There is no evidence that these slow geezers will show up. And there's no evidence that rojo will pay anyone for following Robert by car/bike.
It's happening. Do you think they're going to send out press releases or quietly observe and document?
These guys are the real thing, unlike RY.
no record chance now, but I bet he will gut it out to the end
Ulister wrote:
There is no evidence that these slow geezers will show up. And there's no evidence that rojo will pay anyone for following Robert by car/bike.
It's happening. Do you think they're going to send out press releases or quietly observe and document?
These guys are the real thing, unlike RY.
Just fvcking run/bike/drive with him.
Racergirl wrote:
I've done an extensive trawl of all the available electronic media archives for Hertfordshire from 2004 onwards, and uncovered nothing else regarding his sporting achievements or fundraising. I would have thought that as a Cheshunt (Hertfordshire) resident and knowing it would be free publicity, he would have shouted from the rooftops a little more if he had completed the other feats. I could contact some of my old journalist contacts in the area to see if they could do some digging, but unless there is a meaty story in there - and bear in mind he's no longer resident in the area - they're probably not that interested.
In terms of the national press, I can see the Daily Mail were quick enough to pick up on his achievement last year - so given the Wail are about one step up from the National Enquirer and *love* the "won't you think of the children!" angst when tearing someone down, they might be interested in doing some digging.
A quick trawl of the Three Peaks database (we don't call it the Three Summits) shows no self-disclosed completion - he would have to register it himself for 2004 (or 2005, or 2006 etc), and there are NO records of completion for that year at all. I did find a cached page referring to a team who completed it in 2007, but the employer details don't match up as I understand he says he was working for a car dealership?
CoachKev is still hanging in there, posting on an ultrarunning FB group as of half an hour ago with "Rob has been uploading all his data to the TomTom site but he doesn't have a strava account. I spoke to him for a while last night and asked if this could be rectified as soon as possible as it's obviously causing a lot of issues for him. He mentioned that the watches only store a certain amount of data and wasn't sure if he could back load the previous runs. I suggested getting this tried but if not to just upload data from now on and address this issue at a later date. I know lots of the negativity is affecting him but hopefully he will be in a better place mentally now and show his true class and continue this run. I'm all for outing cheats and i'm also all about supporting people I believe in. I hope he has sorted a strava account but I can't make anyone do anything i can only ask. The letsrun forum has got out of hand with some truly dreadful accusations flying around. I think it's great that there are sceptics in this community and I value (most) of the posts from people I know and those who i don't but I value for their knowledge and ability. Some others I don't value at all and think they are just out to cause trouble"
Strava shows another flyby on his "longrun without sleep"
http://www.strava.com/activities/352964048but I can't yet find anyone who was supporting or crewing on the days either side.
The Walter Mitty FB page has been contacted with his claims, we'll see if they can shed any light on his military service accomplishments.
Someone posted about WADA checking he is running clean: heads up to Rob's support crew - get a TUE *now* for anything he's taking which crops up on the banned list! Oh, it does mean you'll have to shell out a sackload of dollars for an MD to sign the form to explain why he is taking anything on the WADA list, so let's hope you don't have anything innocuous like Lemsip in his support kit.
Has anyone yet verified the EPSN or other TV crews which are meant to be covering his story?
And has anyone done any digging, or have any contacts within Sky, who can comment on his astonishing ability to arrive at a finish line before the judges?
Dear CoachKev:
You say, "I'm all for outing cheats."
No. Actually, you're not. If you were "all for outing cheats," you'd be helping the rest of the honest folks in the world to expose your pal Robbie for what he OBVIOUSLY is at this point: a *gigantic* freaking fraud.
Try this: dump a bucket of ice-water on your head, then go to the mirror, smack yourself in the face --hard-- three or four times, and see if you finally start to glimpse the reality of the situation.
In the meantime, do the world, and yourself, a huge favor: shut the hell up.
Your constant stream of bullsh*t is only doing great injury to yourself, your scammer pal Robbo, and all the thousands of idiots who apparently worship him like Jesus.
(Or, if you'd really rather tar *yourself* as a giant sleazeball scammer for the rest of your life, too,... then keep doing what you're doing.)
A hypothetical. Say he does run the remaining distance (which to me seems likely) - will that satisfy these guys? Is there any other evidence they can gather from observing him now?
