Great Scottish Run course was short: Eilish ... - Bridge to 10K
Great Scottish Run course was short: Eilish McColgan records invalidated
😮You've got to be gutted haven't you!
Oh man. That’s absolutely rotten. I’ve got a little bit of a fan girl thing going for Eilish and I’m gutted for her.
Eilish thought that her time was wrong and isn't too bothered as she is a expert in time and pacing, but I feel more sorry for other runners in the Great Scottish Run 10k who no longer have PB's.
I heard her being interviewed too Al, and I agree she was very accepting of it. She said she knew the time wasn’t right when she crossed the finish line as she’s run the distance so many times and knows her pacing like the back of her hand. Such a lovely person. 🥰
Such a shame...but it happens so much! It happens to me all the time... Ha ha!
"The Newcastle-based company said after the 2016 mistake [half marathon 150 metres short] - which was in a different part of the course - that several extra check steps had been implemented to ensure the situation would not be repeated."
But it has happened again with the 2022 10km race of the Great Scottish Run. We can send men to the moon, we have global positioning systems accurate to within a few metres so it is hard to understand why a mistake was made. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one length mistake in a race can be regarded as a misfortune but two mistakes looks like carelessness.