Hello,
Just reading through the Paris Marathon thread in this forum I saw it stated that the timing at the FLM is not accurate because it "starts from the gun". I took that to mean that everyone's time starts when the gun goes off, and the chip simply records the finish time. Can that really be right? I thought the point of the chip was to record both the true start and finish time (i.e. over the relevant mats), as in the Venice run I recently did. Can anyone shed any light on this?
Thanks
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They've used championchip timing for a few years (which started with the gun) so you get splits at 10k,20k and so on but didn't take account of the time taken to cross the start.2002 was the first year they put a mat at the start,thus recording your true time.I think the reason cited last year ( I did ask) was that it would cause too much disruption to lay down the mats (and check them) over Blackheath on a Saturday night.
So after that waffle, you do get a 'proper' time.
Also on the website you can see your own splits at 10km, 20km, half and 30 km.