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Short Courses: Must be the year for it!

  • 19-10-2010 12:36pm
    #1
    BeepBeep67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11572283

    Guess it's not just an Irish disease.
    Runners had a perfect autumn day - and a slightly shorter course - for the race around the city centre and Cardiff Bay.
    A half marathon involving 15,000 runners has turned out to be too short - by 193m (211 yards).
    Barnardo's, organisers of Sunday's Cardiff half marathon, which attracted elite athletes, club runners and charity fun-runners, have apologised.
    They said a last-minute "urgent decision" was taken to change the route on safety grounds due to an obstruction on the course.


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  • #2
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Were a few people in the club that ran that one at the weekend and seemed very happy with their times last night. I only heard the rumours of a short course later on, but not sure if anyone had passed on the bad news to those that had run Cardiff at that point. :(


  • #3
    BeepBeep67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    robinph wrote: »
    Were a few people in the club that ran that one at the weekend and seemed very happy with their times last night. I only heard the rumours of a short course later on, but not sure if anyone had passed on the bad news to those that had run Cardiff at that point. :(

    You can be the popular one to bring them the bad news tonight - could turn into an unscheduled tempo session.


  • #4
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Some local opinion on the Cardiff short course matter:

    http://runninginbristol.blogspot.com/2010/10/cardiff-course-error-is-shambles.html

    Think that is pretty much what we concluded after the 5 mile error. If your organising a race of X miles, the first and most important thing you need to get right is that it is X miles long.


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