say;
it seems to be a consistent part of this pattern
to make the claims that an individual is somehow "physiologically different" from everyone else.
they are not.
what I saw was the same thing I have seen from multiday runners for decades.
the bright eyed, chipper runner that I first saw last sunday
was reduced to a shambling, hollow eyed, shell.
there were times he was reduced to barely mumbling.
the days he ran his best, were the days he ran the way multi-day runners run.
not the first day, when he tried to blow out those sub-6 minute miles.
like everyone else, he went thru cycles.
during the up times, he moved pretty well.
yesterday was, overall, a really good day.
but, in the final measure, it took all 24 hours to meet the minimum.
and he was wiped out by the effort.
this thing is over.
RY is just a guy, like everyone else.
he looks like a 300 mile 6-day runner.
and that was about what we saw from him while we were out there.
maybe, with good preparation, and a sane strategy, he could run over 350.
having seen how purely tough he is,
I could see him having a shot at 400.
I guess the rest of this saga will play out however it plays out.
but, I gotta say, I found it offensive
seeing the handstand photos and the soccer ball video.
and all that crap early on.
that might have been more of a spur than any of the other stuff
to take a week out of my life,
and spend it on the side of the road.
driving from st Louis to Indianapolis at 2 miles an hour.
if nothing else,
I wanted to see them look like it was a real multiday.
and, for the past 5 days, we got that.
there was not time for anything,
except trying to get miles, or resting to try to get miles.
even driving to a motel a few miles down the road,
was time that was measured, and begrudged,
and often bypassed for the scant minutes saved by sleeping right where they were.
time, the scarcest, of the many scarce resources of the multiday runner.
in the end,
I am sorry I could not write a report about all the good things I found in those guys,
they were open and cooperative.
never made us feel like we were intruders in their show.
they are genuinely nice guys, that I enjoyed getting to know.
and I hope I get to see Robert in some regular multiday races,
where people accept him for who he is,
and he gets to be respected by his peers for the talent and toughness he does have.
laz
Indy watcher wrote:
Bernie&Chet wrote:probably been covered, but it is illegal to be a pedestrian on most all interstates. have they been ticketed for this yet, told to move to secondary roads? this is amurica after all.
He is too fast. Every time a citizen jaywalking report comes in he has moved to a new policing jurisdiction.
Then why aren't the geezers shouting "Citizen's arrest! Citizen's arrest!" at the top of their lungs?
laz quits wrote:
in the final tally,
I am done because I do not want to be party to putting RY in the hospital.
last night, when he did go, was enough.
having seen his physical condition when we left,
I was afraid he might have serious issues.
the "run", for all intents and purposes, is over.
the required daily average, and his maximum daily potential met yesterday.
it was his second 60 mile day while we were here
and, this time it took the entire 24 hours to get it.
the death spiral was complete.
just to stay on pace he had to match yesterday's effort.
with no rest in between.
and he had to do that every day the rest of the run.
that is out of the picture.
looking at the tracker, he has still not moved today.
it is over.
From ulist:
I don't plan to ever write a report about everything I saw
or everything that went on while I was here.
suffice it to say,
that this was not always easy to watch.
this much I will say;
it seems to be a consistent part of this pattern
to make the claims that an individual is somehow "physiologically different" from everyone else.
they are not.
what I saw was the same thing I have seen from multiday runners for decades.
the bright eyed, chipper runner that I first saw last sunday
was reduced to a shambling, hollow eyed, shell.
there were times he was reduced to barely mumbling.
the days he ran his best, were the days he ran the way multi-day runners run.
not the first day, when he tried to blow out those sub-6 minute miles.
like everyone else, he went thru cycles.
during the up times, he moved pretty well.
yesterday was, overall, a really good day.
but, in the final measure, it took all 24 hours to meet the minimum.
and he was wiped out by the effort.
this thing is over.
RY is just a guy, like everyone else.
he looks like a 300 mile 6-day runner.
and that was about what we saw from him while we were out there.
maybe, with good preparation, and a sane strategy, he could run over 350.
having seen how purely tough he is,
I could see him having a shot at 400.
I guess the rest of this saga will play out however it plays out.
but, I gotta say, I found it offensive
seeing the handstand photos and the soccer ball video.
and all that crap early on.
that might have been more of a spur than any of the other stuff
to take a week out of my life,
and spend it on the side of the road.
driving from st Louis to Indianapolis at 2 miles an hour.
if nothing else,
I wanted to see them look like it was a real multiday.
and, for the past 5 days, we got that.
there was not time for anything,
except trying to get miles, or resting to try to get miles.
even driving to a motel a few miles down the road,
was time that was measured, and begrudged,
and often bypassed for the scant minutes saved by sleeping right where they were.
time, the scarcest, of the many scarce resources of the multiday runner.
in the end,
I am sorry I could not write a report about all the good things I found in those guys,
they were open and cooperative.
never made us feel like we were intruders in their show.
they are genuinely nice guys, that I enjoyed getting to know.
and I hope I get to see Robert in some regular multiday races,
where people accept him for who he is,
and he gets to be respected by his peers for the talent and toughness he does have.
laz
So the Geezers quit, Rob now "runs" 70mpd, his FB followers singing his praises "wow Rob incredible comeback you are sooo strong!!!"??