Did Mike Rossi (viral marathon dad) cheat his way into Boston?

Mike, let me train you.

Anybody who can run a 3:46 marathon off of 15 miles a week, especially at your age and background should be able to get a Boston qualifier.

It may take a couple years but, I am willing to try and get you there with hard work and perseverance.

Let me know, Tim

1. Rossi posted online a letter he received from the principal of his children's elementary school because he took his two children out of school to watch him run in the Boston Marathon.

2. He then responded and wrote a sarcastic and self-serving letter to the principal, addressing it "Dear Madam Principal" rather using her real name which would have demonstrated generally accepted standards of respect (he later tries to claim he loves the school and the principal and meant no harm) when writing a letter. He essentially threw a hissy fit because he believed that he and his family should be treated differently than any other school district families.

3. He never sent that letter to the principal or any other school administrator but instead posted it online. I could understand taking all of this public after you have exhausted all avenues of recourse that responsible people first try, that is, meeting with school officials.

4. He subsequently said he posted both letters on only his Facebook page which were solely intended for his "friends" to see. He then denied that he posted either letter anywhere else but to his Facebook page, yet that was a lie as has been shown via screen captures and saved images of his twitter account and other social media sources (including his company website) that he posted/reposted and tweeted/retweeted said letters and giving tv and radio interviews, all before ever meeting with any administrator in the school district. One could argue that he was cyber-bullying the principal by his childish behavior, the tone of his letter and the sarcasm he envoked.

5. The principal did not single out Rossi or treat him and his two children any different than any of the other 7,500 students in the school district. Partial disclosure - I live in this school district. Letters such as this are issued for unexcused absences. Why he choose to make an issue of this is beyond me because it does not affect a student, especially third graders, unless the student already has a history (10 or more I believe in the state of PA) of unexcused absences.

6. This attention brought scrutiny to his public "running" and race times, as well as all of his posting and boasting on his social media accounts. As questions arose, the once very public figure decided to go uncharacteristically quiet and close his social media accounts or made them private.

7. Rossi posted and boasted about his running and training like he was an accomplished runner or athlete, although much of it sounded quite amateurish. He posted pictures like a teen.

8. He "runs" the race of a lifetime after only 18 months of running and total of about 1,000 miles at the age of 46 and all of sudden he finds modesty and barely mentions his Lehigh Valley Health Network Via Marathon's race time, in spite of somehow cutting an enormous amount of time from his PR. After every other race, he wrote a lot on his social media accounts and posted tons of pictures at each race. However, for some reason, barely a peep from him after the LVM. Things that make you go hmm?

9. When questioned in an interview about the disconnect between previous race times and his LVM race time/pace, he said he wasnt trying in the other races yet in his posts he blatantly boasted about his race times and expressed how he thought his race times were good etc., thus his posted comments are consistent with someone trying to do his best and trying to get BQ. In fact, in the Philadelphia Marathon he mentions his time and the BQ and being upset that he "just" missed a BQ because of a bathroom break.

10. There is not one single photograph of Rossi on the LVM race course, with the exception of the ones at the finish line. The race course did not have time mats but did have several camera checkpoints on the course. There is a nearly continuous run of photos at least three checkpoints.

11. At one of the photo checkpoints there was on average more than 48 photos published per minute for a 13 minute stretch during which Rossi would have to run by the checkpoint (with the fewest photos in any one minute stretch being 40 photos). All of the 20 closest finishers to Rossi (in terms of place, 10 ahead, 10 behind) were spotted at all three checkpoints and yet Mr. Rossi is absent from all three.

12. An analysis of the first photo checkpoint revealed that 199 of the top 200 finishers were photographed. Guess who is missing? Yep, Rossi #2161. Is it a coincidence that the individual who ran his fastest pace/time for a marathon and at a faster pace than many of the shorter distances (in spite of usually slowing down over longer races) did not have one single photo on the course? I think not. No reasonable person thinks its a coincidence. However, I am open to seeing and reviewing any photos or evidence that shows he was in fact on the course, excluding the start and finish lines.

