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Came in at 51.35 according to my watch, not bad for 8 weeks training I guess but I'd secretly hoped for sub 50 as I've run this several times in training - maybe clapping and cheering for the drummers and pipers sapped some of my enery!
I did end up sneaking into the purple start group and got some v.odd looks but I guess that's understandable as I had a pink number on. As this was my first race I have nothing to compare it too but I thought the organisation was great and the start didn't seem too bad.
Have to find another 10k to train for now!
Girls - results in the Eevening Times.
Sarah - not sure if they have it in Dundee shall I email your time and place?
Sarah - tell us your time when you get it.
Freefall - will you check mine - if you can be bothered wading through all of those names!!- it'll be around 57.30.
and so do you Sarah
Just wanted to say well done to everyone !! I have already signed up for the Loch Ness 10K on 3rd Oct and just need to check out travelling routes and then get registered for the GSR - you have all got me so inspired !!
Mustn't get too carried away - small matter of 4 R4L 5Ks I have already booked for the next six weeks !!!!
Thanks again for all your encouragement.
Deb & Sarah - it is wierd. I did do a double take when I found Deb's time cos I was sure that she said 57 something. My time was fine there, the official time was 3 secs slower than my watch (which is same difference between watch and official that i got last year).
I know that in the half marathon last year they published the wrong results for some runners. Some had the clock times published rather than the chip times - I wonder????
Good run for a PB is the Strathcarron 10k in Denny in October(?). There is one killer of a hill near the end but I got my first sub 50 there last year despite it.
I agree wholeheartedly with everyone about the walkway at 250m. I think that's maybe why I was wretching for the lsat 250 metres; my body thought it was time to finish and I still pushed it that bit further. Also, if people want to walk then that's great, their choice (or in yesterday's case with the heat, maybe not!) but it would make so much more sense for them not to try and start with the elite runners!! Well, finished my early shift so going out for a wee run, looking forward to Aberdeen. Even toying with the idea of going up on the Saturday night now. We'll see...
Been my 4 mile run, and have discovered that my Kayanos have given me my blisters. Ran ok in them last year but this year they've taken a dislike to me feet. Just run in my 2070's and they're fine! Bye bye Kayanos, they'll do for the gym!! At least they only cost me £50!!
Debbo - they did sort out the half marathon times after the council switchboard was log-jammed with complaints.
Knowing a bit about the technology - it is not possible to start the chips before you cross the mats. A low/short range signal is emitted under the mats. Sorry to disillision you.
However, when you finish it records both times - the actual clock time and the chip swithcing off. They then have to subract the difference. I supect that for some reason some of the chips have not had this happen. I do know that the chip activation is split over the two mats. It may be that the correct results have come from one mat and the incorrect from the other????
All I can say is that my time is fine there is a difference of 3 secs whcih I expected.
Absolute bummer. may be worth contacting the event organisers.
Sarah - I hope you don't mind, but I've added your name to the forumite list on the Edinburgh thread.
Mr Techno-head Debbo says maybe the signals were not strong enough and messed things up.
The start and the mats were at the canopy of balloons about 100 metres up Nithsdale road from the the park gates.
Technically you should have been walking up to that point and then starting to jog/run as you passed under it and over the mats. So unless you somehow dodged round the side of it??? Or, I wonder what would happen if you did not actually stand on either of the mats but simply leapt/ran over them????
I can fully understand why it is bugging you. These things are important. I know how disappointed i was after the half marathon when my published time was 2 mins out.
I suspect that from your description of the timings that your time has gone in the paper without having the substraction done between the chip stop and clock time. That would explain why debbo is about a minute out from near the front of the purples and you are 4 mins out from further back - and based on the times each of you have supplied from the race clock.