quote:Originally posted by Pete Riegel:
Here's an answer to your hypothetical. You lay out the course with no 1.001 SCPF and somehow get it certified. Joe or Jane Blow runs a record time. Someone is sent to validate the course. Assuming that both you and the validator rode well, there's a 50 percent chance that the validator would come up with a length shorter than yours. Pop goes the record.
The potential record-seeker would not applaud your approach. The SCPF is here, and it is small. All the world uses it without exception. Is there a reason why the straight course should possess an advantage over all others, however small?
Thanks Pete, good point. I assumed that the measurer made a perfect, dead-on, measurement and that the validator would agree with him - which is very unlikely.