Reply to "article: Elite Course Measurer: “I’m a Real Pain for Some Race Directors”"

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There’s the Short Course Prevention Factor to figure in, too. According to USATF and the International Association of Athletics Federations, all races must be measured one-tenth of one percent of the total distance long, which ensures that the course cannot possibly be found to come up short in case of a record.

Blaine Bachelor did a fine job on this article, IMO, with just one exception: she may have been misinformed about the reason for the SCCF. I believe most of us know the the SCCF is a calculated average compensation for the wobble that all bike riders encounter, whether in the calibration or the course measurement.

The reason I think this is important is that, if runners and RDs believe we are just adding in some arbitrary extra distance to account for "unknown slop" in the measurement, it undermines the perceived validity of certification.

6/21/161:17 PM

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