Robert Young fakes run across America

Yes I am here wrote:

I commented on a SKINS post saying he should invite someone from LRC to join in the "independent investigation". He replied, asking me to PM him a name. I'm going to include DC Rainmaker, but who from this site would like to be nominated?

Yes I suggested Ray Maker, I think it's a great choice.

Wasn't Rojo thinking of paying someone from Strava to upload files? Are we sure he is qualified for this job ;)?

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not impressing win wrote:

rausa examiner wrote:

I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like the "core" group were intending to do the whole thing, or at least as far as they could. There were other individuals that joined in later in various places for a stage or two, but they were never listed as "core" group members who had run from the start. There were 16 core at the start, but only 7 left by Texas.

Well, I don't know for sure either. This page lists 10 core members:

http://raceacrossusa.org/core-team/

Interesting exaggeration in RY's description on the rausa crew page: "Rob ran his very first 26.2 miler on 14th April 2014, and again every day thereafter, until more than quadrupling the World Record for consecutive daily marathons!"

He had to take 3 weeks off in November 2014 due to an ankle injury. He had an MRI and there are pictures of him in a boot on his personal facebook page.

Doer of Things wrote:

Triathleteguru wrote:

They need to revisit that interview, is that from a podcast? Has the host been contacted?

Why don't YOU be that "they?"

Done!

If anyone else is a Twitter user, tweet them at @marathontalk

Howard Dean wrote:

My Feelings Matter wrote:

I just read the all ~385 pages. I know it looks bad for Rob Young, but I just have a feeling he is innocent.

That's probably just indigestion. Go eat some chalk and it will go away.

You are all meanies! I sad!

I finally racked down the Immenstadt tri results, but guess what? Despite what was written on the Runners World post - Rob Young is not listed as a finisher.

http://www.trisport.dk/Immenstadt%202004%20EC.html

Is anyone here a registered poster on Runners World? If so, is it possible for you to try to contact "Doubly Bionic Ironwolf" who first posted about Rob's result in 2004, and is still active on the forums? He / she may be able to shed some light on how they heard about that result. I'm confident I have the right results listing as Tracey Haseldine and Louisa Edmonston do appear, the other runners DBI refers to.

Possibly another DQ for our Mr Young?

Check out Robs personal FB account and there is a link to a "Test" strava upload, the new account has a number of runs uploaded to it but not directly from a device as it lists the device as "GPX" (also appears to be no HR or cadence details)

We are well aware of it, we've both been reading this board and have spoken about it in the last two episodes.

Triathleteguru wrote:

Doer of Things wrote:

Why don't YOU be that "they?"

Done!

http://imgur.com/2rDZ8W7

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DATA!! wrote:

Check out Robs personal FB account and there is a link to a "Test" strava upload, the new account has a number of runs uploaded to it but not directly from a device as it lists the device as "GPX" (also appears to be no HR or cadence details)

Link?

DATA!! wrote:

Check out Robs personal FB account and there is a link to a "Test" strava upload, the new account has a number of runs uploaded to it but not directly from a device as it lists the device as "GPX" (also appears to be no HR or cadence details)

Link? DOn't see it.

Only a small fraction of the data but already two impressive runs on 30May (30+ miles) and 7 June (10 miles with a lot of 5:30 pace in it!) which look like RV assisted!

Racergirl wrote:

https://www.facebook.com/roberthpyoung/fitness

Quick, screenshot gurus! Strava premium users! Save all this stuff.

"Day 13 started with confusion. Rob’s confusion. I woke him up after his 3/4 hours sleep and he asked me how far we had run that day. But the day hadn’t started. “I could have sworn we’d already done some running”, he said. It was clearly all a blur of miles and miles and easy to become disoriented."

oops even Rob didn't know Dustin was driving the RV 40+ miles every night for him!

also, chart with requested addition:

not certain on a couple of the totals for the days where the tracker data is missing, so it's estimated from posts on other locations.

team1.kml.gpx... wrote:

Racergirl wrote:https://www.facebook.com/roberthpyoung/fitness

Quick, screenshot gurus! Strava premium users! Save all this stuff.

Doesn't quite match the TomTom data but still puts him in Bannock after 8am:

And, of course, there is no upload to account for the missing 34 miles unsupported through the desert to Laughlin.

team1.kml.gpx... wrote:

Racergirl wrote:https://www.facebook.com/roberthpyoung/fitness

Quick, screenshot gurus! Strava premium users! Save all this stuff.

Not seeing anything. Maybe it's because I'm on my phone. Do I have to be friends with him? Can somebody post a link to the strava please?

Racergirl wrote:

https://www.facebook.com/roberthpyoung/fitness

That links to a strava account in Irondequoit, NY. Is that a troll? If not, that has to be the most ironic town name ever. "Iron de quoit"? Yes, it's a real town near Rochester.

MakerOfWebsite wrote:

team1.kml.gpx... wrote:

Quick, screenshot gurus! Strava premium users! Save all this stuff.

Doesn't quite match the TomTom data but still puts him in Bannock after 8am:

https://www.strava.com/activities/617391631

And, of course, there is no upload to account for the missing 34 miles unsupported through the desert to Laughlin.

More like: "Night RV ride" Jesus.

team1.kml.gpx... wrote:

Racergirl wrote:https://www.facebook.com/roberthpyoung/fitness

Quick, screenshot gurus! Strava premium users! Save all this stuff.

Working on downloading the GPX files. Who new my free trial of premium would be so useful.