Greg Sanders wrote:
I can easily believe that Mike Rossi was capable of such a result. Nearly all of his other races were either trained through, or treated as workouts with things like mile on, 400 off built into them. On many of his training runs he produces efforts superior to his races. I can personally attest that although the publicity from the letter was a bit overblown, Mike Rossi is a upstanding guy. You have only circumstantial evidence, and there are other people who missed their photos also in the race. When all of the right things come together on the right day, incredible breakthroughs can happen. As for the supposed "impossibility" of the impressive feat due to his physique, take a look at Sri Chinmoy who lifted thousands of pounds without looking hardly capable of it.
This is all insane ramblings.