Sandra Vi going for record across America

someones putting a whole lot of effort into attempting to derail this thread.

probably a whole lot more effort than Mimi is putting into genuine running.

i wonder why you'd do that?

effort poster wrote:

someones putting a whole lot of effort into attempting to derail this thread.

probably a whole lot more effort than Mimi is putting into genuine running.

i wonder why you'd do that?

From the timing of the posts the person actually appears to be in or pretending to be in North America

Not Inreach wrote:

Hmmmm: ... to indicate the Inreach did not seem to be the source of the Strava data. Sorry for the confusion.

As I understand it she has several (4 I think) Suunto Spartan ultras for the run from social media posts. I believe they are the source of the Strava data.

>We have no footage of her running at all even at this point in the attempt. We do have video of her being helped up the stairs of her RV in the middle of a day where she had supposedly just completed 30 miles and was going out for another 25.

You could go get some footage... you know... in person :o

Yeah!

Get him boys :o

Yeehaw

Maybe it's for data redundancy?

Nice notes wrote:

>We have no footage of her running at all even at this point in the attempt. We do have video of her being helped up the stairs of her RV in the middle of a day where she had supposedly just completed 30 miles and was going out for another 25.

You could go get some footage... you know... in person :o

If only I didn't live thousands of miles away from where this run is now ;)

It's a little tricky to assert anything in that case. Unlike the case of the last dude there's no in-person proof of naughtyness.

Maybe it's maybelline?

Rainmaker wrote:

If only there were a registered-user only function

But then letsrun.com wouldn't be much fun anymore.

Obamarama wrote:

It's a little tricky to assert anything in that case. Unlike the case of the last dude there's no in-person proof of naughtyness.

Agree completely

It looks like Mimi's new plan is to let the Garmin run indefinitely. Over 24 hours on the latest track. Hopefully it won't run out of battery charge like the earlier trackers.

Hi everyone,

My name is Dave Krupski (my real name), and I've been coaching Sandy Villines for two years (www.zwittyultra.com), watching her develop from a newbie ultrarunner to the reigning Badwater champion, and -- now -- a woman trying to be the fastest woman to ever cross the United States on foot.

(As a quick aside, those who suggest the women's field at Badwater this year was weak simply have no idea what they are talking about. This was -- by far -- easily the strongest women's field ever assembled at the race, which included world-class road runner Szilvia Lubics, a Hungarian runner who has won Spartathlon multiple times and was the course-record holder until 2015, as well as Noelani Taylor, a two-time Daytona 100 champion who won the race in 16 hours flat last year, and Brenda Guajardo, a world-class road runner who has won the 120-mile Nove Colli ("Nine Hills") race in Italy outright in 20 hours.)

Over the last 3 years, I've coached hundreds of runners, from first time marathoners to champions of big ultras . . . over that time, Sandy Villines is easily one of the most-dedicated and driven runners I've ever met.

I've read LOTS of nasty comments on this page over the past few weeks regarding the other woman who is also currently running a transcon, Mimi Anderson. I highly doubt most of you have ever met her . . . I have (at the Spartathlon in Greece, in 2014 or '15, I forget which year) . . . she seemed like a perfectly nice and strong athlete to me. We have seen no reason to believe she isn't doing exactly what she is claiming, and until if and when that point comes, we will stand side-by-side with Mimi and her crew, and celebrate her efforts. In other words, less-than-stellar tracking mechanisms (which seem to have been rectified in large-part) do NOT automatically equate to "she must be cheating."

From our perspective, we are TRULY not paying any attention to what Mimi is doing, mileage-wise, on a day-to-day basis right now. Sandy is laser-focused on her own journey and goals, and it would be insane for her to adjust her pace or strategy based upon what someone else is or is not doing, especially this early in the journey (we are not even half-way through at this point, guys!)

We wish nothing but the best for Mimi and her team. Of course, Sandy wants the record, but I've always preached to my runners that a victory is most-meaningful when you beat someone on her BEST day, not when something goes wrong. At the end of the day, only Sandy, Mimi, and the very few other people who have crossed the country on foot truly can appreciate the unbelievable effort it takes to continually answer the bell and run 50+ miles a day, every day, for basically two months straight. Both women should be celebrated for their incredible efforts.

