were they stood ready to leave before you were grouped, they may have been given 4 minutes of waiting time?Originally Posted by Andymac
were they stood ready to leave before you were grouped, they may have been given 4 minutes of waiting time?
Our time's given as 10 minutes longer than we timed it. But we're also-rans anyway, and our position's unaffected
Is it normal to be thinking about next year's event this soon? Surely we should still be in 'never again' mode?!
No Ian, quite the opposite, we were a group of five who actually waited for the sixth member so he wasn't left hanging around. We should have been given a good 10 mins of waiting time really.
Nah... I'm looking forward to it again already!Our time's given as 10 minutes longer than we timed it. But we're also-rans anyway, and our position's unaffected
Is it normal to be thinking about next year's event this soon? Surely we should still be in 'never again' mode?!
Hi again Andy and tough titty regarding the rice puddingAh, Stolly, now I know who you and Rachel were. I only stopped very briefly at the Fleet Moss checkpoint and grabbed a jam sandwich (missed the rice pudding) and set straight back out again. I ran up behind you as we started to cross the bog and asked you if you didn't mind if I followed your line across the bog as I ate my sandwich!
Well done to you both!. Fleet Moss was a pussy cat this year
Sorry to hear about the timing errors Andymac and Toreador. If you had waiting time, one of two errors could have occurred.
1. It wasn't noted down on the finisher's docket for us to enter into the database.
2. The person who entered the waiting time entered it as a positive instead of a negative number, adding time on instead of taking it away. (I'm a stickler and I triple check, no matter how tired I am, so it won't have been me, honest guv. ;-)
It might be worth contacting the organisers to check either of those two possibilities?
With reference to 'waiting times' being added etc, I am not sure that they were noted. I timed my overall time as being 16.05 and that is the time that I have been allocated on the results - although there was around 5 - 7 minutes or so waiting at Cray while groups were sorted out.
Not fussed though as it was a cracking day out - I just need to run faster next time!! Although I can understand the frustration it can cause.
I'm not bothered enough to contact anyone
I think our waiting time wasn't recorded as it was slightly chaotic. We left Fleet Moss 5 minutes before grouping, but took an "unplanned detour" and arrive at Cray at least 45 minutes after the last ungrouped runners, so they spent a while looking for an existing group to tack us on to. Regardless of this, my watch recorded about 10 minute faster than our given time. I know the grouping times didn't make any allowance for the late start, so maybe the finish times didn't either?
The only timing that upsets me is the hour we lost by following the wrong fence!
Looking at the results, the field must be getting stronger, as in 2008 I finished 35th. This year I was 2 minutes slower but finished 99th. Is this because there are more entries from strong runners competing in the Vasque series I wonder ?
Cheers BritNick, waiting times were not involved, we wre a group of six finishing at the same time and for some reason my time has been recorded as 4 mins slower than the other five. I can, however undersatnd how the that the young ladies at the finish could make the mistake when confronted by six disorientated smelly runners. I enjoyed the day....that's what counts.
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