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Hey guys, that's good news, hopefully this can take place relatively soon and they can change people's official times. I know its not the end of the world but when people have gone through training programs etc, 1-2 minutes is a large ammount of time to gaining! I assume we all train  for pbs.

It would not exactly take that long to do. Just take people's average pace for whatever the distance turns out to be and calculate what their time would have been if they had ran 13.1 miles at that pace.

I agree it would be unrealistic to finish the race with the exact distance, and usually my garmin is about .05 out. But the reason i posted is because i noticed lots of people (add yellowmag to that list) have measured that half marathon about quater of a mile too long.

I would not have batted an eyelid until i heard other people said the same thing. I think there must be an issue if it continually crops up in discussions which it does.

I am really keen on getting people's opinion on the distance of the Shakespeare Raceway Half. My garmin clocked it at 13.3 miles instead of 13.1 which was disapointing as I thought I was running at a certain pace and on for a certain time however I was over a minute slower than expected.

I would have just put this down to an error from my watch but having read previous threads about this race I have noticed that many other people have flagged this up over the last couple of years.

I know the course is twisty and some people have suggested that overtaking etc would add on the extra miles but I have never had this problem on a road race half marathon and we still overtake and twist and turn!

Any insight would be welcome?

p.s. the race is great with friendly staff, very well organised and has great pb potential. I do not wish to criticise the race.

Just finished the Nov 2012 race, fairly impressed!

However disapointed with the fact that my garmin measured the course at 13.28 miles which cost me a sub 1.22. I can see that other people have identified that problem in previous years.

Can anyone offer insight into this? Could it be the overtaking, twisting and turning or it is genuinely slightly too long?

However, a good race which i recommend!