Who are you? (Group Introductions)

[Crystal McCullough]

Since this group is now over 140 people, I'm guessing I'm not alone in wondering who everyone else is and what brought us here. I figure it also would be nice if we 'like' each others' business page on Facebook to help support one another (unless you really don't like them!), and it would be good to put a face and bio to some of the names we see in here. Any takers? I'll start...

[Crystal McCullough]

Name: Crystal McCullough

Business name: BE GOOD SPORTS

Location: Bradford, VT

Web site: begoodsports.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeGoodSports

Most of my career has been as a writer and editor, mostly in the consumer computer industry. My most recent project has been writing about remote work and working from home for Citrix here and here, and I also write posts on my company site. I spent several years working on conferences/events, and this is my first foray into the running events industry. After months of research, I had almost purchased another timing system, and while I was waiting to be screened by the company, I found out about Agee Race Timing completely by accident. Am I happy I did! 

I'm editing my post to include my running experience: I think I am an anomaly in the group in that I haven't been running very long. I started running and racing a couple of years ago after my mom died. I started training to run a race in her honor and to raise money for the palliative care facility where she passed away. I was surprised to find that I love it. The irony is that was the most poorly organize race, so I started volunteering to help them, and now I'm doing it for a living. I'd previously run once in awhile when I was first in college, but it was to burn calories, not to compete. I was a long-distance charity cyclist and bicycle commuter/advocate for many years, and have always loved the passion that new and veteran athletes have when pushing themselves for a good cause—whether it's to win or just to finish, to raise money in honor or in memory of a family member, to lose weight and gain fitness, and so on. Running seems to bring people together like nothing else does, and I really enjoy being a part of that.

[christ...@gmail.com]

Crystal... it was nice to see your introduction. Here's ours: 

Name: Christobel Ng and Scott Coleman

Business name: Coleman Running Club

Location : San Antonio TX

We do not have a website or FB page. WE just started and had only time one race. Will be timing a turkey run on thanks giving next. We are newbies and follow Brian's set up and recommendation.  We are still trying to figure things out for eg buying bibs vs printing Bibs etc..... 

I have a full time job and my husband works part time as a physical trainer. Both of us are runners which bought us into the business. We are tie up with a local running store here and all our races are from the store. They run the races as directors and we times the races for them.. eventually, we would like to be more independent and manage our own races

 

[Ohio Race Day]

Name: Mike Burrows

Business name: Ohio Race Day LLC

Location: Lexington OH

Web site: www.ohioraceday.com

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/OhioRaceDay

Thanks Crystal, for kicking this off.  I think I had already snooped and "liked" your FB page.  At ORD we are just a couple of guys who time races on the side mostly for our own fun.  We do charge for our services and I did form a company but mainly I like working with race directors because they are usually git-r-done types.  I have a pet peeve about lazy people.  hahaa!  We also get a kick out of working the finish line.  Nothing like being a part of live action to focus your attention.  :)

My partner and I were helping at races in different capacities and later began timing races to help support local events.  We timed about 16 races for free before we started asking for donations and then later asking to be paid.  That was mostly to cover some of our time and material costs.  I found out that you can work all day, every day for free!  We had used a software product that was designed by another running club buddy for several months before we stumbled upon ART on YouTube.  I bought the manual version and timed a race alongside my partner with it and was hooked on the ease of use.  ART runs circles around what we were using before.  That all led to where we are at now.  We have timed over 25 individual races in 2014 and will easily have that many next year.  We try to limit our schedule because we both have families and regular jobs and we both train for races ourselves.  That's us in a nutshell.  Looking forward to hearing about others.

ps - I have met Brian Agee and helped him time a race in another state and I can vouch that he is as genuine and honest and hardworking as he seems online.  He really wants to help people by providing this low cost way to make their events better.  I owe him greatly for the help he's given me.

[Tim Irvine]

Name: Tim Irvine

Business name: Time 2 Run

Location: Meridian, MS

Web site: time2run.net 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/time2runracetiming

 I started running at age 10 and have been around running my whole life since. In 2010 I moved to Meridian and the running community was strong, but they had very few races. I literally started timing just so we could have a few more races (sound familiar) and then my phone started blowing up with people needing a timer. So I decided to make a business out of it. I love doing this, and although I have a full time real job, I hope one day this is all I have to do. Nice to meet you all. Tim

[SportMadeSimple]

Thanks for starting this thread!  It's been so great to join this group!

