Woodbridge off to a slow start

Course is long this year. Pretty upsetting

it’s running very slow. probably 30+ seconds slower than last season.

me and my friends all just got 3.1 and im freakin mad

they need to fix this for the guys tomorrow

oh nooo a gps watch tracking a winding course (sometimes on the outside of the curve) where not every single perfect tangent is taken tracked it long

what makes you think the course is long this year? Is it any different than last year?

It’s 3.1 miles there is no tangent line that could possibly cut off 161 meters. It’s just long and slow. I don’t expect any sub 14s for boys and sub 16s for girls tomorrow.

Yes totally different course.

if this is true there is going to be huge drama coming tomorrow.

Four athletes had 3.08-3.09

can someone upload a link of their strava so I can look at the course and compare it to last years course?

ok the real question is this year's woodbridge long or was last year's woodbridge short?

The timing is also screwed up. In some results teammates, up to four in one race, are the leaders at the 2-mile mark and then some are not in the finish results. Very confusing.

Landon Pietry, Junior, Menlo-Atherton (CCS) was listed as the winner of the first freshmen race of the day and then that was changed. He then is listed as the winner of the boys varsity white in 14:46. Since he ran 14:06 last year as a sophomore I thought he would be in the championship race.

Since he ran 30 seconds slower than last year maybe the course is 30 second slower.

They should just change the listed distance to 3.08-3.10

did anyone tell rich gonzalez?

Found a .gpx file of someone walking the course. It obviously isn't 100% accurate but definitely a good indicator of a long course. 4.99k long from gps data while walking so safe to say it's essentially 5k if you don't run all the tangents. This makes sense as well because Landon Pretre's 14:46 tonight would roughly be a 14:17 3 mile which makes sense since he ran 14:06 last year. Also another higher profile runner Mccoy Brooks ran over 15 when he was expected to be well under.

oh boy theres going to be huge drama tomorrow

can someone ask rich to wheel it again and double check the distance before tomorrow?

Everyone dm rich gonzalez

Rich’s response:

“Measured by wheels or watches? Watches are not reliable and even more so on a course with many turns. Plenty of interference. Not a 5k. Times are too fast for a 5k”