This fourth was my first 5K in quite some time. Since the last one I have done several half marathons, a 10K and a full marathon.
This was kind of a fun city run (www.surfcityrun.com). Pretty laid back. No chips. Small.
I ran the race at my personal best of 26:38. I know the time because I wore my forerunner. Also, the pictures my husband took as I came to the finish line show that the time was around 27, which makes sense since there were no chips and I got a start further back in the line.
So I know my time.
Yet when I went to check it against the results it shows me at 30 minutes!
Now, like I said, I know my time, it is on my watch, and I know that it was my personal best. So I’m proud of that.
But doggone it, I want the site to reflect my actual time! Why is it so far off? All I know is that the other race finishers in different lines were moving along quite quickly while we were stuck in a crowd of hot and sweaty race finishers for several minutes. I almost switched lanes. Wish I had.
Nothing against the race organizers. I know that this was not a competitive type race, and I love the way that they had it set up, so that strollers had their own 5K starting time, residents of Huntington Beach had their own race, and kids had theirs.
Still it would have been nice to see my real time printed on the website.
You know how us runners are. We have our egos to maintain!!
that’s an awesome time! i’d kill for that time! you should totally write the race director. i bet she or he will change it.
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WTG on the PR!!! That would really bother me too. One time I won a race and I worked really hard to get that win and then the results said some woman name Tonya was the winner, well it was a man named Tony that they accidentally put as #1 woman, the race organizer confirmed this. They never did fix it though. I was pretty annoyed, but understand that they are human and mistakes are made.
Oh no! But you are right, with so many people racing at one time it has to be daunting tracking who comes in what place. Way to go on the win, by the way!!