Name:Steve Moran

Business: Sport Made Simple

Location: St Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Website:http://sportmadesimple.com/ &   http://www.xcrunner.ca/

Twitter: @SportMSimple & @xcrunnerca

I am a high school computer science teacher and was a varsity runner (xc & track) in Toronto.  I've coached high school aged runners since 1995 and convened our association championship and invitational meets as long as I can remember.  We were timing our XC races with a program that I wrote myself that works very similar to the manual version of ART.  Last year my friend and co-coach and I joined with another friend and coach from another school to buy some rfid equipment and launch the timing side of Sport Made Simple - I've been running the business for years as an online registration system and a web development company. Originally I was going to just modify my program to handle the RFID, but when I came across Brian's work I saw the value and jumped at it.  We've had a very busy year (as busy as we can handle).

[reece.bell]

Name: Maurice Bell

Business name: Viper Timing Systems

Location: Howell, NJ

Web site: vipertiming.com

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/vipertiming

Started running in high school as a sprinter and also competed on the college level. Long jump was my specialty and now I am a head track coach for a local high school responsible for sprints and jumps. I started wanting to time because of 2 reasons 1. the officials sent to my meets were horrible at it2. the timing crews at many events made the meets longer and also did a poor job. I figured I could do it better and cheaper. I started out buying track equipment from flash timing. I ended up getting good a quick - I actually have had request to slow down at track meets because they need to sell all of the food in the concession stand. My response is always to have the clerks slow down. Because of this I started to get busy and then the requests to time cross country and road races came in. I had experience with other systems (Jaguar, MyLaps), but didn't want to spend a ton of money. I found ART and my prayers were answered!

[reece.bell]

Hey Tim, I spent some of my youth in Canton, MS.

[rtspt.usa]

Sean Laughlin

Record Timing, LLC

San Francisco, Ca

www.RecordTiming.com

mainly cross country and track and field.. with a road race here and there.

amazing that the other uhf chip companies charge 4 times the amount for the exact same hardware.

[hubbard47630]

Name: Chris Hubbard

Business: 40LB Sledgehammer Productions

Location: Newburgh, Indiana

Website: 40lbsledgehammer.com

Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/40lbsledgehammer
Twitter: @40lbsledge

I road biked most my life, then got into running, then triathlon, then back to just riding (Mountain bike, cyclocross, and some road). I work as a locomotive engineer full time and serve on Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen's Indiana State Legislative Board's Executive Committee. I also have had various positions on local charity boards. After a major car wreck (guy ran a red light and hit me head on), I was unable to race and got into the back side of racing. 

I started 40LB Sledgehammer several years ago with the idea of doing one or two of my own events. This year we have been part of about 25 event including 15 of our own. We are already booked for over 30 events next year. We do everything from timing, production, race rentals, finish lines, vinyl banner printing, t-shirts, and anything else that is involved in putting on races. We own & produce mountain bike races, criterium races, trail runs, and several road runs. Next year we are adding a couple new events including a triathlon. We're also getting more in to collegiate cross country timing & scoring. Like Mike from Ohio Race Day, I loath lazy people.... 

[Tim Irvine]

I like your logo Chris

[Run Roanoke]

Name: Jeremy Woods

Business name: Run Roanoke LLC

Location: Roanoke, VA

Web site: www.runroanoke.com

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Run-Roanoke-LLC/179896318881662

 

My full time job is as a Special Education Teacher in Roanoke. I have been running for 20+ years since I was in high school and in college. I coached cross country and track & field for ten years. When put on my first race I was hoping to get 50 people, excel spreadsheet for the results, and hoping everyone would make it through safe. My last year coaching I put on a xc race with 700+ runners and organized a 5k had 250 runners, boy had I came a long way. My wife and I talked about me getting out of coaching and had the opportunity to take over a few races from the local running club (they stopped timing races). When I started timing it was with 5 races in 2011 I had no  formal company name or website. Now I have grown to 45 races in 2014 ranging from cross country, road, canoe, and trail races.. We are scheduled to do 50+ races in 2015. I found Brian Agee on youtube one night watching some videos, I knew immediately I needed to talk to him. I paid for Brian's timing program and TR-200 with money I made picking peaches on my parent’s farm.  Since then i have been busy as a bee timing races.

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[Run Roanoke]

try getting bibs from roadid.com you can get 500 bibs and a box of safety pins for $18.50.

[Crystal McCullough]

Thank you to everyone who has posted in this thread so far! Keep them coming! 

[blueridgetiming]

Name: Doug Thomasey

Business name: Blue Ridge Timing

Location: Lynchburg, VA

Web site: www.blueridgetiming.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blueridgetiming

I am a former DIII athlete in the Decathlon. I coached at the college level for 5 years, but then was forced to make a decision between teaching and coaching. For family and future lifestyle reasons I chose to continue to teach math. The reason I got into timing is that I couldn't stand watching other timers take FOREVER to get results out. For this reason, in my first year I invested in a Micrograph LED board which gives results as I am reading them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgIMJ8shoeg 

I also can't stand officials and coaches who scream at their athletes not to cross the finishline when events are going on, it's just another picture....but we will save that rant for another time.

