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

rexthebex wrote:

Extremely weak Twitter response from Mike. I wonder if juggling all these lies is starting to exhaust him. The fake races, the fake Nike plus data, fake excuses like his shoe malfunction, fake injuries, fake training runs, fake identities on multiple websites to defend his honor, fake friends, and fake fvcking hair.

Give it up mate.

I'm not on twitter, but I noticed that, too. How would you feel if you posted a pic of your gorgeous spouse, wished her a happy birthday, and only 2 of your 820 followers bothered to "like" it? I mean, this is the kind of post that gets tons of likes even from the most distant friends on facebook, You can't go wrong with that...unless you're Mike Rossi.

Mike wins!

jwem wrote:

WestWyoming wrote:

Great way to celebrate the wife's B-day.

Isn't that woman in the green his wife? Looks just like her. I guess this is where they went to celebrate her birthday?

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On the other hand

.. has a "Stiff Upper Lip / let's get this over with / #noshortcuts" vibe to it

Haha, the humungous idiot Rossi has deleted the tweet and photo.

jwem wrote:

WestWyoming wrote:

Great way to celebrate the wife's B-day.

Isn't that woman in the green his wife? Looks just like her. I guess this is where they went to celebrate her birthday?

rexthebex wrote:

Mike is desperate enough to try to pull a West Wyoming on us at this point.

Fat hurts wrote:

It's safe to say, I'm an expert in web apps. So feel free to get as technical as you like.

If he has no ability to edit once it is uploaded to the server then he could edit the data before it is uploaded. I don't know the details of the app to know how tricky it is to do, but it certainly can be done, probably without much serious hacking.

Does this app do the upload as soon as your workout is complete or do you have the option to store it locally first? If it's the later then it wouldn't be that hard to fake an entire workout.

But still much too hard for Mike, I suppose.

No, the data is never saved locally and in fact there isn't even a true export option. I overstated when I said "serious hacking" for an IT person such as yourself. After all, the API is well documented here:

. But I think we agree that your average user isn't going to know what a quarter of that even means, so to them it is serious hacking.

The most probable scenario in my opinion is he covered the course at a later date and then changed the date and elapsed time. I was thinking a light jog, but as someone else replied, a leisurely walk might make more sense. And it is based on that assumption that I say a quick look at the source would quickly disprove the validity of the data. But if you want to assume he did work above his pay grade to spoof this more elaborately, I still maintain there will be other indications in the data that could be sniffed out. Either way, we all know he cheated. Otherwise, why not post it.

At the very least, hopefully this will give him some better ideas on how to fake evidence better than a 12 year old. That way we can keep the fun of this train wreck pretending to be good at running going.

This!!! Mike, you have a larger audience than you realize. But here is the thing, you have the capability to use it to your advantage. You can come clean and become an advocate against others doing the same; maybe even help RD's. This may seem far fetched, but look past the anger and take ownership. Use the platform for something positive, not a stage to embarrass yourself. Or just do as printer suggested, close off social media and focus on your world - not the make believe world of TV and social media approval. Give it some thought.

SuperCooper123 wrote:

At the current posting rate this thread is going to blow past 20,000 by the weekend.

Mike Ross wrote:

what are the chances that this thread breaks 20,000 by Christmas???

We need about 100 posts a day? Seems unlikely?

This thread is amazing. I promised a guy I'd try to stay on it this week to moderate it better but it's like a full time job. There are what 175 posts. Something like that 8-9 pages in the last 24 hours.

Earlier this week a guy was wondering if we could get to 20,000 posts before the end of the year. Then it moved up to xmas. Hell we might get it by before next week.

Does everyone on her check his twitter. I'm blacked and by the time i go on their incognito his stuff is always deleted. Please try to save his tweets.

Maybe when July 2017 comes around, I'll off the guy a bounty to get off facebook, twitter and seek counseling.

rojo wrote:

SuperCooper123 wrote:

At the current posting rate this thread is going to blow past 20,000 by the weekend.

This thread is amazing. I promised a guy I'd try to stay on it this week to moderate it better but it's like a full time job. There are what 175 posts. Something like that 8-9 pages in the last 24 hours.

Earlier this week a guy was wondering if we could get to 20,000 posts before the end of the year. Then it moved up to xmas. Hell we might get it by before next week.

