Renewed Marathoner wrote:
I don't like the idea that you need to say where you are 24 hours a day for your entire life. However, apparently it can be updated in 5 minutes so that's helpful.
Lucky you're not a professional athlete because that's essentially the expectation. Well, 18-hrs per day 5am - 11pm-ish.
I'm more comfortable with the 1 hr a day, be there or missed test strike. But even that is pretty restrictive.
But then you'd put yourself as available at 6am-7am every morning and once the window has gone you've got 24 hours to glow.
Or you could game it even better with 6am on Monday, 10pm Tuesday, 6am Weds, 10pm Thurs giving you 40 hours of guaranteed non-testing.
But hold up what's the point of the 1 hour window if you can be tested at any time?
Previous comment aside,
It seems a little unfair on that part. I guess if they come unannounced, they'll phone at the beginning of the hour thereby giving you time to get back from the shops or your friends house to meet them. You should stiil be in the area and able to get back in the hour.
I expect they don't come unannounced too often?
And when you fill in Whereabouts while there's a designated hour, you also provide details on your standard day. So probably they go to those places before / during / after training sessions when they know you'll be at the track/gym/just waking up.
[quote[What's the difference between filing failure and missed test regime?[/quote]
- Missed test is you were at Walmart christmas shopping when you said you'd be at home.
- FiIing failure is saying you'd be at your home / stadium / track and turned out to be two hundred miles away.
I'm sure emergencies happen but if you update the Whereabouts when you get that call to go visit your sister in hospital in the other state, then the tester who was going to your house gets told not to bother so there is no missed test or failed filing.