As a former athlete/coach/spectator, I think it is only fair to know my time right away rather than waiting for the printouts. 

I found Brian through my college roommate who is now working at runsignup. I wanted to branch off to do chip timing but since I don't do too much, I didn't want to spend a ton of money. For this reason, I decided on Agee. At first (as you may note from some of the posts) I was having major problems, but at my latest events I have been getting 100% reads. 

I love chip timing, although I still think it is only fair at big meets to have lynx in order to determine close calls. This past weekend at a NCAA Regional meet, results had to be changed 3 times due to close calls and chips being read in the wrong order. 

Keep up the good work everyone!

[Tim Irvine]

I like your LED board Doug!

[Juan Botes]

Name: Juan Botes

Business name: Chain Gang Events

Location: Wilderness, South Africa

Web site: www.chaingangevents.co.za

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/CGEvents

It seems that I am the only one on this side of the Atlantic! I come from a Business Analyst (UK) background and when returning back to my home country (South Africa) I wanted to start off with my passion (sport events) and thus the start of Chain Gang Events.

The timing started as I were creating my own events and realized how much the timing cost element was of the overall event production and also after creating my own timing solution I was contacted by other Race Directors to assist with their events. Still in the infant part of the timing side of my business, but are in the process to branch out as I see a definite niche market in our area with only a few players in the field and they are not really supplying a stand-out product.

I enjoy reading the comments and tips in this group and where I can assist I will certainly do.

[Ohio Race Day]

Welcome, Juan.  You're not the only one on that side of the Atlantic.  I've seen others.  :)

[Juan Botes]

Thank you for the welcome. Maybe wrongly stated: Only one on the group I am aware of :-)

[timgrummell]

I'm another person this side of the Atlantic, but probably further away from SA again ha, in Ireland. I've been on and off involved with timing races with 2 or 3 yrs now, picked up an agee system but to be honest most my work is with just supplying the clock and gantry to races. I'd like to time more races but the day job is too busy still so that will have to wait, I only time a few local races every year on a word of mouth basis.

I'm originally a mechanical engineering, so the technical side of things certainly interests me also, it's been interesting reading up about the mats against normal antenna, and shoe tags or bib tag debates here, it's an area we can hopefully make further progress on, I know getting competitors to obay instructions is difficult, doesn't matter how many times you tell them you always get tags shoved into the shoes, in pockets, no tied on right etc etc, bib tags work around that well but of course lower read rates and people putting them on their back etc always a problem.

[Brian Agee]

The system is still in its infant stages compared to other systems on the market, so I'm sure this list will grow a lot in 2015. I'm not sure where all the resellers have sold to, but I have at least one customer in the following countries:

• Australia
  
• Brazil
  
• Canada
  
• Colombia
  
• Costa Rica
  
• Czech Republic
  
• Dubai
  
• Ireland
  
• Italy
  
• Japan
  
• Latvia
  
• Philippines
  
• Portugal
  
• Romania
  
• Scotland
  
• Singapore
  
• Slovakia 
  
• Slovenia
  
• South Africa
  
• Spain
  
• Sweden
  
• UK
  
• USA
  

[Fumitaka Niwa]

Thanks Crystal and Every one

Today I timed a small race for the first time in my life. With Agee System!

It was perfect Every  fellow satisfied with the results.

My name : Fumitaka Niwa

Web http://tegatora.jp (sorry Jamanese)

        http://tegatora.jp/duathlon

FB https://www.facebook.com/teganumaduathlon

I'm Ironman Triathlete. I love triathlon. In these days Ironman Races become so expensive.
I want to make a cheap and friendry triathlon, duathlon races.

Next race is Teganuman(Teganuma Duathlon) March.8

I'll do my best.

[Ohio Race Day]

Fumitaka Niwa,

Good luck in your next race!  Are you participating or timing it?

[Fumitaka Niwa]

Hi Ohio Race Day!

Of cource I will Time the race. It is a big race for me.

I use inpinji 420+4Anttenas. Yesterday I used it for the first time. It was good.

I will prepare not to fail.

Now I'm wondering what  kind of power source for Impinji.

Buttery+DCACconverter or Generater.  What do you use usually?

