Durisdeer - car share

[ChrisU]

Here are the fully indexed Durisdeer results:
http://www.scottishhillracing.co.uk/...&RaceYear=2008

I can't really vouch for whether there are mistakes or not.

[Deeko]

Chris,

The mistakes I can see are that I beat Tom Bowie to the finish line and not Tom Ross. I'm also pretty sure I finished in front of Michael Diver but the results have him well up on me. You can see from your photos that he's chronologically behind me. Strange as I never normally see any mistakes in results...

Cheers,

Derek.

[Madeleine]

I wonder if the results are right - I finished almost last.

Ooops that might be to do with me running slowly!!!!

[ChrisU]

I've noticed a whole bunch more mistakes with the results, comparing with the Flickr set of photos:
http://flickr.com/photos/scottishhil...57605622055693

[ChrisU]

This is where the Carnethy idea of having a video camera running at the finish line would be a good idea to unscramble the finishing order after the event!

[Deeko]

Strange stuff. I wonder if Adam's aware of this - I'll maybe email him about it. I've no idea if the mistakes are easily rectifiable mind you...

[theNoor]

Not sure how accurate they are...

I'm in the position I finished, but given that I could have clipped Colin's heels over the finishing line I must have extremely long legs - they put a 7 second gap between us!

[ChrisU]

In my experience the best way to decipher these things is to see the original hand-written results to understand where the typos and mis-placed runners have crept in.

There is plenty of scope for error going from hand-written timings, to hastily typed up results.

Perhaps championship fell races should think about using chip timing, with starting/finishing mats to avoid this sort of thing, and you would get accurate results more quickly after the race ....

[Deeko]

I see the results have been amended a bit!

[ChrisU]

Yup - I've done what I can to sort them out based on photographic evidence.

Next time we should be using Sportident for British Championship races to provide instant accurate results with split timings!