Robert Young fakes run across America

ReverseImageSearcher wrote:

The Run4Peace blog states:

"Record-breaking distance runners Wilson Kipsang, Rob Young (Marathon Man UK) and Adam Holland today united to encourage runners across the UK to join Young and Holland for the 2016 Kenya Peace Torch Relay (21-30 October 2016: run4peace.co.uk). They were pictured at Tower Bridge with the relay torch, which began its journey in Kenya’s North Rift Valley last year.

“I would urge all to sign up to run for peace and save many lives,” says Kenyan marathon star Kipsang, who broke the Marathon World Record in 2013."

http://run4peace.co.uk/record-breakers-urge-uk-runners-to-sign-up-for-kenya-peace-torch-relay/

The image of Rob, Adam and Wilson Kipsang in front of the tower bridge is photoshopped.

https://www.tineye.com/search/8d0d4f40bd389444c668667a80917db6202315e9/

Not to say it's not photoshopped but none of those are a match.

Busybody wrote:

Can't follow this thread as frequently as the psychos, how did the transcon run end up? Record or no record?

He finished, and got the record by almost a day and a half. Great video of him sprinting in the last mile all out in 5:45 with about 150 people cheering him on at the finish, including Bunny Girl. Kind of gives me goose bumps watching.

winner chicken dinner wrote:

Busybody wrote:

Can't follow this thread as frequently as the psychos, how did the transcon run end up? Record or no record?

He finished, and got the record by almost a day and a half. Great video of him sprinting in the last mile all out in 5:45 with about 150 people cheering him on at the finish, including Bunny Girl. Kind of gives me goose bumps watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

The link shows as a link I have visited before, so nice try but I am not clicking it.

Route comes through Leicester...I ll get a few people out there to offer zero support!!

ciaranmc wrote:

This relay goes through Bristol, where I live, I may have to pop out and see Rob in the flesh, or see his RV.

Any questions you'd like me to put to him?

Andy Persson who posted earlier in this thread and was a RY defender is from Bristol, perhaps you could team up with him and report back to us on Rob's progress.

I just posted in the Equinox24 Facebook page...asking the general feeling of Rob running as a pair in September...very one-sided in responses!!

Ukrunner777 wrote:

I just posted in the Equinox24 Facebook page...asking the general feeling of Rob running as a pair in September...very one-sided in responses!!

Link?

Triathleteguru wrote:

Ukrunner777 wrote:

I just posted in the Equinox24 Facebook page...asking the general feeling of Rob running as a pair in September...very one-sided in responses!!

Link?

He still has a lot of fans.

I'm crap at posting links, especially from my phone. It's Equinox24 on facebook. It's a closed group. Only a few were not defending him.

I haven't been on LRC for a few months, so I totally missed this fiasco. It really bums me out, because it seems like it was pretty juicy. And since this is now nearly 500 pages, it is very difficult for me to get up to speed. Here is what I gathered from about 10 minutes of clicking around:

-RY is some British ultra runner dude.

-RY sets out to break the record for fastest run across the US.

-Random LRC guy from Kansas decides to go run a few miles with him, but when he arrives, RY is nowhere to be found. Just an RV driving slowly. LRC guy takes some videos and posts it to LRC, hypothesizing that RY isn't truly running the entire thing.

-LRC sleuths kick into high gear, discovering that some of RY's alleged accomplishments are questionable, including the # of races he has run, as well as some PRs.

-LRC sleuths also analyze some of the GPS tracking data and discover that RY apparently ran a few stretches at improbably fast paces.

-RY and his team catch wind of this and vehemently deny any cheating, even inviting some outsiders (like Laz from Barkleys) to come observe.

-UK elite marathoner Steve Way chimes in to say that this dude seems like a cheater.

-RY drops out at some point due to a foot injury.

-Due to intense pressure, RY releases some Strava data from his runs, but his critics say they seem edited, and they do not include cadence data (and therefore he could have been just sitting in the RV during the "runs."

So help me out. What did I get wrong? Did I miss anything juicy, or is this about it?

Might want to change the last bit.

- RY releases small portion of data, leaving huge gaps. Big enough to drive an RV through.

- Skins launch investigation into RY

- Letsrun users get really bored waiting for Skins cheating report.

- Letsrun users stalk RY on facebook.

Good update.

Here is our live webcam of Adam and Robbie (on the left with sausage in hand):

https://www.facebook.com/run4peace2016/photos/a.527886710747765.1073741828.527518314117938/527954590740977/?type=3&theater

lurker wrote:

Triathleteguru wrote:

Link?

He still has a lot of fans.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/171497456376291/

Look at the comments with all the photos from the run4peace. They are all calling out Robbie.

Oh Robbie.

Here it comes.

Watch out Robbie.

He lied about all his pb's on wiki - 30:47 10km 1:08 half 2:42 marathon all from an 18 min park runner. He had added me as a friendover a year ago. I went on his fb page and inbetween his wierdo ultra defenders answered some of my questions. Apart from his pb's - he could have at least said he'd not posted it to wiki himself

One of his fan boys did post a link to a 23xx 100 miler - well off the pace for classs ultra runners. You are not going to be abkle

Also his pro tri career is a massive exageration. That bronze u23 is some non official competition you can't find the results for it anywere

I think he was a very average athlete, reasonable ultra runner doing his marathon a day - then got carried away

The Aegis Trust has today issued the following statement on participation of athletes in the Run4Peace 2016. - please see link.

https://www.facebook.com/run4peace2016/

http://run4peace.co.uk/statement-on-participation-of-athletes-in-run4peace-2016/

"The Aegis Trust greatly values the support of both Adam Holland and Rob Young, who became Monaco’s Peace & Sport Champion of the Year 2015 following an international online public vote. They are outstanding athletes who have shown dedication to the cause of humanity."

Is the "cause of humanity" the same thing as "the human fund".

MissingCadence wrote:

Might want to change the last bit.

- RY releases small portion of data, leaving huge gaps. Big enough to drive an RV through.

- Skins launch investigation into RY

- Letsrun users get really bored waiting for Skins cheating report.

- Letsrun users stalk RY on facebook.

Who are the Skins?

sorry everyone wrote:

Who are the Skins?

Skinz for de reefah!

sorry everyone wrote:

So help me out. What did I get wrong? Did I miss anything juicy, or is this about it?

You seem to have missed Lazarus of the Barkley Marathons fame going out and following him for a few days.

If you can, track down the posts from the last day of the attempt when Rob's endeavor was imploding and we could still track him real time. It's an entertaining read following the RV as they were running errands around Indianapolis.