If not I suppose I'll find him in Terre Haute. Thanks for the link! I'll either be part of the fastest crossing ever, or get the chance to truly participate in a legendary Letsrun thread.
If not I suppose I'll find him in Terre Haute. Thanks for the link! I'll either be part of the fastest crossing ever, or get the chance to truly participate in a legendary Letsrun thread.
Thankfully he has a virgin money charity page and not a gofundme.
He had a target to raise £100,000.....so far he is at £45
The fact that he is now just sitting in an IHop for hours stuffing his face basically is hilarious on its own.
Just went back to those swim time claims in the article. Maybe RY was competing as an elite triathlete in the junior junior junior junior division.
IHOP is nasty, can I get sued for that?
Douglas Baker wrote:
If not I suppose I'll find him in Terre Haute. Thanks for the link! I'll either be part of the fastest crossing ever, or get the chance to truly participate in a legendary Letsrun thread.
Good luck! Remember a camera. And keep us updated.
Douglas Baker wrote:
If not I suppose I'll find him in Terre Haute. Thanks for the link! I'll either be part of the fastest crossing ever, or get the chance to truly participate in a legendary Letsrun thread.
Great!
Don't forget your camera.
Some questions you could ask:
- Why did you claim you were part of cycling team Milram?
- Why is your 10K PR a 7K?
- Why don't you upload all your runs to Strava?
Will Travel wrote:
Heavyd84 wrote:Depending on my schedule, I could follow him anywhere from a couple hours to a couple days.
Hi Long Time Reader....First Time Poster
Hey, I am thinking of hooking up with good ol' Robbie soon as well - most likely when he gets closer to or into Ohio. Unless he quits now that he appears to be actually running and can no longer hit his AMAZING running pace from the first half of the journey.
If he is still rolling in Our state, the Ohioans will unite!
Nopointer wrote:
There's no point in following the guy around now that he's actually running everyday. My prediction is that he'll quit at some point now that the miles are really adding up.
Disagree. Rob wants people to follow him. If we don't, he will then claim that we bad Americans didn't have the guts to meet up with him.
We need to join him. He's on Mexico Road next to an IHOP in St Peters, MO.
To the school teacher- go find him. Use the tracker:
http://live.opentracking.co.uk/robxamerica/?n=1I don't think anyone should be worried about getting sued here. they will never be able to collect the data and provide it to a judge. these guys can't figure out strava.
He should have gone to Hibachi Grill across the street. I believe that is an all you can eat buffet. Even though it would have given him the runs.. He would get more carbs for the cash strapped budget.
The people to find out if he was ever in the army are the Walter Mitty people on Facebook. You can message them with all info.
They "out" all walts that lie they served, and throw them to the wolves.
https://www.facebook.com/The-Walter-Mitty-Hunters-Club-HQ-315222931946839/?fref=nf
Done :) Thanks for the lead.
L. Hutz wrote:
I don't think anyone should be worried about getting sued here. they will never be able to collect the data and provide it to a judge. these guys can't figure out strava.
Right. Now, let's go find Rob and start following him. It's boots on the ground time.
They drove an hour out of the way to visit the grand canyon for themselves for the charity children. Like everything they do it is for the charity children, it is part of the master plan and anyone who doesn't understand why they have time to do that and no time to address legitimate concerns by providing total run gps with cadence for starters is clearly just a hater.
According to the daily mileage totals done by the Scot, it's not quite a simple as he was doing loads and is now doing half that. There was a spell from 20-25th May where his mileage was lower than it has been the past 3 days. He has since done a massive streak and started off with very heavy mileage.
I'm wondering why the low mileage spell for that period?
Also I am starting to think he might actually finish this thing legit, albeit well off WR pace. What then? Will he get away with the cheating from earlier?
Damn, Twitter locked my twitter.com/studyrobyoung
They ask for my phone number to verify, but I have already used it for another account. How can I circumvent this?
