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Handicap Timing

KJ · 2016-11-05 22:58:54

There is a 4 mile race coming up that I was thinking of doing. The flyer says that its based on handicap timing system. What exactly does that mean? Is it like a chip time versus race time thing?

05-11-2016 10:58pm

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KJ

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There is a 4 mile race coming up that I was thinking of doing. The flyer says that its based on handicap timing system. What exactly does that mean? Is it like a chip time versus race time thing?

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#2 05-11-2016 11:30pm

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Usually it means you are asked to give a predicted finishing time before the race starts. Then the slowest people go off first and everyone else starts usually at 1 minute intervals until the fastest people go. The ens result is everyone usually finishes around the same time (in theory).

What usually happens is some eejit gives a really slow time so he can going first and then blasts the course to cross the line first and "win".

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