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SCPF on a straight course

bobwemerbobwemerMember
I have a hypothetical question. Is there a need or requirement to use the short course prevention factor of 1.001 on a straight as an arrow, out and back, 5k or 10k course on an eight foot wide recreational trail?

It seems that there would be no possibility for a runner to cut corners to make the course shorter and that using the prevention factor would absolutely make the course long.
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peteriegelpeteriegelRCMBB Founder
Here's an answer to your hypothetical. You lay out the course with no 1.001 SCPF and somehow get it certified. Joe or Jane Blow runs a record time. Someone is sent to validate the course. Assuming that both you and the validator rode well, there's a 50 percent chance that the validator would come up with a length shorter than yours. Pop goes the record.

The potential record-seeker would not applaud your approach. The SCPF is here, and it is small. All the world uses it without exception. Is there a reason why the straight course should possess an advantage over all others, however small?
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bobwemerbobwemerMember
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Originally posted by Pete Riegel:
Here's an answer to your hypothetical. You lay out the course with no 1.001 SCPF and somehow get it certified. Joe or Jane Blow runs a record time. Someone is sent to validate the course. Assuming that both you and the validator rode well, there's a 50 percent chance that the validator would come up with a length shorter than yours. Pop goes the record.

The potential record-seeker would not applaud your approach. The SCPF is here, and it is small. All the world uses it without exception. Is there a reason why the straight course should possess an advantage over all others, however small?


Thanks Pete, good point. I assumed that the measurer made a perfect, dead-on, measurement and that the validator would agree with him - which is very unlikely.

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