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2014-09-12 12:17 PM

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Subject: Atlantic City Triathlon
This weekend!.
Is anyone else a little pissed that they cut the run course to 5 miles? Did you even notice? It's listed as a little blurb in the athlete guide. No real announcement about it.

There reasoning is "their goal is to lessen the impact on traffic as much as possible". I call BS. If that was the case, you'd alter it, not shorten it. It's the same course, just turning around sooner. I think they took crap about Challenge and the city told them to get in and get out.

Wouldn't the thinking be that the race is a fast as it's slowest competitor. So if the slowest person would be walking the 10K, say 15 minute miles. You cut a 1.2 from the course, aren't you really just saving yourself 1/2 hour max?

I'm really bummed about it. Last year it was my first Olympic and I was hoping to gauge any improvement on the same course and apparently two weeks out, they decide this.........


Anyway, see you Sunday!



2014-09-12 2:24 PM
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I think you may be ok comparing results. Last year I remember a lot of people saying their GPS had it at 5 miles. Any chance you wore a Garmin? 2012 I know it was only 5 miles, DelMo apologized about it after the race. I can't be certain but I thought they owned up to it being 5 miles last year also. I know the turn around didn't seem to much further. Either way, have a great race. I'm jealous, missing it this year.
2014-09-12 2:36 PM
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I ran the Olympic last year and it was 6.2 miles. If people had that at 5 miles, they didn't run the right course.


I wore a Garmin 910XT


Here is my Garmin data.

http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/376652129
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