Horrible, ridiculous, and beyond stupid is the course. Starting off on the track is fine, but we had to go through a tiny gate with 2 series of steps and … MORE
Horrible, ridiculous, and beyond stupid is the course. Starting off on the track is fine, but we had to go through a tiny gate with 2 series of steps and there’s no way around it when I ask why not move the starting line a bit further so that way we can go out through the much wider gate with NO STEPS in the way. Then, after doing the loop until back to the school, the lead pack including me were directed by an idiot volunteer to the wrong way by going to the baseball field and then the track when we were supposed to keep going straight ahead. As a result, we got stuck behind the huge pack of walkers who were still going through the tiny gate with 2 series of steps, hence losing a lot of ground and time to the runners who were ultimately directed the correct way and were finally ahead of us. After going through the 2nd loop, we had to go inside the building, and I was shocked to find out that we had to run through three flights of stairs and then go down as well (I tried to get inside beforehand to have an idea, but the doors were constantly locked). WHY? WHY? WHY? IT’S SO STUPID. After that, I crossed an intersection where the runners/walkers were still passing us before we could cross over to the baseball field. WHY? WHY? WHY? IT’S SO STUPID. Worst of all, the race turned out to be far too short and not 5K at all.
At the same time, I knew the race was in trouble because of Adam Holt who runs Outsiders Anonymous for the timing services; he is 100% incompetent, and they should have used either IAAP or Athlete Guild. Case in point, I knew somebody running in the race, but she was 2 minutes behind in the line before she could officially cross the line to start the race, hence the chip time. But the gun time has her placed 2 minutes behind. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. THAT’S NOT HOW THIS WORKS. Use the chip time!
Overall, it was an awful race, and I’m certainly never coming back.
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Ridiculous Race.
Horrible, ridiculous, and beyond stupid is the course. Starting off on the track is fine, but we had to go through a tiny gate with 2 series of steps and … MORE
Horrible, ridiculous, and beyond stupid is the course. Starting off on the track is fine, but we had to go through a tiny gate with 2 series of steps and there’s no way around it when I ask why not move the starting line a bit further so that way we can go out through the much wider gate with NO STEPS in the way. Then, after doing the loop until back to the school, the lead pack including me were directed by an idiot volunteer to the wrong way by going to the baseball field and then the track when we were supposed to keep going straight ahead. As a result, we got stuck behind the huge pack of walkers who were still going through the tiny gate with 2 series of steps, hence losing a lot of ground and time to the runners who were ultimately directed the correct way and were finally ahead of us. After going through the 2nd loop, we had to go inside the building, and I was shocked to find out that we had to run through three flights of stairs and then go down as well (I tried to get inside beforehand to have an idea, but the doors were constantly locked). WHY? WHY? WHY? IT’S SO STUPID. After that, I crossed an intersection where the runners/walkers were still passing us before we could cross over to the baseball field. WHY? WHY? WHY? IT’S SO STUPID. Worst of all, the race turned out to be far too short and not 5K at all.
At the same time, I knew the race was in trouble because of Adam Holt who runs Outsiders Anonymous for the timing services; he is 100% incompetent, and they should have used either IAAP or Athlete Guild. Case in point, I knew somebody running in the race, but she was 2 minutes behind in the line before she could officially cross the line to start the race, hence the chip time. But the gun time has her placed 2 minutes behind. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. THAT’S NOT HOW THIS WORKS. Use the chip time!
Overall, it was an awful race, and I’m certainly never coming back.