Thanks very much for your patient and progressive explanations.
Thanks for that.
Changes will now have to be made at the event.
Following completion of the start times on Monday, and handing them over to SportIdent for some extra double checking [eg no embarrassing duplicate start times on the same course] ; upload and to be pulled into the event system; the bibs were then finalised late on Tuesday night, and off to the printers first thing on Wednesday morning ....
I would expect mistakes which were the 6 days fault to be dealt with sympathetically ....
In the meantime, I would just note that the purpose of my posts has been to clarify that even if the start times are not everything that you would have been wanted; there has been a lot of effort in producing the best set of start times that we can manage against a set of difficult constraints.
If you need a change, please approach the volunteers managing EOD with those thoughts in mind