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

Look everybody! SmartRunnr and finisher medaL are directly competing for the worst troll title. SmartRunnr has more cumulative points, but finisher medaL has been making huge gains recently. If only these two happened to be the same yellow-bellied skinny fat hobby joggers it would be even more perfect. Oh yeah, let me not forget - LOL!

SmartRunnr wrote:

finisher medaL. wrote:

You aren't helping since you have admitted to training with Rossi which emphatically places you in the hobby jogger / RW crowd as well.

Correct. With my 17 min PR, I am normally the slowest in every thread, and I have to bury my head in shame. On the other hand, here it seems like the opposite is true, which makes this thread so hilariously misplaced at letsrun.

Not sure if this had been shared here yet or not:

http://www.runnersworld.com/racing/athlinks-plays-vital-role-in-catching-suspect-performances?cid=soc_Running%20Times%20Magazine%20-%20RunningTimesMagazine_FBPAGE_Runner%E2%80%99s%20World__News

Running Times piece from today about the use of Athlinks to bust race cheaters. Our boy Mike Rossi is cited as an example of a marathon cheater.

Congrats on running Boston, Mike! Mentions in articles like this are going to be your lasting legacy long after all your Boston Marathon gear gets worn out and given to the Goodwill.

rexthebex wrote:

Not sure if this had been shared here yet or not:

http://www.runnersworld.com/racing/athlinks-plays-vital-role-in-catching-suspect-performances?cid=soc_Running%20Times%20Magazine%20-%20RunningTimesMagazine_FBPAGE_Runner%E2%80%99s%20World__News

Running Times piece from today about the use of Athlinks to bust race cheaters. Our boy Mike Rossi is cited as an example of a marathon cheater.

Congrats on running Boston, Mike! Mentions in articles like this are going to be your lasting legacy long after all your Boston Marathon gear gets worn out and given to the Goodwill.

For those too lazy to click, here's the bit about Rossi:

Catching Questionable Performances

Back in 2004, Busot didn’t anticipate that the website would be used to nab cheaters.

When questions arose about the legitimacy of Mike Rossi’s Boston Marathon-qualifying finish at last year’s Via Marathon in Allentown, Pennsylvania, many runners turned to Athlinks to look up Rossi’s previous race results for comparison. (In May, Rossi took his children out of school to watch him run the Boston Marathon. His letter to the principal explaining their absence went viral.)

At the Via Marathon, Rossi ran 3:11. According to his Athlinks profile that has since been made private, his next fastest time was 3:43, which he ran 11 weeks after the Via Marathon. Though Busot can’t guarantee every race result is available on Athlinks, Busot said, “When it comes to marathons, we have a pretty comprehensive database.”

Busot acknowledged runners are a very self-policing group, and Athlinks only enables that tendency.

“If you’re dumb enough, in this day and age with GPS and Athlinks and other tools that can be used against you, and you’re still willing to put yourself out there and not realize you’ll get smacked down, you get what’s coming to you,” Busot said.

-Mike Rossi, dumb enough? Check.

-Getting what's coming to him? Check.

I saw that piece. It is always entertaining to see Mike being mentioned. Cheat cheat cheat.

SmartRunnr - how you doing? Still trying to sell that committee story, huh? Good for you.

rexthebex wrote:

Running Times piece from today about the use of Athlinks to bust race cheaters. Our boy Mike Rossi is cited as an example of a marathon cheater.

0/10

You gotta do better if you want to be taken seriously. Evidently the article mentions "questions about legitimacy of Mike Rossi’s Boston Marathon-qualifying finish", and correctly concluded "At the Via Marathon, Rossi ran 3:11."

More funnies from Kenny:

"I am still recovering from running the NYC Marathon yesterday. Guess I'll go on their website and order some more shirts and a couple hats."

Has Stillman tweeted the link to the Runners Time story yet? That sort of thing should be like Christmas for him.

YAWN. For months, you guys were off-topic and went on and on about twitter this, Cecily that, Ken is funny, Mike is mean and tons of other irrelevant boring stuff, and then you call me troll? Get a life, Trollmini.

Trollminator wrote:

Look everybody! SmartRunnr and finisher medaL are directly competing for the worst troll title. SmartRunnr has more cumulative points, but finisher medaL has been making huge gains recently. If only these two happened to be the same yellow-bellied skinny fat hobby joggers it would be even more perfect. Oh yeah, let me not forget - LOL!

YAWN

SmartRunnr wrote:

YAWN. For months, you guys were off-topic and went on and on about twitter this, Cecily that, Ken is funny, Mike is mean and tons of other irrelevant boring stuff, and then you call me troll? Get a life, Trollmini.

Trollminator wrote:

Look everybody! SmartRunnr and finisher medaL are directly competing for the worst troll title. SmartRunnr has more cumulative points, but finisher medaL has been making huge gains recently. If only these two happened to be the same yellow-bellied skinny fat hobby joggers it would be even more perfect. Oh yeah, let me not forget - LOL!

