Discussion: #1

Shot Rat - impressive first split there. Started a minute early maybe?

Hmmm, glad the drug testers have left town!!!!

If only I'd known I was leading to #5 I would have kept up the effort!

Both Simmo and I (check his first split too) started together. The strangest thing is that my GPS suggest that 1:07 should have been 1:34 for #1 - still 20 seconds up on Oscar. There must have been a strange, and random, timing error happening.

However, I did beat Oscar on the next split. That one I will claim!

There was definitely something wrong with the start time, but I don't think it could have been as much as a minute out. My gps shows I reached No. 1 after 1:30, so that makes my (and ShotRat's) start 31 secs too soon. ShotRat went out of the blocks like a rabbit, and I did No. 1 pretty quickly too*, so it wouldn't surprise me that we would be fastest, even when the 31 secs is added back.

It appears the start timing went awry between the last W55 at 2:37 and the first M65 at 2:39. It may have happened earlier, when 2 W55s did not turn up to start, but with Carol and Jennifer both making big mistakes at 1, it's impossible to tell. Certainly Alan's, Peter's, Jim's, Ken's, Terry's and my times are all faster than you'd expect.

When I got to 1 on course 2, ShotRat was already out of view, and probably just about at his No. 1, which was 60m further East. Our paths crossed (ShotRat a bit ahead) on the way to our respective No. 2s.

I suspect that the 2 minutish splits for everone else are out in the other direction. THe leg certainly didn't feel that long at the time.

My GPS shows 1:25 for the leg to #1, but the split says 1:59. Also, my final time was 17:44 according to the watch and 18:19 in the results, so there's about a 34-35 second difference. It looks like the late starters had about a minute advantage over the rest of us, which means Henry might actually just have been a few seconds ahead of ShotRat. It doesn't seem to have affected any of the other placings.

Yep my GPS showed 34 seconds less than the "official" race time. Not good for a sprint championship event. Can't believe I was actually leading for one control!

So early starters were robbed of 34 seconds-ish, Late starters gained about 27 = 1 minute. So start clock and SI not well synched and at some point before GB's start, one minute got skipped in the start queue (when nobody started, presumably) and so everyone subsequent to that has gained 1 minute (which is pretty much what it looked like off the splits, but I dodn't know the magnitude of the original non-synchro).
The only hard bit about correcting the results (and it;s probably not that hard, with a look at the splits and a start list) is figuring out the time at which the error occurred.