[quote]yogibear wrote:
The elevation drop for the full marathon is legal, but just barely. The permissible drop is 136 feet (1 part per thousand of the course distance), and the course drops 130 feet.
The half marathon course has almost no net change and is easily legal. The only question for record quality is windage.
Beardsley's record shouldn't have lasted this long. True, the course he ran was 150 yards long and if it had been the correct distance his time would have been a new American record, the fact is that 2:09:37 (or even a corrected 2:09:13) is not really a world class time today.
Global warming is making June marathons more difficult. If a 2:05 guy like Worku couldn't come close in today's decent conditions, Beardsley's record might last for a lot longer.
I wonder how many runners had a conflict between the track national championships in Iowa and the USA half marathon championships in Duluth.
Global Warming? Seriously global warming? What a crock. The earth's temperature has not risen over the last 16 years and so-called climate "scientists" are at a loss to explain why. Did you not get the memo? They fake scientists call it "climate change" now because the earth not warming anymore. Please enough with this crock.