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Reply to "Houston Half validation"

Pete:
I am only advocating prevalidations in those cases where records are likely. In the Houston Halfmarathon several large bonuses were offered for several types of records, and in my experience money is a powerful stimulant to record setting. The probability of a validation being necessary was therefore high and would have been much more easily done at the time of measurement.

I think I have a very suitable measurer to do the validation, but the validation is unlikely to take place soon. Three things will have to coincide: availability of a police escort (only on Sundays at 6 am), fair weather (there is heavy ice on the roads at the moment), and availability of the measurer (he is a bit sick at the moment).

Left to myself I would process the validation normally. (After all, the record cannot be ratified until next December.) However I am receiving a sense of urgency from several enthusiastic people. Perhaps they are eager to get confirmation of the first American performance under one hour.
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