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

Radio silence from the innocent 3:11 transmarathoner. You would think as an innocent person he would be tripping over himself to provide all evidence and prove to the world they are wrong... but hey we're just a bunch of internet trolls that don't deserve any honesty right? Your strategy has paid off handsomely Mike. I really hope you are not actually thinking about waving the white flag and coming clean, because I really don't know what I will do with myself. Please just register for another race or post another threat on twitter so we know you are still hanging in there. I... think.. I think I LOVE YOU!

Trollminator wrote:

Radio silence from the innocent 3:11 transmarathoner. You would think as an innocent person he would be tripping over himself to provide all evidence and prove to the world they are wrong... but hey we're just a bunch of internet trolls that don't deserve any honesty right? Your strategy has paid off handsomely Mike. I really hope you are not actually thinking about waving the white flag and coming clean, because I really don't know what I will do with myself. Please just register for another race or post another threat on twitter so we know you are still hanging in there. I... think.. I think I LOVE YOU!

Facepalm.

rojo wrote:

Rossi Chicken Dance wrote:

What kind of grown man is a wedding dj?

Why does everyone make fun of his job? I don't criticize people who support their families by working. In this day and age, that's a positive. Let's try to stay on topic.

You must be new here.

Jk.

Pleased to meet you but he's mine. Owned. Now if you want to follow us into the after...party, we can make some introductions.

Trollminator wrote:

Radio silence from the innocent 3:11 transmarathoner. You would think as an innocent person he would be tripping over himself to provide all evidence and prove to the world they are wrong... but hey we're just a bunch of internet trolls that don't deserve any honesty right? Your strategy has paid off handsomely Mike. I really hope you are not actually thinking about waving the white flag and coming clean, because I really don't know what I will do with myself. Please just register for another race or post another threat on twitter so we know you are still hanging in there. I... think.. I think I LOVE YOU!

rojo wrote:

Rossi Chicken Dance wrote:

What kind of grown man is a wedding dj?

Why does everyone make fun of his job? I don't criticize people who support their families by working. In this day and age, that's a positive. Let's try to stay on topic.

I watched his video, He seems to be really good at MCing and wedding DJing. I would hire him in a heart beat.

I think the guy definitely has a talent

LMR wrote:

Mike Ruiz wrote:

Stillman, several couples were divorced before they received your video of their wedding.

First, how do you even know this? Second, how is that my fault, or problem?

If they were divorced within two years then the argument can me made that they never should have married in the first place.

Didn't Ken make some woman cry on tv for the bait and switch? It was on one of those fraud investigation pieces.

Second Google hit when searching Ken Stillman video:

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/tag/kenneth-stillman-video/

Philly needs a win guys.

dreamin wrote:

With all these new posters and the FB/Twitter posts gaining steam, it feels like the Rossi Saga is ramping up for a dramatic and sudden conclusion. ( I wish Rojo would veryify that the new posters are legit tho. )

Best possible scenario for the final chapter:

The article and this thread reaches everyone in Mikes local area via FB and twitter, a runner who ran the same race sees it and goes back to look at their pictures and comes forward with solid evidence, then a new article is put up and it goes viral (surpassing the original letter to the principal).

Rossi admitting cheating would be a bittersweet victory. We could celebrate for a little bit, but all the fun watching him dig his hole deeper would come to an end.

He will never man up.

The true Rossi Posse is him, Rosie Ruiz, Kip Litton. Cheaters. That is what he has chosen for himself and he doesn't have the character to let go. He dishonors anyone else he drags into his pathetic 'posse'.

You can't really expect people to remember what goes on in 900 pages of mostly bickering between posters.

The overreaction to changing the subject line was a tell. I had no malicious intent changing the subject line. My first time posting, and there's a "subject" box in the response. I put in the correct subject, one that I was discussing, not an inflammatory accusation at Mike with multiple adjectives.

The overreaction DID in fact make me wonder about the level of paranoia in the posters here. Seriously?

Peace out. Stop fighting among yourselves. Lots of good work has gone on here in trying to uncover evidence and cataloguing evidence. That's where the energy should go.

Try to make this a welcoming place. Did I just say that out loud? Letsrun is a place for civilized discussion, right? Hahaha!

marafun wrote:

You can't really expect people to remember what goes on in 900 pages of mostly bickering between posters.

The overreaction to changing the subject line was a tell. I had no malicious intent changing the subject line. My first time posting, and there's a "subject" box in the response. I put in the correct subject, one that I was discussing, not an inflammatory accusation at Mike with multiple adjectives.

