babs f wrote:And at the British Sprints in the snow at Warwick University in 2008, I watched a number of competitors in the final look at their Emit brikke (the old fashioned variety) at the finish, see the scrolling bars and think that they had punched the finish control. It was only at download, some distance away, that they found out that the bars were still scrolling from the previous control, which was very close, and that they hadn't registered at the finish control.
I'm very old and boring, but I like SI.
If the British Sprints at Warwick had used SI then I'd have been DQd in the heats: I missed out a control near the end, but thanks to the Emit display reading one less than it should have done I realised this, stopped, worked out from the map which one I'd missed and went back for it.
I heard rumours of there being a 'sprint mode' that could be set for Emit, to reduce the duration of the scrolling bars after a control had been punched. Allan Farrington denied this, but perhaps Emit should consider such a mode for the eTags.
Several times at Aldershot I was grateful that more than one person could punch at once, which is a useful advance.