2016 Great Scottish Run: Britain's Callum Hawkins (60:24) and Betsy Saina (67:24) both scorch GSR

Obviously the course is short by about 340 meters! Remeasure and you'll see.

"Trained by their father Robert, a former national champion and now endurance coach mentor for Scottish Athletics, much of the Hawkins brothers’ life has been geared around making it to the very top with both Callum and Derek still living at the family home on the outskirts of Paisley."

🔹UPDATE 🔹

"Unfortunately there was a mistake in a course map that was issued which led to some confusion."

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Yea, like a 340 meter confusion!

Spikes:

"In training they will top out at 120 miles in a week, a maximum of two or three times; their longest run will be 22-23 miles at a slow pace. Average August temperatures in Rio top 26°C (78°F) – somewhat warmer than the 15°C (59°F) average north of Hadrian’s Wall (they still call it summer)."

Lower mileage than Rupp; slow long run unlike Renato.

So a 61:24 while not be maxed out yet.

Calum Hawkins- Power of 10:

HM 60:24 60:24 1 Glasgow Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Half Marathon 2 Oct 16

HM 62:39 62:36 10 Paris, FRA Fitbit Semi de Paris 6 Mar 16

HM 62:51 15 EM Cardiff IAAF World Half Marathon Championships 26 Mar 16

HM 63:57 9 Amsterdam, NED European Athletics Half Marathon Championships 10 Jul 16

fred wrote:

slow long run unlike Renato.

They might have a fast long run as well.

"Do you mean that little over to the south and back about a mile before the finish--they just skipped it? I can't find anyone talking about it but it would certainly change the time significantly."

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Yes! a '340 meter' skip!

Check it out.......

You keep saying the course is short. "course_was_altered" keeps saying they made up that distance elsewhere. Who's right? Nobody seems to be claiming online that the course was short.

The course is short! wrote:

"Do you mean that little over to the south and back about a mile before the finish--they just skipped it? I can't find anyone talking about it but it would certainly change the time significantly."

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Yes! a '340 meter' skip!

Check it out.......

The ARRS people are pretty hot on working out if races are short by statistical analysis of the times those who competed did compared to what they have done before.

http://www.arrs.net/

In this case, I do believe that the course had to have been short. 60:24 was way beyond Hawkins' expectations and past performances. About a minute short probably.

I could tell that the course was short after comparing all my mates' GPS data. We used to get readings of 13.3 miles for the GSR. This year it was 13.0 or even 12.9 miles in some instances. I know GPS is not super accurate, but I am making this judgement based on comparison, not the actual data point of a single GPS.

"You keep saying the course is short. "course_was_altered" keeps saying they made up that distance elsewhere. Who's right? Nobody seems to be claiming online that the course was short."

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Answer -

"I could tell that the course was short after comparing all my mates' GPS data. We used to get readings of 13.3 miles for the GSR. This year it was 13.0 or even 12.9 miles in some instances. I know GPS is not super accurate, but I am making this judgement based on comparison, not the actual data point of a single GPS."

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Callum ran a great race but the course was mis-marked based on previous measurements and is in fact 340 meters short! He probably ended up with something close to '101:40' give or take a few seconds.

340 meters short! wrote:

"You keep saying the course is short. "course_was_altered" keeps saying they made up that distance elsewhere. Who's right? Nobody seems to be claiming online that the course was short."

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Answer -

"I could tell that the course was short after comparing all my mates' GPS data. We used to get readings of 13.3 miles for the GSR. This year it was 13.0 or even 12.9 miles in some instances. I know GPS is not super accurate, but I am making this judgement based on comparison, not the actual data point of a single GPS."

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Callum ran a great race but the course was mis-marked based on previous measurements and is in fact 340 meters short! He probably ended up with something close to '101:40' give or take a few seconds.

Boys and girls of Letsrun; so far the official results say the course was not short.

Please stand by.

Forget about the course map, it's irrelevant. It was wrong, but the course ran was still slightly different to that of previous years:

I've measured out the two differing sections from 2015-2016. The start and finish were at the same points in both years. In theory, the two sections added together from each year should be equal.

2015 ROUTE RAN :

Pollok Park section:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6965845

(0.7049miles)

Festival Park section:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com?r=6965845

(0.8711miles)

Total: 1.576 miles

2016 ROUTE RAN:

Pollok Park section:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6965845

(1.0386miles)

Festival Park section:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com?r=6965845

(0.4089miles)

Total: 1.4475 miles

DISTANCE DIFFERENCE 2016 FROM 2015: -0.1285 miles

The start and finish were exact same points. I have run both race routes and am not aware of any other differences. If anyone thinks I'm missing something feel free to correct me.

She was a stud a few years ago.

He was officially a stud when he ran 9th in the Olympic Marathon if not earlier.

Sorry, got the links wrong in the previous post. Remapped the sections again and got the correct links this time:

2015 ROUTE RAN :

Pollok Park section:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6965972

(0.7051miles)

Festival Park section:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6965975

(0.8701miles)

Total: 1.5752 miles

2016 ROUTE RAN:

Pollok Park section:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6965977

(1.0386miles)

Festival Park section:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6965976

(0.409miles)

Total: 1.4476 miles

DISTANCE DIFFERENCE 2016 FROM 2015: -0.1276 miles

Cheers

2015

Festival Park section:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6965975

(0.8701miles)

Total: 1.5752 miles

2016

Festival Park section:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6965976

(0.409miles)

Total: 1.4476 miles

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What???? Are you kidding me? There's a huge difference there - to cut the 'Pacific Drive' chunk out and then call only a 1.5752 vs.1.4476 difference is crazy! The 2015 course was way longer - '340 meters' longer actually!

Again, Hawkins is a great guy but he wouldn't have run 60:24 on that 2015 course for certain.

Don't misquote my post please - They did add distance elsewhere, just not enough. Try reading the post again and you'll see how I end up at the 0.12 mile difference.

And here's an end to end mapping of the altered 2016 route. This shows it to be 0.101 miles short, however this is a generous estimate of the distance since:

-The line stays over 1m from inside of all corners

-In the parks the line follows the middle of the paths

(most of it was mapped manually from GPS recordings, memory of my own run of the course, TV footage, this is exactly what was ran on the day.)

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6966625