Neither has 95% of the posts on this thread.(Hi Ken)
Neither has 95% of the posts on this thread.(Hi Ken)
Everyone needs a toilet snake now and then. With Mike I bought the professional model, that boy's colon is "a medical wonder" to quote his pediatrician. My misery started early and, as you all see, continues to sadden me.Come clean Mike...oh my, did I just say that? [blushing profusely]
You can leave wrote:
You sound like a complete tool.
Mike - you must be a really tough man to be able to stand all night DJing with a massive injury like that. No one I know could ever consume pain like you. I guess now we should just believe the 3:11 is possible right? Because you ran a 4hr marathon with a fvcked up body so a 3:11 would have been your normal time right? So I guess all the other times you ran before that 3:11 were also on a fvcked up body right? Do you think anyone here would be that stupid to think for a second that you aren't a lying coward sack of s***? You shouldn't be talking about anyone's kids because you are definitely neck deep in retardation. Grow a pair of balls and put up any evidence you claim to have on your blog or fb.
Quit trying to deflect the conversation, Mike, by attacking Ken.
Now... about those pictures that you say exist but nobody else has confirmed that they've seen. How about posting them up?
It's not about how fast you are. Whether you're an Olympic trials qualifier or a 4 hour marathoner, We have to have some integrity in the sport and when you can qualify for Boston with bullsht times, it ain't right - unless you just want to call Boston and marathon a big freakin joke - a hobbyjogger festival.
If we have standards even for hobbyjoggers, it helps to make the sport a better place for all - from elites to couch potatoes.
mike is unamerican trash wrote:
Would Mike do what he did again if his kids could watch him along the way of the race?
Would he even care if his kids saw him start a race, get in a car, drive to the end of the race and hold a medal around his neck with his shit-eating grin?
Surely they'ed end up one day on welfare thinking that is how grown men are supposed to act.
I am glad his kids didn't see him cheat. He'd be shortchanging their morals and their future.
His kids didn’t see him cheating but they face the consequences of his actions. Jack and Victoria are being bullied severely at Rydal Elementary School.
The teachers try to prevent it -although they hate Mike for what he has done to principal Marbury- but it is still happening.
It is a shame that these innocent children are being damaged for the rest of their lives because their father needed to BQ at all costs.
2 mph on the treadmill is still far more awesome than Mike Rossi cheating his way into the Boston Marathon. Yours is an honest effort, words that do not appear in Mike's bio.
LoserMikeRossi wrote:
Some of the nice runners on here have convinced me to take up running. So I am now declaring myself a runner. There's really no criteria for posting here with regards to how long I must be doing it or how fast.
On the treadmill at the gym I go 2 miles an hour. But it's still faster than Mike - unless you count going 65 on I-78.
What happened to the Letsrun forum I loved?
It's a sad fvcking day when people are forced to choose sides between a marathon cheater and a 300 lb scam artist.
Once upon a time, we would have all rallied around humiliating them both.
No, the vast majority of the people who have posted to and read this thread are not here to rally around humiliating Rossi and Ken. We came here because the story of Rossi's possible cheating, after his attempt to humiliate the principal at his kids' school went viral, was so compelling. It was like an episode of 48 Hours or Criminal Minds. Many of us pitched in to analyze photos, sift through athlinks, Facebook and Twitter accounts, and read blogs for evidence that Rossi either did or did not run the full distance of the LVM.
As virtually everyone agrees who has posted here, the evidence that Rossi cheated for a BQ is overwhelming. It wouldn't surprise me if Rossi himself acknowledged that fact at some point while posting anonymously on this thread, just so that whatever else he was posting about would be given more credibility (like, for instance, his apparent attacks on Ken).
Most of us stayed here not to humiliate Rossi, but because we hoped he would respond to the public pressure by admitting he cheated. Many of us stayed here even after it became clear that Rossi would never admit that he cheated because we wanted to see what would happen when he was inevitably DQ'd. And, despite being dumbfounded by the RD's decision to not DQ an obvious cheater, we will continue to stay here to see if, somehow, this situation will come to a satisfactory conclusion.
