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*******s can't count. I did the incycle XC challenge on Sunday, and did really, really poorly. The guys I usually ride with and beat soundly finished 10 minutes ahead. Didn't want to check the results sunday cause I was so pissed at myself. I finally get around to it today, and low and behold, I'm listed as DNF, with a first lap time double my second lap time. Think you *******s just missed me through the gate the first time???
Anyway, my first bike race is a disaster, and then, insult to injury, I get listed as DNF.
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always check the results within 15 minutes of when they're posted. After that they become official.
Officials work hard, but they're also overworked and they do make mistakes-- if it's not something contentious you can probably get it fixed by asking nicely within the 15 minute window.
How was the turnout? I rode Bonelli on Saturday and saw some of the course markers.
Seriously, I've been in hundreds of running races, most of them with much larger fields than were in this race. I've never had a timing issue. I've organized cross country races. It's not that hard on race day.
These guys were messing around, and missed me through the gate.
Oh well, live and learn.
Seriously, I've been in hundreds of running races, most of them with much larger fields than were in this race. I've never had a timing issue. I've organized cross country races. It's not that hard on race day.
Try officiating a bike race. It's pretty different.
Lost/malfuntioning timing chips are not uncommon in triathlon, too.
Mostly during the swim, sometimes during the bike.
Serious question, not meant in a sarcastic sense - how much different would a cross country bike race be? Mass start, different riders arriving at different times through a choke.
Lost/malfuntioning timing chips are not uncommon in triathlon, too.
Mostly during the swim, sometimes during the bike.
No chips. just a gun and a guy with a watch. (obviously not a gun, and not really a watch either, but not electronic)
Are you #251?
Yup. As I said, awful time, but DNF too?
Ok, tantrum over now...
Serious question, not meant in a sarcastic sense - how much different would a cross country bike race be? Mass start, different riders arriving at different times through a choke.
speed, for one. unless you have a really good camera made for that, it can be hard to read numbers on a camera. In a mass start race there's no "choke" (at least road or crit-- it would be dangerous, I suppose there could be for mtb). Officials often transpose digits or add badly, too.
I've even seen a case where they had electronic timing on a 250 m with tapes and cameras and they screwed up a guys lap count- he rode an extra lap in the pursuit. He complained about it online, and I'd managed to get a copy of the audit trails and verified it.
Oh, no, I totally see how road bike and running races would be very very different. But this was a mtn bike race, with a choke.
I was there too, doing my first Mtb race. The results were pretty botched at the end. A lot of guys that had lap times for each of their laps, but then listed as DNF. I think some of them were because some of the racers weren't finishing through the chute, and not getting recorded.
haven't done any mtb races- could be they just weren't paying attention...
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