Gosh darn those 12 trolls!
Photo booth operator wrote:
I just saw some runners posting that a freight train ran through the middle of the infamous Lehigh Valley marathon course delaying a lot of them. If this is true does anyone know if time adjustments can be made or ever have been made in the past? Also, does blame fall on the RD for not checking schedules?
That's so rich.
Leeza Gibbons wrote:
Email from the RD this morning:
After a thorough review of the available evidence in relation to a train's participation in the 2016 Lehigh Valley Health Network Via Marathon, the Marathon committee concluded that while there is data from participants indicating that a train may have impeded them, there is not conclusive evidence that their times in the 2016 LVHN Via Marathon are inaccurate. The LVHN Via Marathon has reviewed more than 2000 race photos from our licensed photo checkpoints and midrace data from 6 on course timing mats all of which show no data from a train's timing chip. Therefore the LVHN Via Marathon Committee concluded that a train did not cross the marathon course unless additional conclusive information arises in the future.
POD
Leeza Gibbons wrote:
Email from the RD this morning:
After a thorough review of the available evidence in relation to a train's participation in the 2016 Lehigh Valley Health Network Via Marathon, the Marathon committee concluded that while there is data from participants indicating that a train may have impeded them, there is not conclusive evidence that their times in the 2016 LVHN Via Marathon are inaccurate. The LVHN Via Marathon has reviewed more than 2000 race photos from our licensed photo checkpoints and midrace data from 6 on course timing mats all of which show no data from a train's timing chip. Therefore the LVHN Via Marathon Committee concluded that a train did not cross the marathon course unless additional conclusive information arises in the future.
Can she do anything right?
Photo booth operator wrote:
I just saw some runners posting that a freight train ran through the middle of the infamous Lehigh Valley marathon course delaying a lot of them. If this is true does anyone know if time adjustments can be made or ever have been made in the past? Also, does blame fall on the RD for not checking schedules?
Cash the checks? Fool people who are dumber than rocks? Massage Yasso's....ego?
McKeever should find a new job wrote:Photo booth operator wrote:Can she do anything right?
I just saw some runners posting that a freight train ran through the middle of the infamous Lehigh Valley marathon course delaying a lot of them. If this is true does anyone know if time adjustments can be made or ever have been made in the past? Also, does blame fall on the RD for not checking schedules?
Speaking of dumber than rocks, most of the troglodytes posting in the Rossi forum still don't understand that the non-DQ was not her decision or even know which Yasso she was working for.
Piggy Banker wrote:
Cash the checks? Fool people who are dumber than rocks? Massage Yasso's....ego?
Even better if you can time crossing between the cars
nothing stops a train wrote:
Happened without about a mile left in a 10k I was in one time. I crested a hill and saw a train crossing the road at the bottom of the hill with a group of runners waiting for it to cross. I sped down the hill and timed it about perfect and crossed the tracks without breaking stride just after the train finished, passing most of the crowd. One of the few age group awards this slowpoke ever won.
This is a brutal situation, but I wouldn't be quick to blame the RD. Railroads are super powerful and do whatever they want. I work for a State DOT and the railroads kick us off of tracks that we own all the time. They won't think twice about rolling through a 'thon.
Photo booth operator wrote:
I just saw some runners posting that a freight train ran through the middle of the infamous Lehigh Valley marathon course delaying a lot of them. If this is true does anyone know if time adjustments can be made or ever have been made in the past? Also, does blame fall on the RD for not checking schedules?
Next time try registering for a race that cares about runners. Via = crap.
Kmiller wrote:
Most of the front of the field of the Via Marathon, including me, was stopped for 6 min today behind a moving train today. I ended up missing a BQ by only a few minutes, is there any precedent for correcting a time from something like that, or am I SOL? I have GPS evidence of being stopped for 6 min.