Momentum 94.7- penalised 90 mins for starting in wrong group?

[GoLefty!!]

man people really lose the plot over seeding don't they....

[Wyatt Earp]

Anybody know how to start an internet slow clap for this incredible athlete...?

For Dewey_ZA

 

 

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[Escapee..]

My start group was easy to find... $, we started first so i had no issues what so ever..

 

Did I ever tell you about the time I saw a Turkey? It was a very majestic bird. 

 

I tried to catch it, but it lead my to the Turkey Kingdom where I was captured  by the Turkey Republican Guard.

 

I then had a dance off with the King of the Turkey Kingdom to win my freedom. It was an epic battle but in the the end, the gobbles fell my way. 

 

I left a changed man that day. Free of any burdens I had taken upon myself

 

I was the Turkey Cahmpion

[Wyatt Earp]

Did I ever tell you about the time I saw a Turkey? It was a very majestic bird. 

 

I tried to catch it, but it lead my to the Turkey Kingdom where I was captured  by the Turkey Republican Guard.

 

I then had a dance off with the King of the Turkey Kingdom to win my freedom. It was an epic battle but in the the end, the gobbles fell my way. 

 

I left a changed man that day. Free of any burdens I had taken upon myself

 

I was the Turkey Cahmpion

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2t22fOR8p1qittkv.gif

['Dale]

Out there

Way out there, escapee......

 

 

Bwahahahahahaaa

[argie1]

I was seeded C and started with them too, feels kinda strange now.

 

BUT, in the second km I saw this youngster with a yellow shirt, number 8 thousand and something.  I told him he was a touch out of sequence with his number, and his reply .... ja but I ride SAs!    yeah right so you got seeded that far back.  He had folded his group letter over so only his number was visible. (8739 I think but don't crucify that number, at my age I might have mixed it up by now)

 

He was dropped before that long climb was over and I never saw him again, even after I had to stop to replace a front brake block.  First time in 36 years that has happened, luckily I carry two spares on the back brakes.

[Wyatt Earp]

I was seeded C and started with them too, feels kinda strange now.

 

BUT, in the second km I saw this youngster with a yellow shirt, number 8 thousand and something.  I told him he was a touch out of sequence with his number, and his reply .... ja but I ride SAs!  

We know him as Dewald_ZA

[clivem]

Slightly off topic.  See there were 21,666 finishers per Racetec, but the number of competitors that's bandied about is 33,000.  Is the difference only people who don't have chips?  Would have thought almost everyone had a chip by now.  Couldn't have been that many timing errors.

[Tubehunter]

When you're under 23, ride a sub 2:30 and finish in the top 100 of the race after only starting in 2012, you get to boast just a little...      Good job Dewald!

[Tubehunter]

Slightly off topic.  See there were 21,666 finishers per Racetec, but the number of competitors that's bandied about is 33,000.  Is the difference only people who don't have chips?  Would have thought almost everyone had a chip by now.  Couldn't have been that many timing errors.

 

Most of that number accounts for the DNFs and the DNSs. Far less will be no chip...

['Dale]

I..., even after I had to stop to replace a front brake block. First time in 36 years that has happened, luckily I carry two spares on the back brakes.

Spare briek blokkies

Yoh, impressive

[Tubehunter]

Spare briek blokkies

Yoh, impressive

 

Think he hijacked the set off the back so that he only had fronts to finish G.. (Spare cos he doesn't use the back brakes)

[Wyatt Earp]

Well done Dewey 

 

 

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[GLuvsMtb]

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 correctly
• there were no clearly marked or cordoned off chutes per group
• no-one was collecting race cards at the start
• no one was even checking for racetec chips and numbers etc
• many people just go into any group after unsuccesfully trying to navigate through a sea of riders that blocked the way to the start line
• the 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 thier numbers were similar to mine assume that I am in the correct chute
• there were not enough timing mats across the length of the course to cros-check times and answer all these timing queries that have since arisen

Now 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.

It seems like you are on your own here. 

['Dale]

Think he hijacked the set off the back so that he only had fronts to finish G.. (Spare cos he doesn't use the back brakes)

Oh okay

Howzeet, man! :-)

[Falco]

It seems like you are on your own here. 

 

And rightly so. 

 

The OP can sugar coat this any way he likes ~ he knew he was in the wrong group, and he intentionally stayed in the wrong group. 

 

If it was up to me, it would be DQ time. A 90 minute penalty is far too lenient.