13. The LVM Committee did NOT confirm nor did it state that they believed that Rossi ran the entire race, and they also did not say that they thought his time was accurate and did not say that they thought he did not cheat. Quite the opposite, as their statement said there was no conclusive evidence that his time was inaccurate. Saying or concluding a runner's time is accurate (and here is why we think so) is much different than saying that there was no conclusive evidence that a runner's time was inaccurate. In fact, they did not did provide any evidence that his time was accurate. Why not? But how could they? They did not have interim timing mats and there was not a photo to be found of him on the course. Moreover, they didn't even address the issue of photos in their statement. That is telling.

14. Other runners can at least point to time-stamped photos at various points on the course to say "there I am", which is more than can be said for Rossi! He can't. He hasn't. He refuses to!

15. The lack of photos of Rossi is arguably more damning than his time/pace time. Why? One can debate race times/pace, training etc., but there is no bias in continuous, time-stamped photos being taken by professional photographers there to capture every racer. That is not to say that race times/pace and training is not an important piece of evidence, it is, especially in light of his other race times, particularly his pace in 5k's.

16. The mere fact that the LVM Race Director decided to impanel a committee to "review" this debacle meant there was enough "probable cause" or suspicion to do so. Therefore, it is the LVM Committee's and Rossi's responsibility to provide the conclusive evidence that his time is accurate, not anyone else's to provide conclusive evidence that his time is inaccurate.

17. Of course this isnt any evidence that he ran the race or his time is inaccurate because the LVM abdicated its responsibility of ensuring accuracy and validity of the race times BEFORE the race by not having timing mats throughout the race course and AFTER the race by its flawed investigation, reasoning and statement.

18. Rossi claims to have photos and other exculpatory evidence to demonstrate that his time is accurate/ran the entire race. It is time for Rossi to provide any and all information that he claims to possess rather than just saying so. Saying so does not make it true. If he truly has such evidence, then there is no reason why he should not or would not share it. NONE. Failure to provide this information can only lead one to reasonably conclude that he is lying about this so called "evidence" and thus, he cheated and his time is inaccurate.

LoserMikeRossi wrote:

I would love you guys to stop by. I live 1/10 of a mile from the Police department. You'll be in handcuffs for trespassing before the doorbell even stopped ringing.

Apologies for being pedantic Ken but someone is not trespassing for ringing your doorbell, if you then tell them to leave and they won't then they are trespassing also, using restraints just because they rang your doorbell is also illegal.

Note to legal secretary: Please mail Ken private property trespassing laws.

Further note: Do not hand deliver, he seems like he could be unpredictable.

Shock horror wrote:

LoserMikeRossi wrote:

And for those who missed it. More proof that Mike tries to intimidate people.

http://imgur.com/GSUnmUY

Yipes!, double yipes! that is scary and intimidating.

I'm with you there pal. I went to bed after viewing that, took me ages to get to sleep and when I did I was having nightmares. Anyway, here I am up out of bed emotionally drained and thinking I'll never be the same again.

Ken, once again sorry for being pedantic, but how do you know Mike, his wife, work colleagues and others you denigrate, are the ones who are posting. All the stuff that's been posted is readily available on the internet to the world wide public.

Do you think there's just the smallest of chances that it's what's commonly called trolls, shit stirrers and others who are here for a bit of fun are the ones posting. Heck Ken, I have a confession to make here, sometimes I like to live on the edge and ever since Mike pointed out this thread I've done it myself a couple of times, not directed towards you of course.

Note to legal secretary: Mail Ken current libel laws.

Further note: Do not hand deliver, he seems like he could be unpredictable.

Hey Mike's Lawyer, your gag jumped the shark about 2 pages ago. Get a new shtick.

Joey Br. wrote:

Hey Mike's Lawyer, your gag jumped the shark about 2 pages ago. Get a new shtick.

Its better than your contribution dickhead.

Mike's Lawyer wrote:

Ken, once again sorry for being pedantic, but how do you know Mike, his wife, work colleagues and others you denigrate, are the ones who are posting. All the stuff that's been posted is readily available on the internet to the world wide public.

