Women runs 520 miles on treadmill in 7 days but doesn't get WR as Guinness says her witness doesn't count

More money raked in. The charity machine of 53marathons foundation is working well.

http://imgur.com/a/4T5Jw

Amy forever wrote:

More money raked in. The charity machine of 53marathons foundation is working well.

http://imgur.com/a/4T5Jw

And we all know what she means by the money will help "our charity".

Come on people, stop giving your money away to fund people like Amy and the Readings who don't want to work for a living. Help people directly, or give to a reputable organization with open books.

For exercise, RoJo pushes his French bulldog in a stroller around his neighborhood in Baltimore.

WeJo is 25 pounds lighter than RoJo. He could claim to be LetsRun’s CEO—the site is technically based in his Fort Worth home.

His ­rationality tempers the often whimsical RoJo, who claims to suffer from “idea­phoria.” (“I’d be a billionaire if someone implemented all my ideas,” RoJo told me. One of them: a “how to be an adult” website.)

After running a successful mail-order clothing business, Dad (Clayton Johnson III) worked for governor and then president George W. Bush. (That is a big surprise.)

He quit his job and moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, where he trained, occasionally sleeping in his SUV.

In his spare time, he and RoJo launched a website with an inviting name: LetsRun.com. Recognizing the Internet’s potential to find an audience for anything..

The silver lining: he wore a LetsRun ­singlet.

LetsRun generally uses ad networks to make money and has had only one down year. “We’ve built the most influential running audience,” WeJo says. “We’ve got the fastest in every community and the coaches. If we keep bringing in a million upper-­income, educated people monthly, we’ll figure out how to best monetize that traffic.”

LetsRun is a private company, and the BroJos declined to share specific financial data. Profit, though, has never been the point. “There are those who want what’s best for the sport,” says Willis, “and there are those who want what’s best for themselves. Robert and Weldon care more about the sport than the success of their site.”

The BroJos were excited to have finally put a LetsRun logo on WeJo’s truck...

but the excitement faded as they got lost and fell behind schedule.

RoJo, exasperated: “The GPS didn’t tell me to turn!”

RoJo staggered into the living room on day eight, wearing an Orioles shirt and pajama bottoms. The reporting grind was wearing on the crew, as were the presumed cheaters everywhere. “I woke up thinking about Rob Young again,” he said. “There’s just no way!”

“We figured out pretty quickly,” he continued, ­after getting some Dr. Pepper in his system, “that Mike Rossi cheated, too.”

Indeed, by “we figured out,” RoJo really meant posters like gatorade&vodka who did much of the early legwork on the Rossi story. (That thread stretched to more than 1,200 pages.) A similar narrative played out with Rob Young’s run across America.

Because the site is home to both a large and active posting community and original reporting by its founders—and because the line between the two is often BLURRY—LetsRun as a whole can sometimes shade from journalism into witch-hunting.

“There is a distinction between the community and the editorial side,” WeJo insists. “‘LetsRun’ can refer to both, but we try and give proper credit on who is doing what.

"As to whether that distinction matters, I’m not sure. I’m glad cheaters get exposed.”

RoJo filmed her crying. “I always feel bad,” he told me after. “But it’s part of the drama.”

https://www.outsideonline.com/2135791/how-ragtag-crew-almost-journalists-created-runnings-most-controversial-website

Amy did not run 520 miles in 7 wrote:

Amy forever wrote:

More money raked in. The charity machine of 53marathons foundation is working well.

http://imgur.com/a/4T5Jw

And we all know what she means by the money will help "our charity".

Come on people, stop giving your money away to fund people like Amy and the Readings who don't want to work for a living. Help people directly, or give to a reputable organization with open books.

It gets worse.

They're using Daves 8 yr old kid to drag in the charity dollars now.

these people have no shame

Equanimity is also important to WeJo. “I don’t want us to be hot-headed, self-righteous PRICKS like some Deadspin guys,” he said.

Deadspin???

It is just a coincidence.

Oh yeah baby.

shameless wrote:

It gets worse.

They're using Daves 8 yr old kid to drag in the charity dollars now.

these people have no shame

Agree.

The Reading's used all eight of their kids in their scam.

