Robert Young fakes run across America

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  • Flag etiquette is dead?
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 12:31pm CDT
    re: What lies beneath
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    What lies beneath wrote:

    Flag etiquette is dead? wrote:

    What lies beneath wrote:

    Flag etiquette is dead? wrote:

    Yobert Roung wrote:

    More press coverage:

    http://www.grindtv.com/fitness/internet-questioning-rob-youngs-run-across-america-attempt/#bgdqIP5YfSpBSCFS.97

    That Brit is now using the American flag to wick his cojone sweat away????
    I do not know if he is cheating or bit but he should take the American flag off right now. Uncool. Even for a Brit


    Translation: poster wants to see his pecker.


    Why? you Brits all have them tucked in your byungholes anyway

    Just take off the flag of the USA. Damn Brit.

    Strange way to thank the USA for keeping the English language spoken in Europe.


    Not sure why you are addressing me as a Brit?


    As a Brit, I will address anyone I damn well please.
  • LRC- no boots on the ground
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 12:33pm CDT
    re: Boots on the ground?
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    Boots on the ground? wrote:

    Illinois sucks! No runners, nor decent sized towns, nor car wash cams. We need the Indiana runners to head over and get some video of this traveling clown show and real time eyewitness reporting!

    Still very surprised that nobody from LRC has followed Rob other than Asher. College kids are out of school, teachers are home for the summer, some folks are on vacation and plenty are unemployed living in Mommy's basement. Are there any brave souls who will get into their cars or bikes and start following this guy? Is everybody afraid of Rob and his crew on the RV? I'm afraid this fraud is going to break the record and boots on the ground is the sure way to keep him honest.

    What about that school teacher from Terre Haute? Rob's heading your way. Are you going to follow him or did you back out?
  • Inspired by imperfection
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 12:40pm CDT
    re: Flag etiquette is dead?
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    So he may have taken a few liberties with his time and dates? So a lot of wives fake it too? Who amongst you has never rounded up your height and down your weight? Outright lied to yourself and your girl about your whereabouts and her looks? Told your mother in law the fruitcake was delicious? Told your kids that they were awesome in sports? Told the press that they came under enemy fire on a Tarmac while greeting school kids? Taken a flop on the pitch? Lusted after your buddy's girl?

    Ain't nobody perfect in life. But life ain't about being perfect. It's about being imperfect and you keep going. You figure out what you gotta do to survive and get along. Some people are talented runners some people are talented liars. Admire human imperfection in all it's forms.
  • all ultra runners are cheaters
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 12:40pm CDT
    re: LRC- no boots on the ground
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    The problem is that this Natty dude has bragged for days about his friends going out there and following the RV. But these guys appear to be scammers like pretty much every ultra runner out there. So until some real runners take up Robert's challenge of running with him nothing will happen.
  • L is for
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 12:41pm CDT
    re: Inspired by imperfection
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    But you gotta get away with it to be admired
  • The Other Ultraboy
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 12:42pm CDT
    re: all ultra runners are cheaters
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    Too late, from the pace of recent days he is walking.
  • ThunderThighs
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 12:45pm CDT
    re: 113
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    113 wrote:

    If you go 2:15 into the latest video they posted, you can see how amazingly pasty white his upper body is. This is despite supposedly running shirtless for long stretches of the run in the middle of the summer:

    http://www.marathonmanuk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/rob-and-coop-1024x680.jpg

    http://www.marathonmanuk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2016-05-15-11.55.38-1024x768.jpg

    http://www.marathonmanuk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2016-05-20-11.53.24-1024x768.jpg

    http://www.marathonmanuk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/DSC_0310-1024x680.jpg

    Compare this to Barclay Ouderslays, a guy who ran from Santa Monica to Maine last summer:

    http://www.pressherald.com/2015/08/11/after-3-months-and-3000-plus-miles-michigan-man-set-to-complete-cross-country-run-in-maine/

    and Ouderslays was running around 30 mile days.

