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

You guys post all kinds of messages telling me to get lost and then expect me to drive an hour and back to catch Mike cheating? Again, a bunch of hypocrites.

Let's review, shall we?

I start an off-line group to organize a bunch of people to look into getting Mike DQ'd then Sara and a couple others decide they don't like my accomplice theory and blow the whole thing up, including all the other aspects we were looking at.

Then I have my mother-in-law agree to write and article for a local paper that could put pressure on Barb as to why she didn't DQ Mike and I can't get anybody in Sara's new group to give me any info about runners who were contacted and what they have said. So now I'm supposed to do ALL this background work to presents as a story? Yea, no. I don't think so.

Why on earth do you think I owe you any of my time to catch Mike cheating? I am the only person on here who has known Mike personally and have given you much insight into his life. I live close enough that I could show up at many of the races he takes place in. But why should I after you keep telling me to get lost?

My efforts to get Mike DQ'd from Via have been thwarted twice by a few of the idiots on here. Give me a reason to go out of my way and maybe I might. Until then you are just another hypocrite.[/

You are married?

Inconvenient Truth wrote:

LMR wrote:

And why didn't you drive to Haddon Township that morning?

Cop out. Nothing or no one thwarted YOUR efforts. You are free to make your own efforts, like get into a car, drive and film. Woohoo, so hard. Pity party for the bullied bully. You didnt need sarah, you allegedly contacted via runners yourself....enough excuses, justifications, and blaming others for your unwillingness to do anything but point fingers, demand others to do stuff (like I recall you did with GregTr in a post from your not so secret facebook group), bully kids and wives.

Case closed.

Can add cheater to your description too.

You didn't answer the question. Where were YOU that saturday morning? You weren't in Haddon Township, New Jersey, that's for sure.

LMR wrote:

Frankly, I've become indifferent to the whole situation. I don't really care if he gets caught cheating or not. Mike loses either way. If he gets caught I get to laugh at him for being a jackass. If he doesn't get caught I get to keep spending the word of his cheating and still laugh at him for being a jackass.

You have definitely not become indifferent!!!!!!!! Just read your posts!!!!!!!!!!

LMR wrote:

Frankly, I've become indifferent to the whole situation. I don't really care if he gets caught cheating or not. Mike loses either way. If he gets caught I get to laugh at him for being a jackass. If he doesn't get caught I get to keep spending the word of his cheating and still laugh at him for being a jackass.

...and while there is some validity to that, he gets to in turn laugh at you for backing down, chickening out, and being lazy....you make fun of his editing and filming, yet you who claims prowess in this area, couldn't roll out of bed as one who lives in his area.

But let's be honest, you are not indifferent. If you were, you wouldn't be here posting now or posting on twitter. Seems like jackass is as jackass does.

Inconvenient Truth wrote:

LMR wrote:

Frankly, I've become indifferent to the whole situation. I don't really care if he gets caught cheating or not. Mike loses either way. If he gets caught I get to laugh at him for being a jackass. If he doesn't get caught I get to keep spending the word of his cheating and still laugh at him for being a jackass.

...and while there is some validity to that, he gets to in turn laugh at you for backing down, chickening out, and being lazy....you make fun of his editing and filming, yet you who claims prowess in this area, couldn't roll out of bed as one who lives in his area.

But let's be honest, you are not indifferent. If you were, you wouldn't be here posting now or posting on twitter. Seems like jackass is as jackass does.

And still you dodge the question as to why you didn't get your lazy ass out of bed to go catch the cheater.

Answer the question, lazy ass.

LMR wrote:

Frankly, I've become indifferent to the whole situation. I don't really care if he gets caught cheating or not. Mike loses either way. If he gets caught I get to laugh at him for being a jackass. If he doesn't get caught I get to keep spending the word of his cheating and still laugh at him for being a jackass.

The reality is you don't even care if he cheated you just want occasionally use it as an excuse to shroud your perverse hatred of him, you take solace in bringing misery to others including his children and wife. You are the antithesis of sportsmanship and the pursuit of excellence. For runners Mike is a pothole or road kill on their pursuit of excellence. For you it is a roadblock that consumes you and is an outlet for your demons.

You can lie to yourself about who you are but the world sees you just as it sees Mike. You are a vulture feasting on road kill.

LMR wrote:

Inconvenient Truth wrote:

...and while there is some validity to that, he gets to in turn laugh at you for backing down, chickening out, and being lazy....you make fun of his editing and filming, yet you who claims prowess in this area, couldn't roll out of bed as one who lives in his area.

But let's be honest, you are not indifferent. If you were, you wouldn't be here posting now or posting on twitter. Seems like jackass is as jackass does.

And still you dodge the question as to why you didn't get your lazy ass out of bed to go catch the cheater.

Answer the question, lazy ass.

