Robert Young fakes run across America

Rob reached 5km in 17:31, around 10 seconds after Paula. Light blue vest, dark kilt, yellow shoes. And then faded badly until the end.

PR specialist wrote:

Just circling back on the ESPN crew research. Do we have any way to know which show/dept/producer etc. was allegedly involved? Anyone able to ask? We are hitting a lot of dead ends, even internally in Bristol, and any nugget like that would be key. Thanks!

June 6 at 2:18am ·

Had a great few days with ESPN who are filming my trip across along with CCTV America.

I don't think he mentioned the names of the ESPN people

You could ask his manager (info@owal.co) or the CCTV crew (they are known).

Rob's fiancé changed her Facebook name to "Asia Hanka"... Very suspicious.

https://www.facebook.com/joanna.hanasz

EastSheenInsider wrote:

Rob's fiancé changed her Facebook name to "Asia Hanka"... Very suspicious.

https://www.facebook.com/joanna.hanasz

I love how RY has everything public on his FB profile. A bit of drama here back in 2009:

RYoungFan1 wrote:

RYoungFan1 wrote:

Pure entertainment. Rob certainly wasn't missing meals along the way.

@MarathonMan_UK: Rob running in New Mexico

https://t.co/jn6tGcKyjg

Can anyone identify any of these businesses so we can have a point to match against tomtom data? Pretty grainy stuff. Hoping someone has a trick here.

9 miles out from Farmington, NM. I think that is this run which looks legit with a few brief bursts:

Investigator wrote:

RYoungFan1 wrote:

Can anyone identify any of these businesses so we can have a point to match against tomtom data? Pretty grainy stuff. Hoping someone has a trick here.

9 miles out from Farmington, NM. I think that is this run which looks legit with a few brief bursts:

https://www.strava.com/activities/617303327

Yup, Alco discount store. Mile ~1.5 of that activity is the video.

Something else is interesting to notice: Rob uploaded 2 versions of this run. One is clearly a recording of him, the other is clearly a recording of the bike following him.

- you can tell because when possible the cyclist/videographer cuts away from the street.

There's nothing untoward here specifically, but why would Dustin have a TomTom on the bike? Perhaps the bike was a part of the fraud after all?

MMUK investigator wrote:

I've been working on a timeline of evidence in the lead up to the creation of 'Marathon Man UK'.

Note I'm not focusing on previous running etc here, just the claims made in the book and his other business activities before that.

The infamous first three marathons are listed in chronological order based on the facebook posts and MapMyRun info. The obvious thing that jumps out here is they clearly don't match up to thew timeline in the book (nor the route described).

At the moment it's locked, please give me any suggestions if I missed something.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TcRqUwOFIF-_t_BLz47D85mcR4txTmgpLmN0gvXYEJs/edit?usp=sharing

Nice timeline.

One error: 13/12/2014 should be 13/12/2015.

EastSheenInsider wrote:

Rob's fiancé changed her Facebook name to "Asia Hanka"... Very suspicious.

https://www.facebook.com/joanna.hanasz

Or maybe she's getting harassed by a bunch of (letsrun-inspired?) pitchfork and torch bearers even though she personally has done jack shit.

Hey yall, be careful with the side of righteousness and all that. Focus on the two dudes in the show.

You might like to add his "Lambert Skiles" activity, which he uses to comment on other running issues.

http://www.ultrarunningtrail.com/posts/23488

http://www.ultrarunningtrail.com/posts/23645

One of which refers to this now-deleted post from his MMUK FB page calling out Mark Vaz for not using a tracker and releasing his data:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zvDwfosaBE0J:https://www.facebook.com/marathonmanuk/posts/1002960943121497+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

Which leads us to... CoachKev using the name "Christian Wisoky" on that forum.

http://www.ultrarunningtrail.com/posts/27294

Why does that forum make up ridiculous names for all the users?

Hmmm. Dustin was in Cleveland watching a game, then took a bus to Rochester to meet with Rob (according to Dustin's FB page).

I guess the fake Strava account he setup under his wife's name with Irondquoit, NY as her location was where he is...

Too bad it is not confirmed if he has the RV with him, I would drive around looking for it - I live close.

Investigator wrote:

Investigator wrote:

9 miles out from Farmington, NM. I think that is this run which looks legit with a few brief bursts:

https://www.strava.com/activities/617303327

Yup, Alco discount store. Mile ~1.5 of that activity is the video.

