As for timing discrepancies, my senior year at Cal, I was skipped in the results listing for Track Newsletter not once, but twice! I think the first time was at Mt. SAC when I finished 6th with my PR (it may have been another meet) and the second time at the Pac-10 when I was 7th (TN listed most or all of the subsequent finishers after me, so I wasn't the victim of a "..."). Fortunately, I had other timing sources (and I didn't split myself using my watch!!)
Richard McCann
At 12:59 AM 6/25/2003 -0700, t-and-f-digest wrote:
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:33:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: t-and-f: Timing yourself in an indoor 5,000M?
But as always, there's two sides to every story... I basically didn't know my 800m PR from my Junior year of high school until my Junior year of college due to two separate timing mishaps. The first was during an early season all-comers meet my Senior year of HS. I felt I ran my best race by far, but no one got a time on me (back of the pack in a much faster than expected race). Several people in the stands thought I finished in the ballpark of what would have been a big PR... Frosh year of college, 1st or 2nd meet, another screw up in the form of a 5 second timing discrepancy. Coach had me at about what I felt I ran -- not a PR -- the official results had me 5 seconds faster. Injured most of the track season Sophomore year and didn't do much, then finally ran a time Junior year that was well clear of any of the previous confusion! Rather frustrating in hindsight. I never did take to racing with a watch, though.
Dan