I'm a little surprised, but he'll be on it soon enough. It took him some time to post about the marathon. That's good news, it means he's getting out and doing other things (unlike us right Mike? ;) )

rexthebex wrote:

Has Stillman tweeted the link to the Runners Time story yet? That sort of thing should be like Christmas for him.

runningantelope wrote:

Busot acknowledged runners are a very self-policing group, and Athlinks only enables that tendency.

“If you’re dumb enough, in this day and age with GPS and Athlinks and other tools that can be used against you, and you’re still willing to put yourself out there and not realize you’ll get smacked down, you get what’s coming to you,” Busot said.

-Mike Rossi, dumb enough? Check.

-Getting what's coming to him? Check.

So not only is Rossi a lowlife, he's a dumb lowlife.

finisher medaL. wrote:

SmartRunnr wrote:

Correct. With my 17 min PR, I am normally the slowest in every thread, and I have to bury my head in shame. On the other hand, here it seems like the opposite is true, which makes this thread so hilariously misplaced at letsrun.

Indeed.

When the queen of this thread claims a 22 minute 5k and 3:40 marathon as blistering, it really just underscores why so many here get ridiculed outside of this thread.

There is such a sense of INJUSTICE that a hobby jogger got into Boston when they can't do it with all 20mpw of training. They are all either old or slow, or both, and it really breaks my hearts that they may never see Rossi get his just desserts.

Well at least Ken get his desserts. He gets EVERYONE'S desserts.

LOL!

Mike gets to be employee of the month at the DJ company while Ken and Cecily move on to better things.

finisher medaL. wrote:

YouSoCrazy wrote:

Mike gets to be employee of the month at the DJ company while Ken and Cecily move on to better things.

Wont argue with you there except that ken really needs to move OFF of things - like his couch and stash of bbw porn.

LOL!

Hi Mike!

finisher medaL. wrote:

YouSoCrazy wrote:

Hi Mike!

Hi Ken!

LOL!

Exactly how bad are the kids doing in school so far? They must be getting picked on quite a bit. Every parent has told their kids to stay away. If they weren't getting picked on a failing you'd have posted their grades already to prove me wrong. We all know how much you like to taunt people and prove how wonderful your life and kids are. But on this issue it seems you can't.

YAWN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT0IVIwY0R8&t=0m58s

Now that we know who's who, can we set up that meeting at Starbucks between you guys again? I'm dying to see those photos of Mike on the course at Lehigh.

Thanks for the entertainment fellas, 2 trolls who may or may not be Mike/Ken. The Ken is believable since they dropped the hammer with the grades thing (one of Ken's favorite personal attacks). I don't buy the Mike, but I'll play along anyway for the sake of urging that Starbucks meeting.

RunDriveRun wrote:

finisher medaL. wrote:

It's cool ken.

They won't suffer the embarrassment of having their peers point out how their dad pathetically hit on a porn star via twitter or how he defrauded 80 people of their money.

Also, isn't it strange how you are so obsessed with making sure children have no friends when in reality your reclusive antisocial behavior shows your own child that stalking women, laying around all day masturbating to bbw porn, and seeking vengeance rather than physically exercising makes for guaranteed emotional breakdowns?

Oh no of course not, because that would make YOU are dad of the year!

LOL!

Now that we know who's who, can we set up that meeting at Starbucks between you guys again? I'm dying to see those photos of Mike on the course at Lehigh.

RunDriveRun wrote:

finisher medaL. wrote:

It's cool ken.

They won't suffer the embarrassment of having their peers point out how their dad pathetically hit on a porn star via twitter or how he defrauded 80 people of their money.

Also, isn't it strange how you are so obsessed with making sure children have no friends when in reality your reclusive antisocial behavior shows your own child that stalking women, laying around all day masturbating to bbw porn, and seeking vengeance rather than physically exercising makes for guaranteed emotional breakdowns?

Oh no of course not, because that would make YOU are dad of the year!

LOL!

Now that we know who's who, can we set up that meeting at Starbucks between you guys again? I'm dying to see those photos of Mike on the course at Lehigh.

Waiting to see those photos is like Waiting for Godot. There are no photos. That is an indisputable fact.

The question that I and others undoubtedly have for Mike is, aka finisher medaL., how does he know that Ken watches bbw porn?

Ken - layoff of the kid angle. I doubt they are currently being harassed, but it is likely that will come as kids will begin to google things in junior high after hearing parents talk and likely find out about the infamous Rossi and maybe even someone will use "Rossied" to call them out.(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rossied)

What is amazing is #7 here

because it preceeded Rossi's infamous notoriety. There are several descriptions that are very fitting and very on target about lying.

Any chance of anyone learning how to edit quotes? The last couple of pages are 90% repetition of the previous post. Makes it hard to see the new useless trolling.