(sorry I'm not accustumed to write Engrish)

Fumitaka Niwa

[Ohio Race Day]

We try to use AC power primarily​ .  I always ask the race director if power is available.  We also use an ​uninterrupted power supply​ (UPS) for the reader and computers.  That way if we lose power the battery back up will keep us working.  In addition, I have a pure sine wave inverter in my vehicle that produces clean 110v household quality electricity.  You can search this group for more power suggestions.  Some do use generators with success.  Here is the UPS ...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16842102083&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC-_-pla-_-UPS-_-N82E16842102083&gclid=Cj0KEQiAr9ymBRDdqYrH6Mj5170BEiQAcRUsi-6FLtWsp75uQcE72iMvE8YlbbvMnfGznoLV-W_cd1saAlSc8P8HAQ&gclsrc=aw.ds

[Linda Powell]

Name: Linda Powell

Company:  The Bizz Running Company

Located in: Susanville, CA (Northeast corner of the state, close to Reno, NV)

website: www.bizzrunningcompany.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBizzRunningCompany

I've been running for about 5 years to lose weight (40 lbs).  Now with countless races, including 9 marathons, under my belt, I have experienced great races and not so great races.  I realized this region of Northern California is completely void of an RFID timing company so I decided to start one to give the growing running, mountain biking community the chance to experience low-cost quality events.  Looking at 3 more years until retirement from my real job, I decided to follow my passion as a race director and timer.  I coach cross-country and host the local Susanville Runners Facebook page.  I spent several months researching many different timing systems and felt Brian Agee is about as genuine of a human being as there is (kudos to him and much respect) so I decided on my limited budget, I could piece together my system as well.  Two years ago I organized Susanville's first ever Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot and in its second year we had over 300 participants.  As more and more races pop up, I have really seen the need for chip timing.  I'm hoping though this company, I can bring people to Susanville to visit the world class trails.  We are the home of the Rails to Trails, Bizz Johnson National Recreation Trail and Lassen National Park.

As a brand-new race timer, I'd love to help out someone on the west coast time their race so I can become comfortable with the whole system and Agee Race Timing software.

[Ohio Race Day]

Welcome aboard!

[Tim Irvine]

Site looks great Linda! Welcome.

[info]

Name:  Steve Peters

Business Name:  Adirondack Coast Events

Location:  Plattsburgh, NY on the Adirondack Coast of Lake Champlain

Website:  www.adirondackcoastevents.com

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/adirondackcoastevents

Our mission is to utilize our experience to provide affordable race timing and event consulting services to the Adirondack Coast Region in Northern New York. We want to allow charities to focus on their causes, enhance services to the running community, and improve the quality of life in the region.

I've been a member of this google group since almost the beginning and have read about many of the successes and "learning opportunities" that many of you have had timing races.  I am very appreciative of this site and the willingness to share experiences so that we all can produce a better product.  This is a part-time business that my wife and I have started--we get our children involved "working" at races too, so that they can learn the value of entrepreneurship and hard work.  My fulltime job is the Superintendent of Recreation for the City of Plattsburgh.

[Joost Huele]

What's up guys! I'm Joost Huele, happy resident of a tiny Island in the Caribbean called Sint Maarten. There's about 100,000 people on this rock in the ocean, and with our year-round sunny weather, we have loads of events all year long. I'm here researching the possibility of setting up a timing service for the islands' running, cycling and MTB events. Myself, I've been an avid MTB rider for 3 years now, and only recently caught the bug and joined a local road racing team. Here's me proudly wearing the Mo Trouble Team jersey and a Gopro on my helmet:

I work for the local bikeshop as a tourguide on bikes, kayaks and hiketrails. Through the club and the shop I'm convinced I can get people to sponsor an affordable setup that can then be put to good use for all events here. I don't intend to make any money off the process, just doing something back for the community.
Hopefully I can find tips on what to do and purchase to get up and running, I'll definitely leave a trail of breadcrumbs for others to follow. This is a daunting world to get into, but I'm convinced the results will be worth it. 

Lastly, my hat off to you Brian, for setting up this system, making it as open and accessible as it is. From what I can tell, you are pretty much cutting timing costs for local sports events around the globe by ~75%, basically bringing it to the masses. Kudos!

[Crystal McCullough]

Thank you, everyone who has posted here—I wish more people would! 

I thought I'd post these links to a couple of short non-timing-related videos of me trying out a Hammerhead sled yesterday. I took three runs and this is the shortest one. I would have loved more, but it was quite the workout walking back up that hill. Actually, this is a bit related to our forum, since the camera mounted on the sled is the Polaroid XS100 that Brian now uses in his timing setup. The other video was taken by my husband with his iPhone. I might bring a Thinkify setup next time just for fun!

my view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSKUIPpIJTU

husband view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpuxk-rOgkI

Crystal

http://www.begoodsports.com

[Brian Agee]

You definitely had more fun than I did!

Instead of embracing the snow I decided to fight against it: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155217154235562&set=pcb.10155217156855562&type=1&theater

Down here in Arkansas we get more ice than snow. So when the forecast shows even the slightest chance of snow/ice people act like the end of the world is coming. I had two cars stuck in my ditch late last week. I cleared off the entire driveway and (for some reason) about 100' of the street on each side of my driveway. My back still hurts.

On Monday, March 9, 2015 at 10:54:52 AM UTC-5, Crystal McCullough wrote:

Thank you, everyone who has posted here—I wish more people would! 

