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                                    Things Every Runner Should Know

  • When you race, wear your race number on the FRONT of your shirt or shorts so that it can be seen by the finish line officials who enter your number into a computer as you finish.  If the "clock guy" can't see your number, he's going to assume you're a "bandit" and ignore you.  When you pin on your number before the race, pin all four corners.  Otherwise, the number flips up and all the clock guy can see is the back side of your number as you coming racing across the finish line.
  •  If you finish a race, then jog back out on the course to "pick up" a less speedy runner, please don't approach the finish line a second time.  Unless you're dressed like giant tomato, clock guy isn't going to remember that he already recorded your finishing time and race number.  When you cross the line again, it confuses the race results.
  • "Bandit" - one who participates in a road race without properly registering, paying the entry fee and obtaining a race    number.  (parents of young kids who run with their properly registered kids without actually registering themselves are not considered bandits if they step off the course and do not cross the finish line no less than 30 meters from the finish line.  They let their kids cross the finish line "on their own".)
     
  • "Low Life Bandit Scum" - a bandit who not only runs the race, but also crosses the finish line and takes a
     finishers card.
     
  • If you are running as a "bandit", please step off the course before crossing the finish line.  If you do cross the finish line, please do not take a finishing card.  It's bad enough that you're mooching off the work and resources of others, please don't screw up the results too. 

  • Finishers cards - Did you know that when you run a race, but don't take a few seconds to fill out your finishers card, you make compiling race results more difficult?  Most local races use the "low tech" and "inexpensive" (in terms of our equipment rental fees) Striders timing equipment combined with finishers card to compile race results.  Neither system is perfect, but used together the race director can compile very accurate race results.  If the clock operator can't record your bib (race) number when you cross the finish line (like when you finish in a group of two or more people) and you don't fill out a finishers card, then your race results will not be captured or recorded.  It's sort of like putting together a puzzle.  When you complete your finishers card, you're helping us ensure we have all the pieces to the puzzle.
     
  • If you have to blow chunks (barf) at the finish, please step away from the clock guy's computer before barfing.
            (find a bandit)

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