For the children wrote:
cubicle monkey wrote:And on his Facebook... more lies. Can't wait to get the doctored data!
It is with some regret that today I am announcing my decision to abandon this attempt to break Frank Giannini’s US Transcon World Record, based on medical reasons. ... That said we feel we touched many lives on our journey and had an incredible adventure into America, with many highs (and a few lows). I hope what we have done will have inspired some children to go for their grandest dreams and to believe that amazing things are possible for us all....
How many lives did they touch? How did they inspire children? How many children even knew he was doing it?
Bunny girl and the ultra geezers. Was there anyone else they met and inspired during the run?
Actually yes. Before the thing blew up, a few fans had been posting photos of them with him along the run. I came across one on Lisa Smith-Batchen's page (it wasn't her... someone linked her) that was taken in Missouri just before the geezers joined.
These are some of the sources of "this is bogus" info because in them (as recorded by a 3rd party), he is very pale, very hydrated, and very loose. You can contrast one with photos from just a few days later where he is sunburnt, sagging skin, losing weight, clearly exhausted... pretty much what a person SHOULD look like after a few days or weeks of running a bunch of miles.
Yet oddly, he made it through the desert and over the mountains and through the first days of midwest heat/humidity looking like he does in the fan photos.