Sandra Vi going for record across America

Results wrote:

Very interesting. I haven't looked but I'll check out Sandy's tracker and see if she has the same pattern of zero miles and multiple speeds that are exactly the same.

I found four similar ones for Sandy for today. One at the Colorado Border, one at a road pullout, another by a business?, and one that seemed random (along the road where only shrubs are along it.

Mimi Breadcrumbs wrote:

Results wrote:

Very interesting. I haven't looked but I'll check out Sandy's tracker and see if she has the same pattern of zero miles and multiple speeds that are exactly the same.

I found four similar ones for Sandy for today. One at the Colorado Border, one at a road pullout, another by a business?, and one that seemed random (along the road where only shrubs are along it.

So far fewer than Mimi, correct? It makes sense to stop for bodily functions, water, food and so on of course.

Results wrote:

From a quick look Sandy has the same strange pattern of multiple speeds repeating: 5.0, 3.74, 4.37, etc. It must be common to the Garmin trackers. ...

It seems that when data points are not uploaded immediately--delayed to the next beacon point--the Garmin interpolates the data points. They just fill in the missing points based on prior and current data.

Mimi Breadcrumbs wrote:

Another full stop from 10:48-10:55. This is a long one; pit stop? maybe in the RV?

Others from 10:09-10:14, 8:40-8:46, 7:16-7:18. Many of these occur at crossing with country roads.

More: 06:27-6:35, 5:19-5:21.

Results wrote:

Mimi Breadcrumbs wrote:

I found four similar ones for Sandy for today. One at the Colorado Border, one at a road pullout, another by a business?, and one that seemed random (along the road where only shrubs are along it.

So far fewer than Mimi, correct? It makes sense to stop for bodily functions, water, food and so on of course.

Maybe she has bladder issues, and needs side roads for a safe place to squat.

Another stop (almost) at another road crossing: 5:06 pm

Mimi is a liar wrote:

Scam_Watcheroo wrote:

I think someone needs to post the Race Drone rebuttal onto the URC thread to clear Race Drone's name. I can't believe all the so called experienced ultra runners over there are so gullible and can't think logically to look at what really happened.

The URC thread has it, but who knows how quickly they remove it.

They are generally ignoring it. Tricky situation for them. Richard Race Drone is one of their clique. Defend HIM and they trash Mimi. I think they will choose her over him and he is going to get well and truly shafted once again by "his people". Serve him right, You have no idea how dodgy that whole clique is.

They claim all this boils down to her character and integrity. Ah - but she has royally f-ed over a friend who supplied the tracker!

Switched it off and lied and blamed him.

From URC -

Dave Lopez

Mimi blames others when the true fault is hers and her "team's." She will do everything to claim a record regardless of how much they buggered the data. That is not the sign of a good person, and not consistent with claim of exemplary records.

Sharla McTavish

Seriously you don't know her and you're impugning her integrity and character? It's one thing for the race drone people to have a say on it since they have a stick in the fire, but some random from the interwebs who hasn't tmk isnt even in the arena? Please.

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Results wrote:

Thank you.

The link has been ... "This page isn't available"

Hasn't been removed. To view a personal fb profile you need to be a member and signed in. Anyone can view a public fb group even if you aren't signed up

They are ignoring it wrote:

They claim all this boils down to her character and integrity. Ah - but she has royally f-ed over a friend who supplied the tracker!

Switched it off and lied and blamed him.

I suggest we rebrand her as Marbleless Mimi.

I predict they'll delete this because of the included personal attack. It's 1:30 am over there so probably no one is looking at it.

Why do none of Mimi's videos show her running? They all show her walking at the start or finish of a section. This is on her FB page, are there more videos posted somewhere else? One where she runs?

Hi All,

This is Pete Kostelnick and just thought I'd give my two cents.

I was a big fan of what you all did in (un)validating Robert Young's attempt last year. I can say that I followed him from the start and lost sleep over the mysteriously long and even space between the dots on the map during the night and the inconsistent dots during the day. I am grateful for people like Asher, Laz, Bill, Mike, and yes, even you Markus. ;)

The ultrarunning community has some pretty big frauds that unfortunately steal the attention from the real ultrarunners and make others look bad. Some of the worst people in the world are cheaters and tall tale tellers.