This should be one hell of a show over the next month . . . onward!!

No-one doubts Mimi did Sparta, and that is a tough one as we all know.

That doesn't equate to being able to beat this record.

You finding Mimi nice is irrelevant. Being nice to you on a race doesn't mean she can beat a record.

Her and her team have been far from nice to the owner of the tracker company. Nor is it nice to either get a follower arrested, or making the whole thing up to stop anyone else coming out in person to follow this sketchy run

Maker of points wrote:

Reported. wrote:

I've reported him, we'll see what happens.

Nothing to do with Mimi or anything, but just a question of how this site works. As he is not registered, what is stopping him coming back on with another name?

The Brojos can ban the IP address, so it's not just the user name.

They seriously need to do this for this idiot.

They are unable to use the site correctly and without using quotes we can't see what the hell their 400 posts are replying to

BROJOS ARE YOU LISTENING.

Report all posts by "Budding genius - obviously"

Personally, I think both Sandy and Mimi are well-qualified to obliterate the current transcon record (which, for women, is pretty soft, in all honesty).

Of course my personal feelings are irrelevant. I don't know Mimi . . . I only met her once. But I don't have any real reason to believe she's cheating, and that is a REALLY serious accusation to make against someone. If you do make it, you damn-well should have actual evidence, and -- call me old-fashioned -- use your real name when making the accusation.

Dave Krupski wrote:

Personally, I think both Sandy and Mimi are well-qualified to obliterate the current transcon record (which, for women, is pretty soft, in all honesty).

Of course my personal feelings are irrelevant. I don't know Mimi . . . I only met her once. But I don't have any real reason to believe she's cheating, and that is a REALLY serious accusation to make against someone. If you do make it, you damn-well should have actual evidence, and -- call me old-fashioned -- use your real name when making the accusation.

You haven't read this thread have you? Have a good read of the dodgy goings on from the Mimi camp and then get back to us.

You have no evidence she is doing this run, just an opinion, based on seeing her at one race. You are entitled to that opinion, but it in no way proves she isn't cheating.

The two main guys collecting data on her are Markus Mueller and Andy Tavin (Scam_Watcheroo) and using their real names. (Everyone knows Scam-W is Andy)

This isn't facebook dude, and no one has to use real names here. Not how this place works. Maybe stick to facebook and the Mimi fan club there.

(By the way, you do know Mimi is a fake name!)

Dave Krupski wrote:

Personally, I think both Sandy and Mimi are well-qualified to obliterate the current transcon record (which, for women, is pretty soft, in all honesty).

Of course my personal feelings are irrelevant. I don't know Mimi . . . I only met her once. But I don't have any real reason to believe she's cheating, and that is a REALLY serious accusation to make against someone. If you do make it, you damn-well should have actual evidence, and -- call me old-fashioned -- use your real name when making the accusation.

Dave, I just sent this to your email but I think I also need to post it here because I don't think you understand what is happening. I have done many of these cheater investigations and it is a very different skillset than running:

Hi Dave,

I read your latest posts on the LRC thread in vouching for Mimi but I'm not sure you have actually gone through the thread and really understand what is happening.

Are you aware that Mimi and her team have repeatedly made outright lies that have been proven false by Richard at Race Drone about what happened with their GPS trackers? Mimi and her team threw Richard and Race Drone under the bus blaming Race Drone when it was all lies from Mimi and her team when they said they always had their trackers on and they couldn't get cell signals. Outright lies repeatedly that are proven false both from my own sleuthing and from Richard's server logs.

Richard is supposedly a friend of Mimi's sponsoring her. What kind of friend is Mimi that would throw her own friends under the bus work lies? Richard has now said on Facebook on URC that he will sue them if they keep making these outright lies.

And Mimi, Tim, and Jenny from her team had made multiple Facebook posts saying they got one of the LRC posters "arrested" for observing them in a car. We proved that there was no "arrest" by looking at the police website and Tim's story has now changed to just them calling the police on someone and no arrest. They won't even reponds to my emails. It is yet another lie from them that I take as intimidation of the investigation when no one on LRC have even posted about going to observe or have observed.

And there is still the unanswered question of what exactly is Mimi's connection with proven scammer Ben Rogers that they won't answer.