When last did you check your official time for Momentum 947? I checked on Saturday and it turns out that they penalised anyone who rode with the wrong group on the day! Wrong group? I emailed the racetec guys and got an email from the Call Centre Assistant, Janine de Vries that confirmied this.Now I have a fundamental problem with that because amongst other things: there were no marshalls or ushers to guide people into chutes or groups correctlythere were no clearly marked or cordoned off chutes per groupno-one was collecting race cards at the startno one was even checking for racetec chips and numbers etcmany people just go into any group after unsuccesfully trying to navigate through a sea of riders that blocked the way to the start linethe muddy conditions and lack of order added to the confusion and I ended up in a group and could only look at the riders numbers around me and inferred because their numbers were similar to mine assume that I am in the correct chute (also the number is large font and letter hardly legible) see picthere were not enough timing mats across the length of the course to cros-check times and answer all these timing queries that have since arisenNow based on this some bureaucrat makes a decision in Racetec headquarters that I should get a 90 min penalty? Really? DO they even realise what their decsion means to our times and seeding for other races like the Argus? I have been training through Winter, putting in the hard miles so that I can start Argus earlier and benefit from a higher seeding, for you to arbitrarily reverse all my blood, sweat and tears? Anyone else have this happen to them? Please PM me and we can address it soonest.
