sylvan wrote:
h2ofun wrote:
As was in the other thread, if someone at a race challenges race results either at the race, or like on ST, they basically get attacked. I know in a race I did a while back I looked at the race results and a guy beat me who had a 20 minute swim... So I go over and talk to the timer and I got nothing but crap... The next day magically his times were adjusted. They added 5 minutes to his swim. Took 5 minutes off his bike. Clearly he started in the wrong wave which was 5 minutes before. But the "system" covered for him... So I can clearly see why folks do not want to bring up issues they see with results. They are at the risk of being attacked for being the messenger.
That is brutal. For me it would be a lot more embarrassing to let a bogus result stand than to have somebody point out a bogus result that I missed. So please feel free to let me know if you see anything weird at a race that I'm timing. I enjoy inquiries like that - it's a nice change from "WHERE IS MY HUSBAND I THOUGHT HE MIGHT HAVE FINISHED BY NOW I DON'T KNOW HIS NUMBER CAN YOU LOOK HIM UP?" Not sure how a bike split changes when a start wave is corrected. If he started at 8:00 am and finished at 8:25 and was in the system as starting at 8:05, it explains the 20:00 swim at first, corrected to 25:00. That stuff happens all the time. But if he finished the bike at 9:30, he's always going to have a bike time of 1:05 (minus transition). Finish the race at 10:15 and he always has a 45-minute run, but his final time goes from 2:10 to 2:15 when they correct the start time. The only times that should change with the wave correction are swim and overall.
Yep, we are both on the same page. His bike and run were correct. But as I said, when I asked the timer, he just gave me a bad time like the guy was a stud and I had no idea what I was talking about.
Now, since he started early , seems this is a DQ. But the next day add 5 minutes, exactly, to the swim, take 5 minutes off the bike, which cant be wrong, and leave the final time the same, ....
At least I challenged him to his face. Others races know exactly what happened. Still interesting that I got made out to be the bad guy for calling out this person for not doing the race correctly.
It did impact rankings, but, ...
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