The overreaction DID in fact make me wonder about the level of paranoia in the posters here. Seriously?

Peace out. Stop fighting among yourselves. Lots of good work has gone on here in trying to uncover evidence and cataloguing evidence. That's where the energy should go.

Try to make this a welcoming place. Did I just say that out loud? Letsrun is a place for civilized discussion, right? Hahaha!

You must be new here.

Jk.

Great point. Barb McKeever, spineless race director. Any event she RD's lacks credibility. When Rossi is DQ'd from the Haddon TT, this will shine even more light on her incompetence.

EZPass Mike wrote:

dreamin wrote:

Rossi admitting cheating would be a bittersweet victory. We could celebrate for a little bit, but all the fun watching him dig his hole deeper would come to an end.

We still have Barb

marafun wrote:

The overreaction DID in fact make me wonder about the level of paranoia in the posters here. Seriously?

I don't see anyone else continuing to mention this, it struck me at the time as a bit pointless and asserting your right to do pointless things but other people were annoyed, much easier to do as you suggest and let it go.

run.run wrote:

then, to cover up his turkey trot cheating, created fake data to try to prove he didn't cheat at a turkey trot. This is what he does

Can someone show me the fake data he created? I must have missed that.

I'm not sure if this refers to the fake Nike App map of the 5K he obviously walked or drove after the fact and someone subsequently pointing out that the weather being the only thing he couldn't edit not matching the day of the 5K, that was about 10-15 pages back.

There was also the fake training runs at tempo or race pace leading up to the 5K and the massive training mileage of 42 miles in the month in question - November I assume.

Old Days: Had to lug around tons of gear and vinyl, multiple turntables, had to know how to fade and mix properly...

These Days: Laptop and a flash drive - any 8 year old can do it.

If you're on a budget: MC can do double duty with an iPod in the background.

It's a parallel to the death of radio...it's like stating in 20XX that you own several Blockbuster franchises...he leans on this like a crutch to insist he is still a "personality".

rojo wrote:

run.run wrote:

then, to cover up his turkey trot cheating, created fake data to try to prove he didn't cheat at a turkey trot. This is what he does

Can someone show me the fake data he created? I must have missed that.

It's on his blog.

Besides the temperature being wrong, according to one poster here, he also somehow started the race 7 minutes sooner than everyone else. The email that Triathleteguru got back from the timekeeper said that Mike started at 9:06 and Mike's running app has him starting at 8:59.

Rojo,

Key points on that video:

claims to have run his Turkey trot 11/28, after having run 5.02 and 5.03 miles on 11/26 and 11/27 at 6:40 and 6:48 pace. Mike isn't a long time runner, so he doesn't realize that if you're trying to win $10,000, you don't run 2 hard work-outs (for him) for the 2 days before the race.

The time he shows he started the Turkey Trot is 8:59 AM. We know from other runners on Strava and confirmed by the timing company that the race didn't start until 9:07.

His TOTAL mileage for November is 42, with 20 logged from 11/20-11/28. That means for the first 19 days of the month, he logged 22 miles.

The temperature shown on race day is also questionable and doesn't match what wunderground shows, though it's only off a few degrees and not glaring.

Others in the thread have shown that with the Nike+ app he uses it's VERY easy to enter whatever data you want for any run.

35 years later, and Rosie Ruiz still has not admitted to cheating, even though she was DQ'd from both Boston and NYC. It's why she's a legend. She used to insist that she never cheated, but apparently now just refuses to talk about it. But a confession has never happened and never will. Other recent cheaters have been DQ'd but also never admitted it such as Tabitha Hamilton (Chickamauga Battlefield Marathon) and Kendall Schler (Go! St. Louis Marathon.) The only one who has admitted it is Greg Price, who was DQ'd from MCM.

Unlike them, Rossi has never even been DQ'd, so don't expect any confessions from him.

LMR wrote:

All the "long time/first time" posters re saying the same thing. And just because they aren't cheering on Mike doesn't mean they aren't him. In fact many of his minions that attacked me also posted some things claiming to be against Mike.

Sorry guys. But you are all being trolled. None of these are new posters are real. They are Mike and/or his minions.

Ken, you are as wrong about this as you were about Mike having an accomplice at VIA. I'm not Mike. Neither are the other new posters.

Mike sucks. He cheated. I just want him to know that more than just the usual posters read this, even if we are quiet.