I recently got a PB over 5k of 18:45. My time was actually (on my watch) 00:18:45:98. A fellow runner reckons I should round that up to 18:46, but I say no and have awarded myself a time of 18:45.
What would you do, do you round up or ignore the thousandths on your watch ?
p.s. the 'advice' came from a runner I beat
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LOL - I could have guessed where the advice came from!
I wouldn't round it up either.
What was the official time, though?
Official time was 18:47, but it was not a chip-timed race and I didn't start at the front.
Yes, they are Nemo. Doh !
Official time....assuming there is one.
Oh and those are 1/100ths not 1/1000ths!
In 0.98 of a second you would have been aproximately 4.5 metres behind someone who ran 18:45.00 dead, could you live with believing you would have caught them? Do the honourable thing and round up.
You were also 9cm short of recording 18:46. Did you take a short cut, not follow the racing line?
In rallying time taken is to the completed second (or, in WRC to the 1/10th), so is always rounded down. If it's good enough for them...
Round up minutes and km's or miles
Surely the 9 in .98 is actually tenths of a second and I would round up anything over half a second personally. Does it really make that much difference? The only time I would care about that small a margin would be if it was one of the 'milestones' such as a 40min 10K or 1:30 half etc.
If you had eaten 98% of a banana would you still say you had a banana in your hand?
Lol ! If I had only eaten 2% of a banana I could still say I had some banana !
Not a bad idea Lardarse, but I will have to go thru all my results now seeing if they should be rounded up
lol ! There by the grace .... I had the same problem 10 years ago FF.
I did my first marathon (Edinburgh) in 4hr 59 minutes - There is NO WAY i was ever going to round it up to 5 hours.
Round up
Or is this a WIND up?
UKA Rules say round up...
"For all races held partly or entirely outside the stadium, the time shall be read to 1/100th second. All times not ending in two zeros shall be converted to the next longer whole second, e.g. for the Marathon a time of 2h 09m 44.32s shall be recorded as 2h 09m 45s. "
Experienced timekeepers set their watch to 0:00:00.99 before the race starts, so that when they are reading off the times at the finish, the rounding up is done automatically.
Yes that is true for out of stadium races but in a stadium you wouldn't round Bolt's 100M WR to 9.58 to 9.60 and certainly not to 10.00.
Personally I take the time to the second so I would keep it as is.
After all if you run a 10km and collapse to the ground with 5M to go and can't finish, do you round it up and say you have finished? If 9,995M is not 10,000M then 19.45:58 is not 19:46:00
Similarly if a satellite needs to burn fuel for 10 seconds to reach an orbit and stops after 9.9, its probably no good shouting i rounded it up as it shoots off into space and oblivion
So does your watch not record 1/100's ?
Similarly, if a thrower putts the shot 9.99m, has he thrown 10 metres ? No ! But that's because distance gets rounded down, whereas times get rounded up.
Incidentally, I actually saw someone do that in a race earlier this year !!
Say for instance that you ran 10k in 40m 00.48s. If you rounded that down (to 40:00), you would be saying that you can run 10k in 40 minutes, which isn't the case, as you'd only actually run 9998m in that time.