Woody Greeno

They had some problems with the cameras at the finish. They had them set for shade not sun, or something. It was kinda screwy. New course record for the guys though. A dude from Nebraska ran 23:42 to beat Goucher\'s old mark.

yeah the scoring system was pretty stupid. they had us wear hip numbers and the camera was supposed to pick them up.....yeah camera problems, i dont see why they didnt have us wear numbers with tear away tags, would have been so much easier.

It was not a course record--James Bowler ran 24:42, not 23:42. It was 8th best on the course all-time. Goucher has the record: 23:47, I think. The computers were screwed up but you can click on this article to get an overview of the top individuals--the team results are still undetermined.

That meet was run terribly. If you check the scoring on the women side, you will notice some of the scoring is off by alot. In the college division york college is about 10 places to high. Absolutely crap!!! I love having to send national ranking reports in and trying to make sense of the mistakes.

They should have had a chute and tear-off numbers for everyone as a backup. The point I think was to not have a chute overflowing to before the finish line (there were a ton of people in the race), but you can never depend solely on a camera.

it doesn't hurt to try new things... obviously this isn't the way to do meets... have you ever ran a meet? it's not that easy... learn from ones mistakes as we all do!

I think what people are trying to say is this: you would think that a school with the resources that UNL has, that they would spend the money on the chip timing system which (IMHO) is vastly the most superior system out there for cc. The tear off tag system with Finish Lynx timing should be the backup-especially since they have at least three systems in Huskerland. Mark Kostek (director of Drake Relays) used to be the meet director and I assume that Jay Dirksen and Ted Bulling are splitting the duties now. Sure, there is a huge volume of runners and the finish is just slightly uphill, but there just isn't a valid excuse for botching the timing and then the scoring of the meet. I have run huge hs meets and it can be done. You just have to have adequate backups and in this case, it just doesn't appear that the worst case scenario was planned for properly. I will say that this just is NOT typical of the way things are usually done in Lincoln.

I think they usually have an outside road race management company do the finish at the Woody Greeno meet.

I don't think they'll spend the money on the chip timing system when the Woody Greeno is the only meet they have there per year, although that would be ideal. It might get done if it was a more important DI meet, but it's not.

from what I saw the actual race was run off pretty well. There are a lot of good NAIA-DII-DIII there. I am sure they will have the problem fixed for next year.