Robert Young fakes run across America

coffee spitter wrote:

Jim Cantore- The Weather Chann wrote:

If this is not an indictment on the whole Ultra "running" movement, I am not sure what is.

Other than Fake Laz, this was the post that made me laugh the hardest.

Speaking as an ultrarunner with a couple of running records -- OK, that was funny (the original post, anyway).

What a day it's been.

Not a social media peep from RY for over 24 hrs - telling.

And, the tracker is stuck in the Golden Corral parking lot. A proper fitting ending when you think about it.

I don't know how I going to come down from this bender but somehow I will.

Reminiscer wrote:

I don't know how I going to come down from this bender but somehow I will.

What about a loooong run?

Somewhere in an Indy Motel 6......

Dustin's face lit up with the glow of a laptop as he scrolls through the Guinness World Record page.....

"Hey Rob, here's another one you can probably do......"

Fake Dustin wrote:

Somewhere in an Indy Motel 6......

Dustin's face lit up with the glow of a laptop as he scrolls through the Guinness World Record page.....

"Hey Rob, here's another one you can probably do......"

Easiest way to get a GWR is to make up your own, then pay Guinness to certify it. E.g., fastest marathon dressed as, I don't know, a wombat.

cpr wrote:

DENOUEMENT wrote:

And it's a good lesson for the LRC peanut gallery - discredit the run, not the runner.

This. Mr Lazarus showed us a life lesson.

And it's such an old school thing to to: Investing time and using time to one's advantage.

The group of the Exposures are like gardeners, or so.

I can't agree or disagree with you because I haven't a clue WTF you're on about.

Bob Hearn wrote:

Easiest way to get a GWR is to make up your own, then pay Guinness to certify it. E.g., fastest marathon dressed as, I don't know, a wombat.

Which explains half the field in London.....

Limey Loo wrote:

Bob Hearn wrote:

Easiest way to get a GWR is to make up your own, then pay Guinness to certify it. E.g., fastest marathon dressed as, I don't know, a wombat.

Which explains half the field in London.....

Exactly. The deal is that at London, Guinness already has reps there ready to certify crap like that. Makes it much simpler.

Anybody following this thread from the beginning could probably have read War & Peace instead.

Twice.

Whatever happened to Coach sKeev?

He's in the air halfway across the pond with espressos, sugar, and sausage rolls.....

Guys:

OK, in regards the RV desert incident:

http://i.imgur.com/aaW1Kul.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/HdyOwyd.jpg

I have an image processing update which is not completely conclusive but I think provides good graphical illustration and reinforces the timeline.

So we know RY left the RV at 7:31AM. TomTom data puts him up on Hwy 95 a little at 8:19AM. The next TomTom activity is cutoff from view, but its 21.97mi in 3:42, and we can deduce it must have been run almost entirely in the West-East axis, since the tracing cannot be seen in what is almost the entire upper half of the thumbnail circle.

If you work out 21.97 miles out from Laughin, as I believe Mr. team1.kml did here - you will see something interesting. It takes you to the intersection of a desert road and Hwy 95, just short of the state line:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6887645

If you look at RY's live tracking planned route, you will see that they intended to cut through the desert as a shortcut to this point (probably why they got stuck):

http://i.imgur.com/Q0IjgPR.png

I did some image processing and I think it really fits well that the 21.97 mile run is from this shortcut point to Laughlin. The 2 vertical segments would juuuust every so slightly stick up over the taskbar, which, due to monitor and compression artifact is hard to see, but its a possibility:

http://imgur.com/a/WMiIo

Since this run puts him in Laughlin (due to this evidence and the fact no other run is recorded after that until the evening), it could not have started later than 9:10AM. But he is 12-13 miles south at 8:19AM...

Conclusion: I have completely convinced myself (and hopefully you guys): RY ran up Hwy 95 a little, got tired of the wind, the heat, the self-supported effort, was frustrated with the RV getting stuck, and either sought out, or was offered a ride, which he accepted and got out at the point he felt he "deserved" to be at. (Was there anyone who could have been an accomplice? Curiously, he said on Facebook: "We continued to run about 36 miles...")

Fits the timeline perfectly. We all know he got there earlier than 12:52 anyway, so cut 30 min off that 9:10 run, now its 8:40. So 20 minutes to hitch 13 miles, from 8:19AM to ~8:40AM. Perfect.

I am trying to make a sexy blog post to present all of this data from the incident since I think it's very compelling. Will share when done.

Spreadsheet_Maker and "curiously interested" need to form an online OCD support group.....

Spreadsheet_Maker wrote:

Conclusion: I have completely convinced myself (and hopefully you guys): RY ran up Hwy 95 a little, got tired of the wind, the heat, the self-supported effort, was frustrated with the RV getting stuck, and either sought out, or was offered a ride, which he accepted and got out at the point he felt he "deserved" to be at. (Was there anyone who could have been an accomplice? Curiously, he said on Facebook: "We continued to run about 36 miles...")

Take your pick, according to his site he has various crew listed, nothing to say they weren't around at the time in their own vehicle and just a call away. Also, I think it's been mentioned a couple of times Dustin Brook's wife has been around giving massage, so might have been her. Who knows, so much unexplained stuff with this fella.

Better link:

Fake Dustin wrote:

Somewhere in an Indy Motel 6......

Dustin's face lit up with the glow of a laptop as he scrolls through the Guinness World Record page.....

"Hey Rob, here's another one you can probably do......"

No more motels for those boys, this wreck looks like turning in to a financial disaster, it's the putrid RV for them and a real job when they get home.

Until this thread, I never knew there was so many people who make their entire livelihood as rec runners doing stunts to raise money for charities...... Sure, I knew sometimes runners raised money for this cause or that, but never had I seen the underbelly of this whole cottage industry.....

Who knows. wrote:

Spreadsheet_Maker wrote:

Conclusion: I have completely convinced myself (and hopefully you guys): RY ran up Hwy 95 a little, got tired of the wind, the heat, the self-supported effort, was frustrated with the RV getting stuck, and either sought out, or was offered a ride, which he accepted and got out at the point he felt he "deserved" to be at. (Was there anyone who could have been an accomplice? Curiously, he said on Facebook: "We continued to run about 36 miles...")

Take your pick, according to his site he has various crew listed, nothing to say they weren't around at the time in their own vehicle and just a call away. Also, I think it's been mentioned a couple of times Dustin Brook's wife has been around giving massage, so might have been her. Who knows, so much unexplained stuff with this fella.

Crew link:

In all fairness most "ultrarunning champion records" and are set by people going around and around the same circle of 400m to 2 miles, not on a varied terrain course (which tends to chew up and spit out the circle folks). Different strokes for different folks but I'm not guessing you'd find many crackheads stumbling in the same circle over and over again.

With some context: