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Reply to "Eliminate Expirations and Renewals"

Mark and Matthew's posts point us back to the concept of either extending a certification or re-certifying a course based on data from the original measurement.

Maybe someone who was involved with the original decision to discontinue renewals- or more familiar than am I with the duties of the registrar can offer some insight into the administrative benefit of purging the course list once a year. If the course list was unwieldy ten or twelve years ago, I can imagine it being more so today, especially with all of the course maps being posted on the USATF website.

The discussion here is about a small percentage of the courses on the list. The question is one of philosophy. If we trust race directors to have their courses re-measured if they change, then there is really no issue with extending certifications indefinitely. If we don't, then shouldn't we be checking courses much more often than we do?

My guess is that there continues to be a benefit to purging the course list, so it makes sense to continue to let certifications expire. And if we want to have a sensible answer for the race directors who ask why they have to re-measure a course that hasn't changed, it would seem that allowing original data to be resubmitted would be a defensible compromise here.
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