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London Marathon 2020

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Sep 2020
10:28am, 24 Sep 2020
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Bazoaxe
I got two numbers which I presume are front and back. Maybe they need photo evidence ax well.
Sep 2020
11:02am, 24 Sep 2020
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Little Miss Happy
No numbers, no word on recording my time without an app.............
Sep 2020
11:24am, 24 Sep 2020
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Pothunter
Hope the app (unlike the Track and Trace app) will work on older phones...
Sep 2020
11:25am, 24 Sep 2020
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Spideog
They did post a picture online of a medal with the wrong date on it though today.

I can forgive them the wrong date as they obviously had to have them made already well before the event was cancelled or event the prospect of being cancelled. The medal does look a bit rubbish though I think, nice to have a bit of colour in it, but looks as if it is mostly a lump of shiny metal with a wavey squiggle on one side.
Sep 2020
11:33am, 24 Sep 2020
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Daddy Shark
Spideog, I agree about your earlier point about GPS being not very consistent and being wary of using it for official things. However, in this case I think it's a pragmatic solution:

Two things... GPS will tend to measure long and so be in favour of the runner (witness many runners regularly complaining about long courses, even when they have been meticulously measured using calibrated tools, just because their watch says so); And if I've understood correctly, the only people able to use GPS GFA times this year are those that had already done a "proper" GFA time in 2018. So, even if the 2020 time is generous, it's not as if the runner hasn't previously met the standard.
Sep 2020
11:36am, 24 Sep 2020
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Pothunter
A wavey squiggle is a decent homage to GPS though :-)
Sep 2020
12:24pm, 24 Sep 2020
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Spideog
Not got a problem if the GPS measures long, but from my testing last night over an unmeasured course there was a .16 mile difference between two GPS devices.

Now they are both wrong, of that I'm certain, but if the phone app is measuring a mile short at the end of the measured time trial marathon I'm going to be doing then I have a problem.

Bugger all I can do about it except complain as much as possible into the ether... so that's what I'm doing because it's a stupid system to prove my capability of still being able to run a GFA time (or not).
Sep 2020
12:30pm, 24 Sep 2020
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Bazoaxe
What distance did that occur over ?

Unlikley bit over a longer distance might the inaccuracies even out ?

Also the issue that you cannot wear your phone on your wrist so how do you know when it has recorded 26.2 - does it sound some kind of a klaxon or are you having to keep looking at it to check?
Sep 2020
12:42pm, 24 Sep 2020
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Spideog
Was just over 7 miles that I did yesterday.

The Dublin app would speak to me every mile as well to say the time and pace, so I knew that it was still running and hadn't crashed, and how far it was diverging from the watch measurement. Think I'd get annoyed with it shouting at me each mile if they have that on the London app, but guess for the sake of knowing in advance of the finish line how far off I am I'll leave that on.
Sep 2020
12:44pm, 24 Sep 2020
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chunkywizard
It'll be interested to see how it compares to the official course distance for the event I am running on the same day. If I cross the line and it's not showing 26.2 do I just keep on running? ;-)

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