Photo guy. wrote:
[quote]nomissingphotos wrote:
The photos are not conclusive. If you are to believe the times stamps every runner, from the winner to The last finisher passed the bridge within less than 10i minutes. And the date on the time stamp is wrong. This shows the photos were edited.
Your "evidence" is not evidence at all.
Re. photos removed because they are blurred: The 5 checkpoint video
probability calculation takes this possibility into account - see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGilRGr2GlI. Not every runner was
photographed at every checkpoint since the photographer zoomed in on
one runner, took a short break, etc. The key point is that the odds
that the same runner was missed at all 5 checkpoints
by random chance is 1 in 500,000. The only way this calculation could
be incorrect is if someone instructed all the photographers
specifically to not photograph Mike Rossi and/or not upload his
picture to the website (includes both the official race photographers
and the Morning Call photographer).
Re. timing spread of photos: The top place and 200th place finisher
had average paces of 6:09/mile and 7:50/mile, so by mile 6.8, where
the bridge timelapse photos are taken, you would expect a spread of
(7:50/mile x 6.8 miles ) - (6:09/mile x 6.8 miles ) = 11min27sec. The
timelapse covers 7:52am to 8:05 am = 13 min. Some of the timestamps have pm instead of am, otherwise they are correct. The date is irrelevant, as we know when the race took place.
Here's another way of looking at it:
Start gun time: 7:10 am
Top finisher:
average pace: 6:09/mile
predicted arrival time at mile 6.8 checkpoint: 7:52 am
actual photo time at mile 6.8 checkpoint: 7:52 am
200th finisher:
average pace: 7:50/mile
predicted arrival time at mile 6.8 checkpoint: 8:03 am
actual photo time at mile 6.8 checkpoint: 8:00 am
What the LVM organizers obviously don't realize is that the
photographers serve as de facto timing mats for the race. You can
easily calculate split times for all the top 200 runners (except MR of course) -
see the last tab in the photo analysis spreadsheet.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o6QNphLQ7ZV_sPSCyaFV4Tm1rmOlol_AO5cxF3Lam-Q/edit?pli=1#gid=1375719789Thanks for watching the timelapse video. Keep those rebuttals coming!