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RUNNERS

 

Most runners, who are interested in their performance, realise the importance of having courses accurately measured in order to make comparisons of times sensible and to make PBs and records possible.

 

On this site you can find out how Course Measurers, trained & qualified by the Association of UK Course Measurers, help race directors provide courses with an error of less than 10m in a 10km race.

 

Have a look at the following: A short description of course measuring.

 

Read our introductory lesson on how a measurer does the measurement and his calculations.

 

Read the history of how the late John Jewell set up modern course measurement in the UK 45 years ago.

 

However, if you are more interested in the courses than how measuring it is done, then we have lists organised by county of all courses (see links on left) that have received a Certificate of Course Accuracy. These records include historical courses, which in the case of the South Area go back as far as 1986.

 

A final word of warning: course distances indicated by Garmin and other GPS devices are much less accurate than those measured by a UKA accredited course measurer on his carefully calibrated bicycle. Have a look at our GPS USERS page.

 

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