Tania tiger karma kitten wrote:

Equanimity is also important to WeJo. “I don’t want us to be hot-headed, self-righteous PRICKS like some Deadspin guys,” he said.

Deadspin???

It is just a coincidence.

Oh yeah baby.

Here is some interesting evidence and data from Quantcast:

It turns out that the visitors at DEADSPIN are a lot more educated than the visitors at LetsRun.com.

This is just another coincidence.

(In reality, it is not a big surprise.)

I am sorry about that.

deadspin> LRC wrote:

Tania tiger karma kitten wrote:

Equanimity is also important to WeJo. “I don’t want us to be hot-headed, self-righteous PRICKS like some Deadspin guys,” he said.

Deadspin???

It is just a coincidence.

Oh yeah baby.

Here is some interesting evidence and data from Quantcast:

http://www.letsrun.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/letsrun-smart.png

It turns out that the visitors at DEADSPIN are a lot more educated than the visitors at LetsRun.com.

This is just another coincidence.

(In reality, it is not a big surprise.)

I am sorry about that.

Celebitchy makes this site look like a bunch of preschoolers eating paste while waiting for their tweaker moms to show up and take them home.

In all seriousness, 59 pages is a lot to go through, are there any good camel toe pics in this thread?

I will try wrote:

Celebitchy makes this site look like a bunch of preschoolers eating paste while waiting for their tweaker moms to show up and take them home.

In all seriousness, 59 pages is a lot to go through, are there any good camel toe pics in this thread?

The most exciting pages of the thread were when Amy's training video for multi-day ultra running was found and when Scam Watcheroo figured out a way to count treadmill revolutions from a video and also discovered the "leaning on the handles" treadmill running technique. Here is Amy's training video to save going through all 59 pages.

The Mike Rossi thread is over 1,300 pages long and has 26,000 posts.

Have you ever thought about why LetsRun.com has anonymous posters?

With anonymous posting, it is possible that rojo, wejo, and the LRC moderators could post under many different names to start many threads, ask questions on threads, answer their own questions on threads, take opposing sides on threads, etc...to make the threads go on...and on...and on...which then creates more MONEY for the owners of LetsRun.com (= wejo,rojo).

I have noticed that many of the anonymous posters at the LetsRun.com forum make the exact same spelling and grammar errors that rojo makes at LetsRun.com...when he posts as rojo.

Do you think that it would show a lack of transparency, honesty, and integrity if rojo is posting under many different anonymous names at the LetsRun.com forum to make more money?

Answer:

Yes.

Oof, a technical detail wrote:

The Amy hatred here is endemic.

Here is how an unbiased professional source (Ironman.com) reported her horror at Guinness'es refusal.

Oof! Imagine this: You log 520 miles running on a treadmill in a single week, aiming to crack the Guinness World Record. You pass the current record mark of 517.63 miles, and collapse in exhaustion and elation. And then, a technical detail derails your feat. That’s exactly what ultra runner Amy Hughes did last September—but after months of processing, Guinness recently denied her record attempt due to improper witnessing.

http://eu.ironman.com/triathlon/news/articles/2017/07/the-monday-round-up-7.31.aspx

Exact same thing happened to me.

My cat ran 71mph to beat the speed record set by a cheetah.

Now Guinness says it's inadmissible because the owner (me) timed it.

The entire thing is on video. I'm not showing though it anymore after someone said he looked a bit straggly.

Please donate to my charidy so I don't have to work all year.

ukathleticscoach wrote:

Oof, a technical detail wrote:

The Amy hatred here is endemic.

Here is how an unbiased professional source (Ironman.com) reported her horror at Guinness'es refusal.

http://eu.ironman.com/triathlon/news/articles/2017/07/the-monday-round-up-7.31.aspx

Exact same thing happened to me.

My cat ran 71mph to beat the speed record set by a cheetah.

Now Guinness says it's inadmissible because the owner (me) timed it.

The entire thing is on video. I'm not showing though it anymore after someone said he looked a bit straggly.

Please donate to my charidy so I don't have to work all year.

You and your cat are a true inspiration.

...and I'm sure it isn't straggly, even if I haven't seen the video. Dont listen to the haters.

I have sent a donation and liked you on facebook.

Quite an ego there Ms Gaytor.

