Guys, she said she put years into the planning of this event, since 2011. She had the benefit of seeing where Rob Young screwed up. She knew, even from multiple interviews, that live tracking through out the race was going to be essential for any modicum of credibility. There is no excuse to just play naive at this juncture.
the worm has turned. wrote:
The live tracker she is using is utterly useless for this attempt and she should have realised it wasn't suitable, if indeed there is a problem with lack of signal.
Why the radio silence? She should be stating WHY the tracker is not on
^agreed
She cannot use the excuse that they did not test the tracker first. Utter rubbish. You do not do start out on such a trek without testing your equipment first; trackers, webpage, how to upload data in realtime, how to share realtime data, how to post to Strava. Hmmm, ah!!!! That is the Pete K bombproof data method.
Well, Mimi has covered about 21 miles--using a separate Google map to measure the travel length from start of day to where she is now. And her tracker has shown no movement for at least 15 minutes (three 300 update cycles on her webpage). She was with the car. Then the data point jumped down the road for both the car and Mimi. She is in a real town that even has bus stops. There should be good internet there.
Mimi Anderson's team has to come up with a solution real quick.
But maybe it is already to late for the Guinness record.
the worm has turned. wrote:
Playing out just like the R. Young fiasco
Easiest way to stop her is to get boots on the ground.
Oh wait, this is letsrun, never mind.
Easiest way to stop her is to get boots on the ground.
Oh wait, this is letsrun, never mind.
Boots are ready to go!
Static Mimi wrote:
She is in a real town that even has bus stops. There should be good internet there.
My garmin watch does not require the internet to get GPS access.
Regarding the tracker there is this on the Ultrarunning Community:
"Richard Weremiuk
It wasn't off. Mimi's web dev via Mimi was instructed to apply a specific statement on her website that without 2g or 3g it won't transmit location until it gets back to signal. Someone forgot I guess, and the team will get some grief for that oversight. I wasnt very sympathetic with them.
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I don't know who Richard is but I will point out this excuse does not work. The other two vehicles were transmitting just fine during the time that Mimi's tracker was turned off. Therefore it is not a matter of insufficient wireless signal. It also wasn't a battery issue, since it read 85% charged at the time it was turned off.
kmlkojono wrote:
Static Mimi wrote:She is in a real town that even has bus stops. There should be good internet there.
My garmin watch does not require the internet to get GPS access.
Yes, but some have claimed Mimi's "GPS" needs cell towers to work.
As I already showed yesterday, Mimi and her team are right smack in the middle of full AT&T cell phone coverage and I specifically showed the 3G data coverage where they are so it is complete BS that they are saying there was no signal for the Race Drone tracker that works on 3G. And then they make another excuse that the Race Drone website didn't update their position because it was busy. Literally unbelievable. I'm now calling Mimi's run a fake.https://m.imgur.com/a/9Vguo
Mimi Anderson - Endurance Athlete added 9 new photos.
The route today was essentially long and flat, the road could be seen vanishing at the horizon over 12 miles in the distance. Mimi was definitely feeling the effect of the last few days of rain and cold and was not her normal chirpy self. The rain was only sporadic in the morning but the cold wind was biting. By dawn the rain had passed but it remained cold.
The hardest thing for the crew today was to find suitable stopping places at the required distances for lunch and the end of the day. The RV is so large that if we miss an opportunity we would have to drive many miles before finding a turning spot. Today this has meant a slightly shorter mileage.
The Trackers have had a few issues again as we lose mobile coverage. It requires a minimum of 2G to function, but do not work with 4G. The response time for the trackers can also be effected, we are told, when there are other events using the system creating high traffic and therefore slow response times. Updating the web and facebook pages are equally tricky in these areas.
A harder day for Mimi and this resulted in a slightly shorter day but still an amazing 54.5 miles - the total so far 1104 miles.
Excuse from Mimi's team wrote:
Regarding the tracker there is this on the Ultrarunning Community:
"Richard Weremiuk
It wasn't off. Mimi's web dev via Mimi was instructed to apply a specific statement on her website that without 2g or 3g it won't transmit location until it gets back to signal. Someone forgot I guess, and the team will get some grief for that oversight. I wasnt very sympathetic with them.
Edited · Like · 1 · Report · 26 minutes ago"
I don't know who Richard is but I will point out this excuse does not work. The other two vehicles were transmitting just fine during the time that Mimi's tracker was turned off. Therefore it is not a matter of insufficient wireless signal. It also wasn't a battery issue, since it read 85% charged at the time it was turned off.
He's the guy behind Racedrone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w6Up8WFVvsScam_Watcheroo wrote:
As I already showed yesterday, Mimi and her team are right smack in the middle of full AT&T cell phone coverage and I specifically showed the 3G data coverage where they are so it is complete BS that they are saying there was no signal for the Race Drone tracker that works on 3G. And then they make another excuse that the Race Drone website didn't update their position because it was busy. Literally unbelievable. I'm now calling Mimi's run a fake.
https://m.imgur.com/a/9Vguohttps://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=967339226753518&id=292383870915727Mimi Anderson - Endurance Athlete added 9 new photos.