    Man, Robert Young is pretty fat and pasty white for supposedly running 3/4 of the way across the US at record pace. This really needs to be used as a key piece of evidence against him. From how he looks, I wager he was only running a 10 k a day and then sitting in the RV eating his 15,000 Calories.

    It's no surprise that he says his pacing strategy is to go out too fast and blow up to a slow walk. That newb pacing matches up with his low level of fitness. I don't even think he knows how to run properly.

    One test I would like to see is to put him on his bike on a set of rollers and see if he can even balance himself for 5 minutes pedaling. For a supposed former "pro" cyclist, this should be really easy.
  • Boots on the ground?
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 12:46pm CDT
    re: LRC- no boots on the ground
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    LRC- no boots on the ground wrote:

    Boots on the ground? wrote:

    Illinois sucks! No runners, nor decent sized towns, nor car wash cams. We need the Indiana runners to head over and get some video of this traveling clown show and real time eyewitness reporting!

    Still very surprised that nobody from LRC has followed Rob other than Asher. College kids are out of school, teachers are home for the summer, some folks are on vacation and plenty are unemployed living in Mommy's basement. Are there any brave souls who will get into their cars or bikes and start following this guy? Is everybody afraid of Rob and his crew on the RV? I'm afraid this fraud is going to break the record and boots on the ground is the sure way to keep him honest.

    What about that school teacher from Terre Haute? Rob's heading your way. Are you going to follow him or did you back out?


    Right. It has been 5 days since this thread started and no video, no reports whatsoever. I expected at least a couple of 2-3 hour driving, biking eyewitness reporters on the scene. I read somewhere that 40% of the US population lives near the coast. Likely most of us fit that bill. So these inner states have nobody there. Could be Indy before we get any true reporting.
  • ThunderThighs
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 12:49pm CDT
    re: all ultra runners are cheaters
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    all ultra runners are cheaters wrote:

    The problem is that this Natty dude has bragged for days about his friends going out there and following the RV. But these guys appear to be scammers like pretty much every ultra runner out there. So until some real runners take up Robert's challenge of running with him nothing will happen.

    You don't pre-announce the progress of a spy mission. Are you an amateur?
  • Speder
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 12:52pm CDT
    re: ThunderThighs
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    ThunderThighs wrote:

    all ultra runners are cheaters wrote:

    The problem is that this Natty dude has bragged for days about his friends going out there and following the RV. But these guys appear to be scammers like pretty much every ultra runner out there. So until some real runners take up Robert's challenge of running with him nothing will happen.

    You don't pre-announce the progress of a spy mission. Are you an amateur?


    Doesn't have to be a spy mission, Laz.
  • Boots on the ground?
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 12:52pm CDT
    re: ThunderThighs
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    ThunderThighs wrote:

    all ultra runners are cheaters wrote:

    The problem is that this Natty dude has bragged for days about his friends going out there and following the RV. But these guys appear to be scammers like pretty much every ultra runner out there. So until some real runners take up Robert's challenge of running with him nothing will happen.

    You don't pre-announce the progress of a spy mission. Are you an amateur?

    Why spy? Why not just join the caravan and document the legitimacy of it all? Hit your garmin when RY is running and collect the data that they are unwilling to reveal.
  • LRC- no boots on the ground
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 12:52pm CDT
    re: all ultra runners are cheaters
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    all ultra runners are cheaters wrote:

    The problem is that this Natty dude has bragged for days about his friends going out there and following the RV. But these guys appear to be scammers like pretty much every ultra runner out there. So until some real runners take up Robert's challenge of running with him nothing will happen.

    If I lived within 100 miles of his location, I'd be tailing him already. Come on people, get on the road and post videos of Rob. Don't wait, take the initiative and make sure Rob can't cheat anymore.
  • all ultra runners are cheaters
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 12:53pm CDT
    re: ThunderThighs
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    ThunderThighs wrote:

    all ultra runners are cheaters wrote:

    The problem is that this Natty dude has bragged for days about his friends going out there and following the RV. But these guys appear to be scammers like pretty much every ultra runner out there. So until some real runners take up Robert's challenge of running with him nothing will happen.

