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

He seriously has a shoe pod on his right foot. I've seen it in quite a few races but I've found a photo that shows it from the side. It's Philly RnR half http://imgur.com/Hd0Sdev

GregTR wrote:

T BONE wrote:I had a friend that wasn't a runner do a 20:45 5k in last April, and then a 3:16 marathon by the end of last summer. Granted he was a good athlete with a runners build and 26 years old, but it is possible.

No offense, but going from 20:45 to 3:16 at age 26 is not even remotely similar to going from 22:00 to 3:11 at 47 in 70F weather. You can't even mention the two performances in the same sentence that is how different they are.

No offense, butt you just did.

Raysism wrote:

In reverse order:

7:56 -- 34 photos

7:55 -- 21 photos

7:54 -- 17 photos (includes 2:47 finisher)

Before that, it's just the leaders. Even when there was almost no one to photograph, he was taking a photo every 2 or 3 seconds.

Awesome! So it strains credulity to believe that he crossed this bridge until at least 8:04, five minutes behind the guy he started and finished with. Two questions:

(1) Do we know exactly how far into the course this bridge is?

(2) Does somebody want to extend this slightly in the 'slow' direction - count how many pictures were taken during 8:05, 8:06, 8:07? At that point we will have shown that he was at least a mile behind at X miles into the course (unless he was somehow missed when photos were being taken every Y seconds).

I guess it's more funny than interesting. I'm assuming it was Rossi, and that he cheated. (Percent certainty: 40% and 100.00%). Cause look, let's say you were for some reason accused of cheating a race you legit had run. The first thing you'd do was explain what happened, why it might look like something was off. Or, scramble to get your backup- the splits you're worried you deleted, the friend you ran with that day. The LAST thing you'd do is sit around and fake-post random "yes I DO have a girlfriend in Canada, you guys!" type crap.

Picture the principal that Rossi threw under the bus to kick all this off. I wonder how long she'd let her schoolkids twist in the wind when they're locking themselves into total obvious fibs.

Experienced Kip Watcher wrote:

wowzersss wrote:

Certainly not Mike and not emotional even a little bit(I know its tough to believe that more than one person on earth thinks you are a loser). I have a life so I don't get as fired up about all of this as you. Just pointing out that you asking questions to yourself is a bit sad and egocentric.

Because repeatedly visiting a thread to pour scorn on the motives of those taking part (which includes you) is so much nobler I see. While you are at it, why not visit every thread on this site to which you don't personally approve and tell them what losers they are, go on, everyone will thank you for such a valuable service.

I swear I read that as "...repeatedly visiting a thread to score porn..."

p00pbreathbillionaire wrote:

i like changing the "run daddy run" to "run dirty run", and it is not stealing if you make a few changes here and there. Not stealing. Do it.

It's a tiny bit more complicated than that:

I have a friend who did shirt designs that were brand mixes like a Tide logo but it said "Audi" and sold it to Audi owners/fans. He also did one that instead of Drink Coke said Drive Audi on the Coke typeface. Audi came after him with a cease and desist letter in no time.

Somehow I doubt Mike Rossi has a firm on retainer like VWofA does who can fire off letters at zero costs but I get a kind of vindictive vibe from the guy where money might not be an object to make someone's life hell so I'd tread very lightly with using anything he posted on a T-shirt.

I did philly RnR half. that's a chronotime chip loop on his right foot, and a footpod on the left foot.

SaraB wrote:

He seriously has a shoe pod on his right foot. I've seen it in quite a few races but I've found a photo that shows it from the side. It's Philly RnR half

http://imgur.com/Hd0Sdev

SaraB wrote:

He seriously has a shoe pod on his right foot. I've seen it in quite a few races but I've found a photo that shows it from the side. It's Philly RnR half

http://imgur.com/Hd0Sdev

That's a D-Tag timing chip. You can see the person walking behind him is wearing one too.

SaraB wrote:

He seriously has a shoe pod on his right foot. I've seen it in quite a few races but I've found a photo that shows it from the side. It's Philly RnR half

http://imgur.com/Hd0Sdev

That's the just the timing chip the race uses. The guy behind him has the same one.

For the record though, great work on the Dopey posts.

I don't think this moves forward until he gets the DQ.

I also sorta love that it will come from the Yasso family. Imagine if you cheated at golf and Arnold Palmer called you out on it to the entire golfing community.

Ummm, have you ever actually run a road race? That band is a timing strip with a chip embedded, ummm, for timing. It's not a foot pod.

mileage_man wrote:

Anyway, this has to be one of the all-time classic "pics or didn't happen"s.

Ohhh why didn't I think of that.

mileage_man wrote:

(2) Does somebody want to extend this slightly in the 'slow' direction - count how many pictures were taken during 8:05, 8:06, 8:07? At that point we will have shown that he was at least a mile behind at X miles into the course (unless he was somehow missed when photos were being taken every Y seconds).

8:05 -- 51 photos

8:06 -- 42 photos

8:07 -- 58 photos

8:08 -- 52 photos

8:09 -- 50 photos

Like I said a couple days ago, you can take the bridge rolls, turn them into a movie, and you basically have a video of that portion of the course. Don't know where it is, but I suspect on the earlier side.

Abington News 2 hours ago!

http://patch.com/pennsylvania/abington/pennsylvania-man-whose-social-media-post-went-viral-accused-cheating-maratho-0

CyberCop715 wrote:

Ummm, have you ever actually run a road race? That band is a timing strip with a chip embedded, ummm, for timing. It's not a foot pod.

I thought SaraB was not from the US. Not everybody uses these.

Look Look! wrote:

Abington News 2 hours ago!

http://patch.com/pennsylvania/abington/pennsylvania-man-whose-social-media-post-went-viral-accused-cheating-maratho-0

The NBC affiliate in Philadelphia has a story. Things are getting seriously hot for Rossi Ruiz:

CyberCop715 wrote:

Ummm, have you ever actually run a road race? That band is a timing strip with a chip embedded, ummm, for timing. It's not a foot pod.

But doesn't he have a foot pod (or something) on the other shoe?

Sorry--looks like that is from yesterday.

runningbadger wrote:

Ohhh why didn't I think of that.

I know, right? That is what makes it so amazing. We have all been so focused on the story and documenting the mounting evidence against Rossi Ruiz that somehow we missed just about the ripest and lowest hanging joke-fruit ever for over 100 pages. I still don't know how it's possible, and I don't know whether to feel proud or ashamed.

Look Look! wrote:

Abington News 2 hours ago!

http://patch.com/pennsylvania/abington/pennsylvania-man-whose-social-media-post-went-viral-accused-cheating-maratho-0

that's a shit report. He wasn't questioned because his Boston time didn't match his awesome PR. That's just lazy, lazy, non-runner piling on. Almost as bad as the deed itself.