If I had to bet, I reckon he'll finish it legit and the cheating is already done. It may simply be too late at this point to prove he's cheated. The lack of evidence and all the other queries won't go away, regardless of what data he eventually posts (it's way too late for that now), but it could end up with there being nothing to prove he cheated.
what a porker wrote:
no record chance now, but I bet he will gut it out to the end
Get it, gut?
Film at 11:00? wrote:
From Hamel, IL his approximate route to Times Square is roughly another 932 miles. So, in 17 days he's gotta drive 54.8 miles a day to beat the record.
Shouldn't be too hard
Like I said, I've tried googling for info if Young ever did charity challenges #2 and #3, but I haven't found anything. Any suggestions how to find info on this?
For some reason, I can't get the cached page for
https://www.justgiving.com/atkins.3peakschallenge.701247to work, but did get a screengrab just before it flicked to a white screen, which shows the page owner as a 'Rob Young'. This refers to a Three Peaks Challenge in 2007. Now, there are thousands of Rob Youngs in the UK, and I'm not sure he's ever claimed to work for / have an association with Aktins, but maybe worth digging deeper? Is there a way to post the screengrab here?
searcher of answers wrote:
A hypothetical. Say he does run the remaining distance (which to me seems likely) - will that satisfy these guys? Is there any other evidence they can gather from observing him now?
There's NO CHANCE this fatty can run 50+ miles a day for more than two weeks. But as long as nobody follows every step he's taking he can get away with it. It's just ridiculous to hide in the bushes with a camera. Get out there and follow him with a bike and a back up car in case they drive off and start "running" from another location.
He already has done one transcontinental run. If you believe that one was legit there is no reason to believe he doesn't finish this one with this newfound scrutiny.
Isn't there a group of ultra marathoners raising money to send someone to hollow him? If there is can I get a link?
Shelden wrote:
Isn't there a group of ultra marathoners raising money to send someone to hollow him? If there is can I get a link?
No link. It's just Natty Dread who's claiming this. Probably won't happen.
LookAtMe wrote:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1025192257565032Footage of him running.
The average pace on the tracker is nowhere near this pace though.
Well, at least we know he ran a quarter-mile, anyway. (At 10-minute pace.)
Asher Delmott wrote:
Updated wrote:OP, were you able to get the 15 minutes before the RV passes through per Robert Young's request? Not that you need to; you've already gone above and beyond!
I wasn't able to meet up with the car wash owner yesterday, but hoping I can catch him today.
In the mean time, someone ought to calculate what kind of place he would have run to be 15 minutes behind the rv in Emporia (putting him at 6th and sunnyslope at 10:51pm), then being next to the rv near Lebo (the intersection of Fauna and old hwy 50 at approx 1:54am). Also, what would it be if he was only 5 or 10 minutes behind the rv in Emporia instead of 15?
Have you seen this from his FB page, Asher, re 5 minutes?
"Rob Crane Keep focusing on the run, Rob!
I managed to work out which property the CCTV was taken from. If you don't hear before you successfully finish, let me know and I'll pass over the details.
From looking at the time stamps on the CCTV and your tracker, it seemed you were /less/ than 15 minutes behind - I'd estimate around 5 minutes.
Carry on the great running!"
This is what happens to your body when you really DO run across America. Nah. Not for Rob. He is still flabby and pasty as when he started.
sp2 wrote:
Racergirl wrote:I've done an extensive trawl of all the available electronic media archives for Hertfordshire from 2004 onwards, and uncovered nothing else regarding his sporting achievements or fundraising. I would have thought that as a Cheshunt (Hertfordshire) resident and knowing it would be free publicity, he would have shouted from the rooftops a little more if he had completed the other feats. I could contact some of my old journalist contacts in the area to see if they could do some digging, but unless there is a meaty story in there - and bear in mind he's no longer resident in the area - they're probably not that interested.
In terms of the national press, I can see the Daily Mail were quick enough to pick up on his achievement last year - so given the Wail are about one step up from the National Enquirer and *love* the "won't you think of the children!" angst when tearing someone down, they might be interested in doing some digging.
