No I don't charge. I typically have 500 or so racers and family and friends so the vendors do OK. I ask that they comp the officials and race staff. Since they deal with all of the local permits and health dept regs, I figure that they do enough without me taking a cut of their sales.
So in an effort to find a few newbies to MTB racing my buddy and I started up a short-track cross country race series every other Thursday in May. Details are HERE if you're interested (Ithaca, Michigan).
We wanted to keep this informal-ish, but also keep the workload fairly light as for scoring.
I found an app for my iPhone called "Webscorer" which works really well for STXC and probably for 'cx too. I have no affiliation with the developers, etc., but just wanted to throw this out there as a resource for those of you that might be looking for a cheap alternative to digital timing systems.
The 30-day pro trial version allows you to time lap splits, which is a cool feature. I enter category information (in our case A's and B's), racer names, and racer numbers.
You set the number of laps for the race, hit start, and when each racer goes by for the start of the second lap, you tap on their racer number.
Pretty idiot proof unless you make the awesome mistake of imputing the incorrect number of laps (like I did for race #1 last night!).
Mike B
No I don't charge. I typically have 500 or so racers and family and friends so the vendors do OK. I ask that they comp the officials and race staff. Since they deal with all of the local permits and health dept regs, I figure that they do enough without me taking a cut of their sales.
Aug 28, 2012
brianhancock
So in an effort to find a few newbies to MTB racing my buddy and I started up a short-track cross country race series every other Thursday in May. Details are HERE if you're interested (Ithaca, Michigan).
We wanted to keep this informal-ish, but also keep the workload fairly light as for scoring.
I found an app for my iPhone called "Webscorer" which works really well for STXC and probably for 'cx too. I have no affiliation with the developers, etc., but just wanted to throw this out there as a resource for those of you that might be looking for a cheap alternative to digital timing systems.
The 30-day pro trial version allows you to time lap splits, which is a cool feature. I enter category information (in our case A's and B's), racer names, and racer numbers.
You set the number of laps for the race, hit start, and when each racer goes by for the start of the second lap, you tap on their racer number.
Pretty idiot proof unless you make the awesome mistake of imputing the incorrect number of laps (like I did for race #1 last night!).
May 3, 2013
Pirate Race Productions
That's awesome, thanks for the heads up. I may use it for HCCX and I'll tell my friends who run the Dirt Derby about it too.
May 3, 2013