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

There is one other point about the letter Mike wrote to the principal that has been mentioned before but needs to be mentioned again. HE DIDN'T EVEN SEND THE LETTER TO THE PRINCIPAL, HE JUST POSTED IT ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER.

letterer wrote:

There is one other point about the letter Mike wrote to the principal that has been mentioned before but needs to be mentioned again. HE DIDN'T EVEN SEND THE LETTER TO THE PRINCIPAL, HE JUST POSTED IT ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER.

And then it went viral and she started getting hate mail, death threats, prank phone calls in the middle of the night. And instead of stopping he went on the Today Show and Fox News and tortured that woman even more.

So what is your point?

letterer wrote:

There is one other point about the letter Mike wrote to the principal that has been mentioned before but needs to be mentioned again. HE DIDN'T EVEN SEND THE LETTER TO THE PRINCIPAL, HE JUST POSTED IT ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER.

I mentioned it on page 332 in my Recap of the Salient Facts and here at

The kids were hardly ever absent. The letter is poorly written. No one bullied the principal.

And stop bringing up Rossi's wife fat fvck.

And stop bringing up Rossi's wife fat fvck.

Why would Rossi's wife be named "fat fvck"?

abingtonrunner2 wrote:

letterer wrote:

There is one other point about the letter Mike wrote to the principal that has been mentioned before but needs to be mentioned again. HE DIDN'T EVEN SEND THE LETTER TO THE PRINCIPAL, HE JUST POSTED IT ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER.

I mentioned it on page 332 in my Recap of the Salient Facts and here at

http://runningwithintegrity.blogspot.com/

Why didn't you take up Rossi's offer of meeting at Starbucks in Abington? He said he'd show you his MRI and training log.

Guess you just want to keep the personal vendetta going, eh Michael?

LoserMikeRossi wrote:

[quote]abingtonrunner2 wrote:

If she was so supportive of this letter and the viral sensation her husband turned out to be why did she NOT ONCE stand behind her man?

Her lack of support has been a glaring omission to everyone during this whole thing, and perhaps there is something going on that needs closer examination. Mike bullied a school principal, so it's not unthinkable what he might be doing to his own family.

You mean how your wife and entire family stood by you when you ripped off over 80 couples and got sued by the Attorney General?

So what was the big effing deal then? Three days of unexcused absences for third graders? Why make a stink our something that is a non-issue unless of course there was an issue? Was daddy hoping that they would get the perfect attendance award?

These are rhetorical questions and not intended to be answered because this is a running site.

POS Ken Stillman wrote:

The kids were hardly ever absent. The letter is poorly written. No one bullied the principal.

And stop bringing up Rossi's wife fat fvck.

1. How do you know their attendance record?

2. Why does the wording of the letter even matter? You call the principal to clarify and move on.

3. How call you call that media blitz not cyber-bullying. That's EXACTLY what you did, Mike. You thought if you had enough people behind you that they would have no choice but to change the policy. Well, you were wrong. Everything you did achieved NOTHING at the school. But it did get people mad at you enough to investigate your cheating to get into Boston.

"And stop bringing up Rossi's wife fat fvck."

And why would you call your own wife a fat fvck? She seems like a nice person in the photos.

Why didn't you take up Rossi's offer of meeting at Starbucks in Abington? He said he'd show you his MRI and training log.

Guess you just want to keep the personal vendetta going, eh Michael?

Seems like an odd name wrote:

And stop bringing up Rossi's wife fat fvck.

Why would Rossi's wife be named "fat fvck"?

That does seem odd. Is fat fvck on her birth certificate? If she is overweight she could take up running, but, she can't train with Mike. You can't lose weight driving between two points.

Adele wrote:

Rumor Has It...that Mikey has been out running in spite of his lame claim he is injured and is not supposed to run. Can anyone verify this.

I can't verify it, but I'd say that there's about a 99.9% chance that it's true. He won't post the MRI after promising to do so, so all of us can only assume that he was (once again) lying. He is undoubtedly training much harder than he was leading up to Lehigh Valley and the Philly Marathon, with the hopes of running a time of similar quality as his fraudulently obtained one. He is hoping this will clear his name and maybe then he can pressure the Brojos to delete this thread.

The thing is, given how little mileage he was running previously and the fact that he could very easily lose 20-30 pounds if he ups his training to that of a serious marathoner, I wouldn't be at all surprised if he could improve dramatically over the course of a year. Wejo? offered him $10K if he runs 3:25 for the marathon, under 70 min? for a 10 miler or under 20 min? for 5 km. If he starts running a consistent 40-50 miles/week for much of the next year and actually incorporates normal run training, such as intervals, into his training, I think that it's highly possible that he attains one of those marks - especially the 5 km one, which shouldn't require years of training to achieve. There's also the chance that he decides to enter some small event, which won't have timing mats or photographers and he cheats his way to one of those times. I doubt he would try this, as small races don't have deep fields, where he can get lost in the crowd, but you never know. Maybe he will try the Kip Litton route, and make up a race with fake participants, then add his name to the results and post to Athlinks.

