Running leaders shoot the sport in the foot
Decision to rewrite women's marathon records absurd

Globetrotting by Philip Hersh
3:19 p.m. CDT, September 20, 2011

Why not have a women's marathon world record category for days with 39 percent humidity?

Or another one for days when the sun shines more than two hours?

Or one for courses with fewer than six turns?  More than 11?  That run across the 49th parallel?

Or one for days when the wind is southerly, so we will -- like Hamlet -- all know a hawk from a handsaw?

Absurd?