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Loving the cheaters wrote:
Doubler wrote:http://marathoncheat.blogspot.com/just because. Nothing new. But better to post this than all the other nonsense.
And yes, we should crowdshare a 'wedding' reception and hire both Mike and Ken. Would be a helluva party.
I am so down.
Apparently Ken costs $1500 from the settlement in the state lawsuit.
We could just offer Mike a finisher medal.
Like flies to shit.
I'm busy that night - can't make the party.
Could Kenny just send me a video of the party - 2 years later?
poor sap wrote:
my running friends wrote:I'm sure everything you just wrote is true.
100% swear to whatever god you pray to. What's sad is you think that I'm boasting. I ran Sub 31 10K, Sub 15 5K and a 2:28 marathon in the late 70's and early 80's and I wasn't even considered to be that good. There were so many badass runners, none of this 6 hour marathon "change your life" marketing scams. We considered a 2:50 Boston qualifying a joke but now it's some "holy grail" for the masses. Just shows the pussification of amerika.
No one cares what you did 40 f***ing years ago, grandpa. I bet you're one who goes by "age-graded" times.
I highly doubt they got past the incredibly long subject and run-on first sentence.You would have been better understood if you just banged on the key board like this.sgd;JISIJRIJPIWREJSVDSMKFHWRIWTE;fdauou903i29qwe oi weqopiewq opieuifr m qq r rq pw rqum r 8opr[ut48246u8
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I'm busy that night - can't make the party.
Could Kenny just send me a video of the party - 2 years later?
Or you could drive and pick it up. I only live 26.2 miles away. ;-)
*Straight to the spam *
"I am writing to you, as well as copying this email to sponsors of the Lehigh Valley Marathon ("LVM"), several local and national news outlets, newspapers and magazines, sporting/running organizations (including the Boston Marathon and its Racing Director), and other social media venues regarding your flawed statement, convoluted logic and perplexing decision not to disqualify Mike Rossi in spite of compelling, if not conclusive, photographic evidence that he did not run 26.2 miles."
Jesus... ever hear of a period? Even a semicolon would go a long way (no pun intended).
Brevity and clarity are key.
Here is the rewrite:
Mike cheated. I am mad. I am "runners united."
PS - please write back to me . . . I am so lonely and whiny that even my cat ignores me now.
If Ken videotaped Rossi cheating, which would come first:
Rossi admitting to it? Or,
Ken delivering the video to us?
Answer: neither. They are both cheaters.
grammar nozi wrote:
"I am writing to you, as well as copying this email to sponsors of the Lehigh Valley Marathon ("LVM"), several local and national news outlets, newspapers and magazines, sporting/running organizations (including the Boston Marathon and its Racing Director), and other social media venues regarding your flawed statement, convoluted logic and perplexing decision not to disqualify Mike Rossi in spite of compelling, if not conclusive, photographic evidence that he did not run 26.2 miles."
Jesus... ever hear of a period? Even a semicolon would go a long way (no pun intended).
Brevity and clarity are key.
Here is the rewrite:
Mike cheated. I am mad. I am "runners united."
PS - please write back to me . . . I am so lonely and whiny that even my cat ignores me now.
Response from Lehigh....DELETE
stop the madness wrote:
grammar nozi wrote:"I am writing to you, as well as copying this email to sponsors of the Lehigh Valley Marathon ("LVM"), several local and national news outlets, newspapers and magazines, sporting/running organizations (including the Boston Marathon and its Racing Director), and other social media venues regarding your flawed statement, convoluted logic and perplexing decision not to disqualify Mike Rossi in spite of compelling, if not conclusive, photographic evidence that he did not run 26.2 miles."
Jesus... ever hear of a period? Even a semicolon would go a long way (no pun intended).
Brevity and clarity are key.
Here is the rewrite:
Mike cheated. I am mad. I am "runners united."
PS - please write back to me . . . I am so lonely and whiny that even my cat ignores me now.
Response from Lehigh....DELETE
kill me meow
This was funny.
where my video??? wrote:
If Ken videotaped Rossi cheating, which would come first:
Rossi admitting to it? Or,
Ken delivering the video to us?
Answer: neither. They are both cheaters.
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/11/20/3-on-your-side-update-pa-attorney-general-sues-wedding-videographer/
poster of statistics wrote:
5000 posts on 6/5
6425 posts on 6/15
1425 posts and rest of day to go so about 142/150 posts per day
prediction:
June 20: 7000 posts
June 25: 7500 posts
July 1: 8000 posts
August 1: 9000 posts
September 1: 9500 posts
September 12-15 Lehigh Marathon 2015 race weekend: 10000 posts
6.15 10:03 am 6425 posts
6.15 5:15 pm 6517 posts
so 92 posts today so far, expect another 50 by 10 am tomorrow
everything is on track
poster of statistics wrote:
poster of statistics wrote:5000 posts on 6/5
6425 posts on 6/15
1425 posts and rest of day to go so about 142/150 posts per day
prediction:
June 20: 7000 posts
June 25: 7500 posts
July 1: 8000 posts
August 1: 9000 posts
September 1: 9500 posts
September 12-15 Lehigh Marathon 2015 race weekend: 10000 posts
6.15 10:03 am 6425 posts
6.15 5:15 pm 6517 posts
so 92 posts today so far, expect another 50 by 10 am tomorrow
everything is on track
spreadsheets or it didn't happen
why do you think an accomplice , isn't it more likely that someone who wanted in to Boston and had never been through the process before, would know that there is a cutoff to qualify but that within that cutoff they take the best times, therefore figuring heavy demand that year on Boston, they would give themselves what they thought was a safe buffer of say 10 minutes
the experienced runner might figure they only need 3-4 minutes at most, but if you were bent on getting in you would want the buffer
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the missing 10 minutes wrote:
why do you think an accomplice , isn't it more likely that someone who wanted in to Boston and had never been through the process before, would know that there is a cutoff to qualify but that within that cutoff they take the best times, therefore figuring heavy demand that year on Boston, they would give themselves what they thought was a safe buffer of say 10 minutes
the experienced runner might figure they only need 3-4 minutes at most, but if you were bent on getting in you would want the buffer
No, because it's that 10 minute that make it so that Mike Rossi would have to be one of the greatest athletes of all time to have improved that much in such a short period of time.
He jumped onto the course figuring he'd end up with a 3:21. But his accomplice neglected to tell him he race started late. i wonder how many times Mike has yelled at him for this mistake? Or maybe it was a buddy at East Coast and he's been fired over it. It wouldn't surprise me.
Why are you still here? Don't you have to let your gimp kid out of his crawl space for his daily hour of socialization?
Going with the accomplice theory, what would it take to get the accomplice to out Rossi? Does Rossi have some dirt on him/her? I say the Smoking Gun or Brojos would offer $10k for the true story with evidence.