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how often does something like this happen? seems incredible.
how often does something like this happen? seems incredible.
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Lead car in last year:s Göteborgs-Varvet (21,1km) veered off course and winner, Abdelkader El Mouaziz (1.02.14) and two others wound up running 80m shorter in distance than did fourth-place finisher Pavel Loskutov. -
"The lead race car was diverted off the 10K course at the two-mile mark when police blocked the entrance to the Shoreway at West Third Street and Lakeside Avenue, causing 200 to 300 runners -- including the elite men and women -- to run anywhere from 800 yards to 2.7 miles extra while in the Flats.''
this was a good bit more than an 80-meter gaffe.Comment
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Wasn:t comparing them. Lead cars sometimes veer off course, and, consequently, top athletes lose out on an opportunity to finish with decent (or legal) times. Göteborgs-varvet fourth-placer wanted the top-three DQ:d.Comment
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i used my handy dandy tafnews conversion book to figure it out. it was the cleveland 14.3k. ridiculous.Comment
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PRs all around! But seriously, that would be unpleasant, to say the least.Originally posted by fieldguy
This incident for some reason reminded me of some of my experiences roadracing when I was living in Taiwan -- Every road race I entered was advertised as "12km," but they varied by a lot -- you had to prepare yourself for courses that were anywhere from 10-15k, some perhaps with more variation. I got caught by surprise at both extremes -- trying to measure out a hard effort, and then discovering the finish line much earlier than expected, or much much later than expected, and not knowing where it was.Comment
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