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Cambridge half marathon 2012

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brotherjohn Mar 2012 2:18pm, 12 Mar 2012 147 posts	Quote Pin brotherjohn The invisible man in 5th place, I see the leaders go buy 5 or 6 times, and I never saw that guy!
brotherjohn Mar 2012 2:21pm, 12 Mar 2012 148 posts	Quote Pin brotherjohn That should be go "by" of course.
The great dollop Mar 2012 4:58pm, 12 Mar 2012 957 posts	Quote Pin The great dollop The chip tech that they employed is well known for being dodgy if there is any interfearance (UHF I believe instead of the normal HF used in IPCO chips). Hence the race instructions not to put pins on the bottom of the number - near the chip, and those of you who cross the line with your garmin by your number as you press stop/lap at the finish - that's enough to kill the chip send/recieve signal too. nice. It is a very weird to have the results sorted by gun time but the places listed as chip time. Gun time is the IAAF Standard method. Never ever seen that before in looking at over 500 sets of results in the past few years. My guess is they have had a major cock up somewhere and had to fix it because the time on the pdf doesn't match the one they SMS sent to me afterwards. I've just exported the PDF into excel and added chip and gun time position columns and uploaded it to google sheets here - open access. bit.ly
catrina Mar 2012 6:35pm, 12 Mar 2012 104 posts	Quote Pin catrina My husband and I started together. My chip time and gun time are as different as I calculated on my watch, but his are listed as the same. He did have pins at the bottom of the number, but not so close to it that I would have thought they'd interfere. I didn't wear them for that worry, but was worried the number was going to fly all over the place. I'm sure it would have had it been windier. Annoying for him, but at least he was well enough under the time barrier he was aiming for that the difference didn't span it. Gun time is useless in mass races. VLM doesn't even provide gun time.
The great dollop Mar 2012 11:49pm, 16 Mar 2012 962 posts	Quote Pin The great dollop has anyone had a post-race email from the organisers or am I succesfully spam filtering them ?
Badger Mar 2012 12:38am, 17 Mar 2012 3,229 posts	Quote Pin Badger Not me.
RichHL Mar 2012 7:46am, 17 Mar 2012 3,456 posts	Quote Pin RichHL Nor me.
The great dollop Mar 2012 2:49pm, 17 Mar 2012 963 posts	Quote Pin The great dollop must be keeping their heads down after the timing kerfuffle then. silly billies. They need to grow a pair and step up and explain. Then we can understand, sympathise and consider their other events.
ndellar Mar 2012 3:35pm, 19 Mar 2012 1,679 posts	Quote Pin ndellar I've literally just received a "race survey" email...
minardi. Mar 2012 3:43pm, 19 Mar 2012 1,020 posts	Quote Pin minardi. me too. i did complete it and for the 3 things you would change for next time (not including more toilets) I put about ! changing the out and back in the last 2 miles, 2 more toilets and 3 more toilets.