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Posted by steve outing on 5/24/2007 on steve outing's blog This is wild. Looks like Denver's Colfax Marathon may have been 1/2 a mile longer than the official 26.2! The linked story says some runners complained -- probably because many had GPS units or Forerunners and their stats didn't say 26.2 at the end. Yikes! | |
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littlemamalopez says:
LA's Revlon 5K was actually 3.3 miles. What's up with the race coordinators?
run away says:
I ran the full Colfax Marathon last weekend. It didn't take satellite-assisted technology to know mile 12 was too long. Too bad that the error tarnished the race. I hope it isn't fatal to the struggling new event. Everything else about it was spectacular: crowd support, organizer-managed logistics, volunteer enthusiasm, water stations, cool sponges at mile 23 (or thereabouts). Some runners complained about the heat and hills. Well, run Honolulu sometime and watch the armada of ambulances pluck heat-exhausted marathoners off the later part of that course. And hills? HaHaHaHa. You wish. Try Seattle or Vancouver, B.C. Lakewood is flat and fast in comparison.
I thought the Colfax Marathon rocked -- however long it was.
PS: The Rocky says race times will be adjusted: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_55549...
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