Video Highlights 2015 Boston Marathon
April 20, 2015
bucks non-runner wrote:
It appeared he hadn't bothered to check the rules (though he later admitted he knew before the trip it would be unexcused), and then he blamed others for his choices. Also the "overcoming the tragic loss of a loved one" rubbed me the wrong way - I buried my 11-year-old son, don't think that you are so special that everyone must handle you with kid gloves for just hinting at a death.
I just wanted to reach out and tell you I'm so very sorry for the loss of your son...
Next under the bus. wrote:
Seems he's found someone else to undermine and throw under the bus:
That makes two, so I guess he can't have any legitimate complaints now that he's in the firing line.
It got a lot of attention from everyone, is People magazine and Time online right wing? In these thousands of posts 3 or 4 times someone tried to cast aspersion to the right regarding this d-bag, I'm as right wing as you can get (according to you all) and I hated the letter as soon as I started reading it. I actually didn't make it through the whole thing, I figured the guy a self centered narcissist trying to make himself famous. How'd I do?We argue about everything on here, let's us runners and fans of running stay apolitical as we assist exposing a cheater.
gatorade&vodka wrote:
Seems like the letter got a lot of positive attention from right-wingers and mommybloggers. That is, people who go psychotic if they think someone (worst of all the public schools or the government) is trying to tell them how to parent their kids.
SaraB wrote:
Don't get blindsided wrote:If they haven't reached out to the Race Director by now, there is NO WAY I would rely on them to do it. The only thing rojo promised so far (an article by "tomorrow") hasn't happened.
One active, responsible person from this thread (SaraB would be great!), should make sure the info has made it into the Race Director's hands.
It would be a shame to find out after their decision that they weren't aware of the most important evidence from this thread.
I've sent an email to the race director.
Awesome, thanks. You rock!
He must have absolutely hated this school. He says that his kids learned more in 5 days of vacation than an entire year in this school, so apparently he thought the teachers sucked. Then he showed such disdain for the school policies and its principal. So why did he pick this school district? If he hated it that much, home schooling wasn't an option?
LOsreMikeRossi wrote:
I felt the same way about his letter. He claims he didn't mean for it to go viral, but when it did he sure did't do anything to stop it. And he certainly made no attempt to curtail the harassment that the principal received. He very easily could have told reporters that he didn't want to elaborate. But he even went on Fox News, a national 24 hour news station.
If he didn't mean for it to go viral, he would have sent a private letter to the principal and not posted it on social media. Karma is coming back at him in a major way for having done that.
WWRD wrote:
It got a lot of attention from everyone, is People magazine and Time online right wing? In these thousands of posts 3 or 4 times someone tried to cast aspersion to the right regarding this d-bag, I'm as right wing as you can get (according to you all) and I hated the letter as soon as I started reading it. I actually didn't make it through the whole thing, I figured the guy a self centered narcissist trying to make himself famous. How'd I do?
We argue about everything on here, let's us runners and fans of running stay apolitical as we assist exposing a cheater.
Oops, I read my comment again and it sounds like I think everyone who leans conservative loves Rossi, hates the government and goes psychotic... that is not what I meant at all.
I didn't mean to make a generalization about the politics of all Rossi supporters (or haters). It seemed that the letter did have some support on some political blogs (one headline: "Public School to Parents: 'We Own Your Kids'") and that aspect did appeal to some of his fans, some of whom were posting some crazy stuff. I meant to be negative towards his fans, but not BECAUSE they were right-wing (or blogging mommies for that matter).
You are right that it got a lot much more attention that wasn't political in nature, and I am not trying to have a political discussion, or an argument.
gatorade&vodka wrote:
I am not trying to have a political discussion, or an argument.
Careful, you're on the LRMB you know, you're getting in to Runners World Forum territory with comments like that.
Just don't mention diet/weight loss/running injury free forever and it's good.
RWF Territory wrote:
gatorade&vodka wrote:I am not trying to have a political discussion, or an argument.
Careful, you're on the LRMB you know, you're getting in to Runners World Forum territory with comments like that.
DQ is NOT coming! wrote:
I’m skeptical about the hoped for DQ simply because Via staff asked usatf to do an investigation. Contrast that with what they do at Vermont city: Joe (d2xccoach) sees an obvious cheat, and removes him from the results. No punt to usatf, no delay. Usatf will likely do nothing about the request. They have a national championship meet and tons of other stuff to worry about, and won’t want to deal with a slow runner who won no money and took no PEDs. Via race leadership need to step up and make the right decision, and the fact that they punted on it hints that they don’t want to do it. They don’t need advice on what to do with a cheater. It’s their race – they should take ownership of it.