To expand a little bit on who I am, I thought I'd post these links to a couple of short non-timing-related videos of me trying out a Hammerhead sled yesterday. I took three runs and this is the shortest one. I would have loved more, but it was quite the workout walking back up that hill. Actually, this is a bit related to our forum, since the camera mounted on the sled is the Polaroid XS100 that Brian now uses in his timing setup. The other video was taken by my husband with his iPhone. I might bring a Thinkify setup next time just for fun!

[rtspt.usa]

looks like a blast... but all i could keep thinking was "that sure is a long haul back UP the mountain"  ha, ha

[Anders]

Name: Anders Florinus

Business name: Västerås Tidtagning, or in English: Vasteras Timing.

Location: Västerås, Sweden, Europe

Web site: www.tidtagning.se, sorry but only in Swedish

 

I feel that it is time to introduce myself to you all. I have worked with timekeeping for ten years now. But I did not started with chip timing until 2014. Before this I worked with timekeeping in swimming pools. We are really good at pool timekeeping and hope to be there with the chip timing too. We started our chip timing career last summer with some open water competitions and a running race. For this season we have already been signed for swimming, running and cycling competitions. We are three guys who do this in our spare time and we believe that this is really fun.

The picture below is the finish line for one of the swimraces, 21 km Vidösternsimmet.

[Jan Ouda]

Name: Jana Oudová and Jan Ouda

Business name: TIME4RACE

Location: Brno, Czech Republic

Web site: time4race.cz

foto from races: http://www.vyuka-brusleni.cz/fotogalerie/jihobrnenske-in-line-stredy-29-4-2015/

Me and my wife are keen on inline skating. Last year we are decided  to improve our low cost inline race series to higher level and replace stopwatches to chip timing system. It is only on hobby level. We are using motorola FX 9500 (4 ant) and connecting only 2 antennas. Best chips for our purpose are hutags.

[Ohio Race Day]

Pretty cool, Jan. Welcome to the group.

[Jon Beverley]

Name: Jon Beverley

Business Name: Total Race Timing

Location: Norfolk England

Website: http://www.totalracetiming.co.uk/

I started looking into Chip Timing for a race organised by by running club and soon realised that it is currently very expensive for smaller races. I managed to pick up 3 CS203 integrated readers off ebay super cheap so I decided to give it a go myself. I soon found ART and have learnt a lot by reading many of the posts on this forum (thanks everyone). Unfortunately my readers are not compatible with ART so I have had to write my own software to do it (i'm a programmer in my day job).

I timed my first race last week. There were 166 runners and we got 162 reads at the start and 163 at the finish, so pretty successful. Interestingly two of the three at the finish were not read at the start and were also not returned after the race. I only had 9 chips that were not handed back. I had a camera hooked up similar to the way ART does it to take finish line photos. If your interested the results and photos can be seen here - http://www.totalracetiming.co.uk/raceresults/1 our website is still a work in progress but the results section is now fully working.

I'm using shoe tags similar to the Agee ones but I am using DogBone Monza R6 inlays, see attached photo. They are larger than the Alien inlays and seem to give a better read range. I have my three readers set up one either side of the finish line and then the third about 5 meters past where the runners are funneled together so they have to get very close to this reader as a backup.

I learnt two key lessons from my first race. 1. Don't forget to turn on the video camera! 2. Don't use the "Auto" setting on the camera. You'll probably notice that the pictures are quite blurred for people that ran across the line.

[CHudsonHRT]

Name: Cody Hudson

Business name: Hudson Race Timing

Location: Western Grove, AR

Web site: hudsonracetiming.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hudsonracetiming

I joined the group a few months ago, but had procrastinated about posting here. I am a XC and Track coach that bought timing equipment to time 2 races per year. After timing my first race, I had a few organizations ask about timing one for them. About four months later I decided to go ahead and make a side business out of the hobby. Compared to most of the people in the group, mine is still just a hobby, but I am getting to work with a lot of athletes and make a little money. 

Leave it to a Coach/Business & Marketing Teacher to start a side business with a busy season that is the same as his own sports seasons. My students & athletes all find this a little funny too. 

[Kenneth Peters]

I am a cross country and track coach in Joplin, MO and we have had the system for about 3 years.  I time about 8 races a year not counting the 4-5 cross country races we time.  I use this as our fundraiser so I don't have to organize anything with my kids.  I get some kids to come help work each race.  I keep half the profit for me and the other half goes to the team.  It is a great way to make a little money and recruit at the same time.

[Ohio Race Day]

Welcome to Jon, Cody & Kenneth.

[countycoachmo]

My name is Joshua Moberg from MOGO Timing, Inc. I coached girls cross country, and girls track for 10 years and still coach girls soccer and teach Architectural Drafting in Stuart Florida. I have 4 daughters of my own and am all for Title 9. I started by purchasing equipment to do FAT timing for track meets because of the high demand and the unwillingness of our school district to open their purse strings. We had done XC the old way and coaches were pretty happy however we looked in to chip timing finally last year and have just started to use it. High school and youth track keep us pretty busy but we have started doing small 5k's and many of the schools are ready to make the jump to chip timing for XC because it is now affordable. Schools were unwilling to pay the heavy costs associated with chip timing but now because of Brian we are putting a lot of pressure on the over priced people trying to get rich off of the local school districts.

[Aaron Ford]

I'm Aaron Ford, owner of Ford Timing located in dry Northern California. I also work for RunSignUp by providing technical support to users of The Race Director scoring software.

I was very intrigued by the good things others were saying at the RunSignUp user conference about the Agee Timing System. Presently I'm evaluating the Agee Timing software and am looking to devise a solution that will enable me to offer the same services (and technology) that I've been providing my clients for the past several years.  In particular I'm interested in using Impinj readers in conjunction with threshold antennae and bib tags. For the time being I'm planning to stick with scoring using the Race Director, however I'm very open (and respectful) towards the work that has been put into the Agee scoring software.

-Aaron

[Chris Hubbard]

We switched over from Thinkify and Motorola circular antennas to Impinj Threshold antennas while still using Motorola readers along with bib tags. So far everything is testing perfect, first race with this set-up is next weekend. 21 races in next 16 weekends.

[Aaron Ford]

Thanks for that insight! I'm a huge fan of ground antennae (if nothing else to be used in conjunction with side antennae) so I'm hoping my 4 spare threshold antennae can be used just as effectively as I presently use them. 

-Aaron

[Ohio Race Day]

Welcome aboard, Aaron.  You'll find many RunSignUp users here.  I personally switched to it from Active.com a few years ago and never looked back.  Agee's system is designed to be low cost and simple to use so he strongly promotes side panel (circular polarized) antennas and reusable shoe tags to the new users.  They cause fewer technical support questions for him than other set ups. 

I use vertically oriented Dogbones and Motorola readers and mat antennas made by RFDesign and get good read rates when augmented with a few side antennas.  Others here use panel antennas mounted on overhead truss systems.  To each his own, I guess.

[Ted Finch]

Hi. Ted Finch. Scotland UK. I ( and son) have set up KitST - Keep it Simple Timing. The object is to offer economical chip timing for small events to start with. We have experience in Road, XC and Obstacle Course Racing ( and Orienteering). Our first event was on 30th August 2015 Tartan Warrior - 90 runners using Hu Tag chips. A lot to learn so will post questions too. Thanks for the forum. It certainly helped us set up our system.

Cheers
Ted

[Nicholas Ireland]

Nicholas Ireland.  Cross country coach for the last 12 years in Dothan, AL.  As of 10/2015, new to ART and very excited about implementing it.  I love hosting XC meets, but I have zero technical gifting yet am pleased to find ART simple and friendly to one like me.  Hoping to be able to serve area school by timing local invitationals. 

[Tim Irvine]

Welcome aboard Nicholas!!!

[Patrick Byrnes]

I'm Patrick Byrnes from Springfield, Massachusetts but I'm currently going to school in Rochester, New York. I'm looking at purchasing a system to add chip timing to my race company and Brian told me that this was the place to ask for suggestions. I'm doing smaller races for now (5k races less than 250 people). If anyone has any suggestions for a starting system, I would appreciate it!

[Ohio Race Day]

Welcome, Patrick!  You have some reading to do.  :) There are many posts about hardware set ups on this board.  Here is a good place to see what others are doing ...

Pictures of Your Set Up

[Tim Irvine]

Patrick, what are you using now?

[David Roy]

Name: David Roy

Organization: S'cary Leg Runners

Location: Schoharie, NY

Website: www.ScaryLegRunners.com

Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/SCaryLegRunners

I've been running forever and belong to a small running club in a rural community that sponsors 1 race a year. In searching for other timing options I stumbled in Brian's timing system, thought it was worth checking out, talked to him and purchased it. We are not in the timing business but did end up timing 5 races in 2015 and will hopefully have the system paid off in 2016 (as long as I stop buying more equipment). It has a ton of nice features! I met Brian at the RunSignUp symposium this summer, what a great guy! My biggest problem is that I find myself timing and not running in the races.

[Ohio Race Day]

Welcome, David.  Here's hoping your five races turn into 50.  :)

[Tom]

I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself to the group. I have been following the group for a long time getting very valuable information from everyone. I'm located in Central California. I have been a Track and Cross Country coach for 40 years and teacher for 41 and still going. I have automatic timing for Track and Field as well as a Chip Timing system I purchased from Brian one and half years ago. I have used the system for both road races and cross country invitationals. I do about 35 races a year (Cross Country and Road Races). We are new to the chip system and learning every day about it from this forum, experimenting and asking questions to folks that have been doing it for a long time. I admire what you folks are doing and how you are doing it. Most of the races we do are small road races and small to large (1500 athletes) cross country races. I figured that there was no better way to spend a Saturday Morning then being with positive and motivated people which runners are. I'm still an avid runner myself. My website, totally a work in progress-never done one before, is rtsracetiming.com. Look forward to be part of this exciting group.

