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25k is a ROAD RACE NOT A MARATHON

When one commits an error and insists on being correct, he ends up committing more errors. This is in reply to the sports item in Sun Star on July 18 entitled “25 k is a Marathon”. Let me go straight to the point by quoting the International Association of Athletic Federation (IAAF) Competition Rules 2010-2011. Chapter 5 – Technical Rules, Section VIII – Road Races, RULE 240 defines the Distance of Standard Road Races as follows:
“The Standard distances for men and women shall be 10 km, 15 km, 20 km, Half-Marathon, 25 km, 30 km, Marathon (42.195 km), 100 km, and Road Relay.”

This is the reason why in International races, referring to the website of the Association of International Marathon and Road Races (www.aimsworldrunning.org), AIMS (a member based organization of more than 300 of the world’s leading distance races, from over 90 countries) would use the term “half-marathon”, “marathon” (42.195 km), but would refer to 25 km road race, repeat, ROAD RACE and NOT MARATHON.

Looking at this IAAF Rule 240, I wonder on whose authority Mr. Joselito Santos of PATAFA, would say that any race beyond 21 km can consider using “Marathon”. I don’t know what the IAAF would say to this. To me this is out of the international “standard” which the organizers of the IPI road race would claim it to be.

When I said that this 25k Pilipinas International Marathon is “sub-standard”, I did not mean the distance that was measured by the PATAFA official but the “international Marathon” is never a standard used by the IAAF for the 25 km ROAD RACE unless the PATAFA adapts this “ONLY IN DA PELIPENS”. Please, do not dishonor the Greek soldier Pheidippides, a messenger who run (not 25 k) from the Battle of Marathon (the namesake of the race) to Athens by insisting to call your road race a marathon.

Maybe Mr. Tito de la Merced or Mr. Joe Deresas can help me find a website where a 25 km international race sanctioned by the IAAF or AIMS is considered under the category of MARATHON. So far I could not find one. This is what I mean when I talked about “standard”. Here’s is another error from Mr. de la Merced, the Kenyan record holders Samuel Kosgei and Mary Keitany and those Japs holding the Asian record ran in the “Berlin 25 km ROAD RACE”, NOT 25 km MARATHON, repeat, ROAD RACE!

I don’t know if Mr. de la Merced was sincere when he apologized for the conflict of schedule (which they caused) saying “we really didn’t know there was another event that day”. This is the problem when a race organizer is a not a runner. He won’t know what’s going on within the running community. Your apology sounds insincere. If you are truly sorry, then your option is to MOVE YOUR RUN TO ANOTHER DATE or CANCEL IT. Both are equally honorable. It will be much appreciated and will go well with your other promotional events. When you insist on pushing through with your run, you divide and create a conflict within the running community.

Remember that there is wisdom in following the basic rule: “First come, first serve”. The organizers of Pilipinas International Marathon should learn to read the writings on the wall. I think other promotional campaign of IPI’s new Pharmaceutical products, which is IPI’s main event can go on without this race. I hope this race won’t end up with 400 runners that day, instead of 4,000.

I used to think that any grand running event is called marathon until my Malaysian colleague told me that marathon is 42K run. Lesser than that should be considered as run. It would be better to use the right word that really describes what it is. Let's start to be accurate.

25k is not a marathon