Bob,
Would a more sensible option be to give 2 k splits??????
Mike
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Subject: Re: t-and-f: NCAA XC Splits and Leader Info
Allow me to explain why we used mile splits for the announcing at the NCAA
XC meet.
Remember, we are using high school kids at the intermediate points with
walkie talkies. We instruct them to give us the split, the leaders and the
team scores or team 1-5 differentials, depending on their abilities.
>From our past experience, we have found that the kilo marks are just too
often (3 minutes) to relay and verify credible information.
Therefore, we use the mile splits.
Now, if we had running chips on everyone's foot and transponder readers at
each kilo, then splits, leaders and team scores would be a breeze!!!
I hope this helps,
Bob Bettwy
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:51:16 -0600
From: "Wayne T. Armbrust" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: t-and-f: NCAA XC Splits and Leader Info
David Dallman wrote:
> I must say there's something I don't understand about you all in the USA.
> Having spent the first 28 years of my life in England, I don't have any
> problem at all with miles. For cross-country races, where there is less
> need to compare times across courses because the courses vary a lot, I
> don't even have a problem with races STILL being contested over miles. But
> here we have 2 races whose total distance is declared to be a whole number
> of kilometres (6, 10 respectively) yet the splits are recorded every mile!
> So at the end, there's a fraction of a mile left over for which you don't
> get any split. Would have been much more interesting to see kilometre
> splits and to be able to look at the final kilometer split.
>
> David Dallman
>
I have given up trying to argue the logic that you have expressed above.
Maybe when someone from another country points out how foolish we are to
give
mile splits in kilometer races it will get out attention.
By the way David, we also give mile splits in metric road races. To be
fair,
however, I was there (coldest I've been in many years) and some kilometer
splits were given. Also, kilometer splits are often given in track races.
But mile splits are universally given in road races and in almost all cross
country races.
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