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Ah yes, that's the one biggie I've never done. The modern era race started in 64 when I was still in CCHS in Troy. I knew a few guys who did enter that year, Mike Burke, Joe McCoy, Claude Rounds. If I ever saw results from 64 I could probably identify a few more, but I was not among them. After I did start running road races regularly in the 70s I was frequently out of town on T'day so I never began the tradition. Then there were all the years with 4 kids at home that would have made sneaking out that morning to run a race unforgiveable. The family was never enthralled with my running.

Only in recent years have I started doing a Turkey Trot, but I chose instead to do Cohoes a much much smaller race but still a long tradition. It's the 45th year for Cohoes. Troy says it's the 61st but with a 28 year break from 1936-63 that's really sort of a bogus claim. They should count from 1964 making this one the 45th as well which would still be impressive but more honest.

I drove the course today, and I like the changes.  Once you turn onto 6th Avenue, there's some nice downhills. 

Good luck to all trotters tomorrow and Happy Thanksgiving.

I would say the new course is not as fast as the old one! For the 5k, my splits were 5:54, 6:47, and 5:53 - obviously at least the 2-mile clock was misplaced, but multiple checks with Google Earth also yields a total length of 3.15 miles - about 20 seconds at my pace. With Google Earth as a check there's really no reason for any inaccuracies on a road course.

Google Earth is accurate to the width of a pixel, which in our area is one meter.

Last edited by fpb (2008-11-28 08:35:26 am)

I measured several miles of the MHRM on the bike path with google pedometer to verify how accurate it was since I knew exactly where each mile is marked and I trust the marathon marks. It was within .1 miles over 7 miles of the bike path. It can't be as precise as wheel measuring but it's pretty close. If you get 3.15, that's within the margin of error.

The Cohoes TT course was a bit short this year because they started directly in front of city hall instead of a block back. The person who designed that course told me so herself.

WERE THE TIMES FAST FOR THE 5K AT CARDIC CLASSIC?....