Friday, June 03, 2005

Man, I'd be pissed.

An extra mile was inadvertently added to the Chicago Marathon on Monday.

All 529 runners who finished Chicago's Lakeshore Marathon set a personal record for the distance.

The problem was the race--27.2 miles--was a full mile longer than a traditional marathon. But participants didn't know about the mistake until the event was over Monday.


Full article here.

2 comments:

Sarah said...

Whoops! Bet someone's in deep-dog-doo over that one...

Tricia said...

Gasp!! That's huge! Now I'll be waking up in a cold sweat worrying that this will happen to me.