Apologies if this has been covered anywhere else but other Reading thread is very big and i am not looking through all them pages.
I was wondering about the point of Chip timing when it does not actualy use your chip time for the offical race? Reading explains that all times start from the'Gun' and end when you cross the line - the offical time - therfore if your late over the line the extra minutes (or whatever)are still counted. I thought the whole point of chip timing was to take away this problem? It says that the chip time is for your own personal use only.I am missing something here or does this kind of miss the point?
GRIM (last December) was like this too and the Chip used then ( and it seems in Reading too) makes it easier to count people in but does not give a true time ( as in FLM for example)
can someone explain?????? many thanks in advance.
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i realise that you get your own chip time and i guess thats whats importanct but when i first heard of Chip timing i just presumed its purpose was to give acurate results based on what people had actually run and to stop people loosing vital minutes waiting to cross the line.
If the technology is there and we seem to be paying for it with ever incresing fee's then why not just use it?
In a championship race, the first person across the line is a winner in the gun to line time. So if in the national cross country a person standing three deep back at the start finishes on the shoulder of the winner then he is still second, even though in chip times he may have run slightly faster.
thanks EP and BtB for helping to deconfuse me......