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

Ken - If you wanted to do something similar that might work, contact Cecily Tynan. Thanks to Mike acting like a 15 year old girl on Twitter, she already has a multitude of reasons to follow up on the story. The race coming up again soon also makes it topical. Ask her to get their investigation team on the case. If they think it's worth it, they can find Barb, shove a camera in her face, show her the proof and ask the questions point-blank.

It'd be one thing if you catch a cheater and he admits it and apologizes. Then it disappears. Rossi is digging a bigger hole for himself.

Whyamihere wrote:

Okay, let's at least be honest. Ken has not trashed Mike's family. Ken's son and girlfriend were trashed numerous times however.

I am willing to retract the word "trashed" as too harsh. But I stopped feeling sympathetic for Ken when he posted that he could understand why Mike would cheat on his wife.

Cecily is aware, she's responded to his tweets. Please don't encourage Ken to contact poor Cecily.

gatorade&vodka wrote:

LMR wrote:

You clearly haven't kept up. Go read back and see if you want to ask me that same question.

Wade through your racist rants, disgusting comments about his wife, accusations of an accomplice, and posts about his family's personal information again?

I decline.

Go raise money for a charity or something.

I made none of those. All trolls.

My comments about his family are simply that he is lying to them and it will eventually come back to damage their relationships in some way. I also maintain his bad will among the parents and school teachers will damage his reputation over time. I have encouraged him all along to confess and try and rebuild whatever credibility he has already lost.

Doubler wrote:

elephino wrote:

Did Ken ever get back to us after stalking the guy he thought was Mike's accomplice because the guy lived only 35 minutes away in the metro area of 6 million people and thus probably knew Mike?

The connection is much stronger than you think. The guy got married, and had a photo booth at a December wedding. Yet, no photos could be found of the wedding online. There is no other explanation to this, other than to surmise that this guy helped Mike cheat.

You're leaving out the part where the alleged accomplice's videographer bailed on him just hours before the ceremony started.

I have filmed over 600 weddings in the past 10 years and have NEVER had a wedding professional not show. Not showing up is not an acceptable thing to do. Heck, I filmed a wedding on the day my father died, because we had a huge snow storm and my backups were snowed in.

My feeling is that Mike traded free video services in exchange for the accomplice carrying his bib, because Mike didn't know how many timing mats there would be. So he covered his ass.

But when he found out there were no mats and the accomplice didn't actually help him he decided that he didn't want to pay a shooter $400 to film the guys wedding and still have to do all the editing.

gatorade&vodka wrote:

Whyamihere wrote:

Okay, let's at least be honest. Ken has not trashed Mike's family. Ken's son and girlfriend were trashed numerous times however.

I am willing to retract the word "trashed" as too harsh. But I stopped feeling sympathetic for Ken when he posted that he could understand why Mike would cheat on his wife.

Okay, I missed that one. If true, I agree that would be a terrible and unfair thing to do. I thought all he did was comment on a cheater in one area is likely to be a cheater in other areas.

This.

Keep in mind, this individual who had some REALLY bad luck with his videographer is the same runner who started the race 2 seconds after Mike and finished 4 second before Mike. While two runners having the same pace is not unusual, according to my girlfriend with a masters degree in mathematics, two runners that just randomly start 30 seconds after the gun, and finish within seconds of each other 3 hours and 11 minutes later is an astronomical coincidence. We're talking Powerball odds.

And how a 47 year old DJ kept pace with a 27 year old Marine is even more amazing.

Hey, Michael, what I tweet is my business. You just broke the rules of this thread by posting private information by copy and pasting my tweets.

LMR wrote:

Hey, Michael, what I tweet is my business. You just broke the rules of this thread by posting private information by copy and pasting my tweets.

Hey, I broke no rules. Anything that you post on tweeter is not private and it was posted to show how badly you lied just a few posting ago. You are a lunatic and need to stop even using the word "family" and rossi together here on this board. You have continuously broken rules here and I am going to send the AOL lawyer these posts and encourage he take the next step.