Douglas Baker wrote:
If not I suppose I'll find him in Terre Haute. Thanks for the link! I'll either be part of the fastest crossing ever, or get the chance to truly participate in a legendary Letsrun thread.
Rob is about 190 miles from Terre Haute. Shoot some video for us. thanks!
Salazar asks wrote:
Umm... How are those "NOP is cheating" accusations going?
And yet Nike hasn't sued this website as far as I know. Every track athlete and every cyclist has been accused of cheating and yet I don't recall companies suing message boards or anonymous board posters for accusing their athletes of cheating. I'm sure something like that has happened, you can find examples of any lawsuit you can think up, but the idea that Rob's sponsors are going to sue people who post on this board is silly.
Rob himself should threaten to sue, maybe he could get this thread deleted like A.V. did for his thread or a certain other alleged cheater we can't name.
But there I go giving them ideas again.
TroLLminator wrote:
Or... wrote:Thank you CoachKev. I don't have the depth of your experience with Rob. I happened to meet him earlier this year after listening to a presentation and then had the chance of spending a couple hours with him in a social environment.
I found him to be genuinely passionate about his causes and walked away feeling that I had just met a special individual who is wired a bit differently than myself but in such a way that makes his world and abilities plausible.
As for the van team - they are not a professional support team. It's a couple of guys ( I personally know one of them - Michael ) that are learning on the job. Managing their own fatigue, Rob and trying to manage the data/updates can't be easy - especially a month into this attempt.
I can't speak to whether he has legitimately completed the attempt to this point. I wasn't there. I also wasn't there when the original poster in this forum showed up. Is his story fabricated to bring doubt to Rob's attempt? For someone outside of the Ultra "Let's Run" community that's just as plausible. His actions seem like he was out to "catch him" not doing what he said he was doing.
I do find it interesting that most of the doubters here seem to be concerned of his ability due to his pedigree. The "He's not one of us" attitude. He isn't. He doesn't have the traditional ultra runners resume. From my brief experience with him my guess is that he doesn't care. Had he competed in the Westcoast alongside some of you would you be giving him more slack and waiting until he finished?
I am giving him the benefit of the doubt. If he finishes this attempt, the data will be presented and there will be plenty of time to scrutinize it.
I hope others concerned with the legitimacy of his attempt will give him the benefit of the doubt too until all the evidence is presented.
What do you mean "if he finishes this attempt, the data will be presented?". I think anyone would agree that he needs to present data RIGHT NOW. What he's planning to present to Guiness is only proof that he covered the distance with GPS data on an RV. He's not going to provide data proving he RAN that distance. If I or any other sane honest runner were him, I'd be putting up as much data as possible to show up the skeptics. The idea that we will see something only when he's done is ludicrous. He's had and continues to have so much opportunity to prove his honesty but so far we have seen nothing.
Someone has posted on his Facebook page that he HAS posted all his data on the TomTom site? I don't use TomTom so don't know. Why wouldn't he post the link to that if that is true? He is pissing round posting photos of the laptop screen
Iain Kennedy says on facebook . "The data is already ON the internet on the TomTom mysports website, we however would like to see it on Strava so we can see the routes, cadence and HR too. The summary info on TomTom isn't sufficient."
elephino wrote:
Salazar asks wrote:Umm... How are those "NOP is cheating" accusations going?
And yet Nike hasn't sued this website as far as I know. Every track athlete and every cyclist has been accused of cheating and yet I don't recall companies suing message boards or anonymous board posters for accusing their athletes of cheating. I'm sure something like that has happened, you can find examples of any lawsuit you can think up, but the idea that Rob's sponsors are going to sue people who post on this board is silly.
Rob himself should threaten to sue, maybe he could get this thread deleted like A.V. did for his thread or a certain other alleged cheater we can't name.
But there I go giving them ideas again.
Umm... Dennis Mitchell got letsrun.com silent for a while.