Markus wrote:
My favorite quote of this morning
Laz:
"RY has stopped for what has become a usual midnight break.
he is knackered.
looks like another day of being right on the line.
he cannot afford to not match what he did the last 2 days.
his whole run is at risk again."
Robert ran 60 miles under supervision yesterday.
Let's see what he can do today.
RY RY the Chubster wrote:
Has anyone even mentioned this dude's body fat percentage??? With that many miles per day he should be striated and vascular as f*ck. He looks my friend who quit the xc team and smokes weed everyday
EASTSHEENGANG wrote:
Interesting.
The wife of the boss of the East Sheen Gang (Dustin Brooks) is Dominika Brooks.
She apparently has been a pro 400m hurdles athlete.
She is Polish, just like Rob's wife, and just like one of the CCTV journalists who were following the RV for some days.
Now she's Rob's masseuse.
Marginal wrote:
They didn't even plan the route apparently. Too busy behaving like gap-year pillocks it seems.
QualityPost wrote:
Tracker and GPS data are cans of worms. Here's another. Although the
letsrun conversation is 98% noise, the remaining 2% is worth noting.
There is a day that Rob's RV got stuck in the desert. The location is
known. There is a photo circulating of him next to the stuck RV. The exif
data from that photo gives a timestamp of A.
Later, as part of the blog, there are photos of a freshly showered (and
rested? well, rested looking) Rob enjoying the life of the destination
they've reached. The exif data from that gives a timestamp of B.
The distance between the stuck RV's location and that town is 40+ miles by
road or 23ish miles over a small set of mountains w/o roads nor marked
trails.
Whether he legged out the 40+ road miles or somehow orienteered his way
through the brush for 23ish miles without navigational aids, the time
between A and B is incredible. And I mean that in a literal sense.
While exif data can be manipulated too, it would make no sense to adjust
timestamps in a way that would make the distance traveled pretty much
impossible by foot.
Andy, I know you are standing up for your friend. And letsrun is a lot of
noise. But the person who put the above info together actually did some
important legwork. Without 'hating'. I commend you for leaving that
conversation alone and standing up for Rob, but it is discrepancies such as
this which are puzzling.
When I look at photos of Rob since Laz joined, I see a guy who is really
working hard. Thumbs up. At the same time, I wonder why he did not look
quite like this in photos posted during the earlier parts all the way to
Missouri. I'm not making an accusation, and I'm not a hater. I'm making an
honest observation.
Last thing. I've been around US running message boards for 16 years now.
Dynamics and sociology are interesting. letsrun ESPECIALLY so. Andy,
you've announced (maybe twice?) in the letsrun conversation that you are
leaving and dramatically told them why. This is your right, but or better
or worse, this is known as "flouncing". When you return, as you have, it
just marks you for more of that special "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids"
banter that they are so well known for. I'm not saying you should/shouldn't
post there... that is your decision... but if you decide to leave, my
advice is to do it quietly. Flouncing does not serve the purpose you think
it does beyond the possible catharsis of writing tell-off words.
Good luck.
I really wanted to believe in Rob. I do not currently.
The Scot wrote:
Flyby is a feature on Strava, it shows a list of people whose routes crossed yours and a link to their activity. You can then post a comment on their activity, look at their PBs and snort contempuously or just stalk them from then onwards ('Follow' them). The listing shows the proportion of your routes that overlapped. Beyond a certain limit they get listed as having done the activity with you,can't remember what the limit is, maybe 90% overlap?
I'm confused wrote:
Arealpersson must be Schrödinger's cat.
Arealpersson both is and isn't Arealpersson at the same time.
QualityPost wrote:
The cheater is done.
Today... is looking brutal. Over the last 2 hours he covered 4.6 miles
while sort of moving constantly. Some 5 - 15 minute breaks sprinkled in. No
3 minute marker has been covered at faster than 15 min/mi pace. When he's
moving it has been mostly 16-18min/mi pace.
QualityPost wrote:
The cheater is done.
Today... is looking brutal. Over the last 2 hours he covered 4.6 miles
while sort of moving constantly. Some 5 - 15 minute breaks sprinkled in. No
3 minute marker has been covered at faster than 15 min/mi pace. When he's
moving it has been mostly 16-18min/mi pace.
Robert MF Young is back baby! wrote:
Pics of Robert running:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ck9MzTNXAAQxaMn.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ck9MqvLW0AA0SAy.jpg
RayK says: he DOES run very fast at times - and he is a talented runner.
Suck on that, haters.
BackUpRV Driver wrote:
OK - SO per RY web site and predicted arrival time table, he is apparently 3 days off schedule now. For the math wiz's here - how does this effect his record attempt to get to NYC? How many miles per day does he need to do in order to make it to NYC to get the record?
I have been watching his progress as I may go visit the ol' boy when he gets closer but his slow ass is screwing up my schedule!
Wish he would have just stayed in the RV while ol' dusty drove him and tweeted about how GREAT RY is. Gosh, this sounds eerily familiar to the dane r cheat - http://baitman.blogspot.com/2013/12/dickstarter.html?m=1 - at least dane only did it for 202 miles.
