I’ve read a number of different possibilities for how to hold larger invitationals with social distancing requirements for 2020. What have you heard/considered and what is the beat way to have larger invitationals this fall?
I’ve read a number of different possibilities for how to hold larger invitationals with social distancing requirements for 2020. What have you heard/considered and what is the beat way to have larger invitationals this fall?
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I’ve read a number of different possibilities for how to hold larger invitationals with social distancing requirements for 2020. What have you heard/considered and what is the beat way to have larger invitationals this fall?
Staggered starts, spacing out start boxes...
I’ve read about staggered starts.
So, something like this?
#1 runners go off at 9 am
#2 @ 9:01
#3 @ 9:02
#4 @ 9:03
#5 @ 9:04
#6 @ 9:05
#7 @ 9:06
Total time wins?
No. They would stagger teams and score like always by stacking finishers by time.
A bit more gap like 2-5 minutes between starts to avoid waves overtaking slower runners from a prior start. Take a school's top five finish times, add them together, and then score based on lowest accumulated time. All easily done with chip timing.
why would you score it based on total time and not regular XC scoring on places after all runners are done?
Only problem with these wave starts is they may not work in multi loop courses. Somewhere the course is 3.1 mile loop or 8k loop for college, sure.
Thinking about it, the big problem (other than the start line) wouldn't be teams on the course, but all the teams, parents, coaches, family members, fans (jk) hanging around elsewhere to watch the race. There would need to be solutions to insure these folks social distance instead of lining the course too.
Kvothe wrote:
Thinking about it, the big problem (other than the start line) wouldn't be teams on the course, but all the teams, parents, coaches, family members, fans (jk) hanging around elsewhere to watch the race. There would need to be solutions to insure these folks social distance instead of lining the course too.
Being outdoors helps. Spectators can space apart... quite frankly, I'm willing to bet most people would do so anyway; fear has really influenced our way of thinking these days.
Portland Hobby Jogger wrote:
A bit more gap like 2-5 minutes between starts to avoid waves overtaking slower runners from a prior start. Take a school's top five finish times, add them together, and then score based on lowest accumulated time. All easily done with chip timing.
Yep. We have a couple meets like this in Illinois, called "Flighted" invitationals. It works well. They usually stagger starts by about 6 minutes to allow the fastest runners to hit the mile. That could be flexible depending on how the course runs (loops, etc).
Are these staggered by team (whole teams start together) or by ability (all #1-#3 for EVERY team start together) or something else?
Thanks for sharing the idea!
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