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Reply to "What to do when a race has an incorrect length in it's name?"

I've been saying let them call it what they want but I do agree that "3.1", "6.2", "13.1", and "26.2" all rub me the wrong way too-- if we're willing to reject those names for common race distances we would be helping to reduce the GNI (gross national ignorance).

Personally I haven't experienced a lot of problem with this kind of thing when it comes to naming a race-- most RD's seem to want their race to be called 5K, 10K, etc, and I've found that the occasional misguided RD is happy to have the "wrong" name changed-- like "half marathon" rather than 13.1 miles.

Maybe it's enough just to let them understand that using "3.1" instead of "5K" makes them look a little, well, not smart?
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