Looking at Amy's page the number of likes is suspicious, over 11,000.

She simply isn't known on the running scene at all, so where have all the likes come from?

Rob Young bought his from Turkey!

She obviously has no shame and is continuing to go on about raising money.

Well, she has to, those donations to "charity" pay her wages and those of the dumb gobby boyfriend.

From the page -

"Ian Onslow Dewey Well said Amy it's only because your a looker you get the haters"

No Ian, firstly she isn't a "looker" - she looks fake and thick, and people are simply questioning the fact she cheats and raises money for her OWN POCKET.

How dumb are all the people on that Facebook page?

But even now, people still refuse to believe Rob Young did anything wrong.

These types should all go off and join the flat earth society. IDIOTS.

I think we are going for the wrong record.

The 53 marathons is even more suspect. A marathon is one run of 26.2 miles. Running 10+ 16 is not running a marathon a day.

Then there is no evidence she actually ran the distance however it was split.

Just like Rob Young's pb's one lie begets another

Scam_Watcheroo wrote:

There is a thread on the Ultrarunning Community Facebook page where Amy Hughes, her boyfriend Dave Keighley, and a couple of their shills posting. Gary Kiernan is once again defending the cheats and talking down anyone who doesn't for that line, threatening to "admin". Isn't Gary tired of being wrong every single time? If that thread keeps up, I might just have to put the Dave Reading investigation on pause to take a closer look into this one.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/259647654139161?view=permalink&id=1187958507974733

Well that place is a joke. Defend all scammers then lock or remove the threads.

So, it looks like Amy has got away with it. She might not have her record, but still has her phoney charity paying her wages.

Plus loads of support on her facebook page and twitter from people telling her she is inspiring and amazing and if we don't agree we are jealous haters.

She keeps her fans and the money. Another scammer wins.

ukathleticscoach wrote:

I think we are going for the wrong record.

The 53 marathons is even more suspect. A marathon is one run of 26.2 miles. Running 10+ 16 is not running a marathon a day.

Then there is no evidence she actually ran the distance however it was split.

Just like Rob Young's pb's one lie begets another

there is no record to 'go for'

the 53 marathons stunt, assuming she did run them all, doesnt qualify her for the record of consecutive marathon distance runs and they werent official marathons so that record wasnt broken either.

as for her treadmill stunt there is absolutely zero evidence to support her claim.

neither of these "records" have been ratified by anyone other than Amy and you wont find her name in any record books.

its simply a case of if you say it enough times it becomes true.

and i doubt there is any way to stop her from making spurious claims.

Former treadmill world record holder Sharon Gayter wrote:

... gained my first international vest that year. Between 1994 and 2011, I represented my country on 27 occasions

You see? This is the establishment class always acts. They claim to be "representing their country", when, frankly, your country really couldn't care less about some runner. This just serves to set up an artificial barrier to entry, so that world record holders like Amy, who have never tried to get an "international vest" are perpetually locked out as outsiders.

Her records look dodgy too wrote:

Former treadmill world record holder Sharon Gayter wrote:

... gained my first international vest that year. Between 1994 and 2011, I represented my country on 27 occasions

You see? This is the establishment class always acts. They claim to be "representing their country", when, frankly, your country really couldn't care less about some runner. This just serves to set up an artificial barrier to entry, so that world record holders like Amy, who have never tried to get an "international vest" are perpetually locked out as outsiders.

Amy isn't perpetually locked out from representing her country. I suggest the 24 hour event as the one suiting her abilities. 100k may be too short. 170 miles might be enough to earn Amy an international vest. That's only 7 miles per hour. Come on Amy, you can do it!

` wrote:

I'd like to draw attention to this gem:

Dave Keighly wrote:

questioning us and our charity will not be tolerated.

"Look at this amazing thing we did! Just please don't look too closely!"

Well I'll sure take a closer look at this charity. Where we up to with that?

Has anyone reported to charities commission? If not, I will.

Do we know how much it makes and how much is taken out to pay THEM??

Look at this from her Facebook. Pathetic. She obviously wants to become a celeb. Here tagging a minor celeb to make sure we all know she hangs out with such people.

For those not in the UK, this Denise is an actress and once in a famous soap, and does a few short races for charity herself.