Do you think there's just the smallest of chances that it's what's commonly called trolls, shit stirrers and others who are here for a bit of fun are the ones posting. Heck Ken, I have a confession to make here, sometimes I like to live on the edge and ever since Mike pointed out this thread I've done it myself a couple of times, not directed towards you of course.

Note to legal secretary: Mail Ken current libel laws.

Further note: Do not hand deliver, he seems like he could be unpredictable.

Instead, just mail me proof that Mike ran the marathon, and I will be happy to share it with the running community and put an end to this thread and investigations.

How about this fatty.

You provide proof you finished those 80+ clients videos...and prove your kid is not a retard...

And I'll get Mike to meet you and provide photos of him on the course, GPS data and bring you a subway $5 foot long.

Since Ken, Ross FELICE and Jared like that kind of thing.

Rossi's driver. wrote:

LoserMikeRossi wrote:

Instead, just mail me proof that Mike ran the marathon, and I will be happy to share it with the running community and put an end to this thread and investigations.

How about this fatty.

You provide proof you finished those 80+ clients videos...and prove your kid is not a retard...

And I'll get Mike to meet you and provide photos of him on the course, GPS data and bring you a subway $5 foot long.

Since Ken, Ross FELICE and Jared like that kind of thing.

DEAL!

Not sure how I'd be able to prove the videos were delivered. But I'll bring my son to meet with Mike and have his report card from school.

Where would you like to meet?

(Make the sub a grilled chicken on hearty Italian roll with just tomatoes, onions, and sweet peppers. Thanks)

Could someone please help me out here?

If Mike really ran his 3:11 and change marathon, why hasn't his hair stood up for him? Doesn't its reputation stand more to lose than Rossi's?

the cat curiosity forgot wrote:

Could someone please help me out here?

If Mike really ran his 3:11 and change marathon, why hasn't his hair stood up for him? Doesn't its reputation stand more to lose than Rossi's?

Mike's hair actually spoke out against him and quickly received death threats and a letter from his attorney.

Tim Vandervlugt wrote:

Mike, let me train you.

Anybody who can run a 3:46 marathon off of 15 miles a week, especially at your age and background should be able to get a Boston qualifier.

It may take a couple years but, I am willing to try and get you there with hard work and perseverance.

Let me know, Tim

No disrespect, but I think he would be better off with someone who actually knows something about running.

Wow, zing!

For those of you doubting that Rossi has won only have to look at the last few pages.

There will never be a DQ. His time and Boston finish stand. Period. End of story.

He has everyone on this thread scared,

Doubler is scared to post on social media in fear that Rossi may change his facebook profile picture (ooooooh). He's even checking Rossi's fb page every day to see if his jig is up.

triguru has been intimidated by Rossi and thinks that at any moment some guy with a particular set of skills is going to come after him.

abington runner has been done since Rossi's lawyer contacted the brojos about the threat he made on Rossi's life.

GregTR and SaraB have disappeared into the wilderness - probably afraid of what Rossi may post about them too.

The strangest part of all is that LMR seems to be the only one willing to stand up to Rossi.

We'll see. I might have a rabbit up my sleeve. And you'll never see it coming.

Mike Rossi is a cheating POS. That's all he's "won", the title of being a cheating POS. All the ridiculous posts and pathetic denials and attempts to obfuscate do nothing but keep this thread alive - a reminder that Mike Rossi is a cheating POS. Nice win.

The LVM Facebook page is busy removing comments again. At what point will they realize this isn't going away?

Signs on course talking about a cheater and an incompetent race director.

Mike's Hair Plug Row2 Col15 wrote:

I think I can speak for all of us up here. Please keep us out of this discussion.

^ This hair is obviously a troll. A lame troll attempt at that.

Isn't it rather obvious that I am NOT a bunch of plugs, but rather the most incredible hair piece money-made-from-being-a-wedding-DJ can buy, made from the finest atomic-tangerined Bolivian alpaca hair you have ever seen! I am as fine as it gets baby! Ain't no one or no hair better than me!