Omm 2009

[ydt]

Where do you read about vets and handicap rules and so forth? I must say I do find the OMM website a bit hard to use.

You will find handicap information in the Program and start list - the booklet you received from OMM. The website, as you say, isn't very user friendly.
All teams with an aggregate age of 90+ will be ranked soon but there is ONLY one vets prize and it goes to the team with the highest corrected score (not necessarily the fastest vets team).
Yiannis

[Toreador]

aggressive overtaking (it's a race isn't it?) on the OMM forum. We hurtled down the last hill in a haze of adrenaline and warned people in front we were coming and heard no complaints

Yes it's a race, but a very different sort of race for those at the bottom of C class to those competing for prizes. Most shouted warnings but a few didn't, I think that's what annoys people. I just laughed

[RobW]

If the handicap in the score classes is as I assume - 1.5% of the actual score multipied by the combined no of years above 90 (35 for us!) then we win the vets

... leaving Hartell et al trailing

On day 2 I went all guns blazing despite the pain. I can't walk properly, my foot is killing me now

Serves you right I couldn't believe you'd entered the thing (OK I could believe it). Hope you're better soon, Yiannis; some rest maybe??

I assume Mary enjoyed her first MM experience despite jumping straight into the deep end.

Seemed to. My first Elite, too, but at least I'd done a few LSs - although you wouldn't have thought so from our Day 1 CP1 debacle. We had the slowest split for that by a big margin .

[Guick Dotto]

You will find handicap information in the Program and start list - the booklet you received from OMM. The website, as you say, isn't very user friendly.
All teams with an aggregate age of 90+ will be ranked soon but there is ONLY one vets prize and it goes to the team with the highest corrected score (not necessarily the fastest vets team).
Yiannis

Does the handicap thing only apply to score classes then? (I stepped in at the last moment so didn't get a proper look at the literature.)

[ydt]

Does the handicap thing only apply to score classes then? (I stepped in at the last moment so didn't get a proper look at the literature.)

No, it applies to all classes. Linear classes get a time allowance based on age and score classes get a points allowance.
Yiannis

[ydt]

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Seemed to. My first Elite, too, but at least I'd done a few LSs - although you wouldn't have thought so from our Day 1 CP1 debacle. We had the slowest split for that by a big margin .

How come? I checked the route gadget and your point 1 seems straightforward. I assume you were warming up slowly. By the way, I tried Morgan/Powell's route and it looks like a child's scribble, it must be a joke
Yiannis

[Guick Dotto]

Thanks. I'll wait and see if we win owt, but I'm not holding my breath.
Anybody else been eating like a train today? Can't seem to get enough cake down me!

[paulo]

Yes it's a race, but a very different sort of race for those at the bottom of C class to those competing for prizes. Most shouted warnings but a few didn't, I think that's what annoys people. I just laughed

there's another side to that too - it's extremely inconsiderate and annoying to amble slowly chatting away sunday promenade style 2/3/4 abreast down the narrow final common pathway of a race involving hundreds of other people, which is what we encountered, rather than sticking single file to the edges to allow the runners through. I'm hardly going to worry the winners myself at my lowly level but still feel it's nice to be given a reasonable chance to run at a running event. I wasn't going to moan but feel rather frustrated to look on the OMM forum and see the erstwhile mobile terrain hazards giving grief to the runners

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[XRunner]

I tried Morgan/Powell's route and it looks like a child's scribble, it must be a jokeYiannis

If you speed the animation up it makes an interesting route choice!

lets hope not too many people post rubbish routes ....one or two can be fun....too many will be annoying.

[Stef F]

What were the opaque lumps of jelly like stuff I kept seeing on the ground?