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I am measuring a course with a concrete curb which extends 17 or 18 inches past the vertical surface. It is at a slightly steeper slope than the asphalt street it meets. Due to a combination of roughness and slope, about half of it has sticks and leaves in it at any given time. I wouldn't any of it with the exception of a 90 degree corner because of the slope and foreign objects but it is still pavement. How do I handle this?
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Oscar's question reminds me of a time when I measured a 5K course during the height of leaf-raking season, and there were huge piles of leaves in the way of a good measurement, including some of them right at the corners. I dealt with this in 2 ways-- sometimes I projected a point from the curb out into the street and then "copied" the curve at the corner (still out in the street) until I got around the (virtual)corner to a point corresponding to an accessible point of the real curb. (Oh well, it's easier to do than to describe).
Another, simpler way, is sometimes possible: just put your bike up onto the curb and measure along the top of the curb. You won't shortchange the course. I think the course I'm remembering didn't have curbs where that was possible; they were those sloping curbs that don't have a "top".

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