Potentially Suspicious Runner To Run 836 Miles in 9 Days for "Charity"

One thing I want to point out is that Dave claims to have done a triathlon. However, he claims to have "run" the triathlon on his website and in the RAF blog. Which doesn't make sense since you don't just run a triathlon.The organizer of the AJ Bell Triathlon have pulled the complete results off the web for 2015 for some reason but there is a blogger who captured the standard distance results for this triathlon and Mr. Reading is nowhere to be found. This means he must have done the shorter Sprint or Super Sprint distance, if he didn't just "run" it.I think we need to quiz him on his tri and stuff like what bike he used and how the swim was. Looking at the cheap mountain bike he had his 13 year old son riding to follow him on his epic training runs in the past year, I don't expect him to have much knowledge of tri bikes and probably did horrible on the bike leg. And can this guy even swim? It just seems he is way over exaggerating what he has done to make him look like more than an average back of the pack age grouper.

Dave has run the AJ Bell Triathlon 2015,

Another thing I need to point out is that Dave Reading's wife, Terrie, should also be questioned because she is the one that makes most of the posts and writing that we see on their website and social media. There are some Facebook posts and tweets where she refers to her "husband" and talks about him in the third person.So if you are messaging them, you are likely to be taking to her.

Terrie

Manager

Team Manager and Dave's Wife. Terrie's role is to liaise with media, plan events, and to keep all team members on their toes!

To establish a timeline of events, this post off their Facebook page says Dave got the idea to do this run after jogging with his hero Mo Farah one year before Feb 17, 2017.

And I hate Facebook for disabling copying of the text in the post.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=602813983255766&id=496059083931257&__tn__=%2As

Also Suspicious wrote:

Another thing I need to point out is that Dave Reading's wife, Terrie, should also be questioned because she is the one that makes most of the posts and writing that we see on their website and social media. There are some Facebook posts and tweets where she refers to her "husband" and talks about him in the third person.

So if you are messaging them, you are likely to be taking to her.

Terrie

Manager

Team Manager and Dave's Wife. Terrie's role is to liaise with media, plan events, and to keep all team members on their toes!

http://lejogrun2017.co.uk/meet-the-team

If you message the page now, you just get an auto reply saying he is not responding to messages.

And if you have asked about watches, stats, data etc you are immediately blocked.

Also Suspicious wrote:

So the vast majority of the money he is getting appears to be from offline sources that have no trail we can track. For the small amount from the online ones, if you read the comments at the bottom of the page you will see it is from his family and friends (and RV driver) with the one or two odd strangers.

Nice of the driver to donate some of his hush money.

I have seen nothing on his website about a love for sausage. Does this bolster his case?

We really need to know this. Will sausage be consumed in the RV? Has a gullible and easily blackmailed intern been found to provide this sausage?

Karl Hungus wrote:

I just assume that anyone who "runs for charity" is completely full of it and a scammer until they can provide hard proof otherwise.

True charity doesn't involve "look at me!" approaches.

Not so. Lots of genuine runners have a charity page if they do a marathon or ultra, and the money goes direct to the charity.

His charity is totally genuine, Walking With The Wounded, but clearly this guy is just an attention seeker who was likely looking at cheating his way to a record.

I doubt he will try that, now he knows people are onto him.

He seems very naive and clueless about how the likes of Rob Young and Mark Vaz got busted.

He has no chance at all of doing even half a day at world record pace.

I let his charity know about this thread, and told them to make sure they get their charity bucket back STILL SEALED.

They aren't interested in what this thread has to say - their reply -

"Thank you for taking the time to get in touch with us.

We have discussed the enormity of the LEJOG Run 2017 challenge with David. Like all of our fundraisers, we wish him the best of luck and look forward to congratulating him at the end; whether or not he completes the run/breaks the World Record.

Thanks again, WWTW."

Of course Walking With The Wounded is not interested in doing anything. In my opinion, they are a shoddy "charity" that spends your money on expensive luxury "Everest" and "South Pole" expenditions for their members. This "charity" was only founded in 2010 and reads like a scam.

Events have included expeditions to the North Pole in 2011, Mount Everest in 2012, the South Pole in 2013 and the Walk of Britain in 2015, when six ex-servicemen and women took 72 days to complete a 1,000-mile trek around Britain, finishing at Buckingham Palace.[3] Prince Harry is a patron and active participant in the expeditions and challenges.[4]

And Walking With The Wounded knows that you have to "sensationalize" your fundraising efforts. What is a little white lie if it gets them a couple million more pounds? They probably know full well Dave Reading is a fake.

I predict that he will claim getting injured on day 1 or day 2. This way he can save face.

It is clear as day that they just want to acquire the money, regardless of how it is raised. Those individuals do not understand how running works, or even know the history of running. They just see it as a platform to generate donation. It's no different than how videos and photos of impoverished african kids are used to generate donations, and the donor does not know if the kids are actually receiving the money.

It's a scam financially. And it is a scam athletically.

This a perfect example of why we need an anti-charity movement in running. Keep running as running. Remove the blood sucking charities.

Looks like the Mayor of Penzance is also going to play a role in this scam:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=599454353591729&id=496059083931257&__tn__=%2As

I'm enjoying this thread's level of craziness.

I've heard enough, I'm going to recommend sending for the "A" Team . . . . yes you heard me: Asher Delmott, Laz and Fake Laz

I'm really curious if Facebook stores any higher resolution photos than "Full Size" or if it is possible to use CSI enhancement techniques to make out the amount written on the cheque in this Facebook photo with Monk Plant Hiring. It would be interesting to follow the money and how much.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=600029470200884&substory_index=0&id=496059083931257&__tn__=%2As

As if it wasn't bad enough that Dave Reading has a whole team in on this scam, he is involving his children in on it, too. They also home school their children according to that post, which is very odd especially since they have 8 kids (someone get this guy birth control):

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=602051129998718&substory_index=0&id=496059083931257&__tn__=%2As

trollism wrote:

I'm enjoying this thread's level of craziness.

Wait...are you telling me that the guy making 50% of the posts and who celebrated a "bombshell" finding proving a bib mule incident, because he is too dumb to know the difference between a bib number and a finish placing, might be acting crazy?

LRC psyc wrote:

trollism wrote:

I'm enjoying this thread's level of craziness.

Wait...are you telling me that the guy making 50% of the posts and who celebrated a "bombshell" finding proving a bib mule incident, because he is too dumb to know the difference between a bib number and a finish placing, might be acting crazy?

That was an honest mistake because of crappy race results that didn't include standard bib numbers. Honest, as in what Dave Reading is not.

David is going to be an official member of the WALKING (not running) WITH THE WOUNDED!!!

By DAY 3 of his EPIC JOURNEY, Mr. David Reading will be a WOUNDED WALKER...WHO WILL BE WHIMPERING ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD ALL MUDDY…IN A DITCH…JUST LIKE MO FARAH WHEN HE WAS DESTROYED BY THE SCOT CALLUM HAWKINS IN A XC RACE IN SCOTLAND.

ha ha ha

A BIG EPIC JOURNEY DNF coming from the 5:04 marathoner!!!

Oh yeah David.