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You are reporting the following post to the moderators for review and possible removal from the forum Poster: Avocado's Number Subject: RE: Cal international Body:
For those who care, you should probably add a footnote that you're just making that up. (In the vernacular, you're lying.) In fact, I didn't run any marathons until the 1980s and 1990s, and I'm not aware of any that were ever found to be short. (Two, however, were downhill and aided, including Boston, which -- contrary to what most people here believe -- can be an absurdly fast course, if only because of the strong tailwinds in some years. As I mentioned earlier, I don't object to running on downhill courses or courses of uncertain length; I simply object to inappropriate comparisons of times run on such courses and times on record-quality courses of specified distances.) But I'm glad you raised the matter of short courses. As I mentioned, many people in the U.S. running community have very strong negative views about short courses -- the term you used was "notoriously short" -- yet have no qualms about claiming "PRs" on courses that, by international standards, are equally unfit for such claims. In this regard, I was amused by the reaction of participants in a half-marathon in Austin several years ago when they discovered that the course was short. Yes, the course was shorter than the advertised distance, but it was also ridiculously downhill, which effectively shortened the duration of the race by (as I recall) something close to what the shortfall in distance did. The participants were unbothered by the prospect of making fraudulent claims of PRs on a screamingly downhill course -- in fact, that prospect probably attracted many of them to the race -- but were really upset by the prospect of making fraudulent claims of PRs on a course that was merely shorter in distance. Hit the submit button below if you want us to review the post. If you feel this is urgent or want a reply, email us at letsrun@letsrun.com about the post and please include a link to the thread the post is on and what page number/post on that page it is
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