As soon as I got to work, I wrote a fairly irate but detailed email, as a private citizen rather than a journalist, to the Connect to Cardiff (C2C) online service, pointing out the mayhem the changes were causing and asking for warning signs to be put up straightaway as a minimum until the lines could be re-painted.
"I took a call from a very irate parent who screamed at me because I won't cancel the race, because I'm putting her daughter at risk, " said Jan Seeley, a director for the Illinois Marathon.