Something else is interesting to notice: Rob uploaded 2 versions of this run. One is clearly a recording of him, the other is clearly a recording of the bike following him.

https://www.strava.com/activities/617303327https://www.strava.com/activities/617300936https://imgur.com/a/CD8zV

- you can tell because when possible the cyclist/videographer cuts away from the street.

There's nothing untoward here specifically, but why would Dustin have a TomTom on the bike? Perhaps the bike was a part of the fraud after all?

Nice catch. How could he possibly justify uploading the bike's tom tom as his run transcon activity? Unless of course this was his standard practice to interchange the two. Who was on that bike? Need to save this one because it might disappear.

RYinvestigator wrote:

MMUK investigator wrote:

I've been working on a timeline of evidence in the lead up to the creation of 'Marathon Man UK'.

Note I'm not focusing on previous running etc here, just the claims made in the book and his other business activities before that.

The infamous first three marathons are listed in chronological order based on the facebook posts and MapMyRun info. The obvious thing that jumps out here is they clearly don't match up to thew timeline in the book (nor the route described).

At the moment it's locked, please give me any suggestions if I missed something.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TcRqUwOFIF-_t_BLz47D85mcR4txTmgpLmN0gvXYEJs/edit?usp=sharing

Nice timeline.

One error: 13/12/2014 should be 13/12/2015.

Ah yes you're right. I thought it was 2014 as the Internet Archive snapshot was from then.

Hobby Jogger expert wrote:

Investigator wrote:

Yup, Alco discount store. Mile ~1.5 of that activity is the video.

Something else is interesting to notice: Rob uploaded 2 versions of this run. One is clearly a recording of him, the other is clearly a recording of the bike following him.

https://www.strava.com/activities/617303327https://www.strava.com/activities/617300936https://imgur.com/a/CD8zV

- you can tell because when possible the cyclist/videographer cuts away from the street.

There's nothing untoward here specifically, but why would Dustin have a TomTom on the bike? Perhaps the bike was a part of the fraud after all?

Nice catch. How could he possibly justify uploading the bike's tom tom as his run transcon activity? Unless of course this was his standard practice to interchange the two. Who was on that bike? Need to save this one because it might disappear.

Done.

I've got GPX/TCX of everything archived, shared on Google doc

It's on the fake backup Strava profile too, not going away anytime soon...

So.... I mean I don't know what other "proof" the believers want? He has ridiculous paces in ridiculous places. That's cheating in running. There isn't going to be a "smoking gun" for the believers, because Rob can attempt to explain away ANYTHING! You could see him on a bicycle and follow him for 20 miles with his watch on and tracking, and he would just say "oops I forgot to turn off the watch, just cross training mid transcon run".

Rob, if you're reading this, I know it must be hard to admit it with this group of people "depending" on you and really believing in you, but what's worse? Them believing in fraudulent attempts or you coming clean and saying "you know what, all of this chasing records got bigger than I could manage and I had to try to live up to the hype and did that by cheating, but I was wrong."?

All will be fine wrote:

http://prntscr.com/blr07u

Hmmm. Dustin was in Cleveland watching a game, then took a bus to Rochester to meet with Rob (according to Dustin's FB page).

I guess the fake Strava account he setup under his wife's name with Irondquoit, NY as her location was where he is...

Too bad it is not confirmed if he has the RV with him, I would drive around looking for it - I live close.

Dustbin managed to scrounge a free ticket to the ballgame. Team Freebie shall never die.

Has the rather bizarre idea that Britain is still a monarchy.

And we all know what he means when he says "Had an awesome hot dog"

This GPS data from either the bike computer or from the arm of somebody on the bike wearing his watch is quite damning when you think about it. If these GPS watches are soley used for proving your transcon records legitimacy what possible excuse could there be for a team member to be wearing it while turned on?

I am beginning to believe the bike and fellow crew members played a bigger role in this lame scam. Might even explain the button hook pattern on the fast "runs' as a new rider took over.

rjm33 wrote:

OK. I have no problem with that time. It is a lot better than many of his other marathons. Robbie's 46.6 mile ultra…one race on one day…was at an average 9:42 mile pace.

It does not change the conclusion:

Robbie is a liar and is not a world champion or a world record holder at anything other than the world record for lies.

Dr. Kipps is a new discovery in this story.

Maybe more like this legend: