Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Oh, and speaking of 13 miles, did you know that the USTAF number for a race can be used to find a map of the course? The Grand Island Half Marathon's course number is NY97008AM. If you go here and enter that number, you get a (crudely drawn) map! This one looks like the treasure maps my brother and I drew when we were kids. I just discovered this trick, and see all kinds of potential-- here is a list of all the certified courses in Buffalo, for example. Here is the Amherst list. Isn't that handy?