LMR wrote:

Keep in mind, this individual who had some REALLY bad luck with his videographer is the same runner who started the race 2 seconds after Mike and finished 4 second before Mike. While two runners having the same pace is not unusual, according to my girlfriend with a masters degree in mathematics, two runners that just randomly start 30 seconds after the gun, and finish within seconds of each other 3 hours and 11 minutes later is an astronomical coincidence. We're talking Powerball odds.

And how a 47 year old DJ kept pace with a 27 year old Marine is even more amazing.

At a small race like the LVM almost everyone starts within a few seconds of each other, especially people who are supposed to run around the same time. But you wouldn't know that because you don't participate in races.

And another thing about marathons, an in shape 47 year old can keep up with an in shape 27 year old more so than in some of the shorter races. Not saying Rossi could and we all know he cheated but you continue to show a lack of fundamental understanding in running time and time again.

LMR wrote:

Keep in mind, this individual who had some REALLY bad luck with his videographer is the same runner who started the race 2 seconds after Mike and finished 4 second before Mike. While two runners having the same pace is not unusual, according to my girlfriend with a masters degree in mathematics, two runners that just randomly start 30 seconds after the gun, and finish within seconds of each other 3 hours and 11 minutes later is an astronomical coincidence. We're talking Powerball odds.

And how a 47 year old DJ kept pace with a 27 year old Marine is even more amazing.

Who said it was a coincidence? Maybe Mike decided to jump back in as soon as he saw the same runner he started with again.

Ken,

Two bibs with RF tracking attached to the same person cannot cross a timing mat at two different times.

Your tweets, and almost every other thing you do, are scaring me. Please leave this board and fight your battle elsewhere.

Once again, we all know MR cheated at the 2014 LVM and acts like a small, petty man child online.

Go away, Ken.

abingtonrunner wrote:

LMR wrote:

Hey, Michael, what I tweet is my business. You just broke the rules of this thread by posting private information by copy and pasting my tweets.

Hey, I broke no rules. Anything that you post on tweeter is not private and it was posted to show how badly you lied just a few posting ago. You are a lunatic and need to stop even using the word "family" and rossi together here on this board. You have continuously broken rules here and I am going to send the AOL lawyer these posts and encourage he take the next step.

Tweets are by definition, not private. And they were tweets related to Mike's cheating.

Ken, you do realize that the logical jump you made from "Wedding videographer bailed at this guy's wedding" to "He was Mike's accomplice" is ginormous?

gatorade&vodka wrote:

LMR wrote:

Keep in mind, this individual who had some REALLY bad luck with his videographer is the same runner who started the race 2 seconds after Mike and finished 4 second before Mike. While two runners having the same pace is not unusual, according to my girlfriend with a masters degree in mathematics, two runners that just randomly start 30 seconds after the gun, and finish within seconds of each other 3 hours and 11 minutes later is an astronomical coincidence. We're talking Powerball odds.

And how a 47 year old DJ kept pace with a 27 year old Marine is even more amazing.

Who said it was a coincidence? Maybe Mike decided to jump back in as soon as he saw the same runner he started with again.

Exactly. There are 100's of other explanations for starting and finishing near this guy that are way more plausible than "I know he was Mike's accomplice because the videographer bailed"

SmartRunnr wrote:

Multivitamin wrote:For example, say you ran a 99, 98, 102, 103, then back down to a 99 or something.

Are you kidding, or really that bad in keeping pace?

And why are you guys so interested in such a measly tempo run? I've gone faster...

As for the splits, we were gunning for 4:10 per km. An ok pace for 5k, giving Mike's current status of fitness after his injury, and his goal to (significantly) break 1:30 in a half marathon.

250 sec per km, 50 sec per 200 m line, easy to control. I don't press my watch all the time. I find it mentally helpful to check regularly, and then press every km (2.5 laps): 4:08 - 4:10 - 4:09 - 4:11 - 4:08.

