IS THIS BOGUS? Dude says he's run 4:02, 13:43, 28:10.

LM I just looked him up on Strava and the guy looks like he just started riding this year. If you look at some of his rides on the Blue Ridge Parkway he's ranked on like 20 of the climbs. If he really did start riding this year that's pretty impressive considering there's over 1,000 people on those segments. Especially since most of the guys are pros or cat 1/2 guys in the top ten like Ben King who's a world tour rider.

Cycling Runner wrote:

LM I just looked him up on Strava and the guy looks like he just started riding this year. If you look at some of his rides on the Blue Ridge Parkway he's ranked on like 20 of the climbs. If he really did start riding this year that's pretty impressive considering there's over 1,000 people on those segments. Especially since most of the guys are pros or cat 1/2 guys in the top ten like Ben King who's a world tour rider.

I've kept in touch with him here and there to talk about training and apparently he was biking to get that little extra bit of fitness. He liked it so much that he's going to start racing next year which would explain why he's only a cat 5 or whatever it is.

Man of many talents wrote:

He's a man of many talents:

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Please use archive.is for people like him. The Mike Rossi's are always quick to delete social media.

According to his Strava he ran a total of 8 minutes this year (and had an elevation gain of 878 m in that 8 minutes)?

Link to his FB profile?

LOL please. Either you are JB or a troll- either way, this is a thread about outing a cheater!! Get out.

Alt Nation wrote:

I have a friend who ran for OTC in the 70s, did something like 13:35/28:35 and was really good. Obviously. He put in for a middle school coaching position a few years back and wrote his PRs but was turned down because they thought he was lying.

LOL he put his running PR's in a job application. THat is golden and he shouldnt be hired just for that reason

Dude, not being into racing doesn't equate to running four minutes slower than your best time in a 5k. and if it's just you and him at a track for a time trial, who is to say he actually went 25 laps? was anybody else in the immediate vicinity? Did you watch and say "holy shit, look at how goddamn fast he is moving!"? Because when you watch somebody go that fast with no one else around it should be pretty astounding.

Mid 28 huh? Sounds like the two of you know a lot about running.

Actually, the stories are true. I ran with this guy is he is definitely a freak of nature. He has an insanely high tolerance for pain. He said he runs a ton of time trials and is constantly pushing his limits. Guy definitely has run at least 28:30. Don't know why he would take it easy in races but his timetrial is definitely legitimate.

Yeah, he climbed hospital hill with a heart rate of 306 and then went into the emergency ward when the blood started squirting out his ears.

When I'm in Fredericksburg, I like to train with JD. I know I'm going to get a good workout.

No he didn't.

Looks like he changed his Strava bio. I commemnted on one of his runs and he blocked me it looks like. It just says that he works at that bike shop now. His "PR's" are not there any more and he changed his profile to private.

Bob Schul Country wrote:

LOL he put his running PR's in a job application. THat is golden and he shouldnt be hired just for that reason

Is this a joke? Putting your athletic PRs in a job application for an athletic job makes sense. That's like criticizing someone for putting their descriptions of their experience on a resume. Even for a non-athletic job, it would not be a bad thing. It gives your resume some uniqueness and some employers like to see your hobbies/extracurriculars.

Polly Plumper wrote:

You have to give him credit - his 5K and 10K times line up.

Hahaha true

Another Terry Varicelly wrote:

Another Terry Varicelly, very sad, he'll get wind of this thread and all social media, etc will be closed down.

Didn't take long, ah well, he'll lay low for a while and then go back to his old ways, these kind can't help themselves.

Running cheaters and fantasists are definitely worth a psychological study all of their own or perhaps lump then in with 'stolen valor' nut jobs.

Very sad.

Cycling Runner wrote:

LM I just looked him up on Strava and the guy looks like he just started riding this year. If you look at some of his rides on the Blue Ridge Parkway he's ranked on like 20 of the climbs. If he really did start riding this year that's pretty impressive considering there's over 1,000 people on those segments. Especially since most of the guys are pros or cat 1/2 guys in the top ten like Ben King who's a world tour rider.

On his Strava he lists himself as a Olde Towne Bicycle mechanic, perhaps he's fitted himself one of those tricky little electric motors hidden in the frame that some of the pro tour riders were rumored to have a while back and that I got DQed for? Doesn't explain the running times though.

He's run a total of 8 minutes this year according to strava with over 2800ft of elevation gain in there. Even if he was a sub-14 and sub-28:30 guy, there's no way he's still running anything close to that.

Femke van den Driessche wrote:

On his Strava he lists himself as a Olde Towne Bicycle mechanic

Hmmm, things could be a bit tense next time he fronts up for work with these fellas.