Did Mike Rossi (viral marathon dad) cheat his way into Boston?

I currently have two class action lawsuits pending for missing chalk and unwaxed bowling lanes.

Please contact me immediately if you or someone you has been harmed by missing chalk or unwaxed bowling lanes.

Please tell me you didn't sue a RD for this? A marathon is not all buffet for hobby joggers. What's next for you? Suing because the medal wasn't big enough.

I'm with you, brother. I once sued a race for not having enough porta-potties.

Wronged runners unite!!!!!

Look look, they are trying to make this about Greg! Jokesters!

Lawsuits>boycott wrote:

I currently have two class action lawsuits pending for missing chalk and unwaxed bowling lanes.

Please contact me immediately if you or someone you has been harmed by missing chalk or unwaxed bowling lanes.

Did you hear the story about about how Cowboys Stadium sold tickets to the Superbowl and they weren't ready yet. And now the fans who didn't see the game are suing them for a lot of money?

People come from all over the country to run a marathon. And especially Boston. Lots of people never even got accepted to run Boston. And then to find out that you may have missed it because some guy cheated? And to add insult to injury, there is proof he cheated but because the race didn't provide mats or a video guy they are letting the photographic evidence slip by as "non-conclusive"?

You really don't think anybody outside of Allentown is mad about this?

This is charity and their fundraising documents are public record. I would love to see how much money they received in donations and how much went out towards catching cheaters.

Registration fees come with expectation by those paying them. And Via failed miserably in meeting those expectations.

LoserMikeRossi wrote:

You really don't think anybody outside of Allentown is mad about this?

Actually, I don't care.

And your username is lame.

Please don't sue me!

What's Wrong with America? wrote:

Please tell me you didn't sue a RD for this? A marathon is not all buffet for hobby joggers.

What is wrong with you? Dude, they provided no water for 12 miles for a marathon in Texas on a hot day! Two freaking years in a row! I didn't complain about not getting a box of donuts at the end of a 5K, they made the race dangerous for half the field. You might be running with a fuel belt and you don't care about amenities like water but I don't and I rely on water stops, especially when the race literature says there are water stops every 1.5 miles and the RD himself verbally confirms face to face a month before the event that the water stop situation from previous year had been improved. When it doesn't happen and when you ask the RD for a balance sheet of financials, trying to see where the money went as it sure as hell wasn't on water, as he claims he is a 501(c) non-profit and you get radio silence I tend to get miffed.

BTW I'm no "hobby jogger", whatever the hell that means or implies.

What I think is really interesting is that, in all of his public statements, he has never been recorded in text or on video saying something like "I RAN all 26.2 miles of the 2014 Marathon in three hours and eleven minutes." He makes statements like saying "I have not been convicted of cheating" to the question, "did you cheat?" and then he says things like “The allegation against me that I did not achieve a qualifying time at Lehigh Valley is completely false.”

Notice that he never, ever says something like "I RAN the entire 26.2 mile distance of the Lehigh Valley Marathon in 3:11." Never. If anyone ever accused me of cutting a race course short (in this case by 22ish miles,) I would emphasize the fact that I RAN the entire race course with statements like "I ran the entire 26.2 miles in three hours and eleven minutes."

Mike, you're still young by politician standards. Maybe you should run for office. In that form of "running," taking shortcuts is not only allowed, but expected.

Not a hobby jogger? What are your PRs. We'll determine if you are a hobby jogger.And, by the way, 70 degrees is not hot.

Are you still working on this concernedBQer? If you get that second one done, I'll convert it and upload it on youtube… have some media contacts asking who to credit for the work, friend me through Facebook if you're on Facebook.

Can I just ask when he said "I have not been convicted of cheating"?

ofsaa gold wrote:

Not a hobby jogger? What are your PRs. We'll determine if you are a hobby jogger.

Who's this "we" you're referring to? My PRs have no relevance to anything.

ofsaa gold wrote:

And, by the way, 70 degrees is not hot.

Start time temps were 62 degrees with 84% humidity. 3 hour finish weather was 70 degrees with 70% humidity, 4 hour weather was 77 degrees with 50% humidity. Sounds like perfect marathon weather....NOT.

Your PRs have to do with you denying you are a hobby jogger. The "we" is the non-hobby joggers on LR.Now. Chop-chop. Hurry with those PRs.

GregTR wrote:

ofsaa gold wrote:

Not a hobby jogger? What are your PRs. We'll determine if you are a hobby jogger.

Who's this "we" you're referring to? My PRs have no relevance to anything.

GregTR wrote:

ofsaa gold wrote:

And, by the way, 70 degrees is not hot.

Start time temps were 62 degrees with 84% humidity. 3 hour finish weather was 70 degrees with 70% humidity, 4 hour weather was 77 degrees with 50% humidity. Sounds like perfect marathon weather....NOT.

I don't know why you can't come up with something better than "... NOT!"

It is just embarrassing for anybody older than 4 to be doing this.

Please stop.

So you were out there is 77 degree temperatures. Oh, the humanity. Okay. I changed my mind. You're a wussy hobby jogger.

GregTR wrote:

ofsaa gold wrote:

And, by the way, 70 degrees is not hot.

Start time temps were 62 degrees with 84% humidity. 3 hour finish weather was 70 degrees with 70% humidity, 4 hour weather was 77 degrees with 50% humidity. Sounds like perfect marathon weather....NOT.

ofsaa gold wrote:Your PRs have to do with you denying you are a hobby jogger. The "we" is the non-hobby joggers on LR.

Again, as much as some would like others to believe, this thread is not about me. But if you insist:

IF, and admittedly that is a pretty big "if" that's actually him posting as "I am Rossi," he said in this very thread:

"- I also run races, and have never been convicted of any type of cheating in my running career."

Admittedly, this could be a troll pretending to be him.

Yep. Hobby Jogger with an athlinks login - profile picture and all. Let me guess you are a "Marathon Maniac" too.

GregTR wrote:

ofsaa gold wrote:Your PRs have to do with you denying you are a hobby jogger. The "we" is the non-hobby joggers on LR.

Again, as much as some would like others to believe, this thread is not about me. But if you insist:

http://www.athlinks.com/athletes/68595407