New directive from AAI

ultraman1

I just heard that a meeting took place over the week-end at AAI offices race permit section that will require any one who enters a permitted or national championship race must wear a fully working satelitte navigational system that has to be calibrated by an AAI official.They say it will stop any one running a short course and results will be null and void if the garmin or polar dosent have the requird distance.All AAI members must sign up their garmin connect account when reneweing the membership in january,this is gonna be a nightmare to administrate.

RacoonQueen

Issit April 1st?

Sure AAI members aren't even supposed to run races that don't have a AAI permit.

robinph

What if you don't have the latest maps installed and the Garmin directs you down the wrong road, or if the route goes the wrong way down a one way street that is going to cause all sorts of problems with people getting sent different ways as the route gets recalculated. Should you set for shortest route/ fastest route/ avoid highways?

Too many things they have not fully thought through I think.

TRR

ultraman1 wrote: »

I just heard that a meeting took place over the week-end at AAI offices race permit section that will require any one who enters a permitted or national championship race must wear a fully working satelitte navigational system that has to be calibrated by an AAI official.They say it will stop any one running a short course and results will be null and void if the garmin or polar dosent have the requird distance.All AAI members must sign up their garmin connect account when reneweing the membership in january,this is gonna be a nightmare to administrate.

Anto, that's not a country wide directive! It's just directed at any races you measure

Krusty_Clown

From now on, there will no longer be any course measurers or finish lines. Every runner simply stops on the spot where their Garmin told them they completed the official distance. The winner will be the runner who has the nicest costume on the day.

menoscemo

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

From now on, there will no longer be any course measurers or finish lines. Every runner simply stops on the spot where their Garmin told them they completed the official distance. The winner will be the runner who has the nicest costume on the day.

Good idea, that will eliminate the cheats who like to cut corners (or entire sections of the course). It'll also mean that those sneaky runners that run the racing line will have no advantage.

plodder

You'll also be allowed to stop and take a rest (without penalty) so long as you have auto-pause switched on.

wrstan

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

From now on, there will no longer be any course measurers or finish lines. Every runner simply stops on the spot where their Garmin told them they completed the official distance. The winner will be the runner who has the nicest costume on the day.

And sure no problems then with absent marshals at key junctions or runners getting sent the wrong way

All you need to make sure is that your personal finish line is on a bus route back to your car!

rom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQ89oRj3U8

robinph

Anyone who's log shows them having a pace greater than 10mph between any two data points will be disqualified for riding a bike. Best to walk the downhill sections to avoid these problems, and if there are a lot of trees covering the course you should take a different route to ensure that you keep good satellite coverage at all times.

Cork marathon will now include a raft building stage so that nobody takes the route through the tunnel.

TRR

rom wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQ89oRj3U8

The 200 freestyle for non-swimmers

ecoli

Can see it now. Group efforts to hack down trees the day before races just to make sure they get decent reception.

Its gonna end up like West End Story between Running weekend warriors and the Eco warriors

People running to work to reduce there carbon footprint will be racking there brains as to which gang to side with

Edit: Damn robinph bet me to the punch on that one

Pherekydes

TRR wrote: »

The 200 freestyle for non-swimmers

Didn't Eric the Eel enter that a few Olympics ago?

ecoli

Pherekydes wrote: »

Didn't Eric the Eel enter that a few Olympics ago?

And won his heat and is now national coach.

Sticking it to the haters

ultraman1

afaik, they are gonna trial it up until DCM,in order to allow a mass start for any one who has registerd their garmin account, from a special pen at the front so that they can start from anytime from 5:45 am onwards up untill 8:45 am,so there wont be congestion...

spurscormac

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

From now on, there will no longer be any course measurers or finish lines. Every runner simply stops on the spot where their Garmin told them they completed the official distance. The winner will be the runner who has the nicest costume on the day.

What about us non-garminites out here?
Have the AAI signed a secretive deal to discriminate against Timex/Polar/Magellan/Motorola/Suunto users ?
And what about all those mobile phones strapped to the arms of the masses - are they deemed too inaccurate?

ultraman1

spurscormac wrote: »

What about us non-garminites out here?
Have the AAI signed a secretive deal to discriminate against Timex/Polar/Magellan/Motorola/Suunto users ?
And what about all those mobile phones strapped to the arms of the masses - are they deemed too inaccurate?

ithink there was an expert in sat nav present and intimated that garmin dosent suffer from any gps giggle and is the most accurate due to its contracts with nasa,,

hot to trot

rom wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQ89oRj3U8

From 2:37 in ...reminds me of running some of the Dublin race series in the Phoenix park

hardCopy

Is this a serious proposal, or has something gone completely over my head?

YFlyer

The Irish qualifying standards for the World University Games in Russia are way higher than the International Standards.


http://www.cusai.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2013-WUG-Athletics-Qualifying-Standards-Nov-2012.pdf

myflipflops

Like David Coyle half way through the Dublin marathon, I am completely lost here.

ultraman1

another propsal was that pacers must be provided in all permitted races from 5k upwards at 3min intervals,10km 5min intervals and so on.Any race found no to have fully qualified pacing technichans, will have their club license revoked..

kit3

What about the mandatory picnics at Herbert Park duing DCM - have you staged an AAI coup Ultraman ?

Aimman

ultraman1 wrote: »

a fully working satelitte navigational system that has to be calibrated by an AAI official.

Will they be sending the official into space with a tape measure to calibrate the satellites? I think Bill Cullen's seat on the space mission is vacant now.

Or will they calibrate the Garmins using the Small and Far Away method?

Anto, have you been sampling too much of the Whisky when making those Christmas Puddings?