140triguy wrote:
She cheated. She knew she was doing it. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but don't race participants look at a watch/bike computer/mileage sign during a race and note how far they've gone? If the race is known to be X miles, but the watch display reads less than X miles by a significant amount, uh, wouldn't the racer who has passed first grade math realize the mistake? Add to that, you'd expect that a participant has trained and knows what split times to expect for certain distances within a certain range. "HFS! I just crushed my best training day speed by 20%.... oh, wait...."
I skipped a bunch of replies on this thread, so I may have missed if someone posted this already. It is OBVIOUS that she knew she cut the course at some point, either at the time of the actual cut, or, diabolically, before the race when she planned where she would cut. She wanted to brag on social media, and instead got caught, and manipulated her friends along the way.
It would be fascinating to do a psychological profile of these kinds of people who live in their own fantasy worlds of lies. Like the woman I know who brags on and on about swimming in the 1960 Olympics even in this era where we can find out in seconds that she is in fact lying. WTF is going on in their minds?!?
I think she cheated
But to answer your question I don’t have. Bike computer or timing watch bit have done many races up to 1/2 IM.
I would have no idea if a course was long, short or exact.