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jimgerweckMember

I'll take credit for that idea

It just happened to work out that the loop was close to 6 miles, so by moving the turnaround points could be made exact.

In NY, the loop in Central Park was fixed, and while it was close to 5 miles was not exact, so the splits were off from one another by several meters. I believe the organizers just used one clock at each set, and moved it down the road after the runners passed by. A similar situation occurred in St. Louis in 2004. In Helsinki 2005 the World Championships course used a loop that was exactly 10 km. Hugh Jones measured that course.

I think you'd have to be damn lucky to have a fixed loop come out to an even metric or Imperial distance, though.

4/29/104:17 AM

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