If you go to www.rrtc.net you can read that issue. The piece is short. See it below:
WORLD’S MOST ACCURATELY-MEASURED COURSE
Bob Vernon is a professional surveyor in Marietta, OH. He’s also a runner and race director. He called me and asked if it was OK if he measured his course using steel-tape tangents (5 ft) on the curves and EDM on the straightaways. I said that if he stuck to the SPR such a procedure would be fine. He did a beautiful job, and his map shows the loving care that went into the work. He says that there were about 45 field hours involved and another 25 in the office. It would have cost about $2600 if not done as a volunteer labor of love. The course is the “Shamrock Classic” 5 mile in Devola, OH (Oh 85038 PR) and if anybody knows of another completely-surveyed course, let me know. As far as I know this course, which few top runners will ever run, is the most accurate course ever measured, excluding those big-city straight-line miles. This one is real, even including 1.3 miles of dirt road.
The certification map is shown below. It is quite hard to read. I was reluctant to ask the measurer to do it over, as he had included a ton of detail. He was unaware of our “one piece of paper” requirement, and submitted a 2 feet by 3 feet blueprint.
He measured the long parts using EDM and taped the corners in short bits.
The map follows. I wanted to check the course using Google Earth, but couldn’t squint hard enough.