A quick trawl of the Three Peaks database (we don't call it the Three Summits) shows no self-disclosed completion - he would have to register it himself for 2004 (or 2005, or 2006 etc), and there are NO records of completion for that year at all. I did find a cached page referring to a team who completed it in 2007, but the employer details don't match up as I understand he says he was working for a car dealership?
CoachKev is still hanging in there, posting on an ultrarunning FB group as of half an hour ago with "Rob has been uploading all his data to the TomTom site but he doesn't have a strava account. I spoke to him for a while last night and asked if this could be rectified as soon as possible as it's obviously causing a lot of issues for him. He mentioned that the watches only store a certain amount of data and wasn't sure if he could back load the previous runs. I suggested getting this tried but if not to just upload data from now on and address this issue at a later date. I know lots of the negativity is affecting him but hopefully he will be in a better place mentally now and show his true class and continue this run. I'm all for outing cheats and i'm also all about supporting people I believe in. I hope he has sorted a strava account but I can't make anyone do anything i can only ask. The letsrun forum has got out of hand with some truly dreadful accusations flying around. I think it's great that there are sceptics in this community and I value (most) of the posts from people I know and those who i don't but I value for their knowledge and ability. Some others I don't value at all and think they are just out to cause trouble"
Strava shows another flyby on his "longrun without sleep"
http://www.strava.com/activities/352964048but I can't yet find anyone who was supporting or crewing on the days either side.
The Walter Mitty FB page has been contacted with his claims, we'll see if they can shed any light on his military service accomplishments.
Someone posted about WADA checking he is running clean: heads up to Rob's support crew - get a TUE *now* for anything he's taking which crops up on the banned list! Oh, it does mean you'll have to shell out a sackload of dollars for an MD to sign the form to explain why he is taking anything on the WADA list, so let's hope you don't have anything innocuous like Lemsip in his support kit.
Has anyone yet verified the EPSN or other TV crews which are meant to be covering his story?
And has anyone done any digging, or have any contacts within Sky, who can comment on his astonishing ability to arrive at a finish line before the judges?
Dear CoachKev:
You say, "I'm all for outing cheats."
No. Actually, you're not. If you were "all for outing cheats," you'd be helping the rest of the honest folks in the world to expose your pal Robbie for what he OBVIOUSLY is at this point: a *gigantic* freaking fraud.
Try this: dump a bucket of ice-water on your head, then go to the mirror, smack yourself in the face --hard-- three or four times, and see if you finally start to glimpse the reality of the situation.
In the meantime, do the world, and yourself, a huge favor: shut the hell up.
Your constant stream of bullsh*t is only doing great injury to yourself, your scammer pal Robbo, and all the thousands of idiots who apparently worship him like Jesus.
(Or, if you'd really rather tar *yourself* as a giant sleazeball scammer for the rest of your life, too,... then keep doing what you're doing.)
I'm in touch with CoachKev on fb now and he is passing some of my technical tips on to MarathonMan.
Help in getting his data from TomTom to Strava I meant.
LookAtMe wrote:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1025192257565032Footage of him running.
The average pace on the tracker is nowhere near this pace though.
Exquisite form
https://i.imgur.com/bjiHlMo.jpgRacergirl wrote:
Like I said, I've tried googling for info if Young ever did charity challenges #2 and #3, but I haven't found anything. Any suggestions how to find info on this?
For some reason, I can't get the cached page for
https://www.justgiving.com/atkins.3peakschallenge.701247to work, but did get a screengrab just before it flicked to a white screen, which shows the page owner as a 'Rob Young'. This refers to a Three Peaks Challenge in 2007. Now, there are thousands of Rob Youngs in the UK, and I'm not sure he's ever claimed to work for / have an association with Aktins, but maybe worth digging deeper? Is there a way to post the screengrab here?
https://web.archive.org/web/20120115171829/http://www.freewebs.com/atkins3peakschallenge/Geezers wrote:
Racergirl wrote:https://i.imgur.com/bjiHlMo.jpgFor some reason, I can't get the cached page for
https://www.justgiving.com/atkins.3peakschallenge.701247to work, but did get a screengrab just before it flicked to a white screen, which shows the page owner as a 'Rob Young'. This refers to a Three Peaks Challenge in 2007. Now, there are thousands of Rob Youngs in the UK, and I'm not sure he's ever claimed to work for / have an association with Aktins, but maybe worth digging deeper? Is there a way to post the screengrab here?