I don't live in the area!!! I didn't come here playing the bully card saying I was so motivated to catch this guy and make him pay for bullying a principal, and all the other hollow words you have spewed here. You had an opportunity to get into your car and perhaps get conclusive, video or photographic evidence, you even tweeted the HT Turkey Trot to him and said you were going. You didn't. You got both scared and lazy. You are all talk. If I could have been there, I would have. I don't have the photographic or videographic expertise or equipment you likely have or claim to have, but had I and had I taken your position you so vehemently and passionately claimed all the time about this, I would have gone. But obviously you lied about it all. You are shame Ken.

One could make the argument that you are as bad if not worse than Rossi. It must be part of the industry you two work in because you two are quite similar in personality.

zing!

Call it like it is wrote:

The reality is you don't even care if he cheated you just want occasionally use it as an excuse to shroud your perverse hatred of him, you take solace in bringing misery to others including his children and wife. You are the antithesis of sportsmanship and the pursuit of excellence. For runners Mike is a pothole or road kill on their pursuit of excellence. For you it is a roadblock that consumes you and is an outlet for your demons.

You can lie to yourself about who you are but the world sees you just as it sees Mike. You are a vulture feasting on road kill.

You must be new here so let me fill you in. I'm pretty laid back. I'm not the kind of person that gets involved. I just live life and do what is best for my family.

But my son was bullied in school a few years ago. I currently date a high school math/science teacher. So when I saw that Mike had cyber bullied a school principal it really ticked me off. Because of their contract that principal cannot fight back. So I commented on his news story and then he tried to bully me. And that's when I decided I would not let this bully get away with it.

Until he confesses and apologizes to that principal (publicly) I will continue to spread the word about his cheating and being an jerk. This isn't a hatred for Mike. This is a hatred of a bully. And this is about hopefully getting a wife and children away from this monster before he messes them up for life.

I don't wish any ill will on Mikes wife and children. I merely point out to Mike all the psychological scars and bruises he has inflicted on them by lying and cheating. They aren't reading any of this, or my Twitter feed. But Mike is.

And he is sending them down a very dark path unless he somehow finds humility and confesses.

Inconvenient Truth wrote:

LMR wrote:

And still you dodge the question as to why you didn't get your lazy ass out of bed to go catch the cheater.

Answer the question, lazy ass.

I don't live in the area!!!

So now you need me and you're gonna call me names. Nice.

Maybe in the spring at a local race I'll be in the mood to show up with a few video cameras and get conclusive evidence. Until then you'll just have to do it yourself. You're so determined that I know you can get it done.

what is noone? can I eat that?

I doubt this will ever happen. but let's say for the sake of argument that Mike comes out with a heartfelt confession and offers apologies all around. What would be your response? What would he have to do to make you believe him?

LMR wrote:

I don't wish any ill will on Mikes wife and children. I merely point out to Mike all the psychological scars and bruises he has inflicted on them by lying and cheating. They aren't reading any of this, or my Twitter feed. But Mike is.

And he is sending them down a very dark path unless he somehow finds humility and confesses.

You guys do see what your doing right? You are turning your frustration and dissapointment that there is no finish line video into all this being "Ken's fault". It's not. Nobody knew Rossi would cheat the way he did. Everyone then, and now (Rojo), believed the only way to catch him is to have someone shadow him on the course. People specifically mocked Ken because there was no way he could follow Rossi, so his going to the run was useless. In hindsight a finish line video would be awesome - but nobody asked Ken to do that before the race because the assumption was he'd pull a Via again.

You can all do what you like, but I actually thought Ken showing up would have been a bad idea. Rossi clearly has a plan to cheat and seeing someone he knew there was more likely to spook him then catch him. I think his fear people (he didn't know) would come and shadow him was likely part of why he picked the cheating method he did and why he screwed up. Paranoid.

Ken,

I don't blame you for not driving to the race. One person with a camara along the road really couldn't do much.

What we needed was someone actually running with Mike the whole way, that would end this real quick. If you want to understand why he started so far back, he was scared someone was going to be running with him with an iPhone or digital camera. That would put an end to this silliness once and for all and he knew it. So he starts way back so anyone looking to shadow him couldn't find him. So in the end we won, he got scared and blew it.

run.run wrote:

You can all do what you like, but I actually thought Ken showing up would have been a bad idea. Rossi clearly has a plan to cheat and seeing someone he knew there was more likely to spook him then catch him. I think his fear people (he didn't know) would come and shadow him was likely part of why he picked the cheating method he did and why he screwed up. Paranoid.

Agreed, this isn't down to Ken, I'd have turned up to run if someone was willing to have paid for the plane flight.

I still laugh at how Duckster Rossi is not smart enough to bring his chip across the finish line in the Haddon Turkey Trot under 20:00 thinking that he might collect the big bucks!

What are Ken's times?

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