His running career is over. No turning back now. More and more media coverage will be coming out. His fabricated wikipedia page will be on page 3 or 4 of Google behind all of the articles about his cheating and exposing him as a fraud.
FInally Contributing wrote:
I think what we have is Rob is a decent ultra runner. He likes running, is capable of running around slowly for a while.
I really wonder what Rob and his crew was thinking. When did they make the decision to cheat? Did they start the race with good intentions but realize how utterly difficult it was?
Or did the team know from the get go they'd fake portions of it?
What's more mind boggling to me is that there's a group of them. Is Rob so likeable that he convinced the others that it would be okay and be a good idea?
My guess is that he's run a good portion of it, all the 9,10min+ segments. But his downfall is his ego.
He claims to be doing it 'for the kids' but the reality is his behaviors point towards a person who craves attention. The fabricating of his initial marathon story, the buying of twitter followers, the stealing a photo of some other dude and claiming it's himself, the constant wikipedia editing.
His ego made him want to seek notoriety.
It's also funny how all these cheating runner types also make classic mistakes. Since they really aren't good runners, they all make the mistake of overstating their PR's, paces, etc. Hobby joggers don't notice because to them, a 5min or 6min mile all seem plausible. But the running nerds of letsrun know plausibility of paces down to the second.
So when the RV gets impatient and drives 25mi at near his documented marathon PR, we know it's BS.
Anyways, it's a fascinating psychological study.
That's probably the first thing a reporter would investigate. What evidence is there of abuse? There's far more evidence of narcissism or some other personality disorder, so I don't know why anyone would believe anything he's said to this point.
billy bob wrote:
I very much doubt the press will pick this up as him cheating. He's a perfect story for them. Abused as a child etc.
I got to page 31 and didn't think I could go any further, but then I asked for six double espressos with 15 sugars, and suddenly I was back reading at a 6 posts per minute pace.
coolguy33 wrote:
it's taken me a day and a half to catch up.
I LOVE this place. Thank you all for doing this.
He probably exaggerated, but his foster dad / mentor / teacher is a real person with a real name.
Raysism wrote:billy bob wrote:That's probably the first thing a reporter would investigate. What evidence is there of abuse? There's far more evidence of narcissism or some other personality disorder, so I don't know why anyone would believe anything he's said to this point.
I very much doubt the press will pick this up as him cheating. He's a perfect story for them. Abused as a child etc.
Quickly he's discovering that when he actually has to run, it's a lot harder than expected.
The end is near. wrote:
From this morning.
"Morning everyone - have had a couple real bad days - legs are real sore and hurting and I'm a little mentally beat
Still pushing forward. Sending my love to you all and thankyou for your support"
The end is near gentleman. The injury and mental fatigue is upon us. Lol
Absolutely gripping. Might not end up running to quite as many thousands of posts as the MR super-thread but it's gripping to watch the drama unfold live.
Stan Cottrell wrote:Boulder turtle wrote:It is amazing that they have not picked up on it already. With apologies to Monsieur Rossi, this may become the biggest cheating story since Rosie Ruiz.
Send this information/link to the tabloids in the UK, like The Sun, Daily Star, or the Mirror.
They will run with the story and he'll be toast.
I've missed a lot from yesterday. Are legs bad because he tried to do two actual big days back to back once he was outed? Or is he doing short days since he was outed and just claiming his legs are bad so he can quit?
The end is near. wrote:
From this morning.
"Morning everyone - have had a couple real bad days - legs are real sore and hurting and I'm a little mentally beat
Still pushing forward. Sending my love to you all and thankyou for your support"
The end is near gentleman. The injury and mental fatigue is upon us. Lol
I am still here and have read all the threads. There is nothing new to add apart from none of you people have yet to turn up and run with Rob. It's the weekend now so where are your excuses?
Kevlar wrote:
Where's Kev gone?
I thought he could switch off pain. He could hammer a nail through his hand without a problem apparently so what's the problem with doing some distance running? Why's he suffering?
CoachKev wrote:
Rob is suffering in this run, of that there is no doubt, making him suffer more with posts like many of you have done is terrible and you should be ashamed.