This thread was never about Ken. One or more posters have tried to make it about him, but it won't work, mostly because it will always be about Rossi cheating his way to a BQ, but partially because Ken owned up to his mistakes. So, in a way, Rossi's attacks on Ken have backfired, just like his attack on the principal backfired. The difference is that in attacking the principal, Rossi was trying to draw attention to himself, and boy did he ever, and it resulted in him being outed as a marathon cheat. In attacking Ken, Rossi is trying to divert attention away from himself, which has only been successful in showing the stark difference between someone like Ken, who makes mistakes, but owns up to them and apparently tries to make them right, and someone like Rossi, who gets caught cheating and won't admit it no matter how damning the evidence.
I honestly don't know which is worse, Rossi's cheating, his towering ego, or his bottomless stupidity. Regardless, he has secured for himself a perpetual place in the pantheon of Infamous Marathon Cheaters. Well done, Rossi, well done!
Astute. Accurate. Yes, Awesome.
Hey does anyone have Mike's contact info? I am dying to hire him to DJ my wedding next year. All my runner friends obviously know who he is and it would be awesome to bring him in wearing his Boston gear and medal. Mike you are a real celebrity now. Don't listen to any of these haters, you are big time now brah. What's your rate btw?
a word to the wise wrote:
LoserMikeRossi wrote:On the treadmill at the gym I go 2 miles an hour. But it's still faster than Mike - unless you count going 65 on I-78.
Don't give the trolls here more ammo ;)
Awesome dude. I love this Ken dude because again - he is honest and open.
2mph - That's about as fast as this Power Wheels Jeep (battery powered) I got for my birthday as a little kid ;) Still though dude - Good work my man - Keep up the good training - baby steps - this sport rewards hard work! much improvement to come!
Forman wrote:
ehhhh not so right wrote:Pretty sure Greg ran a marathon in 2:45 not 3:45
So, about an hour faster than Mike rossi
Still a hobby jogger.
Just like you and 98% of LetsRun posters
You don't speak for me wrote:
I honestly don't know which is worse, Rossi's cheating, his towering ego, or his bottomless stupidity.
He's also a prick, based on the posts he's made about Ken's family. "gimp kid", etc.
What's the difference between Mike Rossi denying cheating to the media and Alberto Salazar doing the same thing with doping allegations?
Mj Pierce wrote:
What's the difference between Mike Rossi denying cheating to the media and Alberto Salazar doing the same thing with doping allegations?
Salazar won't be posting on LR. But a cheat is a cheat. We just find it so much more entertaining when it's an "also ran" like the rest of us. The incentives and pressure to cheat at our level seem so minimal compared to the elites and this is why it's so surprising when we see it happen. Nobody is shocked when a baseball player is on the juice. But for a dad from PA trying to cheat their way into Boston is just unheard of.
Unfortunately, Similar things happened to Kip Litton's son in Michigan after publication of the New Yorker article. Kip Litton's son had to tweet to the masses that his father was innocent of all cheating
It's too bad that both Kip and Mike didn't think of the possible negative consequences that could affect their families before they cheated. Maybe they wouldn't have gone through with it.
That said, I condone anyone harassing their families, but it doesn't surprise me that it happened.
*that should read "I DON'T condone..."
Disregard the above, for some reason unknown to ar his ip once again is banned. What's his name can use derogatory words, post people addresses, comment on people's children, use dozens of names, make personal attacks on people etc, yet the one whose name will not be mentioned can get away with whatever "he" wants. No different than being a trans-marathoner I guess. AR carried himself very well, did not make personal derogatory comments, did not call anyone a p*ssy, did not pick on kids, was openly against the personal, professional and family attacks but he gets banned? WTF letsrun? hypocrits and double standard.
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
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Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!