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Post by susanlance on Feb 21, 2010 15:35:15 GMT -5
Hi everyone- In your opinion, how long is too long for posting race results?
I ran a race last weekend and the race director has neither emailed results or posted them....actually absolute silence. It was a formal race with a substantial entry fee and not a Fat Ass or other very informal event. Last year I don't believe they were posted for 2 weeks. I realize the race director and volunteers are volunteers, but this seems like a long time to me. Have any of you had this happen?
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Post by colonel on Feb 22, 2010 23:22:34 GMT -5
I think more than a week is too long, but I can understand why it can take longer if the results have to be entered manually and the RD is trying to balance work, family and race stuff. I can't remember how long it took Todd to get the Pinhoti results posted last year. Seemed like a long time. I seem to remember he had to fly out to a trade show the day after the race. BTW - he never did get around to entering the splits for the year I ran it. No big deal really. I just wonder how slow I was between those last few aid stations.
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Post by susanlance on Feb 25, 2010 1:09:24 GMT -5
still not posted...sigh
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Post by runningchef on Feb 25, 2010 9:25:09 GMT -5
I am currently waiting on results from a race I ran Feb 13-14, It is frustrating, but never having had been a RD I dont know what it all entails
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Post by mateoloco on Feb 25, 2010 10:21:19 GMT -5
As someone who didn't run the race (Iron Horse 100M) but would like to find out the results, I find it frustrating as well.
I am sure that it is exhausting to direct a race and once the race is over some decompression is surely needed, but unfortunately, I think that a race director's responsibility does not end when the event does, but rather, after the results are posted.
A few days of lag time is understandable (although several of the higher profile ultras now have real-time results and splits through aid stations), but over a week is a bit much.
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Post by janice on Feb 26, 2010 12:56:48 GMT -5
i still can't find Hogpen results and that was January I think results taking over a week or so is long these days From an RD perspective, the biggest challenge i have faced on getting the results out fast are in validatiing the results and correcting/researching any discrepencies between the timing equipment and the manual timing information. Sometimes this can take many hours if there are a lot of discrepencies or if they are complicated (ie imagine sorting thru several hundred smelly finishers cards and manually comparing them to spreadsheets and hand-written finish sheets). Not that GUTS has this issue but i can see that if the race did not have timing equipment and was hand-writing everything, then that would certainly add several hours time to enter the times into the computer and then validate them. i'm sure the races that get data out the fastest have not only timing equipment but software that works directly with said timing equipment and really good processes to avoid discrepencies on race day
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Post by scottcullen on Feb 26, 2010 15:35:44 GMT -5
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Post by susanlance on Feb 28, 2010 15:45:43 GMT -5
The preliminary results were finally posted on Thurs or Fri. Yes, there was no timing equipment and multiple races going on at the same time....so I should cut them a break!!
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