Robert Young fakes run across America

LRCBoots wrote:

We need LRC boots on the ground in Indy!

It's over. Prepare to get back to work next week. Your boss will appreciate it.

More evidence about the Thames Meander marathon:

- no mention of time, although it seems like a huge PR (3:11)

- he thought about swimming the Channel

- plenty of time to run with his son on his shoulders and buy him an ice cream (!)

http://imgur.com/9T19DKr

rojo flyby wrote:

Rojo should've paid Peter Sagan to stick our own gps tracker under the RV. Now that would've been money well spent.

If Rojo wants to throw some money around:

How about a handsome sum for Rob's GPS data? Could even increase the dollar amount counterintuitively.

$1000 for full data release

Add $1000 if it confirms he was legit

Add $9000 if it confirms RV riding

Would be pretty tempting to come clean, if he's doing it for the kids. Make this for his charity. Or for him, idk.

RYinvestigator wrote:

More evidence about the Thames Meander marathon:

- no mention of time, although it seems like a huge PR (3:11)

- he thought about swimming the Channel

- plenty of time to run with his son on his shoulders and buy him an ice cream (!)

http://imgur.com/9T19DKr

Put all these in the google doc!

RYinvestigator wrote:

More evidence about the Thames Meander marathon:

- no mention of time, although it seems like a huge PR (3:11)

- he thought about swimming the Channel

- plenty of time to run with his son on his shoulders and buy him an ice cream (!)

http://imgur.com/9T19DKr

He cares a lot about buzzing up social media too apparently, no surprise there.

lrc etiquette commitee wrote:

Maker_of_Website wrote:

I made a post about RY's desert day. I'm not sure I've read every single post here, but AFAIK this is the most concrete cheating data for the transcon.

I need to get a life now, but if Blogger allows access for others to post or someone else wants to help make this a hub for analyses, contact me. That google doc y'all made is great though. Just though this could be a nice format to link off to if people are contacting media, etc etc.

http://ryinvestigation.blogspot.com

Post it here. We're not interested in supporting your stupid personal blog.

Thanks for organizing this information. Wading through hundreds of pages of this website is painful and increasingly impossible.

Flounder wrote:

curiously interested wrote:

Oh, and he claims he was 210 pounds (15 stones) when he ran those initial marathons in 3:19 and 3:28.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/138134/surviving-dads-abuse-spurred-me-on-to-run-417-marathons-in-14-months/

Maybe he got confused and ran 26 kilometers rather than miles?

For his first run, in the book he clearly describes running 4 unequal loops in Richmond Park. But on mapmyrun, for his first run, it's point to point. The route starts in Twickenham, goes 3/4 of the way around Richmond Park, goes out towards London, does some unequal loops in Hyde Park, and then a couple unequal loops in Regents Park where it finishes about 11 miles from where he started. Mapmyrun course measures 26.47. The map was created on Monday, April 14, 2014 in mapmyrun. The run was performed on Tues, April 15, 2014 (his first entry in the website that I know of) at 5:30am (although the book claims Mon at 3:30am and a time of 4:07, not 3:19 as in mapmyrun). But maybe he ran it on Monday and entered it on Tuesday with that day's date by accident.

The time was probably manually entered as 3:19 because it's "00" seconds. Only a 1/60 chance that his watch actually stopped precisely at that point, otherwise there's a 59/60 chance that a different amount of seconds would've been uploaded from a watch. And if the time was manually entered, the course was probably manually created (i.e., not uploaded from a gps watch). Or could he have copied this course from someone else in mapmyrun for his route? I don't know.

How did he know when he had run at least 26.2 miles? Did he have a gps watch for this first run? If not, maybe he drew the map to figure out where to go and then ran, but maybe skipped some of the loops in Hyde and Regents Parks at the end to shorten the run.

But that seems unlikely because the loops in Hyde and Regents Park are rather arbitrary and there are an infinite number of possible routes to take (if you've ever run in either of those parks as I have). Maybe he drew the map after he ran based on where he knew he had run, but then again, how would he know while running that he had gone at least 26.2 miles?

Here's the route for his first "marathon" in mapmyrun.

