Good day, runners! If you’re interested in running the MITHACAL MILERS mile time trial this coming Tuesday at 7:15 PM at Barton Hall, please sign up soon in Webscorer. The time trial is free, but as with the workouts, you must be an FLRC member and sign the FLRC and Cornell waivers.
Please don’t leave this until Tuesday evening because I need time to print the name tag stickers we’ll use for timing and assign them to specific runners. If you have a child running the time trial too, make sure to register them separately.
To be clear, for anyone who might find this stressful, THIS IS NOT A RACE, even against yourself. It’s a diagnostic effort designed to help you (and me) determine what pace you should run in training.
We’ll run at least three heats, seeded by time (slow to fast, as in our meets). The registration will ask for a predicted mile time—just guess what you think you can run so I can put you in an appropriate heat. Note that the predicted time has pop-up menus for hours (HH), minutes (MM), and seconds (SS). Please don’t use the hours menu—no one should take that long.
Everyone will receive a name tag sticker with a number and QR code on it. After you finish, we’ll ask you to line up in order of finish so we can scan the code on your number to match up with the recorded times.
I’ll need a couple of people to help, but with all the heats, it shouldn’t be a problem to recruit some volunteers who have already run or have yet to run.
@workouts Hey folks, just another request that if you want to run tonight’s mile time trial, please register this morning. It will be a lot easier for me (and get us to the starting line sooner) if we don’t have to add people manually tonight.
If you’re on the fence, register anyway. It’s much easier for us to not give you a bib number than to add you manually.
Hi Adam, any possibility of switching my time with Chris Mellor’s time. We switched our name sticker so I could run in an earlier heat for childcare reasons.
Yep—check now. Switching people between waves in Webscorer after the fact turns out to be rather tricky. Not hard, just the sort of thing that requires focus to do right.
I’m glad it seemed that way! It has evolved from a “put a stopwatch on 10 or 15 people” to this year’s four waves of 65 total runners, which is why we needed two iPhones for timing, one for video backup, a Bluetooth QR code scanner, the big clock, and a backup Seiko stopwatch.
But as much as it’s stressful because I don’t want to mess anything up, it’s also big fun when it all works. Just as much as performance for me and Heather as it was for the runners.
