Robert Young fakes run across America

Asher Delmott wrote:

Racergirl wrote:

Has anyone had an acknowledgement from Pielke & Tucker to information submitted? Slightly cynical, but I'd like to be sure they don't turn round on July 11th and claim they received no submissions. How long do I (we) wait before asking again? I only mean acknowledgement of receipt, not any commentary or comment on the content.

I received an email from them this morning regarding some of the evidence I submitted.

Yes, my acknowledgement has just come through too, so I can chill about it.

I just noticed that his marathon and half marathon PRs have been taken off of Wikipedia and his website. Does anyone know when this happened? Does anyone have a screenshot of the old PR's?

Hiro wrote:

I just noticed that his marathon and half marathon PRs have been taken off of Wikipedia and his website. Does anyone know when this happened? Does anyone have a screenshot of the old PR's?

You find all the changes here:

Dr Joyce Brojos wrote:

You could let them know. wrote:

"Surprised British tabloids haven't run with this."

Probably because people like you haven't made them aware of it.

I live 6000 miles from the UK, have never been there, and know nobody who lives there.

Why don't you tell me how to go about doing this?

I won't tell you, what's the point? If I have to tell you how to that in the year 2016 then you're a complete idiot and who's going to listen to or be convinced by a complete idiot?

But here's a little hint to get you going, good luck with the modern tech:

Markus wrote:

Hiro wrote:

I just noticed that his marathon and half marathon PRs have been taken off of Wikipedia and his website. Does anyone know when this happened? Does anyone have a screenshot of the old PR's?

You find all the changes here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_HP_Young&action=history

"This article has multiple issues. ..

A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. (June 2016)"

"This article has multiple issues. ..

A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. (June 2016)"

And that surprises anybody? :-) LOL

Form a committee wrote:

Doesn't invalidate anything I wrote. This thread is losing momentum now,

The thread was very soft on the employee. The homoerotic angle wasn't exploited to lead to deletions, for example.

But the behavior of the Skins employee is pivotal to the whole mess of this story. I bet they keep their fingers crossed that he wasn't dragged in the spotlight.

They can only afford three months because in fact this is a very civilized thread. Don't let the accusations of trollism fool you, they are just accusations.

Form a committee wrote:

This thread is losing momentum now,

Natch. It slowed down a lot when RY gave up. It slowed down even more when the numbers guys moved to Facebook or wherever they ended up. Now we are basically in a holding pattern until the skins report comes out.

Fear not. For about a year the Kip Litton thread basically consisted of not much more than:

"When is the article coming out?"

"There's not going to be an article."

"Trust me, I knoe the guy who is writing the article."

"Has anybody seen the article?"

And in the end there WAS an article.

letsrun is the ultrarunner of sleuthing. Doesn't matter how slow, keep moving forward.

Robert Young removing some of his PRs from Wikipedia. Gee, why ever would he do that? I mean innocent people wouldn't do that would they? lol

What a fraud this guy is!

RY is listed as a team of two at Equinox24 in September, here in the UK. I have every intention of making it clear in the weeks leading up to the event, how he has lied and twisted the truth. And if he chooses to run, he can expect alot of questions!! Really pleased steve way has made his view clear.

[quote]Joanne wrote:

RY is due to talk at an event in Barrow on July 11. I wonder if he'll turn up, and if anyone will ask him any pertinent questions about his army career, world class triathlons, professional cycling career, world best run without sleep, run across America feats or this transcon fiasco.

http://eventful.com/events/evening-robert-young-marathon-man-uk-/E0-000-000000000-0

[/quote

I'm Leicester based, if it was closer I would definitely go along. Will wait until Equinox24.

Markus wrote:

uk ultra runners wrote:

The main reason RY still has a big fanbase over here is because people like Mark Cockbain said of him "sounds legit". And he's done a transcon.

I don't think Mark Cockbain did a Trans Con but he did the Jogle.

http://www.markcockbain.com/

"I have just completed the 868 mile route, from John O Groats to Lands end in the JOGLE ultra race, running around 55 miles per day in 15 days and 3 hrs and 40mins."

Yes Markus, i think i was thinking of james adams, he did a transcon, and looking at his blog mark cockbain was injured and pulled out.

Nevertheless, those two should know RY is lying.

Adams is normally incredibly gobby and never shuts up talking shite, yet just when we need him to pipe up, he's saying very little about RY, when he knows the route and must have known early on he couldnt have done those times through the desert etc

Alan Bennet wrote:

Form a committee wrote:

This thread is losing momentum now,

Natch. It slowed down a lot when RY gave up. It slowed down even more when the numbers guys moved to Facebook or wherever they ended up. Now we are basically in a holding pattern until the skins report comes out.

Fear not. For about a year the Kip Litton thread basically consisted of not much more than:

"When is the article coming out?"

"There's not going to be an article."

"Trust me, I knoe the guy who is writing the article."

"Has anybody seen the article?"

And in the end there WAS an article.

letsrun is the ultrarunner of sleuthing. Doesn't matter how slow, keep moving forward.

True. We're now all wearing white business shirts from laz, cutting holes in our shoes and moving forward at legit ultrarunner pace.

uk runners doing a Transcon wrote:

Markus wrote:

I don't think Mark Cockbain did a Trans Con but he did the Jogle.

http://www.markcockbain.com/

"I have just completed the 868 mile route, from John O Groats to Lands end in the JOGLE ultra race, running around 55 miles per day in 15 days and 3 hrs and 40mins."

Yes Markus, i think i was thinking of james adams, he did a transcon, and looking at his blog mark cockbain was injured and pulled out.

http://runningandstuff.squarespace.com/ram/

Nevertheless, those two should know RY is lying.

Adams is normally incredibly gobby and never shuts up talking shite, yet just when we need him to pipe up, he's saying very little about RY, when he knows the route and must have known early on he couldnt have done those times through the desert etc

I ran with James Adams in the same Transcon race in 2011.

My guess is that he didn't want to be controversial and had others do the work.

Watcher of videos wrote:

http://www.marathonmanuk.co.uk/wheres-rob-running

shows that Rob was due to fly back from the US on 4th July, so you'd be likely to find him running around Greenwich Park between 04:00 and 07:19 over the next few days.

That page could do with a spell check...

"Chicargo Marathon", "Sunset to Sunrise run Geurnsey", "Theree peak world record".

World 24hr Bronze medal winner and UK runner Robbie Britton thinks Rob's full of it too.

https://twitter.com/ultrabritton/status/749012001578479616

You could let them know. wrote:

Dr Joyce Brojos wrote:

I live 6000 miles from the UK, have never been there, and know nobody who lives there.

Why don't you tell me how to go about doing this?

I won't tell you, what's the point? If I have to tell you how to that in the year 2016 then you're a complete idiot and who's going to listen to or be convinced by a complete idiot?

But here's a little hint to get you going, good luck with the modern tech:

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=contacting+british+tabloids&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=

Sure, with a few e-mails or phone calls or maybe a fax, they'll get right on it. You really don't understand how the world works, do you?

Hey, i shaved your mom's back. You won't even recognize her.

Hiro wrote:

I just noticed that his marathon and half marathon PRs have been taken off of Wikipedia and his website. Does anyone know when this happened? Does anyone have a screenshot of the old PR's?

Are you sure? I can still view his PR's:

(click on the red button)

And just to be sure. Did somebody mail the researchers the Google doc, the blog, this thread, Asher's videos?