Can someone keep an eye on this guy (run across America)

Have the sleuths, trolls and seekers of truth and all that is good in the world done all the usual checks on this fella, you know, criminal, company, jobs, wives, girlfriends, social media, conflicts of interest, etc, etc.

Has he been sussed out? wrote:

Have the sleuths, trolls and seekers of truth and all that is good in the world done all the usual checks on this fella, you know, criminal, company, jobs, wives, girlfriends, social media, conflicts of interest, etc, etc.

You could of course read this thread........

I don't think so, for two reasons.1. What he's claiming to accomplish has shifted multiple times and remains small beer. He's not trying to run across the country at a record-setting pace. He's no longer even claiming to run across the country. It's not even entirely clear he'll only bike and run--wait to see what other methods he'll justify under the banner of "propelling" himself across the country. 2. He's so obviously not running, not always cycling, and up until yesterday not being transparent that most people can't be bothered. What would we aim to do? Catch him riding in an rv? So what--he's "propelling himself" by rv power. The stakes are just way too low.

Yey, a tracker wrote:

If we could catch him cheating just once, this would blow up like the Rob Young thread, then there would be more people willing to look for him.

The most exciting thing on this trip seems to be the status on his tracker battery.

Everything else is fake anyway.

What a trip this is!

The "revered" Dr. Robin Barnett, as she's identified on the Forgotten Mom charity website, has an EdD in Human Services Administration (?) from a dodgy for-profit university, the "University of Sarasota." It's since been bought and now is part of the EDMC-owned "Argosy University." Her social work degree is legit (Rutgers) and she may be a very effective counselor.

Has he been sussed out? wrote:

Have the sleuths, trolls and seekers of truth and all that is good in the world done all the usual checks on this fella, you know, criminal, company, jobs, wives, girlfriends, social media, conflicts of interest, etc, etc.

One guy in their crew produces adult films. They might be filming in the rv, that's just speculation though.

Has he been sussed out? wrote:

Have the sleuths, trolls and seekers of truth and all that is good in the world done all the usual checks on this fella, you know, criminal, company, jobs, wives, girlfriends, social media, conflicts of interest, etc, etc.

You're right in the stakes being low with how obvious it is. I thought the stakes may have been raised by the press he was getting for it and the fact that hes (barely) a television personality. He is also reacting to this thread and although shifting still staunchly defending himself which is entertaining. In a way the joke is on us as we are probably the only real people giving his website hits and following the 'journey'.The boys must be sleeping in today. Could be riding into the evening if they are looking to do another one of their signature hundred+ milers.

Er... wrote:

I don't think so, for two reasons.

1. What he's claiming to accomplish has shifted multiple times and remains small beer. He's not trying to run across the country at a record-setting pace. He's no longer even claiming to run across the country. It's not even entirely clear he'll only bike and run--wait to see what other methods he'll justify under the banner of "propelling" himself across the country.

2. He's so obviously not running, not always cycling, and up until yesterday not being transparent that most people can't be bothered. What would we aim to do? Catch him riding in an rv? So what--he's "propelling himself" by rv power. The stakes are just way too low.

Yey, a tracker wrote:

If we could catch him cheating just once, this would blow up like the Rob Young thread, then there would be more people willing to look for him.

diet snapple wrote:

One guy in their crew produces adult films. They might be filming in the rv, that's just speculation though.

I think they just finished filming "Darren Does Dallas" to be released next month.

But seriously, yes, the guy in the RV taking all the pictures and video actually produces porn (not that I have anything against that). It was discussed quite a few pages back in the thread.

Scam_Watcheroo wrote:

Jed Wallace at Street Relations is true to his words and the live GPS tracker for Darren Kavinoky is now up! You can either see it on Darren Kavinoky's website or directly go to the LocaToWeb tracker. Now get some sunshine you basement dwellers.

https://locatoweb.com/embed/single/0341103622https://www.darrenkavinoky.com/livetrackdarren/

I messaged WhatsMyWin a couple of days ago. They MUST be in on this scam.

I pointed out there was no tracker or stats off a running watch.

Response - - - "Darren is doing the work, and we plan to show it. "

"Thanks for reaching out.

We are aware there are some doubters out there in your community, and that's fair. We added a tracker to the website today, which I see has already been shared on the letsrun forum. In the coming days we will be doing more to show how the journey is progressing.

Darren is doing the work, and we plan to show it.

So stay tuned for more updates. Thanks again."

WhatsMyWin are scammers wrote:

I messaged WhatsMyWin a couple of days ago. They MUST be in on this scam.

I pointed out there was no tracker or stats off a running watch.

Response - - - "Darren is doing the work, and we plan to show it. "

"Thanks for reaching out.

We are aware there are some doubters out there in your community, and that's fair. We added a tracker to the website today, which I see has already been shared on the letsrun forum. In the coming days we will be doing more to show how the journey is progressing.

Darren is doing the work, and we plan to show it.

So stay tuned for more updates. Thanks again."

??? I don't get your question. People had already messaged WhatsMyWin near the beginning of this thread and now we have the live GPS tracker. It was not WhatsMyWin that made it happen for us, it was Jed Wallace at Street Relations.

Unless they do more running it would be pointless at this time to ask for watch data.

I didn't ask a question. I told them it was my opinion he was faking it.

Their response that they believe he is genuinely doing the trip proves WhatsMyWin are in on the scam.

A running watch has a HR monitor. Proves it is being carried on a PERSON. So a cyclist could wear one. So he should be using such a watch and posting the data each day.

Darren hasn't moved from Sulphur Springs so far today.

I assume his batteries still needs to recharge.

No not his, just of his tracker.

It would be simpler to just get Asher Delmott to come out.

Scam_Watcheroo wrote:

It would be simpler to just get Asher Delmott to come out.

Is he even aware of this guy? You can't tag or message people on here can you

Scam_Watcheroo wrote:

It would be simpler to just get Asher Delmott to come out.

As others have mentioned earlier, Letsrun doesn't do "boots on the ground".

WhatsMyWin are scammers wrote:

Is he even aware of this guy? You can't tag or message people on here can you

No idea. Can't message from here.

But I say just relax and sit back for now. If there is something funny you should see it on the GPS tracker because it would be hard to fake the variations in live speeds the LocaToWeb tracker shows. And from what I saw on the tracker yesterday, the speed variations look reasonable for a mountain bike and the average speeds are realistic.

And some people have already said they will try to observe if the tracker shows they are near. So there really is not much else to do at this point but just sit back and let it play out.

Looks like they drove back to Dallas from twitter. Maybe they are taking the day off.

Markus wrote:

Darren hasn't moved from Sulphur Springs so far today.

I assume his batteries still needs to recharge.

No not his, just of his tracker.

mid socks wrote:

Looks like they drove back to Dallas from twitter. Maybe they are taking the day off.

Now that would be weird and unusual.

RV driving is tough, he deserves a break.