Across the Years News

Dave Combs here. I just wanted to issue an apology to those watching on the web. We've been having some technical issues here with the timing equipment and uploads to the race website. We're not sure exactly why, but it may just be the amount of stuff we have at the race site drawing power, combined with the amount of information we're trying to forward to the web and a bit of a slow net connection. That's why occasionally you'll see laps with missing times on various runners live totals. We've had some timing glitches, but have verified that laps have been adjusted correctly for any affected runners. For those of you interested in why John Geesler and Tony Mangan keep showing lap times of 00:00, it's due to a technical problem with their wearing two timing transponders in case they manage to break a record. The software I wrote to figure out lap times didn't quite deal correctly with having two separate times for the same runner that were right close together, but both "correct". I'll have to work on that for next year--we don't want to change something like that right now! ;-)

The race conditions have been interesting--high 30s at the start, probably mid-60s during the afternoon, but it's chilling off again now that the sun has been down a while. The runners seemed to enjoy it, but we're freezing in the timing tent, even with a heater! ;-) Tony Mangan keeps cranking out the laps, with John Geesler trailing by a bit. Tracy Thomas is once again leading for the women. Dave Putney leads both the 24-hour race and the overall laps for everyone, with Pam Reed, June Gessner and Jenny Hoffman taking spots 2-4 in the 24-hour. ULTRA list folk Ron Hamilton and Fred Dummar lead the 48-hour runners.

More later as the night wears on,
Dave