2nd place over all and 1st master with about 1/2 mile to go and directed off course.Should i receive the 1st master?

Race director s have a responsibility. If op is correct it falls on thr director.

No hillary wrote:

Race director s have a responsibility. If op is correct it falls on thr director.

I agree, I'm unanimous in that. What was this race and who was the Race Director? In the absence of a current cheating thread this one needs to be taken up a level.

It shouldn't just be cheaters who get burned at the stake it should also be incompetent RDs.

Bring on the witch hunt.

True.He should meet with all police, mile callers finish line people and tell them do their part.

1) Send the race director your gps logs for the race.

2) Send the race director $500 in cash in an envelope.

3) Wait 4-6 weekjs for the prize to arrive in the mail. If it hasn't arrived in 4-6 weeks, wait another 4-6 weeks. Repeat if necessary.

It's bull crap what happened to you. I can sympathize b/c a similar thing happened to me. I was leading this 5k with about a mile to go. Had about a 10 second lead and was growing. The lead vehicle (with race director inside) accidentally led me the wrong way. When I got back on course, I was neck and neck with my competitor and he out-leaned me at the finish.

That being said, race directors can not hand out awards based on "What If" hypotheticals and technicalities. Sorry pal.

True but they guy said he had a huge lead near the end of the race.Its like calling a football game with the score off 44 to 3 with 20 seconds left .Yea they didn't end the game but they played almost all of it.The team had a massive lead with a little time left.There is no way in hell at that point they are going to lose.So they win.Its the same with the race.

With a little less than half mile to go in a 5mile race, top master (former D1 all-american) was ahead of me and one other dude by about 15m. Other dude took a right at what we thought was the last turn, and I followed him in. Didn’t want the guy ahead to miss it, so we both yelled at him – “youre going the wrong way!” He turned around (basically coming to a stop) and shouted, “no a-holes, you’re going the wrong way.”

Realizing he was right, we turned back around (the final turn was about another block up the street). I ended up running him down, and beating him by 2 seconds. I think I won a pint of syrup.

You know what he wrote on LR 2 hours after that race?

Nothing. Because he’s not a punk who whines about syrup.

+1

This has happened to me before, except I was leading the race by about 30 seconds and the cop car got stuck in traffic. I ended up turning one street too early. 2nd place yelled to me as I was already 25-30 seconds down the wrong road. Finished 2nd overall. This is the first time in 2 years I've mentioned it.

It's haunted me for years....I haven't had a gf, gotten a job, or run fast since....

Cheated racer wrote:

Yea but i took my family out their.I drove an hour there and all i got for my effort is running close if not over an extra 3/4 of a mile and nothing.

Maybe you should take your family somewhere fun instead of to a race to watch their old dad run a stupid race.

One year during the Houston marathon, the police took a wrong turn about 8-9 mi into the race. The guy driving the timing truck tried calling the police on the walkie talkie, but they did not respond. Fortunately, the guy driving the timing truck had done the course a number of times and ignored the police, saving the day. He got the job of driving the timing truck because the race organizers knew him and knew that he was involved in the running community well enough to be trusted with the job. Moral to the story is that the police are just rentals. They are there to control traffic and follow instructions from the race director. Ultimately, the race director and organizers are responsible for making sure that the course is idiot proof. But the rule is well established that the runner is responsible for knowing the course and cannot complain about finish position because he took a wrong turn.

You should set up a gofundme account and add it to the Mike Rossi thread. Plenty of people will sympathize you and you can get the cash to buy yourself that first place masters fruitcake.

Ass face wrote:

True but they guy said he had a huge lead near the end of the race.Its like calling a football game with the score off 44 to 3 with 20 seconds left .Yea they didn't end the game but they played almost all of it.The team had a massive lead with a little time left.There is no way in hell at that point they are going to lose.So they win.Its the same with the race.

Do you really have to post in your thread under a bunch of new handles to give yourself support? Can you at least attempt to change the way you write to hide that?

t'es sérieux? wrote:

Ass face wrote:

True but they guy said he had a huge lead near the end of the race.Its like calling a football game with the score off 44 to 3 with 20 seconds left .Yea they didn't end the game but they played almost all of it.The team had a massive lead with a little time left.There is no way in hell at that point they are going to lose.So they win.Its the same with the race.

Do you really have to post in your thread under a bunch of new handles to give yourself support? Can you at least attempt to change the way you write to hide that?

It is a little podunk race. Move on.

Lol.You are eather the race director or a cheap race director .Who doesn't put out mile marks unless asked.Or measures your course with a GPS.

Since you enlisted your family to come watch you race your 5K, maybe you can get them to make you a ribbon or a medal suitable for your accomplishment as First Master.

Why don't you take the time to secure a course and take the blame .Once again race director. Who marks his course with his GPS. Its eather short or long but you claim it it ceterfited. When pressed by no one but you GPS from your broken down car.You have no mile marks unless asked.What a joke.

It's called personal responsibility. I recently was in a race where the first 20 or so people went the wrong way at an early turn. I had looked at the map before the race, and went the right way, followed by everybody else. Made for some interesting results as the first 20 had about 1/4 extra mile added. ESPECIALLY if you are a faster runner, near the front you need to learn the course.

So not only do you have to run fast and do speedwork and all that stuff. You need to practice your map reading skills.So monday easy run ,Tuesday easy run.Wednesday speedwork and map skills day.Lol.Its a race directors job to put on the race right. Lets not forget he is selling his race.

You had a choice to sign up for the race.

You had the choice to not look over the race map.

You had the choice to not ask for help from the police car.

Does this suck? yes. Should they have had the course better marked? yes.

But the idea that you are refusing to take any responsibility in this makes me happy that someone else out worked you for the masters win. If you've gotten to the point that you're a masters runner and don't recognize this as part of road racing, then you've missed a few steps. I supposed next post will be complaining about the race director not telling you about a big hill at mile 2.