Handicap Race

It was the Worcester Joggers Spring Handicap Race this evening. Organisers were Mr Sell and yours truly. The aim is to start off people at different times so that everyone gets to the finish at around the same time to let the slower runners have the chance of beating the faster runners. Not very easy if there is a wide range of abilities, especially if some of them haven't raced very much (or at all before).

It began to rain just after the first runners started. Luckily it was warm(ish) rain rather than cold rain - it's May after all, but I got very worried about the inkjet-printed startsheets disintegrating. This was averted by large transparent plastic bags and umbrellas. In the end, out of the 30 finishers, only 5 were outside 5% of their predicted times (calculated with great precision by me). Nearly a blanket finish, good racing but hard for the timekeepers to keep up.

Oh, another discovery as I left the Green Monster out in the rain during the race. My Mono M4s squeak extremely loudly when the disc is wet. By the time I got back home the squeal had abated slightly so as not to raise the ire of the anti-noise poilce.

Location 52°N 2°W