It seems there might be a controversy brewing about the IMS Arizona results. Word is the pace group leaders and other runners using GPS receivers are saying the marathon course was a full .25 miles long. That’s a quarter of a mile, and enough to really jack the times up by a good two minutes.
So far, the race director does not look very open to input from people in the know. She claims the Boston Marathon folks laid the course out, and she trusts them to be right on the money over the GPS receivers. Had it been a few receivers, I could see. Had it been a smaller fraction of a mile (like .05 miles), I could see. But this is not good.
Stay tuned for more …
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