In reply to The New NickB:
> Sounds horrendous. I've done Trafford and Salford (Good Friday) multiple times each, both fast and flat with big enough fields to help pull you along, although Salford only have chip timing at the end as well.
"I think my main gripe (if it can be called that) is that this was a chip timed run but the timing mats were only used at the end. I'm baffled as to why you would have the technology available and not use it. I went along looking for a PB as it was described as flat, fast and chip timed. Fortunately for me I was well inside a new PB but given that the official times were gun times, if it had been much tighter I would have been left feeling a bit cheated. As it is I now have an official PB and an unofficial PB that is 14 seconds quicker."
Thats pretty poor tbh. Id stay away from that race as its not organised by runners presumably. Generally PR's go off chip times, positions in place finished.. so even if you ran faster the guy ahead wins even if you took longer to cross the line.