Training Log Archive: Jagge

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eGames, H35. my emit card died, its up to back up paper will they qualify me or not. Let'ts see, I went home before they got final results.

edit: My result is DQ.

Very intresting case compare how this all went in Finland with Emit and compare it to similar cases we have had in Sweden with SI.

This is how it went: my ecard got broken after 2nd control. I had emit with lcd screen, time was still runnin on screen and I was on my way to third. 2nd control's code could be seen (71). But card didn't communicate with any reader units they had in finish. So, it was up to paper pack up. At finish they said they have video cameras, so they can take time using it if needed. But they didn't even write down my time to make it easy to find me from the video... anyway, they tried to look at the paper but those guys were pretty useless, they didn't know how to read back up paper against light or anything. So I had to pinpoint all pin marks to then. All marks were found except #1. But about 2-3 mm from it there was an extra mystery pin mark in an place you should not be able to get pin mark from a emit unit. By accident there was an other H35 runner too with missing #1 pin mark (Sami I) and he also had a mystery mark in about same place as I had. So we claimed the unit was slightly broken, a piece of plastic - "wing" - was dropped of and you could push your card to unit in an other way than the absolutely correct position. The could exlain why #1 pin mark was not in the right place. The guy said it may be this way and they will check the punch unit and is it possible to get pin mark there.

So I waited almost 2 hours to het some sort of result and finally went home, because the other runners in my car didnät want to wait in rain any longer. So I had no reult at all when I left, no dq yet so I couldn't make a protest. At home I checked results and saw I was disqualified. I called the competiton chief and asked what happenned. No one knew anything about it, thos guys who had promised to take care of it just forgot the whole thing and nopody knen nothing about something like that happenned or discussed. And even if thy could check the unit and find a pin mark and qulify me, they had no chance to get me time becaus is too difficult to find mi from a wideo. And hired cameras were already taken back. And they said loud and clear they hare better thingsd to do than try to correct results of a H35 hobby runner. And I should have made writen protest no more than 30 min after the finish was closed.

Ridiculous. They told me my time was still open and I didn't have any result at the time they closed finish. So they wondered should they go and search me, but somebody remembered I just had broken emit so they disqualified me. I think they never printed me on any reslt papers, my dq appeared jsut to web. It's not easy to make protest againd your dq if they don't tell it to you.

Anyway, I had gps so I know my time was 37:52. I told it to them just to pinpoint they should have written it down right away at finish when they couldn't read my card.

This all makes me wonder... Let's compare this to all thos SI disqulifications. Malfunctioning punch unit, you don't get punch mark. One could prove it by going to forest and checking if unit is broken or any evidence could be found there to qualify you. Both cases we are not willing to do any checking, here they just forget the whole thing just like that. In Sweden they simply dq. And that would be better. Because they didn't DQ me in proper time, so it made it difficult or impossible to make protest (I don't think I would have done) as we could do in sweden if we like. So, I must say these things may not be handled too well with Sweden with SI, but here the seems to be much worse.

I'll post RG with GPS track later - I may not be able to post it to organizers site because DQ runners may not be in RG - depends how they do it (if they use it).

Edit. I got phone call late in the evening, they had checked to punch unit and it was fine. So I just did not punch all the way to bottom there :(

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Yökuppi, Tihaja. 4th race in 5 days, I was quite tired right from the start. GPS tracking with N78, worked better than I expected. But quite not as good as it should. I ran with home made led headlamp, it's pretty good.
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Company league, Velskola.