After Re-measurement, Kara Goucher Credited With Women's Half Marathon World Record

By: LetsRun.com
April 1, 2009

Kara Goucher's 68:30 performance at Lisbon in reality was better than the existing women's half marathon world record.

According to the IAAF and Nike, extensive satellite-aided remeasuring of the course has revealed Goucher's path to have been a full kilometer long and Goucher should be credited with the world record.

Apparently, the Portugese course officials measured the 13.1 mile course in meters and made a NASA-like error in the unit conversions. Goucher, who some initially felt was off her game in Portugal, according to IAAF actually ran the equivalent of 64:55 for the half marathon, a world record by 90 seconds.

Running website LetsRun.com appears to have made their 324th mistake in reporting, as they described Goucher's effort as "the wheels fall off", referring to Goucher's final kilometers as "Goucher falls apart." Editor-in-chief Weldon Johnson almost certainly will face FCC fines over the coverage errors, which reportedly stemmed from shoddy split-taking and shameful muck-raking by disgraced former LetsRun Employee #1 who shall remain unnamed.