The 554-foot snafu Sure, we have marathons in the RGV, 26.2 grueling miles, but can’t remember a time when someone couldn’t count out the distance correctly.So up pops this story published last week in Runner’s World that was almost too stupid to be real. Then I thought about the level of stupid (sorry for the redundancy) these days, up at least 10 percentage points from 10 years ago (just a guess based on anecdotal evidence), and I thought, in today’s world, having a run marathon fall short of the finish line by 554 feet sounds just about right.Say hello to ...