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I had occasion to certify an indoor track in Ada, Ohio, for the Polar Bear Marathon. A potential contestant wanted to use it to qualify for Boston.

This morning's Wall Street Journal mentioned it in their article on the subject.

Indoor marathons

I have no idea how laps were counted. Given that there had to be few competitors, electronic counting was seen to be prohibitively expensive, leaving more primitive options.
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They used to run a marathon around the speedskating oval in Milwaukee. I wonder if that's one of the Wisconsin races they cited.

Also wonder what the logistics are of changing directions every half hour. Would each runner finish the lap (or half lap?) they're running and then turn around? I can't imagine they'd beable to track distance otherwise...

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