Given that there is no requirement that a certified course have any marked intermediate splits whatsoever, why must the miles be verified?
I believe I have an assignment this coming weekend for which this policy might apply. Expired course that I'm told hasn't changed for which I was the original measurer. I think I'll measure the course twice, anyway, to ensure the certification will be valid, as there are still too many questions regarding this policy.
Once again, what might make sense to even a majority of the RRTC officers may not make a whole lot of sense to the running community at large. And when we start making people do things that don't make sense to them, we start getting tuned out.
Personally I think the "USATF Certified" brand has considerable equity, and I'd hate to see it lose some of it because a small group of people with a vested interest in seeing more courses measured and certified force race directors to spend time and money going through a process that could quite reasonably be avoided.