Portable Restrooms. Restrooms are a very important part of any race. The longer the duration of your event the more important they become. Even with a 5K you should consider having portable restrooms in your finish area at a minimum, and probably have some at your starting line and a couple on the route.
Rule No. 1: Safety First. Rule No. 2: Don't Lose Money. Rule No. 3: Have Fun. With that said, let this be your step-by-step guide to calling yourself a race director. This will direct you throw everything you need to know about organizing a 5K. We'll go through the details on how to follow the three golden rules above, as well as discuss the ...
Plus Timing - Night Run Start Line. Manchester-Half-Marathon-Finish. Nike Night Run 1 - Israel. 13909026_1110630952364305_8078598090633235215_o. San Jose Marathon 2016. Scope. ... Of course a club can time both a start and finish with a single Ultra4 on a 2m wide timing point. This setup would not be recommended for races of more than 500 ...
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The Joey System is suited to small races (schools, clubs and training groups) where only a finish line is required. Transponders are almost always disposable and worn on the back of the chest race number. However tags can be adapted for the shoe laces and some smaller races use a reuseable Hutag worn on the ankle.
RFID became mandatory in the 1990’s as the running boom exploded and manual timing could not cope with the large number of runners finishing at the same time. RFID also makes it fairer for runners to be given a NET time when they cross the start line, not when the gun goes off.
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In a perfect world it's easy. The first runner's performance is entirely described by the FT (14:31) and the ID (23) . We know that runner #23 won the race (because his or her ID was in first place) and we know that the winning time was 14:31 (because that was the first time taken). Similarly, we know that finisher number 102 (who was runner #200) finished in 21:32, because 21:32 is the 102nd time taken by the timer.
It was written in February 2001, and provides the best description we've found of the complexities of race timing. Some of the difficulties described here (multiple finish chutes, etc.) are nullified by the use of Chip Timing which is becoming more popular these days. Getting accurate results is not an easy task and this article will tell you how ...
Every runner has an assigned lane, and for every lane there is a person whose job it is to time the runner in that lane. The gun goes, the runners run, and after it's over the timers report in. "I got lane 1 at 10.32," "I got lane 2 at 10.28," and so on. The scorer looks for the fastest time, and it's done.
The 1997 Ford Buffalo Marathon finished about 470 runners, but the peak density never went over 10. The People, Inc. Rat Race 5k in 1997 finished about 530, and the peak density there was about 60. The reason for the differences in these peak densities is obvious, isn't it?
You need to have a FT button for each toll booth; the WNYFLS select timers have demonstrated that they can handle at least 4 toll booths from a single Time Machine. And of course once you get over 4 or 5 lines it's hard to find enough colors to go around, so we've had to scrap the line codes Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, and Orange and substitute boring old A, B, C, D, and so on. I guess that gives an upper limit of 26 toll booths!
Or imagine the world's smallest marathon, like the "Last Chance" marathon held in Delaware Park in 1981, where, as I remember, there were twelve finishers. (I was the fourth.) As each finisher finished a single person easily recorded a time and an ID for him or her.
Select times can help untangle two other errors.
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