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Can anyone help me, i did the cycling part of the Dirty Double this weekend. It was a 25km cycle race but on my computer it ended up to be only 20km...is it my computer that is out by 5km? Maybe someone else also did the race and can help me. Some races my computer is spot on and some not...?

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Can anyone help me, i did the cycling part of the Dirty Double this weekend. It was a 25km cycle race but on my computer it ended up to be only 20km...is it my computer that is out by 5km? Maybe someone else also did the race and can help me. Some races my computer is spot on and some not...?

 

There was a thread on it, they did say that the run was very short. Your computer was correct.

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Road races its generally give or take 1 or 2 km's.  New race events could have more substantial distance differences, though.

 

Like the Erfenis Trap in 2013 (I think) was 90-odd km instead of 70km.  It was my first race. I almost died.

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Your computer is correct. Both the run and the ride was shorter.

 

I presume it's been rerouted due to damage from fire (esp white route, which would have affected the bike section - we skipped an entire loop we did last year) and wind of a while ago blowing trees over on the black section (a small part of which we ran).

 

I must admit I enjoyed the run more this year - it felt as if we ran more singletrack than last year.

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yep, all distances was shorter as SeaBee said... there are a lot of events that get the distance and Assent wrong, I have learnt to just take what comes my way..

 

Are you using a GPS Computer..? if weird then look at your settings, but as said, a lot of events get it wrong, they have to change routes often as to unforeseen circumstances. But boy do guys complain if it is ever longer than advertised :-) 

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