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Thanks Heather - just re-read Alan's post and yes that's entirely clear!

I've had my tags for ages and they were working fine at Hillingdon. I think it was just one or two that didn't work. 

I've made a note and will write some new tags for them just in case.  We can test their current tags on the day, and if they're fine put the new ones back in the pile to be rewritten for someone else.

If anyone else is suspicious about the state of their tags, please come and test them before the race!  Saves a lot of hassle in the long run.

Sat 5 Jun (12:30-5pm) UCLAN Sports arena, Preston

Sun 6th Jun (10-3pm) UCLAN Sports arena, Preston

As such, riders are responsible for being at the start line in time for their pre-determined start time.  If you're not there, the clock starts without you.  To make things simpler, I've allocated start times at 45 second intervals in ascending order of race number (with one exception, so that Andrew and I aren't riding at the same time), so it should make things easier to queue up in the right order.

Times here are stopwatch times in minutes and seconds, not the time of day.  We aim to start at 1:30PM, but may start a few minutes later if necessary.  The stopwatch time should be displayed on the race clock throughout the time trail.  

A copy of these times will be available along with the fast/slow race allocations.

(If it all goes horribly wrong we'll fall back to the manual method, but if this works it should make things run a lot more smoothly, as the computer's much better at coping with riders arriving in quick succession than a person with a stopwatch.)

Ian

ETA: It appears that Slash was so fast he lapped himself and finished in 0th position, which confused the scoring software.  

Obviously we've found a bug in the results-merging program.  Will look at it tomorrow.

ETA: I looked at it.  It's a failure to initialise a variable problem.  Will fix tomorrow.

The results for Saturday's races are now on the BHPC website here:

and the results for Sunday are here:

I was overheating and under-hydrated, but Jochen, David and Andrew were a class apart today...

Russ

It was a pretty fast turnout generally.  When allocating the races I basically put the obviously fast people in one group, the obviously slow people in the other and the middle half of the field were allocated almost at random.  It could easily have been the fully-faired race and the part-faired/unfaired race.

The Preston track really is lovely when there's no slime on the corners...

 

Good, thanks for that.

The James Coxton/Coxon change is because he came and told me I'd spelled his name wrong and I fixed it in the later results.  Presumably I transcribed it incorrectly at some point and when faced with two spellings assumed the one with fewer characters was likely to be a typo.  SeriesMgr has a helpful feature for aliasing different spellings of people's names in anticipation of this sort of thing, so that should be fixable without having to go and mess with the Hillingdon data.

Neil and Sonja's classes are as they were entered in the shop, so nothing mysterious there.  Neil mentioned his Mf was missing yesterday, but with all that was going on I didn't spot the Sonja bike discrepancy.  I note that several people didn't select answers to all the class questions, which I picked up while processing the sign-on.

Keep them coming...

Sorted out James Coxon's name, and updated Neil and Sonja's classes.  You might need to reload the page to see the changes.

Yet again Kim you are a star!

To follow up on this, it worked astoundingly well.  The software worked as intended, and we somehow managed to get everyone into a queue without any of the anticipated cat-herding problems.  The only real issue seemed to be someone going on bips of the DNS rider in front of them, which was easily fixed in the results.  (Important to note that setting a rider to DNS doesn't in itself change anyone else's start time, which is probably the correct approach if we're telling people their start time in advance.)

Thanks again to yostumpy for providing a reliable wireless router (which made this practical), and to everyone who managed to be in the right place at the right time.

Next time we can use a shorter interval between riders (I chose a fairly conservative 45 seconds to give us plenty of time in case of unforeseen issues), which means we can get through a time trial much more quickly and efficiently than before.  

It also opens up the possibility of doing multi-lap time trials, which would be impractical to time manually without a lot of human attention.  And in principle we could do flying starts, though this depends on everyone congregating outside RFID range until after their turn, which might be possible at somewhere like Darley Moor, but not the likes of Hillingdon or Stourport.

The new time trial system is a great piece of work by Kim and a big step forward from the Organisator's point of view. Instead of multiple people with stopwatches and bits of (often soggy) paper the whole thing can be run by one person with absolute accuracy. It also makes great use of the old Dell tablet we've had for some years, displaying not only the next rider's countdown but the names of the next five riders so you can check the line coming up.

So a big thanks to all the time-triallees on Saturday for being most un-BHPC and getting themselves in number order to make the new system work so well.

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Some amazing photos there, thanks.  Geoff also put a post up this morning with a link to his great photos, but the post has disappeared - link is here: (Geoff just let me know if this needs to be removed for some reason)

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Russ

That one of Erin giving a thumbs up deserves to be in the magazine, I reckon.

Colin

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There's some great images in there and you're welcome to download them but he tells me that they won't be there indefinitely, so best to have a look sooner rather than later.

Colin