Robert Young fakes run across America

Even though I think he could do the 30 hour challenge, I believe that he cheated at London. Given the times and distances that he was supposedly running during Race Across USA, I think it is highly unlikely he would have had that type of speed in the tank for the London Marathon.

Rob has just updated his personal FB profile pic ( I assume to remove a SKINS logo). The fans are loving it!

Nancy Bennett Lookin' Great, Rob! Good to see you on the trail with a big smile on your face!

Ruben Cantu Rob you are looking good. Glad to see you doing "a little bit of running".

Alex Ramsey ROBO back on the loose!!!

Jan Bancroft Love this picture 😊

Tracey Wiffen That's the spirit! 💜

Anita Lassow-Azar Nice to see you back on track Robert go hero go.

Jake Brown It's good to see you in motion, Rob. 👌🏻🏃

Karen Summerville I have missed you lovely 🏃🏻🐿👍😘

Julia Wellings Ahhh, alas, welcome back, we really missed you. Hope to see you at Thames Meander on 5th Nov xxxx

Gettin' Real wrote:

Some of you blokes take this quite seriously, eh?

triathleteguru wrote:

I've reached out to Sarah Lyall, she wrote this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/sports/julie-miller-ironman-triathlon-cheat.html

in regards to Julie Miller, another obvious cheat who also has refused to admit to it. If anyone isn't familiar with that story, highly recommend reading that article, great read! Would love for Letsrun to hire Sarah to write a similar article...

Yes. Millennials take cheating very seriously. It's a byproduct in growing up during the banking crisis, Madoff, Iraq War, etc.

Has anyone checked out these names to see if they are real people?

Interesting read here: http://www.outdoorsradar.com/blogs/rob-young-i-didnt-cheat/

Nancy is the bunny suit lady.

Wiffen was all over his MMUK FB and donated money to him personally (not his charity) for his running when things got tough (post-Geezer observation period).

Ramsey is a barefoot running hippie.

Ruben Cantu was ancillary crew for Rob and also runs "for the children".

racergirl wrote:

Interesting read here:

http://www.outdoorsradar.com/blogs/rob-young-i-didnt-cheat/

Lies, lies and more lies from Rob.

Howard Dean wrote:

racergirl wrote:

Interesting read here:

http://www.outdoorsradar.com/blogs/rob-young-i-didnt-cheat/

Lies, lies and more lies from Rob.

Yeah. Five minute miles while the Geezers were with him? I don't think so.

Guardian reader wrote:

Howard Dean wrote:

Lies, lies and more lies from Rob.

Yeah. Five minute miles while the Geezers were with him? I don't think so.

Rob didn't run a single mile that fast with the Geezers. He ran a grand total of 3 minutes (probably noise from seconds here and there) at sub-5 pace post-observation.

Flounder wrote:

Even though I think he could do the 30 hour challenge, I believe that he cheated at London. Given the times and distances that he was supposedly running during Race Across USA, I think it is highly unlikely he would have had that type of speed in the tank for the London Marathon.

His 3:07 in London is valid. He has every 5km split, start and finish time. The course is fully lined by spectators, so there's nowhere he could have left/rejoined without being visible, and he was in his very recognisable kilt. He can be seen running from the start line in the BBC TV coverage. He can be seen at all the photo points along the route alongside other runners with his splits. There's video of him trying to keep up with the Paula train during the first 5km, and more video of him stopped talking to his support crew around 24 miles.

The 3:07 is valid and I wouldn't bet against a sub-3 with the same training but without such stupid pacing and that ridiculous kilt.

Look at robs website his manager has dumped him. Rob used to be managed by Oliver Wine gums or something like that but is now handling his own "media" request's. Plus oliver whatever now longer lists rob on his twatter account.

From the book 'Marathon Man':

"While I liked Dr Kipps very much...there was always this tension between us...He wanted me to observe the data."

There could be a lot more tension soon, and Rob, you should have listened to him about the data bit.

racergirl wrote:

Interesting read here:

http://www.outdoorsradar.com/blogs/rob-young-i-didnt-cheat/

Apparently the evidence about his pro cycling career is all going to 'come out'.

