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

Latest from Rossi:

"Mike Rossi ‏@mikerossi22 · 4h4 hours ago  Pennsylvania, USA

Hop along little troll"

Rossi, Cecily Tynan doesn't need to hop when she can steam roll you anytime, on twitter, on air or on the road.

Loofa Dog wrote:

Using Rossi logic. If a video collection of pics that doesn't show him on the course and due to the FOV of the shots doesn't show him and it is impossible mathematically to cover the distance in the frames "MEANS NOTHING"

What does running a 5K 14 months later mean? MEANS NOTHING!

But we need to stay vigilant though. It is clear Rossi is trying to make this some kind of story with silly 24 minute 5K a few weekends ago and his more recent attempt.

I think it is hilarious he is going for the only challenge he has a chance at.

Of course the easiest would have been showing his phone and GPS data from VIA.... but about that...Nah too easy!

Rossi and his 5K folly only provides more evidence he is a cheating scumbag..He has doubled his mileage to run a stinking 5K in a time that he should be able pull off repeatedly. I would not pay up on any race unless he has definite proof he ran. Like an eyewitness.

Still in the game, baby.

39 days to run sub-20 for 5K if he wants to cash in on $10,000.

How will Rossi cheat?

What will be "injured" when he fails to find a good race to cheat in?

Stay tuned folks.

Loofa Dog wrote:

I think it is hilarious he is going for the only challenge he has a chance at

Hey, it's $10k for running a 20 minute 5k. Why not? He has time to do the marathon later.

I've thought all along the challenge was foolish. The point was not that he could not ever run a 3:11 marathon, it was that he did not run a 3:11 marathon in September 2014.

Guaranteed he will break 20 within a month. 100%

Mike Ross wrote:

Guaranteed he will break 20 within a month. 100%

Yes but will he run a sub 20 minute 5K?

I think the news has do with him running a 5K under a different name this weekend. Supposedly he ran it in 20:41

Mike Ross wrote:

I think the news has do with him running a 5K under a different name this weekend. Supposedly he ran it in 20:41

Pictures or it didn't happen . . . . . why does this sound familiar ?

Mike Ross wrote:

I think the news has do with him running a 5K under a different name this weekend. Supposedly he ran it in 20:41

That is still a long way off from sub 20. I am thinking he is going for it too, the "epic weekend" tweet implies it. That or Temple must be playing.

I hope he does it, an all out sprint to the line too. Then justify how hard that was while the 3:11 was a piece of cake. Moron. He may fool a few plump newlyweds and a few WaddlersWorlders ('I ran this and that so it is conceivable blah blah blah) but Cheater Mike will never EVER collect on the $100k because he is an EPIC CHEATER.

Loofa Dog wrote:

Mike Ross wrote:

I think the news has do with him running a 5K under a different name this weekend. Supposedly he ran it in 20:41

That is still a long way off from sub 20. I am thinking he is going for it too, the "epic weekend" tweet implies it. That or Temple must be playing.

TheDudeAbides wrote:

I hope he does it, an all out sprint to the line too. Then justify how hard that was while the 3:11 was a piece of cake. Moron.

He may fool a few plump newlyweds and a few WaddlersWorlders ('I ran this and that so it is conceivable blah blah blah) but Cheater Mike will never EVER collect on the $100k because he is an EPIC CHEATER.

Loofa Dog wrote:

That is still a long way off from sub 20. I am thinking he is going for it too, the "epic weekend" tweet implies it. That or Temple must be playing.

A 3:11 marathoner should be able to break 20 minutes easily, so just the fact that he's chipping away from 21:41 to sub 21 just shows you how far out of the realm of possibility the LVM result was.

TheDudeAbides wrote:

I hope he does it, an all out sprint to the line too. Then justify how hard that was while the 3:11 was a piece of cake. Moron.

He may fool a few plump newlyweds and a few WaddlersWorlders ('I ran this and that so it is conceivable blah blah blah) but Cheater Mike will never EVER collect on the $100k because he is an EPIC CHEATER.

Loofa Dog wrote:

That is still a long way off from sub 20. I am thinking he is going for it too, the "epic weekend" tweet implies it. That or Temple must be playing.

Right. To collect the $10,000, he has to work extra hard... almost admitting that the 3:11:45 was a fraud. But our hero is too stupid to realize any of this.

Reg Fields wrote:

TheDudeAbides wrote:

I hope he does it, an all out sprint to the line too. Then justify how hard that was while the 3:11 was a piece of cake. Moron.

He may fool a few plump newlyweds and a few WaddlersWorlders ('I ran this and that so it is conceivable blah blah blah) but Cheater Mike will never EVER collect on the $100k because he is an EPIC CHEATER.

A 3:11 marathoner should be able to break 20 minutes easily, so just the fact that he's chipping away from 21:41 to sub 21 just shows you how far out of the realm of possibility the LVM result was.

Yep.

Mike Ross wrote:

I think the news has do with him running a 5K under a different name this weekend. Supposedly he ran it in 20:41

If this is true I would love to know which race. With his history I'm sure the race director would like to know as well

Guys, Mike Rossi is never going to break 20 minutes for a 5K. I guarantee you that.

I think he will probably cheat at a 5K somehow and so have no actual evidence that he ran the time in question. Additionally, the circumstances will probably point to the fact that he didn't really run the full 5K but it won't be up to the Barb McCleever standard so he always insist that he did.

He won't actually demand the $10,000 from Letsrun, but when Rojo rightfully doesn't pay him he will act like they welched on the offer thus simultaneously suggesting that he did run sub 20 ("proving" he also must have run the 3:11), and that Rojo is a "troll" that doesn't make good on his bets so everything written against him on the internet must be untrue.

Anyone that knows anything about running will continue to know that Rossi cheated. Anyone that knows Rossi will continue to know that he is a huge loser, assume he did cheat and snicker to each other behind his back. No one else will care.

Basically, it will be the same situation that we are in right now.

runningantelope wrote:

He won't actually demand the $10,000 from Letsrun, but when Rojo rightfully doesn't pay him he will act like they welched on the offer thus simultaneously suggesting that he did run sub 20 ("proving" he also must have run the 3:11), and that Rojo is a "troll" that doesn't make good on his bets so everything written against him on the internet must be untrue.

Anyone that knows anything about running will continue to know that Rossi cheated. Anyone that knows Rossi will continue to know that he is a huge loser, assume he did cheat and snicker to each other behind his back. No one else will care.

Basically, it will be the same situation that we are in right now.

True. Which is why the challenge is pointless.

RunDriveRun wrote:

Mike Ross wrote:

I think the news has do with him running a 5K under a different name this weekend. Supposedly he ran it in 20:41

If this is true I would love to know which race. With his history I'm sure the race director would like to know as well

Me too, since the Temple game was at Noon on Saturday, would have been pretty tough to do since most 5Ks I know start at 8am. He posted pics from the game, so we know he was there.

The challenge was smart because it got other media outlets to pickup the story.

The 5K component was dumb however, for two reasons: fitness for a 5K and a marathon are wildly different; most 5Ks do not have Rossi Mats within the course making it easier to cheat.

The 5k challenge has been worth it, simply for the sheer internet entertainment value. We're now waiting on the results of the world's most important Turkey Trot ever. I demand a GPS file and a picture of him running the course from each mile as validation of the effort.