It pisses me off to think that this guy could make off with $10K for being a cheater. Wejo should have said that he'd donate that money to the charity of Rossi's choice. Also, we all know that, if Rossi does run one of those times, he will claim that this actually proves that he ran the 3:11. He'll likely try and get the media on his side, as he did when Lehigh Valley decided not to DQ him and claim that he was unfairly accused and bullied online and demand an apology.

The fact of the matter is, all serious runners know that you cheated at Lehigh Valley, Mike. If you ran under 15 minutes for 5 km or sub-2:30 for the marathon, it wouldn't change the fact that you cheated in anyone's mind.

that is an odd name wrote:

Seems like an odd name wrote:

Why would Rossi's wife be named "fat fvck"?

That does seem odd. Is fat fvck on her birth certificate? If she is overweight she could take up running, but, she can't train with Mike. You can't lose weight driving between two points.

I might assume that the stress of being married to a cheater (hair, races, etc.) would drive you to question what else he cheats at.

Latte anyone? wrote:

Why didn't you take up Rossi's offer of meeting at Starbucks in Abington? He said he'd show you his MRI and training log.

Guess you just want to keep the personal vendetta going, eh Michael?

I'll meet you at Starbucks. I don't know what an MRI would prove. Or training logs. It still does't put you in any more of the 19,000+ photos taken that day.

I'm free right now.

(and I haven't been using any other name on here, so these other posts are not me)

Take pictures of the "evidence". If he has any, it has almost certainly been forged in one way or another.

Idiot wrote:

You mean how your wife and entire family stood by you when you ripped off over 80 couples and got sued by the Attorney General?

Yeah, like when your wife and sister suckle at your teet for 6 years while you work your ass off, and then after promising to help they don't lift a finger. Exactly like that.

Just like I'm sure you'll pledge your support behind Bob when the bad press from this starts wrecking his company.

Latte anyone? wrote:

Why didn't you take up Rossi's offer of meeting at Starbucks in Abington? He said he'd show you his MRI and training log.

Guess you just want to keep the personal vendetta going, eh Michael?

MIKE - I do not have a personal vendetta against you as I do not know you. There is nothing in my post history to support your assertion so I urge you to retract that. I believe someone else here who knows you has on, but I unequivocally do do not. I am not making nor have I made disparaging remarks about your physical appearance, wife, children, professional life or business. None - Never. I do not care for those comments.

I did however lay out and summarize facts surrounding this fiasco as they are known right now. At times, I have referenced visual proof (or lack thereof) and other information to support those facts. You are also free to provide whatever proof you have to counter any and all \"facts\" in the public domain. However, you have elected not to. If your information proves to be true and can substantiated, I will say so. If you care to correct any facts, please feel free to share them now.

Also, you said to me that you would present to me photos that were given to you by LVM Committee, did you not? So when we meet at Starbucks (I want the largest Latte possible), please be sure to have those photos with you, because quite honestly, those to me are the most important piece of evidence there is. You also mentioned GPS logs so bring those too. But hey, here is a novel ideal. POST THEM RIGHT HERE. Right now!

As for meeting you, I am happy to and as I recall you indicated that I could bring anyone I wanted to. As you may also recall, I indicated that when you offered to meet me, I was not available after 9 am on either of last Thurs or Friday and you indicated that Sat or Sun were not good for you. I do not work at nights, but I am an early riser and in the office at 6:30 a.m. every morning when in town. I am a morning person for work and an evening runner. I do not have the luxury to wait until after 9 am on a weekday to meet you. If you care to make it earlier or perhaps at a lunch time and I can arrange for someone to accompany me, I am happy to meet you. Right now, I am not in Pennsylvania which is why I can post here (food fight, lol), but it is hard to meet when not in town. Some of us really do work.

In other words, I'll never meet you because I'm scared that you may have me arrested for threatening your life.

poster of statistics wrote:

5000 posts on 6/5

6425 posts on 6/15

1425 posts and rest of day to go so about 142/150 posts per day

prediction:

June 20: 7000 posts

June 25: 7500 posts

July 1: 8000 posts

August 1: 9000 posts

September 1: 9500 posts

September 12-15 Lehigh Marathon 2015 race weekend: 10000 posts

so:

6/15 am: 6425

6/16 am: 6683

Net Posts: 158

this would accelerate the timetable for 10000 posts a bit:

158 a day through end of June would be 2370

so 6683 + 2370 = 9053 on July 1

I think this will slow down, but it shows no signs of deceleration in quantity, serious deceleration in quality.