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

dgunthert wrote:

SaraB wrote:

We know that Rossi is no where near a 3:11. I judge him by the standards of the 3:30/3:40 marathon runner that he is. His 5k time is not bad for a 3:30/40 marathon running making a comeback.

I'm the same age as Rossi with a marathon PR of 3:24. I sure wouldn't be bragging about a 7:41/mile 5k.

Only Mike would find a way to brag about a 24:00 minute 5k but is mysteriously silent when it comes to "the race of his life"

therealsmokinggunner wrote:

dgunthert wrote:

I'm the same age as Rossi with a marathon PR of 3:24. I sure wouldn't be bragging about a 7:41/mile 5k.

Only Mike would find a way to brag about a 24:00 minute 5k but is mysteriously silent when it comes to "the race of his life"

Barb McKeever is not impressed by your clear logic.

Well when you are getting #nosleeptillboston sometimes you are too tired to post. That performance took everything out of him including his ability to post the result on his blog.

therealsmokinggunner wrote:

dgunthert wrote:

I'm the same age as Rossi with a marathon PR of 3:24. I sure wouldn't be bragging about a 7:41/mile 5k.

Only Mike would find a way to brag about a 24:00 minute 5k but is mysteriously silent when it comes to "the race of his life"

elephino wrote:

If you're thinking that Finisher Medal is Ken and was hateful about Ken to throw us off the scent, you're giving Ken way too much credit. I challenge you to find anything Ken has said or done that shows any type of cleverness, or strategy, or self-awareness.

Agree, finisher medal's posts make infinitely more sense than Ken's. Plus Ken cannot go 3 posts without being offensive or creepy. It is pretty obvious when Ken is posting, and right now he's not.

Trollminator wrote:

Well when you are getting #nosleeptillboston sometimes you are too tired to post. That performance took everything out of him including his ability to post the result on his blog.

lol looks like he needs to ask about his insomnia next time he sees the doc about an injury off of his 15mpw

SaraB wrote:

[Last thing, you can be as race snob as much as you like but a 22 5k (Which is what we were talking about at the time) has to put you at least in the top like 5% at least of the total population and like top 20% (?) of all runners? Mike Rossi is a cheat but he is faster than an average runner. Sorry but anyone who says otherwise is a race snob.

Comparing times to the total population? Like you are including infants, and old women, and all manner of non-runners? That is at all relevant to whether a runner is fast or not?

Even comparing to all runners is meaningless. Most "runners" are recreational runners with no emphasis on speed. And they will readily admit that they are slow.

I'm sorry, but Mike is a slow runner. I'm close in age to Mike and these days run comparable times ... and I have no qualms admitting that I'm slow.

I'm not going to dumb down the sport and say I'm not slow just because I can beat 80% of recreational joggers. Can't we call a spade a spade anymore? It's not an insult to state a fact.

Mike appears to be in good shape for a 48 year old. He's probably pretty strong. But he's a slow runner.

Maybe the best indication of how slow this was is to ask the people who actually BQed in his age group think.

Not possible to cut the point-to-point course by accident. You could, however, have an accident while driving I-78 while cheating.http://www.viamarathon.org/event_info/course/map_marathon_relay.php

Picture me trollin wrote:

This thread is hilarious. Mike either cheated or cut it by accident

Barb McKeever doesn't seem to understand the high end of our sport. And does Bart Yasso have Alzheimers? I Sure hope not but Something's not all there. I can't for the life of me figure out what's wrong

looks like Ken caught on to today's developments:"Cecily paced 6:34 over 5 miles. @mikerossi22 paced 7:41 over 3 miles. Mike is slow as shit. #cheater #loser #nosleeptilboston ha ha ha""@mikerossi22 want me to look after the kids while you're in NY? I'll teach them how to count to ten on their toes. at least they won't cheat""@mikerossi22 ha ha ha. 23:51 for a 5K? Did you stop and take a nap halfway? Don't brag about your running when you're barely walking."

iiagdtr wrote:

I had some extra caffeine this morning, I am certain many more would have found it in short order. Very entertaining Monday indeed with more to come next week.

rojo wrote:

A great find. For those of you not reading every post, this poster found Rossi under the name Mike Rossi in the results for the Brain Injury Challenge Run for Recovery 5k on 10/24/15 in 15 Newtown, PA .

