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2022 - Round 5/6 - Rhyl, 23/24 July
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Sherif Harding is listed as a DNF but says he did make it over the line after stopping for a few minutes.

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Originally posted by Twed Twed wrote:

Hmmm, here is a challenge for the software. I crashed alongside Lee just before the bell. Was able to remount, but followed Simon Watson across the line under the flag ..... alas without my hood ... (that was removed for exiting) .... which unfortunately had my tag on. So I did finish the race and should be one lap down on Lee. Many lessons learnt there (even for this old dog).

Thanks, that makes it easy - we have video of you both crossing the line courtesy of Simon's tag read, so I can get an accurate time for your finish from that.
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Originally posted by AlanGoodman AlanGoodman wrote:

Sherif Harding is listed as a DNF but says he did make it over the line after stopping for a few minutes.

Interesting one, this...

Sherif stopped on the far side of the track during his final lap.  As I finished the race, I was dispatched to a "problems breathing, take him some ventolin", so dropped everything and went over.  Fortunately, it wasn't that serious.  Looking at my GPS data, I spent about 15 minutes with him, before feeling he was okay to be left.  I returned to the timing tent about 23 minutes after the last finisher had crossed the line, by which point Natalya had - quite reasonably - stopped the timing software and begun to pack up (it was starting to rain), so we have no data for him crossing the line (making him a DNF by default).

If I add a final lap time for him based on when I saved the track on my GPS (which is probably a minute or two before he actually reached the finish area), it gives him a 28:50 last lap, and puts him in 23rd place, rather than the 21st place that he gets by being recorded as DNF and getting the slowest finisher's time.

On which basis I propose we leave him as DNF.



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Results and championship tables now updated to reflect the above change and non-change.
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Thanks Kim! I’ll point Sherif to your reply…

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Meanwhile, for everyone's amusement:  Not content with causing people to crash on Prostate Corner™, I present the wind trying to blow away the table with the timing computer, and knocking over an aerial, causing a couple of subsequent duff reads:




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And almost taking Gerry out, who was going very well all weekend... :)

Thanks to all for a great weekends racing in Rhyl. The track was amazing as always, and Lee's race formats worked really well.

Apologies for not doing the whole of the 90min race - my legs still aren't 100% used to the 130mm cranks on seventyseven so I decided to use the track time to do two 25min tyre tests instead using the Greenspeed Scorchers and Michelin Blue's ahead of Battle Mountain.  Bang-on 200W measured average power for 25mins x 2 resulted in 20.2mph for the Scorcher and 21.7mph for the Blue, which is promising... (rear wheel only)


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I was particularly pleased with how smoothly the time trial ran from a timing perspective.  By keeping everyone away from the RFID aerials, the system could operate automatically without individual riders having specific start times (which we tried at Preston once, and involved a fair bit of cat-herding to get everyone lined up in the right order), eliminating human error and giving us instant results.

Obviously that isn't going to be practical at some tracks, where there's limited space for people to congregate, but I think it's worth doing that way in future where possible.  Flying starts make for more exciting speeds, too.

I just need more practice coming into the far bend at high speed.  I'm sure I'd have gained another second or so if I hadn't chickened out...


Natalya did an excellent job making notes and protecting the computer from the elements during the 90 minute race.  Apparently she spent a lot of time leaning on the table so it wouldn't blow over...
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Thanks to Lee for suberb organising and to Simon for exemplary bell ringing and flag waving. Both are stars without whom it wouldn't have happened.
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And special thanks to Heather for - amongst other things - going above and beyond the call of duty by fishing a used poo bag out of the undergrowth and adding the assortment of turds littering the access path to its contents.

(I suppose the dog-emptiers of Rhyl should be commended for staying off the race track itself, but they really need to up their game when it comes to cleaning up after themselves.)
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