Video Highlights 2015 Boston Marathon
April 20, 2015
ofsaa gold wrote:
Yep. Hobby Jogger with an athlinks login - profile picture and all. Let me guess you are a "Marathon Maniac" too.
It is what it is... So, just out of curiosity, what would you consider not a hobby jogger? You know... for future reference. Something to aspire to in case I ever decide to do something with my life.
GregTR wrote:
So, just out of curiosity, what would you consider not a hobby jogger? You know... for future reference. Something to aspire to in case I ever decide to do something with my life.
Never mind. I found this 6 page circle jerk with no concrete answer.
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4435447Somehow I doubt you're smarter than any of the elitist pricks who partook in that thread. But more importantly I also doubt your definition would be any more relevant.
Thanks for yanking my chain. Good times!
We really have to look at this from a positive perspective. Rossi actually did everyone a huge favor. He gave us the outline on how to cheat and how to answer any allegations of cheating.
Q. Your history shows you could never run this fast.
A. I just never tried very hard before. But once I did try I was en fuego.
Q. There are no photographs of you on the course.
A. You need to hire better photographers next year, because I was there and they missed me.
Q. Everything thinks you left the course and drove to the finish.
A. Did anybody see me leave or driving in my car? Pictures or it didn't happen, man.
Q. You have been caught so maybe you should just confess.
A. You should just talk to my attorney so he can milk your charity dry as you pay your attorneys $500 an hour.
BQ'S FOR EVERYONE - SEPTEMBER 13, 2015.
You see, it's all how you spin it. Now who wants a ride to the finish line for $40. I'm renting a 22 person limo bus for the day. YEEHAW!!!
We really have to look at this from a positive perspective. Rossi actually did everyone a huge favor. He gave us the outline on how to cheat and how to answer any allegations of cheating.
Q. Your history shows you could never run this fast.
A. I just never tried very hard before. But once I did try I was en fuego.
Q. There are no photographs of you on the course.
A. You need to hire better photographers next year, because I was there and they missed me.
Q. Everything thinks you left the course and drove to the finish.
A. Did anybody see me leave or driving in my car? Pictures or it didn't happen, man.
Q. You have been caught so maybe you should just confess.
A. You should just talk to my attorney so he can milk your charity dry as you pay your attorneys $500 an hour.
BQ'S FOR EVERYONE - SEPTEMBER 13, 2015.
You see, it's all how you spin it. Now who wants a ride to the finish line for $40. I'm renting a 22 person limo bus for the day. YEEHAW!!!
You really need to check yourself before you make affirmative statements and then say "IF" when you are later called out.
UseofWords wrote:
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?"...
Followed by
UseofWords wrote:
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.
Moreover, this statement was clearly not attributable to Mike Rossi. You either failed to read a response to the same question you posed here again or are just being sloppy in quoting his "public" statements.
did you see what he did? wrote:
Just a question wrote:If this really is Mike Rossi, can you just answer one honest question? What's behind this choice of words?
"- I also run races, and have never been convicted of any type of cheating in my running career. "
instead of
"- I also run races and have never cheated in any way in my running career,"
or
"- I also run races and have never committed any type of cheating in my running career."
Did you see how he crafted his statement to mirror what any of the fervent people on this thread could say of themselves?
Unless any of the people here have been convicted of cheating, then is applies to the widest net of people while being true of himself - it is a fact that he has not been convicted of cheating by any sanctioning body. There is no dispute there.
Yet there is no yet a consensus among all parties involved that he did cheat. So it is not a "fact."
If I hadn't called you out then you would have never learned that what you said, more specifically the source of what you stated, was false. Regardless of your stance, you should recognize this is not acceptable.
Oh and please reread the post and ask yourself if this sounds like a troll or not. Seriously.
I am Rossi wrote:
abingtonrunner2 wrote:He was not found to be innocent. The statement was non-committal. If the Committee believed that he was innocent they would have said so. Their statement left him hanging in a lot of respects. While the simple minded person may incorrectly infer that the statement implies he is innocent or did run the race, the statement does not say that. In addition, an as aside, when in the court of law there is a finding of "Not Guilty" that too is does not mean nor is it the same as "Innocent". They are two separate findings and have distinct differences.
