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Reply to "Altering key points on a certified course"

Thanks, Duane, for you comments. I'm still waiting for the RD to get back to me. He's a rookie director, and if it happened, he was likely trying to please his customers. So I would cut him a lot of slack, anyway. No woodshed scenarios. Wink

But, for the sake of argument, let's assume that a local (or regional) Association championship series race were tainted by some feckless RD hoping to "get good times" for his runners. Unless an Association official on site were trained in the knowledge of how to determine whether or not a USATF-certified course was set up according to specifications on the certificate, who would know?

If, perhaps, there is a need for a specialized skill set, it provides RRTC with a very useful rationale for working with the Associations in helping to ensure that road race officials (timers, referees, ???) are trained in the very basic and rudimentary skill of how to read a measurement certificate in order to determine whether a championship course is set up properly.

Maybe this is something that you might want to consider discussing with Association folk who will be attending the Buffalo seminar?
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