Question for you: will it bother you, when the brojos lose one challenge after the other? They are all quite doable, you know.

While I ABSOLUTELY believe MR is a cheat, smartrunnr has me a little nervous about the challenges going down.

1. He's clearly not MR. He's far too knowledgable, he uses correct punctuation, and he's just too well spoken.

2. Though many of you disagree with the semantics of how's he's stated splits and work outs, he's obviously knowledgable about running and training.

If he did run a 20:47 5K, he's clearly not as hurt as he's lead us to believe. But I don't think it's a far jump with another few months of decent training (and other "help") to get that 20:47 under 20. I wish the Brojos had added a stipulation for drug testing. Who'd be surprised if he used some "juice"? We all know MR's a cheat.

But is he willing to sacrifice some of that amazing head of hair to take testosterone?

Here is the 'accomplice theory' pretty much in it's entirety. I was careful to redact names and places..nothing personal is posted here. But Ken, you really need to stop.

My girlfriend has a bachelors degree in mathematics and she says that the odds of them starting and stopping with in six seconds of each other, beans that they both started the race approximately 30 seconds after the gun, is astronomically high

That's my basis for believing that ***** may be the accomplice

What I did beyond that is I looked into Mike possibly having a wedding client because accomplice and that's where there's a possible connection with ****

So I looked up his Facebook account and his wife's Facebook account and I cannot find any pictures among them or any of their friends from their wedding

Well that's not incriminating is extremely odd for a bride or her bridal party not the post pictures from the wedding. Brides love the post pictures from the wedding

I think because of what **** may have done he made sure that him and his wife were not tagged in any of their wedding photos

Again not incriminating, but from the standpoint of a wedding professional it's very odd and possibly suspicious

I looked and all that. They were married December, 2014 at a reception hall called ********** in **************** Pennsylvania

I was able to view their photos that was anything suspicious there

My first thought was that maybe Mike could photograph their wedding and subcontractor photographer but that didn't pan out

I know he wasn't the DJ

I kept hitting dead ends but I finally hit something lately

So then I thought he offered video services

But I discover the was no videographer at the wedding

The way I found that out is the DJ me a video of his own at the wedding. He just had an assistant make something with a flip phone. And if they're in a professional videographer I would've seen lights and cameras. So I thought I was hitting a dead end

But…

Looking into their wedding they got engaged in May and they had their wedding in late December. One week before Christmas

Knowing what I know of weddings, a wedding the week before Christmas is typically a low budget wedding

Reception halls get huge discounts the book the week before Christmas

They even bought the low-budget photographer

But when I saw the photographs they had a photo booth

Photo Booth generally run about $800 are typically not seen it low-budget weddings

I wasn't able to prove that might provide a Photo Booth that night

But here comes the kicker

Go to Google and search for *****************wedding wire reviews

There is a review by *******'s bride praising her DJ for doing a wonderful job and also saying that he created a video for them because their videographer did not show up that night

I have been filming weddings for 10 years. I filmed over 600 weddings. I have never ever experienced a wedding professional not show up

My feeling is that Mike promised him video services in exchange for carrying his bib and then couldn't get anybody to shoot the wedding that night, so he sent somebody with a Photo Booth to make up for it

I've also thought that maybe because there were no tiny mats and ****** didn't actually help him in anyway cheat that Mike didn't feel like he should spend $400 for somebody shoot the wedding and then have to edit it later. So

So he purposely didn't send anybody that night and sent a photo booth instead

The only thing I can't do right now is put Mike's company at *******'s wedding

You also missed the dog body slam...

LMR wrote:

Fire Barb McKeever! wrote:

You missed the famous Animal House/death threat incident.

RIGHT? How could you forget that? Nothing illustrates what an idiot Mike is better than not being able to recognize one of the funniest movie scenes of all time.