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

So: "Holy shit - I did it." That's the race in which he breaks his PR by what....half a hour? But he doesn't share the 3:11--an exceptional time for him; a staggering time--with social media?

Somebody please clarify these two points:

1) After MR ran the 3:11--or "ran" the 3:11--did he boast about the time (not the fact of BQing, but the TIME) in social media?

2) If the answer to #1 is "No," or "Barely," or "Much less than you'd expect," then does a survey of his social media show that in prior races where he thought he'd done well, he always, or almost always, shared his times?

My sense from this long, long thread is that the answers to 1 and 2 are basically No and Yes. And to me, that's a powerful a piece of circumstantial evidence as anything else in this case. Certainly, given the physiological all-but-impossibility of the performance and the lack of during-the-race photos, it's a very powerful piece of corroborating evidence. Somebody who almost always brags about what he sees as his best performances would be irrepressible if he scored that sort of unbelievable hole-in-one. He'd be sharing the number (3:11) all over the place. He'd be jumping up and down.

But somebody please confirm or rebut my general sense of the answers to 1 and 2.

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

Raysism wrote:

Great work.

Speaking of "Go Time", where did his headphones go?

He was running so fast, he had time to take them off and put them in his spibelt, duh.

He wasn't wearing one of those things at the finish, though, was he? None that I can see. Also, did he always race in those sunglasses?

The selfies are interesting. Obviously there's no dates but other than one 18 miler they are all pretty short distances. If I was tracking and blogging about my journey to Boston I'd be showing my distance building training but that could just be me. Not that it matters but is that t-shirt in the Lehigh selfie cotton?

GetAnEmail wrote:

You seem to be the best shot for a direct line to Rossi. If you know of anyone who might have received an email from him directly, see if you can't ask that person to look at the headers of that email. Earlier posts in this thread may be from him and would be very damaging for him, but without ip address confirmation, it cannot be verified. Simply having an email from him forwarded to you is no good; in that case only the message body comes and you need the headers from the original email, which will contain the ip address of the client he sent from. So, if you know anyone closer to him than you who may have an email from him......

In the

articl, it says:

"In an email to Runner’s World Newswire on Wednesday, Rossi stated that he qualified for the Boston Marathon at the Via Marathon in the Lehigh Valley."

So they have an email from him. Perhaps Rojo can get the needed info from them.

Raysism wrote:

[quote]Screenshots wrote:

http://imgur.com/sggIQpk,H99wp4B,ovIMt1s,BtcWpgihttp://imgur.com/sggIQpk,H99wp4B,ovIMt1s,BtcWpgi#1http://imgur.com/sggIQpk,H99wp4B,ovIMt1s,BtcWpgi#2http://imgur.com/sggIQpk,H99wp4B,ovIMt1s,BtcWpgi#3

Can you see them?

it bought the 2014 jacket even though he didn't run it? DB!

I just looked at his finish photos again, and it looks like maybe his cell phone is in his left front pocket. Who the hell can run like that? How did he carry the cell phone in other races?

He does seem to talk about his times. The only mention of the 3:11 was on a pic that I found in his albums, it was removed from his timeline that said 3:11:45 I qualified. Otherwise there are a ton of pics of other races and times etc.

Bottom Right hand side.... Seems odd that he would purchase the 2014 jacket? (not really)

http://imgur.com/i3tN5IB,baWnjCf,GXmBNTE,lxC0fUU,4B57mza#2

Running selfies wrote:

http://imgur.com/i3tN5IB,baWnjCf,GXmBNTE,lxC0fUU,4B57mzahttp://imgur.com/i3tN5IB,baWnjCf,GXmBNTE,lxC0fUU,4B57mza#1http://imgur.com/i3tN5IB,baWnjCf,GXmBNTE,lxC0fUU,4B57mza#2http://imgur.com/i3tN5IB,baWnjCf,GXmBNTE,lxC0fUU,4B57mza#3http://imgur.com/i3tN5IB,baWnjCf,GXmBNTE,lxC0fUU,4B57mza#4

Holy Selfies.

No times on the treadmill.....only calories burned..

Raysism wrote:

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

He was running so fast, he had time to take them off and put them in his spibelt, duh.

He wasn't wearing one of those things at the finish, though, was he? None that I can see. Also, did he always race in those sunglasses?

In the medal photo he is wearing a bum bag thing on his hip that looks like it is open (I'm guessing to get the phone out for the photo)

Sparty On... wrote:

Is he wearing the 2014 jacket?

yep

"I'll pretty much be going off the grid after tomorrow to prepare for the race"

LOL.... Yeah... off the grid... off the course...

feyd rautha wrote:

Honestly, this thread just makes me want to see if I could cheat and get away with it. I've never cheated in a race before but I'm tempted to go to one of d2xccoach's races and try to pull it off just to see if I can. It's like going to prison to try to see if you can escape, except I'm too much of a pu$sy for all that.

rojo wrote:

Me too. I'm definitely going to cheat a marathon soon. I think it would be easy to do, even with mats as long as the mats aren't hidden. Do you want to do it with me? It's probably easier if we do it together.

Done. Maybe I could cheat in a half while you cheat in the full. It will be epic.

Rojo, get on that article, publish it. It will be great for the site to be the first to boldface call him a liar. This site is what started the momentum to take this clown down. Great work runners with too much time on your hands!

rojo wrote:

Sorry guys. Been away from the thread for a long time.

I'm going to write an article saying he cheated. I'd bet my mortgage at 1,000 to 1 odds. If I was a race director, I'd alreayd have DQd him. There is more than enough evidence.

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Raysism wrote:

Stop whatever you are doing, go to the finish line video, and go to clock time 3:06:30. Watch the guy with the dog for the next 20 to 30 seconds.

This is the funniest thing I've seen in a while. When he falls over with the dog, I nearly wet my pants.

My email address is attached to a few of these posts bc i'm an idiot..can I delete it?

Release the Kraken!

email rojo or wejo and ask them to delete the posts to help keep your undercover identity!

uh oh wrote:

My email address is attached to a few of these posts bc i'm an idiot..can I delete it?

Looks like you are about to be unfriended.