Boy Wonder wrote:
Did you ask the marathon organizers to correct the result? Perhaps if they did and then they notified marathonguide.com something might occur. Imagine if anyone could write and ask for a correction of their marathon time. How would they know if the requested correction was actually real?
No, I haven't because it was like pulling teeth to get the race organizers to correct my time on their website. I finished 6th overall at the Crater Lake Marathon in August (tough 'thon, lots of hills and all altitude between 6000'-8000'). My finishing time was 3:27:02, but it was incorrectly posted with a ten-minute error as 3:37:02 when the race organizers initially posted the results (and prior to marathonguide.com posting any results from Crater Lake). The mistake was obvious because the 7th and 8th finishers behind me ran 3:31 and 3:34, respectively.
I contacted the race organizers immediately, and they replied that they would correct it because they saw that it was a typo. They still had the bottom of my marathon bib with 3:27:02 on it. It took me several more weeks and several more emails to get the race organizers to correct it (no exaggeration). They finally did:
http://www.craterlakerimruns.com/new2004raceresults.htmBut by the time the race organizers had posted their correction, marathonguide.com had posted the Crater Lake results with the typo for my time (which is still obvious by the times of the 7th and 8th finishers behind me).
http://www.marathonguide.com/results/browse.cfm?MIDD=1164060812&Gen=B&Begin=1&End=100&Max=115I figured that marathonguide.com would quickly see the need for the correction since the race organizers corrected their race results and the error is obvious by the top 8 finish times. That's why I'm surprised that I have yet to hear anything back from anyone at marathonguide.com.
Obviously, I'm not trying to get away with something by getting a ten-minute bump on my time. I'm not trying to displace any finishers. I'm simply trying to get them to correct a simple typo that doesn't reflect how hard I ran at Crater Lake. Like I said in my first post, it's just kind of annoying.