Reply to "How Long Is Too Long?"

I'm not understanding this discussion, If a measurer measures according to our manual and submits a course for certification as 5.yyy-miles, why is it not certified at 5.yyy-miles? There is no range of a measurment, it is one distance. The only time a second distance for a USATF certified course becomes an issue (or even available) is after a validation. If the course is found short it must be corrected or records are not valid and any records previously set are invalid. If the course is long the measurer or race director is informed and offered the choice of correcting the distance to the advertised distance or leaving it. At least that's what I thought the process was.

Is this discussion is about the 0.0008 "range" between the 2 measurements, only one of which is used? Or the 0.0001 SCPF which is not a range or addition of length? It is to compensate for the fact that no one is capable of perfectly riding the shortest course.

6/12/132:56 AM

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