Colorado Colfax Marathon runnerup Steve Krebs said the course felt a little longer to him than the regulation 26.2 miles Sunday. He wasn’t the only one.
Responding to runner feedback, race officials have decided to have the course remeasured and recertified. They believe the course may have been about a half mile longer than it should have been because of a mistake made in City Park.
“The certifiers are coming back in Saturday,” race director Mike Collins said today. “We will remeasure it, we will recalculate, and if it’s (wrong), they will receive revised times based on their (true) pace per mile. That will be their certified official results.”
The Boston Marathon has agreed to accept qualifying times adjusted for any discrepancy found in the remeasurement. For example: A man in the 45-49 age group who needs to run 3 hours, 30 minutes (8-minute pace) to qualify for Boston would get an extra 4 minutes if the course was, in fact, a half mile too long.
“We will have all this done and everybody informed by next Tuesday or Wednesday,” Collins said.
