Subject: RE: Race Course Boundry Dunno--wouldn't do it if it could be construed as cutting the course, but I have done races where people do run on the sidewalk or the grass instead of the road (when everything is just parallel--no turns ). If you'd ever done any racing in the tropics you would understand that the goal of this is to get oneself into very limited shade!
I have actually gone up into grass strip and run when everyone else was in the road--again, parallel, for a couple of miles, in a race in North America, and nobody stopped me. In my case it was due to really nasty cramps in my shins; it felt just enough better on the grass that I could keep running rather than slow to a walk. I did go back into the road to make the turn, though (out and back section ) in order to not cut the course. Edited by Hot Runner 2017-04-18 5:06 PM
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