Scoring and Results
This is your most important responsibility.
You need a race clock. RoadRunners can provide this service for a fee.
You need finisher cards or a computerized timing system (chips, bib bar codes, etc)
You need volunteers to hand out finisher cards and to keep runners in order.
You need volunteers to tally the results. They need experience or need to rehearse the process before race day.
Any type of computerized scoring and tabulation requires data entry. Runners have to be entered in the database before the race begins (ideally not on race day although some race day registration is inevitable). Make sure that you make allowances for this so that the race starts on time. Figure on one to two hours of data entry for every 100 runners.
A laptop with a spreadsheet is not computerized scoring. A spreadsheet cannot sort runners into age groups without special preparations (macros, programming, pre-entered age groups, etc). In our experience spreadsheets are a miserable failure, and always take longer than simply sorting the finisher cards (which requires no data entry). Click for Example of Finisher Board (courtesy of Tom Wolter)
Click here for details on manual scoring
Click here for REAL racing scoring software
Click here for information on hiring a professional organization to do it all for you.
