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Reply to "Course map requirements revision?"

I by no means am a veteran with maybe 9 or 10 courses and a handful of cal courses under my belt. What struck me amongst the other daunting aspects of trying to certify my first race course was trying to show every detail on one page. Without an experienced measurer by my side the first go it seemed pretty off putting. Though the reasons all make sense to me now I envisioned a day when I just submitted a black sheet of paper Confused with all of the detail I was to include!
I do see the end goal of making "all the information a race director needs to run the race using the course as certified" more essential than whether it fits on one page or not with the splits. In this digital age it seems a little silly: one should provide the race director with pictures and descriptions of splits to locate as a supplement with a CD or DVD containing that info. and that has been discussed at length here. I am not on the registrar side of things nad can see the importance of that side too.

What if every map for everything had to fit on 8.5" X 11"? I think races with lots and lots of detail (esp marathon) to indicate would be encouraged to include it better without the restriction of space. I am off my soap box and ready for the slaying that will ensue Smiler. The solution is not simple but that is the kind of discussion I would like to see here and at your conference--the end goal is not simply for it to fit on one page. I feel a one page map and a digital set of details included as a file download would be pretty cool.
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