Tom

[Ohio Race Day]

Welcome, Tom.  40 years of coaching!  You just won the comment thread.  Looking forward to hearing your input.

[Alan Bingham]

Welcome Tom to the group. Could you send me some pictures of your truss systems and the connections to the antennas. I am thinking of adding a truss or 2 to the setup and I like how yours look on your website. 

Thanks

Alan

[amirizal]

Hi,  I would like to introduce myself, Amir, from Malaysia. I am very new to timing and came across ART via google search.  I am an avid open water swimmer. I organized plenty of OWS training and late last year, I organized a race and timed it manually.  I wanted to organize at least 2 races for 2016 and thinking to us better timing system.  In our country, mylaps dominated the race timings most of runnings, triathtlons and I did query on its service and found out I could not afford it. Then I came accross ART.  As I read more from this forum, I am more motivated to become a timer myself, at least for my own events. 

I did not have anything with me until last night, that I bid a couple of motorola readers, fx9500 and fx7500 from ebay. I decided to risk on using the used equipment as I could not afford the new ones. Our currency is very weak against U.S dollar and every transaction in US dollar  is quite painful.  While waiting for the readers to get shipped, I will continue to study from this forum to get other equipment like antenna, cables, rfid tags, etc. I hope everyone could bear with me, I have to consult you on the item from China.

Along my journey with ART, I really hope to get some helps from anyone who went through the process before. I would like to thank in advance.

warm regards,

Amir

[Classic Race Services]

Hello.  This is Carole Black with Classic Race Services out of Athens, Georgia.  Classic Race Services has been timing races for about 20 years now.  My business partner (Tim) and I acquired CRS 6 years ago following the untimely death of the founder and owner Will Chamberlin.  We have grown the race business to over 200 races each year.  We provide complete time management services along with Internet marketing and consulting for the race director.  Our website is www.classicraceservices.com.  Just like many of you, both Tim and I work full time jobs and the race timing is our "hobby" and passion!

I have been "stalking" this User Group for a couple of years now and have e-mailed directly with Brian asking a few questions.  I am very interested in the ART system for a reasonable chip timing alternative for our small to mid sized races. We currently use the Jaguar chip timing system, but the per-runner fee we must charge due to the expensive chips is too costly for the smaller races.  More and more we are getting requests for chip timing and I want to have a good reliable service to offer.  Currently, the majority of our races are timed manually using a netbook computer at the finish line running timing software, finish cards and results boards.  We are very good at this manual method, but I fear it is becoming outdated.

Looking forward to conversing and sharing ideas with many of you...

Carole

[Jon Agriesti]

Name: Jon Agriesti
Business name: Timing First, LLC
Location: Hilliard, OH
Web site: timingfirst.com

Experienced runner and high school/ college XC and Track coach. We primarily work HS XC / Track and Field events... Occasional road race. Long time Finishlynx and IPICO user. Joined the group to find an alternative means of chip timing. Interested in seeing what Brian has come up with and what you all are doing timing your events. I find it funny that the major chip timing companies are all coming out with UHF systems in the coming months. Apparently you guys are doing something right, because IPICO is coming out with a UHF system around $3k and chips at .59 cents.

[Ho]

Hello, I am HO from Hong Kong. Nice to join this group although i have been the ART user for 18 months already. I am a runner from Hong Kong and wish to organize and timing more races. So far i have tried 3-4 races which are around 200 - 2000 runners.

Hope to share of my experience on race timing and also the story on buying relevant equipments from CHINA(taobao tmall). Antennas, Tags, waterproof containers, RFID cables or even a dc5521 cable. Hope my experience can be useful to all the ART users in this group.

In addition, thx Brian for his powerful and useful system.

[Paulo Medina]

Newbie to this group but not to the running/event industry.

I am the RD for singletrackrunning.com, most of my events are ultra-distances events and because of that I have been able to get away by using a manual timing software since runners trickle down overtime vs all of them finishing at once.

I am now in the market to better my events, and have more consistency with my results, hence why im here. I haven't purchased any equipment yet, I continue to educate myself before i make the decision. Not only I want to use the equipment to time my events, but perhaps time other events as well. For that reason i am leaning on getting the following to start, with the hopes to double the antennas later:

FX9500 or FX7400 reader (8ports)

4 antennas

TR265 for results station, as well bib check station. 

Any input would be greatly appreciated it. 