Still waiting for that 😂

Articles in Australia:

http://thenewdaily.com.au/sport/other-sports/2016/10/04/robert-young/

Articles in German:

http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/britse-marathon-man-valt-door-de-mand-deel-route-per-auto-afgelegd~a4388236/

Articles in Spanish:

http://www.elconfidencial.com/alma-corazon-vida/running/2016-10-04/rob-young-rey-running-estafador_1269597/

RY is worldwide wrote:

Articles in German:

http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/britse-marathon-man-valt-door-de-mand-deel-route-per-auto-afgelegd~a4388236/

That one's Dutch not Deutsche.

This cheating/liar man is just beyond comprehension. But his condition has a definition (http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com):

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meg·a·lo·ma·ni·a (meg'ă-lō-mā'nē-ă),

1. A type of delusion in which the afflicted person considers himself or herself possessed of greatness. He/she believes him/herself to be Christ, God, Napoleon, anyone famous, or everyone and everything, including a lawyer, physician, clergyman, merchant, prince, or super athlete in all sports.

2. Morbid verbalized overevaluation of oneself or of some aspect of oneself.

[megalo- + G. mania, frenzy]

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For me, the only reasonable explanation for people still believing in him is that these very same people are also ethically questionable. After an analysis based on hard data the conclusion was that RY did NOT run all the miles he claimed while trying to cross USA, and still people believe in empty words. They defied the scientific method and return to the dark ages.

This is just amazingly sad.

From

http://thenewdaily.com.au/sport/other-sports/2016/10/04/robert-young/

OF: And mentally how are you doing?

RY: When all the noise started to happen, it was a small group of people on a website or whatever. And they became more and more vocal and that hit me mentally. I was like, “Hold on a minute, I’m doing everything properly”. We had 12 days with film crews and they were there when people were there making allegations and they even said: “Hold on a minute, that’s wrong, because we filmed him at the exact same time you’re talking about.” There was one particular guy who was very, very vocal and I said to him “Well, come out and watch. Don’t sit there and type and speculate. Just come out and watch and see for yourself.” As things grew and grew, I even offered to pay for him to come out. I didn’t have the money, but I’d have found it. My main strength is my mental ability. My physical ability isn’t as strong as some runners. But put me up mentally againstother runners and I’m far stronger mentally than the others. It really knocked me. I was a bit gobsmacked and quite upset. But if you look at the history of other transcontinental runners, they’ve been in exactly the same position.

RobsBook wrote:

His 3:07 in London is valid. He has every 5km split, start and finish time. The course is fully lined by spectators, so there's nowhere he could have left/rejoined without being visible, and he was in his very recognisable kilt. He can be seen running from the start line in the BBC TV coverage. He can be seen at all the photo points along the route alongside other runners with his splits. There's video of him trying to keep up with the Paula train during the first 5km, and more video of him stopped talking to his support crew around 24 miles.

The 3:07 is valid and I wouldn't bet against a sub-3 with the same training but without such stupid pacing and that ridiculous kilt.

I agree. People have cheated at London but then they have 5km splits missing. See for example:

.

For Rob to have all his splits and be photographed at numerous locations and still to have cheated, he would have to have a teleportation device.

Plus, he claims his marathon PB is 2:41, Why go to the trouble of cheating his way to a 3:07?

RY lies and cheats wrote:

Don’t sit there and type and speculate. Just come out and watch and see for yourself.” As things grew and grew, I even offered to pay for him to come out. I didn’t have the money, but I’d have found it.

Amazingly selective memory about Laz and the Geezers - he didn't have to pay a thing the lying scumbag.

ExpertKipWatcher wrote:

RY lies and cheats wrote:

Don’t sit there and type and speculate. Just come out and watch and see for yourself.” As things grew and grew, I even offered to pay for him to come out. I didn’t have the money, but I’d have found it.

Amazingly selective memory about Laz and the Geezers - he didn't have to pay a thing the lying scumbag.

He also offered to pay various people to come and observe him, then stopped all contact when he realised they would actually do it.