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Trent, you seem cranky. Are you by chance hosting a party for 200 strangers this weekend and do you by chance have a baby with a 103.5 fever at home? mta: Also will the course be accurate?
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
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Many marathoners mention experiencing a "wall" at some of the bigger events. Will your marathon also provide a "wall", Trent?
I've got a fever...
Regardless, the course will be precise.
On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
In other words, the course is repeatably inaccurate year-to-year.
"Good-looking people have no spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we're smarter." - Lester Bangs
I tried finding gObLuE's manifesto on measurement but failed. From personal experience, it was quite the eye-opener. He said something like inaccuracy is the very fabric of our existence and, as such, I now understand that even a certified 5k course is never, ever, ever exactly 5000 meters long. Ennay was also involved in the discussion. Those engineering types always roll together. In fact, I'm actually disappointed that gObLuE didn't link to this prior discussion. Maybe he's shy? Unknown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1zHzbgZ3ys
True dat
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Trent, you seem cranky. Are you by chance hosting a party for 200 strangers this weekend and do you by chance have a baby with a 103.5 fever at home?
Uncertainty is built into the fabric of the universe. And gLoBuLe is often absent, but never shy. http://www.runningahead.com/forums/post/f60fbb7d6eb249a8952c0474821fb571#focus MTA: Though in the case of the original post, course being ~0.7mi long is all about human error (not laying the course out correctly) as opposed to any argument about uncertainty or course certification.
Very nice work.
Feeling the growl again
This statement - is not the same as this statement - And no, USATF encourages course measurements to be ~0.1% long. Better too long than too short.
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The funny thing is, there was no apparent reason for the course being too long, and nobody said anything about it until after the race. Somehow someone messed up. I wonder how a typical low-budget local 5K measures a course? Do they use google maps, or is the course measured more precisely somehow?