Here are the facts:
- A woman in a position of authority made a decision that I did not agree with and provided a neutral statement explaining her reasoning.
- Subsequently, I took to facebook and explained why I disagreed with her and how it offended my ideas of justice.
- Many other people joined my crusade, some going so far as to inundate said woman in a position of authority with emails and other nonsense.
- I also run races, and have never been convicted of any type of cheating in my running career.
- In the passing weeks, I have spent days on end posting on running forums and pointing out why other people are wrong while having to defend myself against accusations of stupidity.
The only difference between you and me?
I make this look GOOOD!
making it look good wrote:
GregTR wrote:Nope. They're from:
1) Supporters who legitimately think Rossi did not cheat
2) People who hate the posters who spent way too much time thinking/talking/posting/linking about Rossi
3) People who just like to argue for the sake of arguing
4) Trolls who try to keep the thread going
5) Occasionally Mike Rossi himself will chime in with some drivel too.
It is hard to differentiate between the different people and their motives. Those who stick with a reserved username are easier to figure out after they make some blatantly BS statement that even Mike Rossi himself would not make so Poe's Law no longer applies to them.
But others are pretty crafty and make it close to impossible whether we're really dealing with Mike Rossi or someone who posts like Mike Rossi would with the addition of berating other users and succumbing to name calling. Maybe Mike Rossi himself does that too, I don't know, it's hard to tell.
6) a self-confessed idiot who has just enough control of the English language to devise silly posts which simultaneously insult and/or mock both the fervent posters and more importantly Mike himself.
The second half of the quote is screwed up.
The point was that I am Rossi is clearly a troll and is even outing himself
6) a self-confessed idiot who has just enough control of the English language to devise silly posts which simultaneously insult and/or mock both the fervent posters and more importantly Mike himself.
check yourself wrote:
The second half of the quote is screwed up.
The point was that I am Rossi is clearly a troll and is even outing himself
6) a self-confessed idiot who has just enough control of the English language to devise silly posts which simultaneously insult and/or mock both the fervent posters and more importantly Mike himself.
I am no troll. But if I were . . .
I'd be one SEXY troll. Can you dig it?
Some of my friends actually signed that Pat Huffman petition but I always thought there was something a little "off." Then I saw the trumpeting of her 1:40:46 age group win at Garden Spot Half Marathon in 2014.
Race result:
http://www.novatimingsystems.com/pretzelcity/personal_results.aspx?id=683940
Did she cheat? Let's look at the pics...
http://www.racephotonetwork.com/QPPlus/SearchBibNumber.aspx?_AccountNumber=2770&_EventID=1491361
Roll 00003 Frames 0298-0299 are her searchable finisher pics, to show us what she's wearing
Roll 00006 Frame 0513 Starting just ahead of the 3:30 marathon pacers, near the woman who finished immediately in front of her (#190, tri suit and tattoo)
Roll 00007 Frames 0618-0620 Not even 1 mile in, fastest finish near her is 1:50 (177) and she's not far ahead of the 1:55 pacers
Roll 00014 Frame 1305 Near the 4 mile mark... nearby runner 76 finished in 2:04, 336 finished in 2:06
Roll 00024 Frame 2373 Crossing the finish triumphantly at 1:40:45
Course has a long out and back leg...anyone think she turned around early?
DQ wrote:
Dunno if it's legit but on p. 2 of the article, the RD reverses the DQ because the runner and others presented evidence that she did cross the start line.
Just like there was usually photo/video evidence of Kip Litton crossing the start line. There's more to this one, I'm sure.
Can you stop with all the hobby jogger stuff. Unless you get paid to run as a profession it's a hobby so get over yourselves.
That's very impressive time, so I want to watch his whole run to make sure he did it all by himself
Marlena wrote:
That's very impressive time, so I want to watch his whole run to make sure he did it all by himself
Right? I will give him a year to get healthy and train and if he can pull off a 3:11 on that course I will pay his entry fee to any marathon he wants for a whole year.
tremendousmachine wrote:
Some of my friends actually signed that Pat Huffman petition but I always thought there was something a little "off." Then I saw the trumpeting of her 1:40:46 age group win at Garden Spot Half Marathon in 2014.
