--- Navid Kahangi <nkahangi@interwoven.com> wrote:
> I really don't think we can shorten the overlap to
> less than 25 seconds.
Pardon my intrusion. As a new guy, I was genuinely
concerned about being caught on course by the cars
behind me. If there had been a 15sec overlap, it would
have happened!
Sean
I'm slow.
> --Navid
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > [mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of
> > dagmlist@mindspring.com
> > Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 5:22 PM
> > To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Limiting Entries
> >
> >
> > I have a couple concerns about limiting entries.
> >
> > Mainly I (and I am sure I am not alone) have a 2
> hour drive each
> > way to Candlestick. This means that if I run in
> the afternoon
> > I'm still leaving the house no later than 9:00AM
> to arrive with
> > enough time to comfortably register, tech, and
> change tires
> > before 12:00. Saturday was a 14+ hour day for me
> (leave 9:00 AM,
> > Arrive 11:00A, Run (8th group), Dinner, Home
> ~11:00 PM). My
> > concern is that SFR would turn in to DeAnza, and
> I'd have to
> > leave home at 5 AM for every event.
> >
> > The other point is that I am not convinced that
> limiting entries
> > is the best solution to the problem. After
> running some numbers
> > in a spreadsheet, it looks like the key is course
> design, and
> > keeping a proper overlap. Here are the numbers I
> ran:
> >
> > 300 entrants, 4.5 runs/entrant (take care of
> re-runs and red
> > flags), 5 minutes between groups, 30 minutes for
> lunch/mid day
> > course walk. 9:00 start. With a 20 second
> overlap, you are done
> > at 5:30. a 25 second overlap adds almost two
> hours, and you get
> > out at 7:22. If you can shorten the overlap to 15
> seconds, you
> > are finished at 3:37, and have plenty of time for
> fun runs.
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > --
> > Doug Gentges
> > dgentges@mindspring.com
> >
>
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