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Reply to "London Olympic Games - Marathon & Race Walk Routes"

Tom & Pete
1996, 1984 good (and not so good memories) - my bike broke down in 1996- but stll got to do the racewalks.
Pete - you hit the nail on the head. London is all about the experience, the great people I am working with. They are all family. Hugh Jones is a great person, a great measurer, and a dear friend. He has measured this course dozens of times.
I arrive on Monday morning June 11.
Monday and Tuesday we will go over both the marathon and race walk routes marking the turns (30 cm).
We will lay out a calibration course on the roadway adjacent to the Mall.
Wednesday - start the measurements at 2 am.
I would like to calibrate, measure the small loop (2.2 miles), re-calibrate, measure the 8 mile loop, then re-calibrate. This way we are never more then an hour from a calibration. It most likely will be a moot point because of the night measurement and the mimimal variation in the calibration but the calibration course is right there at the beginning/end of the loop.

So, I have the $64K question for all my friends out there- Jones and others have measured this many times. What should I tell him and the LOC if I come up with a different measurement - let's say 10-20 meters for the full 42.195K?

A. you messed up and should re-design the course and start over again.
B. only measurers on this side of the Pond know how to measure.
C. It must be the cobble stones
D. it's becasue you are measuring on the wrong side of the road.
E. the proiblem is I measured the roads and you measured the carriageways.
F. it's that metric thing
G. I am lucky to come up that close in a one shot measurement and you did a great job - don't change a thing.

One additinal problem - I still working on learning the language!
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