His time was 23:51.

That's 3:21:16 marathon pace. Must have just been relaxing.

Ken is insane. Mike, regardless of his cheat feat, is a borderline candidate for witness protection. This fat ball is out of control.

Finisher Medal - I hope that you're not leaving because of what bored troLLer wrote, as he's the dickhead who's been trolling bored troller's account and everything that he posts on this thread is pure idiocy.

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LMR wrote:

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Great. We woke him up.

Well it looks like this thread is going downhill (again).

I hope everybody is ready to deal with some Ken.

SaraB - I apologize for accusing you of changing the thread title, if you were just responding to somebody else. I was pretty sure that, when you came back last time, you changed the thread from "Mike Rossi of East Coast Event Group cheated and lied his way into Boston and Barb McKeever is incompetent" (or whatever it was) and then it happened again after one of your posts this time. It occurs to me now that you may have been catching up on reading the thread and you responded to somebody many pages back, which is why I thought that you were the one who changed it. It's no big deal anyhow and I mostly like what you bring to this thread.

I am near certain that Finisher Medal is not Ken. If he is, I am seriously impressed by his level of commitment to his handle in completely tearing Ken to shreds. Why would Ken publicly flog himself? I don't buy that it's to throw us off the scent as most of the other posters aren't posting about Ken and I don't suspect any of them of being him. Like another poster said, I haven't recognized his posting style since he tried to pop back into the thread under LMR and Finisher Medal and others showed him the door. Hopefully he's sticking to Twitter now.

Conspiracy theories and word-use were the evidence you used to guess that I was Ken Stillman as well. This was at the point in the thread where I said that the only good reason that I could think of for Rossi's continued lack of DQ was that Barb McKeever accepted a bribe - either on behalf of herself, the race or the race's charity and that if she DQ'd him, he would shed some light on this fact, making the race look like more of a joke than it already does. You excoriated me for not having any real evidence to back up this theory, accused me of libel, and suggested that I was Ken, based on my penchant for conspiracy theories and the fact that I used the same word as Ken used in a previous exchange with you.

Let's stay focused. This isn't about Ken.Cheater Mike Rossi has made serious threats and this entire situation would not even be happening had he not been so intent on his narcissism. He needs to seek professional help. Unfortunately I do not believe he has the acuity to do so due to his derangement.Mike would like to make this about Ken or anyone else like Cecily, anything to deflect the negative aspect of his actions. Ken is simply a diversion that is useful to Mike.

somebloke wrote:

Ken is insane. Mike, regardless of his cheat feat, is a borderline candidate for witness protection. This fat ball is out of control.

LMR wrote:

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Good job, Ken. This is your most most of intelligent post ever. You should go out on a high note by never posting again.

Unless Mike's AOL attorney contacts you again. When that happens we want to hear all about it.

As they say in high school:

SCOREEEBOARD

abingtonrunner2 wrote:

rojo wrote:

A great find. For those of you not reading every post, this poster found Rossi under the name Mike Rossi in the results for the Brain Injury Challenge Run for Recovery 5k on 10/24/15 in 15 Newtown, PA .

His time was 23:51.

That's 3:21:16 marathon pace. Must have just been relaxing.

;)

The McMillian calculator actually says that it translates into a 3:52:24 marathon pace.[/quote]

titaniumbolt wrote:

abingtonrunner2 wrote:

A great find. For those of you not reading every post, this poster found Rossi under the name Mike Rossi in the results for the Brain Injury Challenge Run for Recovery 5k on 10/24/15 in 15 Newtown, PA .

His time was 23:51.

That's 3:21:16 marathon pace. Must have just been relaxing.

;)

The McMillian calculator actually says that it translates into a 3:52:24 marathon pace.

The best part is Rossi either a) can't spell his own name or b) was trying to hide his name from LetsRunners by dropping the "i".