How are results tabulated and why could there possibly be mistakes or problems?
Let us take just a moment to consider. Problems start early. It could be a flaw in the design of the entry form, perhaps crucial information is requested but it is in an obscure portion of the entry form, or sometimes information needed to tabulate results is omitted (like age or sex, for example). Usually this is not the case. Usually the problem starts with how the runner filled out the entry form. They will do so hastily, neglect to include their date of birth, their zip code, their age or sex, and fill out the entry form illegibly. When it comes time to compute the results, the people doing the scoring rely on accurate data, if the age, sex or name of the participant can t be discerned from their entry form, and thus was not properly entered into the data base, there is no way of properly assigning results to that individual. Given perfect entrant information, there are still problems that can arise in doing the timing. The two biggest sources of error come from bandits, unregister
