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

Reg Fields wrote:

Doubler wrote:

Agreed. Bottom line she got the DQ and they are re-sending their list of qualifiers to Boston. The rest, while interesting is not relevant at this point.

Lets not get carried away here. She did admit on the blog that she didn't run the entire course but she also said she would contact the race director and ask him to DQ her. I highly doubt this was done. I had to personally email him and direct him to the blog.

Yes, she did admit she cheated unlike Rossi but she's no saint. This was a premeditated attempt to cheat her way into Boston, like Doubler mentioned she hit the halfway cheater mat which originally tied the hands of the timing company and race director.

If I recall correctly, she didn't admit she cheated but she came up with some crazy story?

What is a cheater mat exactly? Is this a timing mat outside the course?

Congrats on getting her DQ'ed!

Mike Ruiz wrote:

Reg Fields wrote:

Lets not get carried away here. She did admit on the blog that she didn't run the entire course but she also said she would contact the race director and ask him to DQ her. I highly doubt this was done. I had to personally email him and direct him to the blog.

Yes, she did admit she cheated unlike Rossi but she's no saint. This was a premeditated attempt to cheat her way into Boston, like Doubler mentioned she hit the halfway cheater mat which originally tied the hands of the timing company and race director.

If I recall correctly, she didn't admit she cheated but she came up with some crazy story?

What is a cheater mat exactly? Is this a timing mat outside the course?

Congrats on getting her DQ'ed!

It is an unpublished mat at the turnaround (It's an out and back course). I was told she hit that. If true, that makes it impossible to 'unknowingly' cut the course.

She apparently has a type of epilepsy. You can google her and see an article she wrote about herself that explains that. There's a link in the comments of the blog.

She commented on the blog after I had all but given up on getting the DQ admitting that it appears that she didn't run the whole course. She claims she had a seizure accompanied with amnesia and must have cut the course. She made a number of posts on the blog.

I kept trying to tell her that I just wanted the result removed--but she was very defensive. Below is the link to the article. I intentionally did not question her story on the blog--because I mostly wanted the DQ. As much as I'd love to write a follow up--I don't think any further 'shaming' of her serves a purpose. I tried to get her to contact me directly, so that I could confront her about the half way mat and how it doesnt' make sense that she accidently cut the course. I do think the story stinks, but bottom line is we got the proper result.

Mike Ruiz wrote:

Reg Fields wrote:

Lets not get carried away here. She did admit on the blog that she didn't run the entire course but she also said she would contact the race director and ask him to DQ her. I highly doubt this was done. I had to personally email him and direct him to the blog.

Yes, she did admit she cheated unlike Rossi but she's no saint. This was a premeditated attempt to cheat her way into Boston, like Doubler mentioned she hit the halfway cheater mat which originally tied the hands of the timing company and race director.

If I recall correctly, she didn't admit she cheated but she came up with some crazy story?

What is a cheater mat exactly? Is this a timing mat outside the course?

Congrats on getting her DQ'ed!

She claims it was by accident like she had a seizure and forgot where she was for a second and "accidentally" missed some miles.

From what I've heard a cheater mat is set up randomly somewhere on the course and its additional evidence if something suspicious arises. She somehow hit the mat so it very well could've been scouted and preplanned.

Bottom line is we got the DQ, lets move onto the next one.

She also claimed 'I did not know this was a qualifying race for Boston' She had social medial posts prior to the race stating that she wanted to qualify for Boston. The whole thing was really quite odd. To me, this one s more interesting than the Rossi. deal.

Doubler wrote:

She also claimed 'I did not know this was a qualifying race for Boston' She had social medial posts prior to the race stating that she wanted to qualify for Boston. The whole thing was really quite odd. To me, this one s more interesting than the Rossi. deal.

She also took a picture at mile 20 implying she had a shot at the BQ. I agree that this one is more odd than Mike Rossi when you look at the entire picture.

Rossi is very clear cut to me. He saw the Boston bombing and thought running Boston could get him tons of attention which he lives for. Realized he wouldn't be able to qualify after telling everyone he was running, cheated at Lehigh a bit faster than he intended to but it did the job. He NEVER would've been caught if not for the letter, that's the funny part to me.

Hey Ken look it's another one of Mike's minions!

They're everywhere!

I put the idea of the story on hold after the brojo's issued their challenge. I thought it would have gone viral and Mike would wise up and confess. But clearly Mike is a bigger douchebag that even I anticipated. LOL

Most of you here are just a bunch of mob-mentality morons. First it was Mike, now it's Ken.