So I still haven't figured out where he likely ran that first one or have a good conjecture how fast he ran it or how far. It seems highly unlikely that he did run 3:19:00 for 26.47 miles like the mapmyrun entry indicates. It is quite the outlier--especially as his first ever marathon--compared to his 8 marathon RACES he raced later that year (3:46-4:56 range) after becoming a marathoner.

His book is full of ***: http://imgur.com/a/VAiM2

FatA$$Ken wrote:

Jehosephat wrote:

From the change in tone, I think t ball practice must have let out.

No T ball today. But MR was on the radio this afternoon. He sounded awesome. Such a stud. Unlike you LR 'mo's

So you put in a couple hours at the radio station. Did they pay you in bumper stickers?

curiously interested wrote:

And if the time was manually entered, the course was probably manually created (i.e., not uploaded from a gps watch). Or could he have copied this course from someone else in mapmyrun for his route? I don't know.

The course was certainly created manually. The red line follows the roads perfectly (you can see this if you zoom a bit in), a GPS watch is never fully accurate.

RYinvestigator wrote:

His book is full of ***:

http://imgur.com/a/VAiM2

And grift. Dude is a first-class bum. Serial panhandler. In that small passage in the book, he was bumming off race staff for a hotel room, transportation people, hotel workers. On this transcon attempt, he was bumming for food in restaurants, showers and laundry at random houses. Fits the MO. Bums for charity as well.

RYinvestigator wrote:

More evidence about the Thames Meander marathon:

- no mention of time, although it seems like a huge PR (3:11)

3:11:57 chip time. Good, but Rossi beat him with 12 seconds, 3:11:45.

RYinvestigator wrote:

The course was certainly created manually. The red line follows the roads perfectly (you can see this if you zoom a bit in), a GPS watch is never fully accurate.

Good observation. My question remains if he drew it before or after he ran.

If before, did he cut his own course that he drew? And how would he remember which turns to make in Hyde Park? Even if you've been there a lot, there are quite a few different options to take across wide open grass.

If after, did he add some extra loops or distance to get it over 26.2? Also if after, how did he know when he had run at least 26.2 miles?

I still haven't figured out a plausible scenario to account for this run.

Initially, I thought maybe he drew it this way, but then cut the loops in Hyde and Regents Park to the barebone while running. I don't know.

RYI, if you have the whole book, you might want to factcheck the sections in which he mentions any of the 8 marathons he raced in 2014 or any in 2015. I looked at the Halifax results since the part you posted mentions it. That one checks out. He says sub-4 in the book. He ran 3:53.

I don't have the book. I've only seen the free initial pages in amazon.co.uk.

LRCBoots wrote:

We need LRC boots on the ground in Indy!

There was photo confirmation of the RV at the Golden Corral earlier today. We need someone to get back down there and confirm the presence or absence of the RV from it's last known location there at the GC.

On the off chance that the RV is still there, do not get timid on us, go up and engage the subject, but do so with caution.

Other places to check while you're there: Walmart, the hospital, KOA, Hobby Lobby, Target, The UPS Store and Hoosier Overstock & Mattress.

DON'T LET ME DOWN, LRC!

Easy there sonny, the Geezers took care of it with all their high tech gear:

They'll have the pictures to be developed soon.

New footage of Rob:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaGX4JdtQi8

Ultra List Tracking wrote:

Easy there sonny, the Geezers took care of it with all their high tech gear:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3f431SkGo_MTFZ3VVlsM1JuZ00/view?usp=sharing

They'll have the pictures to be developed soon.

Someone on Ulist already secretly posted some pics of what Laz captured:

secret Ulister wrote:

Ultra List Tracking wrote:

Easy there sonny, the Geezers took care of it with all their high tech gear:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3f431SkGo_MTFZ3VVlsM1JuZ00/view?usp=sharing

They'll have the pictures to be developed soon.

Someone on Ulist already secretly posted some pics of what Laz captured:

http://arthistoryworlds.org/wp-includes/images/16Drakensberg%20dancingPeople.jpg

That wasn't cleared to be released yet!

I did not want to enjoy that as much as I did.