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Parkwest 10k 17.06.12

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭BenMicheal


    eoin ryan wrote: »
    No - Menoscemo is right. I haven't been involved since 2010.

    By the by 2 people asked if Clontarf is full..... Not yet ;)

    Delighted to hear, Sweating on an injury but really want to do the half!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 767 ✭✭✭wrstan


    Anyone find their time is wrong?Mine is by 6seconds approx.

    Mine too!
    That's the first race I have ever done where they had chip timing without a mat at the start line. I asked the guy at the start how it worked and he told me that they guy at the finish would hear the starter horn over a walkie talkie and start the clock at the same time, so the chip times were in fact gun times! Makes you wonder why they would bother with chips, I know there was <300 entrants but I just don't understand why you would bother with chips and then not really get chip times.

    Still doesn't explain the extra 5 or 6 seconds on the spreadsheet though, my watch was exactly the same as the clock on the finish line when I crossed. Curiouser and curiouser! :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,904 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    wrstan wrote: »
    Mine too!
    That's the first race I have ever done where they had chip timing without a mat at the start line. I asked the guy at the start how it worked and he told me that they guy at the finish would hear the starter horn over a walkie talkie and start the clock at the same time, so the chip times were in fact gun times! Makes you wonder why they would bother with chips, I know there was <300 entrants but I just don't understand why you would bother with chips and then not really get chip times.

    Still doesn't explain the extra 5 or 6 seconds on the spreadsheet though, my watch was exactly the same as the clock on the finish line when I crossed. Curiouser and curiouser! :(


    Well the whole idea of the chip time is you will have a time credit to your name, otherwise it be pretty hard to keep track of all finishers times.

    The 6 seconds probably come from the time it took you to cross the start line.


    From what i read, this seems to be a poor race and glad i gave it a miss now at the last minute!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭thirstywork2


    Well the whole idea of the chip time is you will have a time credit to your name, otherwise it be pretty hard to keep track of all finishers times.

    The 6 seconds probably come from the time it took you to cross the start line.


    From what i read, this seems to be a poor race and glad i gave it a miss now at the last minute!!

    I started at the front so makes no sense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,156 ✭✭✭jcsmum


    The times are not right. Looks like 6 seconds with me too and I did account for the few seconds to cross the start mat. I was only a few rows back.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭veronymus


    6 seconds added to my time too. I was right at the front when the race started.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 767 ✭✭✭wrstan


    wrstan wrote: »
    Mine too!
    Still doesn't explain the extra 5 or 6 seconds on the spreadsheet though, my watch was exactly the same as the clock on the finish line when I crossed. Curiouser and curiouser! :(

    I checked the race clock when I crossed the line and it was the same time as my watch, but the excel sheet had an additional 5 seconds!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,904 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    wrstan wrote: »
    I checked the race clock when I crossed the line and it was the same time as my watch, but the excel sheet had an additional 5 seconds![/QUOT

    God knows what they did so!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭Simian!


    6 seconds added to my time too - I was right up the front and started my own timer as I crossed the line. Official race time on the website was 6 seconds more.


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