Map Before You Measure

peteriegelRCMBB Founder

Map Before You Measure

It can be a pain to document all those cones. Given this, if you carry a mental picture of the documentation needed, you can avoid measuring that requires cones. As an example, I had a course where the runners entered a street from the left, ran to the left for some distance, and exited the street to the right. The race director was making gestures about how he was going to use cones to guide the runners as they crossed the street. I told him I was going to measure the shortest possible route, and he could cone on race day as he wished.

11/4/043:31 AM

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ronfitzpatrickMember

Pete, your Map before you measure post reminded me of a problem that I often run into, where the race director must keep runners to one side of the center line of a roadway.

In theory, measuring "S" curves under these restrictions would have me riding the center line on left curves and the gutter edge on right curves or vice versa depending on the course direction.

In practice, unless I'm riding at midnight with no traffic, for my personal safety I ride the shortest possible route using the entire roadway. In some cases this yields a bit longer route, but I live to ride again.

11/4/0410:45 AM

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