You don't really care who or what the issue, as long as you feel part of the pack and can attack an "outsider".

Good work Doubler! What will Rossi's excuse be when he finally comes clean? Hair-plugs released chemicals into his brain causing him to be delusional and black out? Makes sense because he has to be completely delusional to think anyone that understands running believes he ran 3:11.

Reg Fields wrote:

[quote]Doubler wrote:

She also claimed 'I did not know this was a qualifying race for Boston' She had social medial posts prior to the race stating that she wanted to qualify for Boston. The whole thing was really quite odd. To me, this one s more interesting than the Rossi. deal.

Doubler wrote:

She also claimed 'I did not know this was a qualifying race for Boston' She had social medial posts prior to the race stating that she wanted to qualify for Boston. The whole thing was really quite odd. To me, this one s more interesting than the Rossi. deal.

In two months you have busted two cheaters related to Boston. Make one wonder how many cheat to get in.... and don't get caught.

elephino wrote:

Reg Fields wrote: Kara Knobloch Moore is being disqualified and the race director is sending the updated results to Boston without her name in it.

Saw her comments on the blog and it looks like she owned up to it and asked to be DQed. Wild story about seizures and amnesia, but it might be true and the point is that she owned up to it and accepted the DQ.

Link?

Hey Mike,

In case you haven't noticed, the combined views for the videos of you not running the LVHN Via Marathon have passed 5,000. That's a lot of people who know you are a cheater. And those videos are never going away.

Oh, and yeah, "Those aren't videos. They are slideshows."

Whatever. Cheater.

o/~ Fame, Rossi gonna live forever!The hits do keep on comin' and comin' and comin' and then one sweet DQ.Mike wins!

RossiCheated wrote:

Hey Mike,

In case you haven't noticed, the combined views for the videos of you not running the LVHN Via Marathon have passed 5,000. That's a lot of people who know you are a cheater. And those videos are never going away.

Oh, and yeah, "Those aren't videos. They are slideshows."

Whatever. Cheater.

LetsRun.com wrote:

LMR, we've received a number of complaints that you are posting about Mr. Rossi's family. Please stop or you will be banned. We are tried of deleting these posts.

he's made a bunch of guys who can run incredibly fast TIRED from using a mouse . . . that is whole A LOT of Ken to deal with

Actually, I think letsrun.com is another one of mike's minions

Why would a 3:11 marathon finisher dress in all black in hot weather, have his head down feeling dirty inside, have muscle mass and body fat resembling that of a ~3:45+ marathoner, and have both of his hands in a Metallica-like gesture and on top of that not appear in any photos along the course?

Why is Bart Yasso such an idiot about this? You would think someone famous such as Bart Yasso would understand how important it is for integrity in our sport, but apparently Bart Yasso thinks it's OK (along with Barb McKeever) for hobbyjoggers to cheat and the most important thing is for races to take as much hobbyjogger money as possible and if race results are a joke, screw it.

Why does Barb McKeever act like a child in being transparent as far as the process they went through?

therealsmokinggunner wrote:

LetsRun.com wrote:

LMR, we've received a number of complaints that you are posting about Mr. Rossi's family. Please stop or you will be banned. We are tried of deleting these posts.

he's made a bunch of guys who can run incredibly fast TIRED from using a mouse . . . that is whole A LOT of Ken to deal with

Actually, I think letsrun.com is another one of mike's minions

And of course Obama!

Quite some Twitter activity between Cecily and Mike

McKeever, Yasso - they're not going to contribute to getting Duckster Rossi DQ'd. It comes down to $. McKeever & Yasso are cowards not to step up here and do what's right and the DQ this fraud Rossi. Again, runners hate runners who cheat and even more so when it comes down to cheating to get into the Boston Marathon. This is why this thread will not die.

Picture me trollin wrote:

Why would a 3:11 marathon finisher dress in all black in hot weather, have his head down feeling dirty inside, have muscle mass and body fat resembling that of a ~3:45+ marathoner, and have both of his hands in a Metallica-like gesture and on top of that not appear in any photos along the course?

Why is Bart Yasso such an idiot about this? You would think someone famous such as Bart Yasso would understand how important it is for integrity in our sport, but apparently Bart Yasso thinks it's OK (along with Barb McKeever) for hobbyjoggers to cheat and the most important thing is for races to take as much hobbyjogger money as possible and if race results are a joke, screw it.

Why does Barb McKeever act like a child in being transparent as far as the process they went through?

So I guess they didn't DQ Rike Mossi because there was still 0,000000001% chance that the guy actually ran the 3:11?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yypE0rq0gr4