The route today was essentially long and flat, the road could be seen vanishing at the horizon over 12 miles in the distance. Mimi was definitely feeling the effect of the last few days of rain and cold and was not her normal chirpy self. The rain was only sporadic in the morning but the cold wind was biting. By dawn the rain had passed but it remained cold.
The hardest thing for the crew today was to find suitable stopping places at the required distances for lunch and the end of the day. The RV is so large that if we miss an opportunity we would have to drive many miles before finding a turning spot. Today this has meant a slightly shorter mileage.
The Trackers have had a few issues again as we lose mobile coverage. It requires a minimum of 2G to function, but do not work with 4G. The response time for the trackers can also be effected, we are told, when there are other events using the system creating high traffic and therefore slow response times. Updating the web and facebook pages are equally tricky in these areas.
A harder day for Mimi and this resulted in a slightly shorter day but still an amazing 54.5 miles - the total so far 1104 miles.
Good catch Scam_Watcheroo.
This is very reminiscent of Rob Young's attempt where he doubled down on the lies. They must really think we're fools to believe this garbage!
Also:
]The other two vehicles were transmitting just fine during the time that Mimi's tracker was turned off. Therefore it is not a matter of insufficient wireless signal.
They were not. They were all showing as turned off at one time or another.
runwalkcrawlcry wrote:
Also:
]The other two vehicles were transmitting just fine during the time that Mimi's tracker was turned off. Therefore it is not a matter of insufficient wireless signal.They were not. They were all showing as turned off at one time or another.
It is true. Scroll back in this thread. Multiple people observed the vehicles moving around while Mimi's tracker remained off for the entirety of the second half of the day. If you have proof, post it. Otherwise the record speaks for itself.
Excuse from Mimi's team wrote:
Regarding the tracker there is this on the Ultrarunning Community:
"Richard Weremiuk
It wasn't off. Mimi's web dev via Mimi was instructed to apply a specific statement on her website that without 2g or 3g it won't transmit location until it gets back to signal. Someone forgot I guess, and the team will get some grief for that oversight. I wasnt very sympathetic with them.
Edited · Like · 1 · Report · 26 minutes ago"
I don't know who Richard is but I will point out this excuse does not work. The other two vehicles were transmitting just fine during the time that Mimi's tracker was turned off. Therefore it is not a matter of insufficient wireless signal. It also wasn't a battery issue, since it read 85% charged at the time it was turned off.
Richard Weremiuk owns the tracker company.
So why did this experienced runner take a tracker that they claim could never have worked for the entire trip?
They are either deliberately scamming or incredibly thick.
Is the support car and RV using a tracker from Race Drone too, or another system?
This attempt is over.
Mimi Anderson - Endurance Athlete added 9 new photos.
... Mimi was definitely feeling the effect of the last few days of rain and cold and was not her normal chirpy self. The rain was only sporadic in the morning but the cold wind was biting. By dawn the rain had passed but it remained cold.
She is not chirpy because now she actually has to run. FYI: Sandy ran along snowy roads on her short mileage day. Much colder than Mimi has had to face with.
The hardest thing for the crew today was to find suitable stopping places at the required distances for lunch and the end of the day. The RV is so large that if we miss an opportunity we would have to drive many miles before finding a turning spot. Today this has meant a slightly shorter mileage.
This sounds like they just discovered the logistics of such a run. They would have learned stop planning in the first few days. I expect the steady mileage days will no longer happen.
It looks like the Strava data is enough for some UK folks. I guess they haven't seen this (all credit to Scam_W):
Excuse from Mimi's team wrote:
It is true. Scroll back in this thread. Multiple people observed the vehicles moving around while Mimi's tracker remained off for the entirety of the second half of the day. If you have proof, post it. Otherwise the record speaks for itself.
Oh no, you're reading me wrong ... I completely agree that they certainly were on when Mimi's wasn't some of the time: the majority of the time I _think_ it was the RV that was still showing as on when the car and Mimi were off, but they definately were all off together at a later point in time. No screenshot I'm afraid.
Excuse from Mimi's team wrote:
It looks like the Strava data is enough for some UK folks. I guess they haven't seen this (all credit to Scam_W):
https://www.strava.com/activities/1200510172
This thread was posted in the main UK ultra facebook group but the poster was immediately banned and his thread removed.
runwalkcrawlcry wrote:
Excuse from Mimi's team wrote:It is true. Scroll back in this thread. Multiple people observed the vehicles moving around while Mimi's tracker remained off for the entirety of the second half of the day. If you have proof, post it. Otherwise the record speaks for itself.
Oh no, you're reading me wrong ... I completely agree that they certainly were on when Mimi's wasn't some of the time: the majority of the time I _think_ it was the RV that was still showing as on when the car and Mimi were off, but they definately were all off together at a later point in time. No screenshot I'm afraid.
OK, I apologize for my confusion. I never saw all three off at the same time but perhaps that was in the evening when I had stopped watching (I assumed they were finished).