Previous Transcon wrote:
Robbie is a winner wrote:List his wins? You mean that "90-something wins claim"? I think it was determined that he is counting each stage of that like 8-person Race Across America in that total... Not real, separate marathons/ultras
Is anyone looking into this previous Transcon he did? Seems very suspicious.
He arrived at all CP's before anyone turned up and arrived at the finish before the organisers. I'm now thinking he cheated each stage to claim all these "wins" and cheated the overall win
On his website, RY claims 96 marathon victories. 91 of them came in Race across USA.
CA - won 8 of 11 stages
AZ - 13 of 16
NM - 12 of 15
TX - 19 of 23
LA - 1 of 2
AR - 6 of 7
MS - 5 of 7
AL - 6 of 8
GA - 5 of 8
SC - 5 of 5
NC - 6 of 10
VA - 6 of 9
Chessapeake Bay - 0 of 1
Most of those (all from Texas on) are against 4 other men and 2 women. 7 total in the "race." It would be interesting to know where his other 5 marathon victories were won. That would be the question to ask him on facebook.
If the Virginia stage on May 26 was the final stage ending at the White House, he actually "tied" for the win in 4:18 with Bryce Carlson, a professor at Purdue. Bryce won a few of the other stages that RY didn't. RY's winning times aren't impressive, mostly in 4:xx, which is what you might expect running 26 miles a day for 6/7 days a week.
It sounds like he participated in this thing because it would entail 121 "marathons" towards his goal of one a day for a year, and he allegedly ran 26.2 miles on his own on the off day each week. Each stage was about 26.3 to 26.7 miles long, except for the last in each state which could be longer or much shorter (CA 27.28; AZ 7.86; NM last 4 were 18.95, 19.25, 30.2, 30.1; TX 4.75; AR 4.66; MS 31.31; AL 23.77; GA 7.71; SC 17). So five of his 91 "marathon" victories were on very short courses--four less than 10 miles (AZ, TX, AR, GA) and SC was 17. So if you count RAUSA stages as separate victories, he had 86 "marathon" victories and 5 shorter wins.
There is no data or splits for any of the results, other than finishing time rounded off to the minute.