Howdy, Stranger!
Categories
Options
Race the Train
The materials in this website are in no way intended to replace the professional medical care, advice, diagnosis or treatment of a doctor, qualified personal trainer, therapist, dietitian or nutritionist Runners's World, Part of the Hearst UK well-being network © Copyright 2017
Comments
Ooh! Don't say that Caz! I feel guilty now - we def don't deserve a medal more than anyone else. We were told by the stroppy marshall that our race was over at 5 miles. She said as we passed 'what do you think you are doing? The race is over'. Hmm. let me see running in rain, with number attached to frontage, yep pretty sure I am in the race.
Anyway, other lovely marsall said we could continue up a short cut and meet the rest of the runners if we liked. This meant cutting out 3 and 3/4 miles but the alternative was walking 5 miles back the way we came. So we only did 11 miles - but this was not our choice.....apparently it does say on the website that you won't be allowed to continue after a set time, but not on the printed forms so we set out fully expecting to be last but confident about covering the distance.
So yes, I still want my medal - am I wrong?! Its not unheard of.
It does say on the website:
"There is a limit of 3 hours 15 minutes to complete the course and we reserve the right to close the course for safety reasons beyond this time, similarly the official time-keeping ceases then."
But this certainly wasn't clear in any of the information sent out, it also doesn't give any cut-off times around the course. I'd definitley contact the organiser's misha and ask for your medal, I don't think you are wrong, just hard done by!
Where are the results!! What a shambles, it would take 5 minutes for someone to put them up. I also ordered a mug of the event, thinking I could pick it up at the race - an organiser said I would be sent it in the post....... ha
Shocking reading up on this after a week away... still no results, plus other problems comign out of the woodwork!
Interestingly found my km splits on my watch from the 10k race:
1 = 5.35
2+3 = 10.43
4 = 5.51
5 = 5.08
6 = 4.18
7 = 4.43
8 = 4.30
9 = 4.22
10 = 6.44 ?!!!
I think the last K might have been a bit long?!
hi Marshallini
Same thought crossed my mind, but if that's true, why not tell people, so they fork out if they want fast service by snail mail?
How did your run go? Some grip on your soles and stayed upright this year I hope.
wouldn't the chip firm have the results, they're usually pretty quick!
mmmmmm! chips!!
Previously, the "hard copy" results have been in the form of a bound booklet, not your normal run of the mill sheets of A4 stapled in the corner and actually make a nice souvenir. I don't have a problem with paying a bit more as there's no profit to Rotary as such as they're a charitable organisation. I think that some of the comments here are a bit harsh - it only takes 5 minutes to put the results up if there's someone who is available to do it and who knows how to do it. If their webmaster's gone AWOL and they haven't got anyone who knows their way around HTML then they're stuck - same thing happened to our running club.
At the end of the day, it is totally disgusting.
You are all trying to make excuses for the Organisers. I have been running for longer than I care to remember, when London Marathon was for proper runners, and their medal was of the highest quality from Birmingham Mint. Before Charity Events caused entry fees to escalate, and yes, ran the Race the Train when results were available on time. What is wrong in sending the results to UKResults so everyone gets them on time. I have been involved in many races, and our race which attracts 1300 on a night puts the results on the web the following morning. There is no excuse, they take your money quickly enough. What amases me is that you folk that send in these stupid votes on races are still giving this race 100%, so you must be happy, even if you haven't got any results. RESULTS SHOULD BE AVAILABLE WITHIN 24 HOURS, after that the event is forgotten until next year, and on to the next event. So organisers of this event can stick your train up your sidings.
The race I did tonight didn't use computer technology, yet the results are up on the website less than 2.5hrs after the last runner finished.
C'mon RTT folks!
Hi guys
Panic over.
I've now been sent the results (got them at 10.38 tonight) so they are now online for you all to chew over. Don't shout at me for any errors!! Thought I'd best get them done before I start working on the Wolverhampton entries for Sunday in view of the strength of feeling!!
Here's the link to the main results page which has links to the other "challenges" on it
www.ukresults.net/2007/racetrain.html
Enjoy!
sorry - missed a 1 out
www.ukresults.net/2007/racetrain1.html
You just can't seem to find anyone who can put a web page link together these days.....
Thanks to (1) Brian Smith for suggesting ukresults, (2) George Watson, Race Director, for immediately agreeing to use this option when it was put to him, and (3) ukresultsman for loading the results before midnight, having been emailed them at only 21:10 yesterday.
Faith in the world restored - 25th RTT 2008 here we come!