Robert Young fakes run across America

ojo wrote:

Young found his feet within the sporting world and went onto representing Great Britain at Junior level in Biathlon (run-swim-run)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon

(The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.)

Duathlons used to be called biathlons and early on they changed the name to avoid confusion with the skiing/shooting biathlon.

Robert Young really needs to be investigated soon. It doesn't sound like his attempt is legit. The way it's going, he hopes to break the old record by over 6 days. If he does so, there will be no way to expose his cheating (presuming he's cheating) and the record would become almost untouchable. Guiness is satisfied with his own self-verification.

curiously interested wrote:

Sounds like he's only been a runner for 2 years. Sounds like he started running due to a challenge from his wife to run a marathon after watching the London Marathon in April 2014. So it's not like he was a fast runner several years ago (sub-31 10K, etc.) and now is slower as an ultra runner. Sounds like the PR claims for 5K, 10K, half and full would be sometime in the past 2 years. If so, then where is the data?

It does not exist. For example, in his PB sheet on his website, he posts his 5k/10k PB's (30:47/15:56) and then next to that he writes impressive splits for 5k and 10k in the london marathon (33:xx/17:3x). If he put down fast splits he had for 5k/10k, why would he not include his actual 5k split PB from his 30:47 10k?

Moo Goo wrote:

Can anyone verify any of the PRs on his Wiki page?

See power of 10 for the actual pr's

its now or never wrote:

Robert Young really needs to be investigated soon.

Who will do this?

Where doubler?

can you post a link to photo? i'm curious to see this. i would expect him to be rail thin - like Jurek looked (even) early into his AT hike.

SteelTownRunner wrote:

Moo Goo wrote:

Just look at his body. Does he look like someone who runs sub 31 10K and wins ultra races? Those credentials put him right below the a handful of elites in ultra running.

This guy looks likes a 20 min 5K runner and that is about it.

Honestly, having closely followed multi-day races in person and afar (including the current world best for 3100 miles in the longest certified footrace in the world at the Self Transcendence 3100 in Queens, NYC), his body type doesn't shock me. But his springiness in a number of his pictures is rather shocking, or would be if putting up the mileage he claims. The greatest multi-day runners in history including Schwerk, Kouros, Aalto, Ukraynski, look nothing like Messr Young. They all had different strides, body types, etc but were different from one another... within reason.

Our hero is a publicity whore and cheat- a mix of Kip Litton & Mike Rossi. I will send the SI writer a link to this page.

narcissistdetector wrote:

can you post a link to photo? i'm curious to see this. i would expect him to be rail thin - like Jurek looked (even) early into his AT hike.

There is a pretty good pic

Heavyd84 wrote:

narcissistdetector wrote:

can you post a link to photo? i'm curious to see this. i would expect him to be rail thin - like Jurek looked (even) early into his AT hike.

http://www.marathonmanuk.co.uk/2016/06/03/day-17-19-may-29june-01/

There is a pretty good pic

No fking way that's a sub 31min 10K runner. What we have here is your slightly better than average hobby jogger.

Take those bananas wrote:

Where doubler?

present. Got an email this afternoon from someone on this. Digging through everything. I will probably put up an article tomorrow just throwing the questions out there and putting out the evidence so far.

The good thing is that he has a long way to go. If he's going to continue this legitimately there will be lots of scrutiny.

Well that's it folks. Tune in tomorrow morning at the local hospital where Rob gets treated for rattlesnake bite.

curiously interested wrote:

TroLLminator wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/12166515/Marathon-man-Robert-Young-eyes-the-long-road-ahead.html

Fourth paragraph:

"Flagging at around 300 miles, he was staggering slowly across the road. He asked for six double espressos with 15 sugars. Just like that, he was running five-minute miles again."

300 miles into a run, and a little sugar and caffeine gets you running five-minute miles?

YEAH I bet the Espressos & Sugars were for the stupid RV driver while this turd slept in the back and they drove at 5 min/mile pace! Are you FREAKING kidding me. Common, this guy is an obvious fraud. Kip, Rossi, dane, Rosi - all rolled into one larger giant A-Hole!

The latest FB post says "After running through Russellville with CCTV America filming" Have any of you ever heard of CCTV? It stands for China Central Television. Seems like a strange choice for recording this historic event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCTV_America

They're there to do a story. He is throwing in the reference to CCTV to provide an illusion of truth. This guy is a fraud. All I need to see was the video of RV moving and he wasn't running. There is no answer to that. And the account of that Bunny lady makes perfect sense. As soon as the crew figured out someone is visiting, they had him jump out of RV and pretend he was running. What a crock of dog shit.

Why not just periscope it. It's a free App

danecheatsalot wrote:

curiously interested wrote:

Fourth paragraph:

"Flagging at around 300 miles, he was staggering slowly across the road. He asked for six double espressos with 15 sugars. Just like that, he was running five-minute miles again."

300 miles into a run, and a little sugar and caffeine gets you running five-minute miles?

YEAH I bet the Espressos & Sugars were for the stupid RV driver while this turd slept in the back and they drove at 5 min/mile pace! Are you FREAKING kidding me. Common, this guy is an obvious fraud. Kip, Rossi, dane, Rosi - all rolled into one larger giant A-Hole!

I hate dane the douchenozzle so so much

How is it possible for someone to go couch to sub 31 10k in 2 years? That's some staggering talent, like Lawlor-esque talent.

gk wrote:

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The burden should be on Robert to prove he's running the whole way. And clearly he's not. Now that this stuff is surfacing, he will likely bail, start running legit (and miss the record), or change his route so he doesn't get caught. Don't wait for him to fess up; it'll never happen. That twat-face dane still claims he ran that 202 miles even though he slept in the RV that drove him along the course. Same thing here, only Robert is doing it 15 times in a row.

You're absolutely g-dd--mned right. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. These days, it's really easy to provide irrefutable proof.

Here's a hypothetical. If I wanted to set a record for the coast to coast run and I was convinced that cheating was the way to do it, I would take advantage of the long desert stretches in the first 25% of my crossing and that's when I'd cheat: at night, in the desert. That is the ONLY time I would cheat. That would put me ahead of schedule, and by being ahead of schedule I would guarantee myself added attention.

This is purely a hypothetical. But that's how I would do it.

On the other hand, if I wanted to set a legitimate record, I would use available video technologies and create one long time-stamped video file of my run.