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I had high hopes of chip timing giving me an "official" PB below 47 mins. So it's not ideal if there are discrepancies. But on the other hand I know my "real time" and it's not like it was an Olympic qualifying event!
Re the entry fee. I thought 13 quid was a lot too, considering there was no goody bag. Are the costs high because the University charges to use the park?
Really sorry to ask for my finish time too, i cant wait either, i bet you wish you never offered to do this:
Anyway, name Martin Swan, finished around 44-45mins.
Thanks in advance.
Sorry for being a pain but would be really good to be put out my misery if you could gibve me my time also.
Name: Mike Sheldon, Number: 1493, Club: Barrow Runners, Finish Time: 40mins 5-10 secs
Cheers in advance chap.
Mike, you're at 101, time 40.05
Martin, you're at 364, time 44.24
Good going chaps!
Darkman - bang on 40.05 for 101st place.
Well done
Can you tell me how many finshers there were?
They think there were many more but they didn't register due to people taking the chip off!
Have other people found the times in the paper to be different to those done on personal watch/HRM?
Hi -yes if you back a couple of pages on the thread you'll see that most us seem to have suffered to a greater or lesser extent (30 secs difference in my case) And the further back in the field you were the bigger the difference. Suggests that the chip timing isn't based from when you actually crossed the start line.
Maybe they'll get it right for the website or maybe you'll just have know for yourself what your "real" time was. But it is a bit of a downer since I thought the whole purpose of chip timing was to provide accurate indivdual times for covering the 10K. Still, as I said in an earlier message, it wasn't like the timing error blew my chances of Olympic qualifying!
Am a bit disappointed as on my watch I did 59.30, but of course now my official time is over an hour. Am going to believe my watch anyway...
Reckon that the theory that the chip time started with the gun, not when we crossed the line, is about right.
But still a fab race.
Good news for me, the chip time is a few seconds faster than my stop watch (which I only pressed after being swiped with the magic wand).
So it looks like the chip times are probably fairly accurate? Would love to check everone's chip times now, but I should have been in bed hours ago....
Chip time on the website gives me a couple of seconds faster than my watch and 32 seconds faster than the gun time. (now 46.38)
Thanks to Paul and the organisers for coming through on this (slight pity that it wasn't clear in the paper). As I think my messages have said, it wasn't excatly a life or death situation, but it's oddly gratifying to have a 50 second PB confirmed officially:-)
Thanks again.
If you've been on the website before, you might need to go to the results page and press the "refresh" button. That should then reveal the times in their glory
Had to think about my Abingdon Marathon training for the October race, hoping to finish in under 3hrs 15mins (GFA time) after running London (my first) this year in 3hrs 23mins.
Next 10k race will deffo be under 40 mins as I now know I can do it.
this year the chip/bib time was from the gun not from when I crossed the start / finish line, same for my mum and sister.
gun and chip times
you'll find the chip time on the website results is from crossing the line and is pretty accurate
Anyway, chip time was 2 seconds under my watch time, so woohoo ;-)