The Stache wrote:
Why do so many of you care if a cross country course is measured perfectly accurately? Who cares? It's cross country. Every course is different terrain, elevation, elevation changes, weather conditions, etc, so they're never truly comparable anyway. You race to the finish, no matter if it's 5.9k or 6.1k. What matters at each split is the place and the time difference between athletes, not the actual time or K split
So if the Men's NCAA championship 10K course is only 8500 meters. - you are okay with that? And the women's 6000 meter course is 5300 meters? Are you nuts?