I was wondering that too - what do they mean? And how did Tiger work out she was 55th woman - by counting the list? I'm amazed that it must have taken me over a minute to cross the start line! My watch time is much better!
Yes Mountaingirl I counted the list! (while looking busy at work)
It is age grading, it means the percentage of the world record for your age group. Mine was 65%, the first woman's time was 83% of the world record. How do people run faster?
As you saw at the finish we had some huge hurdles to overcome to do this. On our site a new Football stadium is due to be built and the club house demolished.
We were told that it will be started this year and we may not be able to run the race from that HQ next year. However as I mentioned at the awaards presentation yesterday, a new HQ and a change to the route is going to worked on.
Mountaingirl Don't be too disappointed with your time shown on the results, I always use my own time to measure how well i have done.
Tiger - Have counted myself now! I'm 70th woman - excellent! I just wanted to be in the top 100, so goal achieved. Does anyone know how many women ran altogether - I don't want to count thw whole list!
Chunky - don't worry, the watch time wins hands down!
Well done Tiger! That puts me in the top 25% then - great stuff! And you in the top 20%! And makes me ask - where were all the women then? 307 is nothing!
Thanks Chunky and all at DDR, enjoyed the race and catching up with a few familiar faces! A finish time of 1.20.43 beat my 3 week old PB by 1.01! Can't be bad!
Only thing that marred the day was being dragged away from the bar and off to the chaos of b+!**y Ikea,it was the last day of the sale.
So it looks like us official course measurers are going to be subject to "trial by GPS" from now on ! Remember we use pre-war technology to do the job - a Jones counter on a bike and a set distance measured with a steel tape. I have measured the courses for most of the local events including the Dartford 10, the Canterbury 10, the Ashford 10K and the Paddock Wood Half Marathon. We take the shortest line throughout and add on a safety margin of 0.1 % (which should be 17 yards extra for 10 miles). I would be interested to know how the other courses stand up to the GPS treatment.
I wouldn't worry too much about it Rob. My Garmin measured Sundays course as 10.2 miles.
It's only when the data is downloaded onto Tracklogs, where it overlays onto an OS map, that you can see how the discrepancy has happened. On mine for example there were several bizarre sideways spikes on the recorded route which are usually caused by reflected signals from buildings etc giving innaccurate readings.
As Johnny J says if you consider going wide at corners, avoiding other runners, parked cars, pedestrians etc etc you would expect to actually run more than 10 miles in a 10 mile road race. I suspect you'll find your GPS device shows 1 - 2% above the race distance in other similar races as well. If it showed that you'd covered less than 10 miles instead then that would be a reason to worry!
I agree with Porcus, we all ran the same route - in a very well organised and enjoyable event - so what does it matter?
To the owner of the Mercedes sports parked between mile 3-4. I'd like to apologise for the footprints on your roof as I was worried about slipping to 498th place I couldn't go round! If it's any consolation I got a PB though!
We have just measured the North Downs Run 30K and last years course was just over 30K , this year will increase by either 46 metres or 100 metres - I dont think anybody will notice ....
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On the results, what does the numbers mean in the column after the age? It's probably obvious & Im being stupid !!
It is age grading, it means the percentage of the world record for your age group. Mine was 65%, the first woman's time was 83% of the world record. How do people run faster?
As you saw at the finish we had some huge hurdles to overcome to do this. On our site a new Football stadium is due to be built and the club house demolished.
We were told that it will be started this year and we may not be able to run the race from that HQ next year. However as I mentioned at the awaards presentation yesterday, a new HQ and a change to the route is going to worked on.
Mountaingirl
Don't be too disappointed with your time shown on the results, I always use my own time to measure how well i have done.
Chunky - don't worry, the watch time wins hands down!
It was that versus doing the VAT return ...
I hope this gets you there
Thanks Chunky and all at DDR, enjoyed the race and catching up with a few familiar faces! A finish time of 1.20.43 beat my 3 week old PB by 1.01! Can't be bad!
Only thing that marred the day was being dragged away from the bar and off to the chaos of b+!**y Ikea,it was the last day of the sale.
Oh well, I did get an ice cream!
Give my regards to your dad:-)
I don't get down the Halfway as much as I'd like to. Moomoo + rolling pin are keeping me in check.
It's only when the data is downloaded onto Tracklogs, where it overlays onto an OS map, that you can see how the discrepancy has happened. On mine for example there were several bizarre sideways spikes on the recorded route which are usually caused by reflected signals from buildings etc giving innaccurate readings.
I agree with Porcus, we all ran the same route - in a very well organised and enjoyable event - so what does it matter?
Admit nothing, deny everything
Thanks Chunky & DRR for a very enjoyable race
I thought you said at the last meeting that the NDR course was going to be 10k longer and you hoped no one would notice.