No Backbone Gary wrote:
https://m.facebook.com/endtoendrunningchallenge/photos/a.496234207247078.1073741827.496059083931257/623753127828518/?type=3Gary Kiernan
Good Evening Dave,
We haven't met but I, along with Neil Bryant and Allan Rumbles, are admins on the Ultra Running Community page you've mentioned in your post below.
Out attention was drawn to your JOGLE attempt a few days ago and in light of the recent running scandals concerning Rob Youngs TransCon and Keith Vaz's JOGLE record attempts and the subsequent discord they generated int he running community your efforts were always going to draw some attention.
A thread was started on the subject and it's fair to say it's one in which the majority of posters expressed their doubt you were capable of breaking a record which was set by one of the Uk's finest ultra distance runners and has stood for some years.
However. To insinuate the URC as a community was responsible for you withdrawing from your record attempt is we believe unfair and unwarranted. I had a long messenger chat with your wife about the messages you had been receiving which you believed were from a fake account from someone who was a member of our forum. I assured Terri then that any discussion of your attempt would be monitored closely and any trolling or personal comments would be dealt with appropriately. As they were in the original thread.
We are a community of over 18,000 people. We are as diverse as any city on earth and have only one common interest. Running. We are not the police and as such have no control over what the individual members of our or an other forum do on their own with their own personal accounts. To insinuate that that URC as a community was responsible for stopping you in your attempt is I believe unfair and unwarranted.
I said to Terri then and I'll say it again now. We wish you the best of luck. But you and you alone are responsible for attempting or not attempting your record.
Correct. Gary Kiernan is a joke. Actually he DOES think he can control every single person using the internet and DOES think he is the police.
Every time a scammer is mentioned in that Brit facebook ultra group he either locks or removes the post!
Its like he feels responsible for everything said by anyone on the internet about running.
Too much time on his hands and power mad. Probably a hen pecked husband hassled by a nagging wife so sits on the internet all day to try and feel important, telling people off