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Great Scottish Run course was short: Eilish McColgan records invalidated

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😮You've got to be gutted haven't you!

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Instructor57Graduate10 in reply toBirdlady64

well, I would be 😂

but she seems quite accepting of the situation

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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.

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Instructor57Graduate10 in reply toMissUnderstanding

haha..... Me too 😍. ... 🤣

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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.

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cheekychipmunksGraduate10 in reply toAlMorr

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. 🥰

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Birdlady64Graduate10 in reply toAlMorr

Exactly!

150 metres is quite a lot so I'm sure Eilish would have known something wasn't right.

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Instructor57Graduate10 in reply toAlMorr

yes, she knew !

her pacing is probably more accurate than my Garmin

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AlMorrAmbassadorGraduate10 in reply toInstructor57

If a runner had a sub 45 minutes 10K PB say at 44:55 he would have been very happy but with that new revised time he will no longer have that sub 45 minutes, now it is probably 45:15

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Seems very unfair

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Instructor57Graduate10 in reply toSueAppleRun

it certainly should never have happened

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Such a shame...but it happens so much! It happens to me all the time... Ha ha!

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🤣🤣🤣

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"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.

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