No problem then wrote:
Same, looking forward to complete gps data including each footstrike (versus tracker on vehicle rob young method) and the 24/7 video of each step matching their faces. Should be easy enough, no problem then.
each foot strike??
video of each step???
We're going for a world record. Our runner has run a lot of the same "races" connected to a lot of the same people. They don't seem to run races not connected to the same people and if they do they don't do well at those events. The plan is they'll be running 12-13 hours per day and we are bringing a full "film crew" (graduates of Joe's film school.) We need the film crew here full time for the coming inspirational film no one will watch. There will be a film crew with us, they're going to be filming!
[Fantastic! It is such a bummer the Robert Young and multiple other fake runners who've had quite a gravy train for years not only faked their runs but also when caught wouldn't come clean, instead just moved on to the next attempt to scam or the next fake event connected to the same small group of people. The bad news is you appear to have run some of those events. The good news is if they're filming and with you full time they could be filming all of the actual running (in addition to your using a footpod, etc.) That's great news! Even though there are also many other options for filming such as live broadcast (Facebook allows 4 hour chunks of live broadcast and you can do that from anywhere then you simply immediately start the next live broadcast, should easily capture the entire run,) that is excellent if you have a film crew already, they can film all of the run!]
The RV is STILL in the Golden Corral parking lot!
How on earth did Kapostasy produce that film and completely ignore the whole Laz/Geezers component of the run? He left a heck of a lot out didn't he? Almost like he wanted Rob to look better than he did.
I agree that it is strange that after Kansas they were watched by Laz and that's when they fell apart. Rob could not match the distance totals he did earlier in the West. The video confirms that he cheated though.
+1. Boots on the Ground was critical.
seikosha wrote:
How on earth did Kapostasy produce that film and completely ignore the whole Laz/Geezers component of the run? He left a heck of a lot out didn't he? Almost like he wanted Rob to look better than he did.
He would have needed some video footage of the geezers, he didn't had.
Great little docu which will hunt RY forever.
Todd is an idiot.
If Robbie was hanging off the ladder, it would have been captured in Asher's footage. And any motorist passing the RV would have phoned it in to the cops.
FFS, all three were in on it.
The ladder theory was total bunk. Also the part about the windows being covered was used as an excuse that they could have missed seeing him jump on the back. The person driving would want to keep the runner in sight other wise what is the point of driving along slow because they could just drive ahead and meet at the next motel. All three were cheaters and the documentary should have called them all out.
Just in case anyone had forgotten.... wrote:
https://vimeo.com/223346637
Wow, that video has really good production values. I'm surprised it doesn't have more views and has been out for 10 months and no one posted about it.
It does leave out The Geezers, though, which is a really important part of the story.
About Dustin Robert's claims that he thinks Rob was hanging onto the back of the RV and that he didn't know, I don't find that explanation as plausible since none of the video evidence shows Rob on the outside.
Did we ever get access to some of Rob's GPS files either from the report or from another source? I would like to give them another look for the cadence based on what I know now.
In the Skins report by Ross and Tucker, their assertion that original TomTom data (ie: ttbin files) cannot be altered is factually incorrect. They don't provide any substantiation in their report about why they say that:
Further, we established that TomTom data, uploaded directly, could not be altered, unlike
MapMyRun and Strava entries uploaded from files, which can be edited. Therefore, a
priority for the investigators was to obtain both the watches (to have a record of the data in
their collected, “raw” form) and the original TomTom data files, which would have been
backed up to a local computer (two laptops that accompanied the attempt).
There are open source tools available that provide some limited ability to edit TomTom ttbin files for truncation, such as TTWatch. And TTWatch also allows pushing files onto the original TomTom watch. The data structure of the ttbin files have been largely reverse engineered as shown in the TTWatch source so it wouldn't take too much more code to edit the GPS coordinates or insert new ones and then push an altered file back onto the watch:
https://github.com/ryanbinns/ttwatch/blob/master/include/ttbin.hAlso, you can just extract the ttbin files onto your computer, alter them there and then upload to the TomTom website. It's a known procedure:
https://en.discussions.tomtom.com/spark-and-spark-3-runner-2-and-runner-3-473/manual-ttbin-upload-1026677It was interesting to watch this video.
Clearly Robert Young had no idea what he was doing. His running does look so NO ultra, it's almost comical. I said that already when I saw photos and video clips almost two years ago that this guy was no ultrarunner. RY looked like he would run a Half Marathon but not like somebody who would grind out 60+ mile days.
I am glad we caught him.
NEWSFLASH
he was spotted running at the hull half marathon in recent weeks running under an alias. My contact claims he finished 2nd.
Can this be verified?
This bloke came in second. He doesn't look like our hero.
It was definitely Young...the guys had a couple of hard years and he told me so when i gave him his silver medal
Is that you, Robert? Back to your old tricks?
Anyone hear the segment on ESPN radio this morning covering RY? I imagine it's in podcast form too but I can't find it. It aired on I think XM channel 81 some time in the 6:30 to 7am spot.
Can anyone find it for us?
Wow. That little flick proves exactly one thing: Rob Kapostasy is either an absolute idiot, or really dishonest.
If it took him a year's worth of deep thought and study to figure out that Yes, Rob cheated, and then to conclude that his two pals were 'decent guys' who had nothing to do with it, then he's a *gigantic* dim-wit.
Those of us who were paying a little attention, and applying a little basic logic at a higher-than-kindergarten level figured it out pretty solidly in about ten minutes: RY is an *absolute* fraud, and both his pals were completely in on the scam.
If he's *not* an total dim-wit, then he's just pretending, because he thought it'd make for a better 'story,' and might 'sell' more easily.
That makes him a fraud, kind of like his subject Rob.
Either way, it doesn't speak too well for him.
He *could* probably have made a really good flick here, if he'd bothered to tell the *full* story, and pursued it where it led.
That, of course, would've meant that he recognized *immediately* Rob was pure-bred fraud from the get-go, that he likely was lying about lots of other stuff too, that that cast tremendous doubt on his claims about his childhood and anything else (which RK apparently took at face-value --hook, line, and sinker) --and that his two accomplices were clearly lying too.
Then he could've attempted a serious exploration of what shapes a life-long liar and fraud --which would actually be valuable and worthwhile.
Then, of course, he would've told the *other* half of this story, about the guys who worked so hard to expose the fraud, and what *their* motivations might be. (Arguably a better story than Rob's, anyway.)
And *then*, of course, he might've been moved to include the story of Pete K, who really *was* what Rob pretended to be --and offered an awesome counterpoint to the tale of the fraud he was telling.
But that would've been a much more serious work, by a much more serious guy --instead of one looking for the sound-bites that 'played' best with the vapid audience he's courting.
Oh well. It *looked* kinda pretty anyway.
Sorry, *Todd* Kapostasy.