Olympic Marathon Shortest Path?

I've been out measuring courses the better part of the last 2-days and finally made it home to catch up on tivo recordings of the olympics. I'm watching ladies marathon and they don't seem to understand shortest path, or at least aren't running it in many cases and per IAAF rule it's even painted on the ground. At one point around mile 22 (and several other points) they're well off path running straight when the path is tangent. Certainly at this level they understand the concept and advantage of running shortest path.

8/14/165:53 PM

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Not all of them. I was actually out measuring a course this morning and my wife was texting me updates. At one point near the end of the race she texted, "Desi is the master of the SPR." I have her trained well. My wife I mean. I had nothing to do with Desi's SPR training.

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