Erratum Message: Yesterday we posted that Deirdre Larkin of Randburg Harriers broke the 85+ World Half Marathon Record at the Geneva Marathon this past weekend, smashing her own record of 2:12:37 (run in SA in February) with a new WR of 2:05:13. Unfortunately, additional research shows that the Geneva Half Marathon is not a "record-legal course," as it is a point-to-point course with a significant overall drop in altitude of more than two metres per kilometre, so Deirdre's time of 2:05:13 cannot be considered a World Record. For a course to be record-legal, it must be circular (start and finish within a certain distance of each other) and drop no more than the allowable 1m/km. Her performance remains a remarkable, hugely inspiring achievement, but we need to publish the correct facts, and Modern Athlete apologises for the mistake.