Does everyone on her check his twitter. I'm blacked and by the time i go on their incognito his stuff is always deleted. Please try to save his tweets.

Maybe when July 2017 comes around, I'll off the guy a bounty to get off facebook, twitter and seek counseling.

Rojo, I think the reason this thread won't die is that Mike continues to antagonize posters, even Kip eventually gave it up. At least you are 2 weeks or so from having that $10K safe where Mike can't even try to cheat you at a 5K anymore.

rojo wrote:

Does everyone on her check his twitter. I'm blacked and by the time i go on their incognito his stuff is always deleted. Please try to save his tweets.

Maybe when July 2017 comes around, I'll off the guy a bounty to get off facebook, twitter and seek counseling.

If Rossi had a brain he'd be dangerous.

I think this ones meant for you Rojo:

"Mike Rossi ‏@mikerossi22 · 14m14 minutes ago  Philadelphia, PA

2 weeks left in 2015. But it's a long way until July."

rojo wrote:

This thread is amazing. I promised a guy I'd try to stay on it this week to moderate it better

What! Why spoil the fun at Rossi's expense?

Captain Haddock wrote:

rexthebex wrote:

Extremely weak Twitter response from Mike. I wonder if juggling all these lies is starting to exhaust him. The fake races, the fake Nike plus data, fake excuses like his shoe malfunction, fake injuries, fake training runs, fake identities on multiple websites to defend his honor, fake friends, and fake fvcking hair.

Give it up mate.

I'm not on twitter, but I noticed that, too. How would you feel if you posted a pic of your gorgeous spouse, wished her a happy birthday, and only 2 of your 820 followers bothered to "like" it? I mean, this is the kind of post that gets tons of likes even from the most distant friends on facebook, You can't go wrong with that...unless you're Mike Rossi.

Mike wins!

Haha, hilarious posts, well done boys.

Why did he tweet a screenshot of his Facebook page?

brogan1 wrote:

Why did he tweet a screenshot of his Facebook page?

To show that Stacey Amundsen, Aly Cleary, and Jack Mitchell along with 123 others like that he still has a wife despite cheating at Lehigh VIA Marathon to get into the Boston Marathon.

I actually think Mike Rossi delivers a solid work product to wedding couples. I say this because I took a good look at his work today, and he's got solid music in there and good shots and everything. I think he took the same artistic approach when creating a YouTube video about himself running 4hours at Boston. It's weird and kind of funny because he has a low bib number at Boston as qualified with a 3:11, but he is seen racing next to people with bib numbers in the 20,000range since he is trotting/farting along at not even close to the 3:11 pace he supposedly ran to qualify at Boston.

I am amazing by the prolific analyses and theorizing one bumbling fool has spawned. Truly amazing.

theREALsmokingGunner wrote:

I am amazing by the prolific analyses and theorizing one bumbling fool has spawned. Truly amazing.

Yep, you and that "bumbling fool" are both amazing at times.

I LOL at his video of him he posted to his Twitter holding his cell phone and teasing us with his Nike gps results and then clicking on the one that's a good high school Junior Varsity cross country time just to show people how fast he really is.

I remember the first time I went out for cross country my first time trial was a 20:33.

Picture me Trollin wrote:

I actually think Mike Rossi delivers a solid work product to wedding couples. I say this because I took a good look at his work today, and he's got solid music in there and good shots and everything. I think he took the same artistic approach when creating a YouTube video about himself running 4hours at Boston. It's weird and kind of funny because he has a low bib number at Boston as qualified with a 3:11, but he is seen racing next to people with bib numbers in the 20,000range since he is trotting/farting along at not even close to the 3:11 pace he supposedly ran to qualify at Boston.

And what's strange too is why would he post a quote of Harry Truman to his Twitter about not backing down or apologizing for anything? So you cheat in a race, the Lehigh VIA folks (Lisa Walkiewicz, Barb McKeever, Bart Yasso, etc.) are incompetent, and then you can't earn LetsRun's $10,000 prize because you struggle to run a good high school JV cross country time, have to contact your AOL lawyer, you get frustrated and call us "skinny little girl"[s] and you consider this not backing down?

I would like to see Jake Stout (in costume) pace Rossi in any Brojo sanctioned attempts:

http://www.oregonlive.com/trackandfield/index.ssf/2015/12/portlander_jake_stout_shows_he.html