    You don't pre-announce the progress of a spy mission. Are you an amateur?


    Idiot.

    There's no reason to spy. Join him just like he has requested. Play with open cards. Run with him. Or if you can't bike or drive at an appropriate distance behind him. Film every step of what he's doing. He will crumble in the matter of a few days.

    Just stop these childish "spy" games.
  • Douglas Baker
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 12:59pm CDT
    re: LRC- no boots on the ground
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    LRC- no boots on the ground wrote:

    Boots on the ground? wrote:

    Illinois sucks! No runners, nor decent sized towns, nor car wash cams. We need the Indiana runners to head over and get some video of this traveling clown show and real time eyewitness reporting!

    Still very surprised that nobody from LRC has followed Rob other than Asher. College kids are out of school, teachers are home for the summer, some folks are on vacation and plenty are unemployed living in Mommy's basement. Are there any brave souls who will get into their cars or bikes and start following this guy? Is everybody afraid of Rob and his crew on the RV? I'm afraid this fraud is going to break the record and boots on the ground is the sure way to keep him honest.

    What about that school teacher from Terre Haute? Rob's heading your way. Are you going to follow him or did you back out?



    I'm not from Terre Haute, I said I'll meet him there. I couldn't have backed out yet, he's like 150 miles away. I live south of Indy, I'm not driving to Terre Haute and waiting 3 days. When are you joining or are you just throwing barbs?
  • Spying is dumb
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 1:00pm CDT
    re: all ultra runners are cheaters
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    Spying?? What are you gonna do? Drive a half mile ahead or behind? Dumb.

    Park at an intersection to see if you can get another video slip up like the OP? Dumb.

    wear camouflage running shorts? Dumb
  • ThunderThighs
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 1:03pm CDT
    re: Spying is dumb
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    Spying is dumb wrote:

    Spying?? What are you gonna do? Drive a half mile ahead or behind? Dumb.

    Park at an intersection to see if you can get another video slip up like the OP? Dumb.

    wear camouflage running shorts? Dumb

    All spying details are classified on a need to know basis.
  • Rallying cry for lrc
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 1:03pm CDT
    re: all ultra runners are cheaters
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    Nobody has the guts to follow Rob. What the f--k happened to the Letsrun I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest week of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst. 'Ooh, we're afraid to go follow Rob, we might get in trouble."

    Well, just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Rob, he's a dead man! the guy with the necklace, dead! Skins, dead! Who's with me? Let's gooooo!!!!!!
  • Spying is dumb
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 1:05pm CDT
    re: ThunderThighs
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    ThunderThighs wrote:

    Spying is dumb wrote:

    Spying?? What are you gonna do? Drive a half mile ahead or behind? Dumb.

    Park at an intersection to see if you can get another video slip up like the OP? Dumb.

    wear camouflage running shorts? Dumb

    All spying details are classified on a need to know basis.



    In other words.. Nobody is showing up but you want to make the traveling carnival of buffoonery believe that you are. Got it!
  • LRC post judge
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 1:06pm CDT
    re: Rallying cry for lrc
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    Rallying cry for lrc wrote:

    Nobody has the guts to follow Rob. What the f--k happened to the Letsrun I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest week of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst. 'Ooh, we're afraid to go follow Rob, we might get in trouble."

    Well, just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Rob, he's a dead man! the guy with the necklace, dead! Skins, dead! Who's with me? Let's gooooo!!!!!!

    Best post of the day!
  • searcher of answers
    3 years ago 06/12/2016 1:07pm CDT
    re: all ultra runners are cheaters
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    Spying is 100% more likely to reveal him cheating. Don't pretend like any of you know more than an experienced ultra runner when it comes to an ultra running event...

    If Laz and co are already watching him (which apparently they are) then that's good enough, even though it means no immediate news for the people waiting on this thread. If you guys want any immediate news one of you will have to go and follow him yourself.