If you want to get Mike DQed, Via needs to feel pressure to take decisive action against him. Perhaps the threat losing their status as a Boston qualifier would help. If I were the BAA, I wouldn’t let a race that turns a blind eye to cheating be a qualifier.
Kiki1974 wrote:Pressure should be put on BAA to tighten up their standards for BQ races - ...... If BAA threatens to pull the LVM qualifier status for next year, that might put some heat on the RD.
Agreed. Disney DQed that Father/daughter pair in short order.
Why wouldn't you want this fella DJ'ing at your wedding?
JayRuns4Food wrote:
http://photos.lehighvalleylive.com/4424/gallery/lehigh_valley_health_network_v_3/index.html#/96Found my photo. I was right around a 7:15-7:20 pace for the first 18 miles or so. This was along the river on the Lehigh Trail before Bethlehem. He's gotta be around me somewhere, +/- a minute worth of pictures.
I don't know if Rossi cheated or not. I'm just here because this is all compelling stuff ,
JayRuns4Food you are obviously Jayson Hreczuck bib #1606 , when i look for you, you are in 3 photos on the course , in the same area of the course ,yet you have no results listed as finishing , and you aren't on the spread sheet how do explain that ? ....so how can you comment on where Rossi was ? H ow can you have any credibility in this argument ?
I think I found him. I am not sure at what mile this was taken but if you look closely you can see someone behind the hedges in front of the Mcdonalds.
Keepin' it real wrote:
JayRuns4Food wrote:http://photos.lehighvalleylive.com/4424/gallery/lehigh_valley_health_network_v_3/index.html#/96Found my photo. I was right around a 7:15-7:20 pace for the first 18 miles or so. This was along the river on the Lehigh Trail before Bethlehem. He's gotta be around me somewhere, +/- a minute worth of pictures.
I don't know if Rossi cheated or not. I'm just here because this is all compelling stuff ,
JayRuns4Food you are obviously Jayson Hreczuck bib #1606 , when i look for you, you are in 3 photos on the course , in the same area of the course ,yet you have no results listed as finishing , and you aren't on the spread sheet how do explain that ? ....so how can you comment on where Rossi was ? H ow can you have any credibility in this argument ?
lol, Jay's not the one who cheated. Perhaps if he hopped in the car with MR Jay'd have a BQ as well.
Jay said in an earlier post that he DNF'd around 20 miles.
And that he was on a similar pace as mike rossi claims
Run with no name wrote:
Keepin' it real wrote:I don't know if Rossi cheated or not. I'm just here because this is all compelling stuff ,
JayRuns4Food you are obviously Jayson Hreczuck bib #1606 , when i look for you, you are in 3 photos on the course , in the same area of the course ,yet you have no results listed as finishing , and you aren't on the spread sheet how do explain that ? ....so how can you comment on where Rossi was ? H ow can you have any credibility in this argument ?
lol, Jay's not the one who cheated. Perhaps if he hopped in the car with MR Jay'd have a BQ as well.
Who said anything about Jayson cheating ? I only asked what his credibility was to comment on where Rossi was during the race ? Jayson has fewer photos than Rossi , and no official time listed , so by THE STANDARDS OF THIS GROUP , , Jayson was only on the course for the distance that can be measured in these photos .... he obviously didn't start the race ,( lack of start photo ) and certainly didn't finish , and also couldn't have run anywhere else on the course except where he was photographed ,because there are no other pictures of Jayson to show he was at every mile of the course , therefore I guess Jayson cheated ?
survey assistance wrote:
Not a legal type and not familiar with Boston's bylaws, but even though he did run the course in 4:01 last month, he allegedly got in under false pretenses. So it's not unreasonable to presume that Boston could DQ him and send him a letter. They'll never get that finisher medal back.
I wonder how much that medal would sell for. I could totally see him getting off on that sort of attention.
Too funny!
Mike.
try to keep up:
Jayson said he DNF'd in a previous post.
and that his pace is similar to what you claim - but youre not in his photos either.
Squatneck wrote:
I think I found him. I am not sure at what mile this was taken but if you look closely you can see someone behind the hedges in front of the Mcdonalds.
http://imgur.com/gallery/DgVDY3s/new
No, no, no. I can tell that is a Photoshop. You're not fooling anybody. ;-)
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