Race result:
http://www.novatimingsystems.com/pretzelcity/personal_results.aspx?id=683940Did she cheat? Let's look at the pics...
http://www.racephotonetwork.com/QPPlus/SearchBibNumber.aspx?_AccountNumber=2770&_EventID=1491361Roll 00003 Frames 0298-0299 are her searchable finisher pics, to show us what she's wearing
Roll 00006 Frame 0513 Starting just ahead of the 3:30 marathon pacers, near the woman who finished immediately in front of her (#190, tri suit and tattoo)
Roll 00007 Frames 0618-0620 Not even 1 mile in, fastest finish near her is 1:50 (177) and she's not far ahead of the 1:55 pacers
Roll 00014 Frame 1305 Near the 4 mile mark... nearby runner 76 finished in 2:04, 336 finished in 2:06
Roll 00024 Frame 2373 Crossing the finish triumphantly at 1:40:45
Course has a long out and back leg...anyone think she turned around early?
I can't believe they reversed their decision there is no way in hell she ran 1:31, she has way too many results around 2 hours. This is a huge outlier. I think she cut somewhere on the course. We should be focusing more on this as she's stealing an award from someone.
I've done a Rossi update on my blog? http://sarahbw80.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/mike-rossi-investigation-lives-on.html
Huffman Cheated wrote:
I can't believe they reversed their decision there is no way in hell she ran 1:31, she has way too many results around 2 hours. This is a huge outlier. I think she cut somewhere on the course. We should be focusing more on this as she's stealing an award from someone.
I call BS on the reversal anyway. Sounds like reckless optimism on the part of the petition writer.
Huffman Cheated wrote:
tremendousmachine wrote:Some of my friends actually signed that Pat Huffman petition but I always thought there was something a little "off." Then I saw the trumpeting of her 1:40:46 age group win at Garden Spot Half Marathon in 2014.
Race result:
http://www.novatimingsystems.com/pretzelcity/personal_results.aspx?id=683940Did she cheat? Let's look at the pics...
http://www.racephotonetwork.com/QPPlus/SearchBibNumber.aspx?_AccountNumber=2770&_EventID=1491361Roll 00003 Frames 0298-0299 are her searchable finisher pics, to show us what she's wearing
Roll 00006 Frame 0513 Starting just ahead of the 3:30 marathon pacers, near the woman who finished immediately in front of her (#190, tri suit and tattoo)
Roll 00007 Frames 0618-0620 Not even 1 mile in, fastest finish near her is 1:50 (177) and she's not far ahead of the 1:55 pacers
Roll 00014 Frame 1305 Near the 4 mile mark... nearby runner 76 finished in 2:04, 336 finished in 2:06
Roll 00024 Frame 2373 Crossing the finish triumphantly at 1:40:45
Course has a long out and back leg...anyone think she turned around early?
I can't believe they reversed their decision there is no way in hell she ran 1:31, she has way too many results around 2 hours. This is a huge outlier. I think she cut somewhere on the course. We should be focusing more on this as she's stealing an award from someone.
She's becoming better and better at cheating. Wonder how "fast" she will get, I see a 1:20 something half coming soon.
You nailed it. He is a "marathon maniac." You should see his FB page too got some good laughs.
ofsaa gold wrote:
Yep. Hobby Jogger with an athlinks login - profile picture and all. Let me guess you are a "Marathon Maniac" too.
GregTR wrote: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
tremendousmachine wrote:
Huffman Cheated wrote:I can't believe they reversed their decision there is no way in hell she ran 1:31, she has way too many results around 2 hours. This is a huge outlier. I think she cut somewhere on the course. We should be focusing more on this as she's stealing an award from someone.
I call BS on the reversal anyway. Sounds like reckless optimism on the part of the petition writer.
I think that you need to bring the evidence you found to the Garden Spot Half Marathon race director, I'm sure they have enough more photos and enough to DQ her. She stole an award from someone.
Huffman Cheated wrote:
tremendousmachine wrote:I call BS on the reversal anyway. Sounds like reckless optimism on the part of the petition writer.
I think that you need to bring the evidence you found to the Garden Spot Half Marathon race director, I'm sure they have enough more photos and enough to DQ her. She stole an award from someone.
You do know you are in the wrong thread, right?