I have checked in on Mimi and Sandra's progress each day, and I understand the questions raised of Mimi after RY. However, I am convinced beyond a doubt that Mimi is legit and playing it fair. And, if not, the tracker she now has that is the Gold Standard, along with uploading to Strava each day will tell quick enough.

The biggest objective differences between RY and Mimi is that RY never even uploaded to Strava and did the majority of his miles in the dark. That should certainly be acknowledged.

Another big difference is Mimi has a credible running resume, with verified results in reputable races. RY did not. To cheat now after all that Mimi has done (I'm not even including her non-race "doubles", etc) would destroy her reputation and anything she's done until now. To reach your 50's (yes, many people in their 50's win ultramarathons) and throw away the years of your life spent running seems suicidal.

Robert Young was also often shown running at near full speed down a highway. So far, Mimi has certainly not. That isn't to say you can't fake running a multi-day pace, but to cheat in such a sophisticated manner (fake Strava data, knowing exactly what ultrarunners look like 1,000 miles into a run, swelling your face, etc) seems that they would be better served working for Google and making more money than anything that can come of a run across America (even a book).

I applaud the objective monitoring of Mimi, but I honestly think it's a waste of time to go back and try to find holes in her data to date. I say monitor her going forward, just like Sandra, now that she has the inReach. I don't know about the RD product, but I do know that uploading Strava each day was a challenge for me at times. I don't think I even had reliable service until Dinosaur, Colorado with Sprint (don't ask), and was only able to upload to Strava through service that Cinder had (and thankfully Sandra has with Cinder now!). Coming from the UK, I imagine they may have chosen an unreliable carrier, but I imagine asking them to upload sooner if possible would be a great step.

Being from the US, it was probably easier for me to get people to run with me with word of mouth. I imagine most people following Mimi are in the UK.

I know many people on here find humor in the topic and probably don't even think Mimi is a fraud, but just wanted to throw this out there and mainly point at the differences between Mimi and RY to those that don't know the whole story. Having two women running like this is a lot of fun to watch... I won't write on here anymore so you know anyone else posting as "Pete Kostelnick" isn't me. Feel free to shoot me a message on my personal facebook and I'll confirm this is me.

Again, thanks everyone for catching all the running cheats! I just don't think Mimi fits that mold at all, though.

Pete

Does She Actually Run? wrote:

Why do none of Mimi's videos show her running? They all show her walking at the start or finish of a section. This is on her FB page, are there more videos posted somewhere else? One where she runs?

No, we have not been able to find a single video of her running. We also have not been able to find anyone who says they have run with her on the Transcon, which is now approaching the half way point.

Results wrote:

[quote]They are ignoring it wrote:

From URC -

Dave Lopez

Mimi blames others when the true fault is hers and her "team's." She will do everything to claim a record regardless of how much they buggered the data. That is not the sign of a good person, and not consistent with claim of exemplary records.

I predict they'll delete this because of the included personal attack. It's 1:30 am over there so probably no one is looking at it.

The Dave Lopez wrote is eerily familiar to a post made on LRC earlier today or yesterday.

We have visited by greatness! Wow! Thanks for sharing your thoughts Pete, you are THE MAN.

Pete Kostelnick wrote:

... the tracker she now has that is the Gold Standard...

Pete

You set the Gold Standard and it was more than just the tracker. It is apparent following Mimi and Sandy how superior all parts of the standard you came up with are. Kudos to you. The Standard is exceptional, and someone termed it bombproof, which is really seems to be.

Ok, well that's weird as hell. How hard can it be to shoot 30 seconds of her running, whether accompanied or alone? There's that one long video posted here where she's suiting up in the trailer and the guy shoots her walking away, you figure he'll get her first few running steps, but then he turns the camera the opposite way down an empty stretch of highway. Something's so odd about this.

Thanks for the perspective, Pete. I will keep it in mind but in these types of investigations the evidence of what has actually happened also needs to be addressed. Mimi and her team have repeatedly made out right lies about what happened to their Race Drone GPS tracker. Their many repeated posts about having no cell connection for their tracker is a lie as I have demonstrated with the AT&T cell coverage maps and now with Richard at Race Drone saying essentially the same thing with his database logs. Mimi and her team repeatedly turned off their GPS trackers intentionally and repeatedly let them run out of power and yet are still making Facebook posts blaming Race Drone.

There is also the important question of what is Mimi's connection with proven scammer Ben Rogers.