Thanks

[Ohio Race Day]

Welcome to the group, Paulo.  I hope you find what you want.  If I were you, I'd run the manual version of the software for long distance trail races.  Knowing how trail runners destroy things and the rate that they come through the finish line, unless the event had more than 300 people you could probably get away with manually timing it.  Just hit that space bar!  You can always upgrade to the RFID version later. 

[Ohio Race Day]

Jon,  Welcome to the group.  I'm near Mansfield OH.  :)

[Ohio Race Day]

Hey, Ho!  Welcome to the group.  We need a good China liaison here!  If we have trouble with Alibaba can we tap you for help?!  :)

[Paulo Medina]

Thanks ORD, I have been using a manual system for a few years now and it is really easy to use, but im ready to upgrade to an RFID system now. This group has been extremely informative. 

Thanks!

[Reid Sowder]

My name is Reid Sowder and I run a small timing company called Commonwealth Timing in Richmond VA. www.commonwealthtiming.net We started our business in 2010 with a focus on helping small, first year races because we put on a couple of small races and could not find a timing company that wanted to help our little race. We had to learn how to time it ourselves and a couple of runners expressed an interest in putting on their own race and asked if we could help. For the first 5 years we used the jaguar system but switched over to Agee this past December. I couldn't be happier that we made the switch. Nearly 6 years later our heart is still for small, first year races and have been blessed to work with so many wonderful races and race directors and so many important causes. We have also been blessed to watch some of those small, first year races from 4 or 5 years ago grow onto fairly sizable races. We now have 4 crews of young folks who are passionate about helping races grow and providing great race timing services. I think they also appreciate having a great part time job that is fun, rewarding and challenging at times. Our motto is " Let us run with perserverance the race that is set before us" and that goes for timing races and, even more so , for the life that the Lord has given each one of us to live. I am excited to be a part of the Agee Race Timing family and thank each one of you in advance for the questions you will answer, the advise you will provide and the suggestions you will make.

[Scott Sutter]

Hello Everyone! I'm a former D1 distance runner from The Citadel. Now that I can't keep up with the fast kids, my next evolution in the distance running community has been to become a race producer. In 2012, I formed the Southern New England Athletic Association... and began timing our own races late in 2015, using the ART System, coupled with the FX9500 & TR265. This package has been bulletproof. Cheers, everyone! -Scott

Name: Scott Sutter

Website: www.SNEAA.org

Cell: 413-519-6566

Address: PO Box 162, Somers, CT 06071

[Scott Sutter]

Hey Maurice! We have a friend in common - Rob DeFilippis was my coach in high school! I stopped by his store in Freehold last week. I have a race in NJ that I may need your help with. When you have a moment, could you shoot me an email at sc...@sneaa.org or give me a shout at 413-519-6566. Thanks! Scott

[JK Race Timing Systems]

Hi All.

John Kennedy here from Cork in Ireland.

I have been annoying Brian for quite some time now but knew the instant I came across his software that it was exactly what I was looking for.

It has been a long road gathering all the equipment but I am now at the point where I am ready for my first race.

I have never timed a race before but can see an opening in a market and am going to grasp it.

I hope I can Learn from you all and eventually become as proficient on the equipment and software as you all are.

From the get go I will be using 2 Impinj Speedway JR1000 readers as the main units and Using 6 Overhead and 2 side antennas and most of my tags are laminated Frog 3d. Initial testing has proved faultless but I suppose the proof is in the pudding.

My first big race is in 2 weeks time and No doubt I will be posting some questions on here before then as I try to get my head around it all.

Thanks again to all.

Regards

JK

[Jon Beverley]

Hi John,

Where are you fixing the tags on the runner and how? Would you mind posting a photo?

I've been looking at a few options for fixing the Frogs so it would be interesting to see someone else's ideas.

Jon

[JK Race Timing Systems]

Hi Jon

I will take some pics over the weekend when I have the system out for testing again.

Best regards

JK

[JK Race Timing Systems]

Hi All

So I used the Agee system for real for the first time this Tuesday last. We were not supposed to be doing one till October but I felt ready to Handle a Charity 5K Run/Walk/Crawl in aid of Events Against Suicide ( which unfortunately is a real issue here in Ireland)

The event was a massive success with over 540 participants but only 280 availed of the timing Bibs as it was completely voluntary.

The system Missed 3 tags but on looking at the video I have valid reasons for that and My antenna placement can and will be better next time round to cater for Kids and others that have the bib attached lower.

The event also did not have pre registration so ultimately meant that I was not able to show the names as they crossed the line and also not avail of the results kiosk afterwards but they did not detract from the success at all. On thing that did go wrong on the night though was the fact that I couldnt extend my desktop ( I couldnt show the public display) even though it worked perfectly at home the previous night.

One thing was definitely for sure, I was not ready for the event and I just got really lucky.

Anyhow I am so happy that Agee is the path I have chosen. There is a 9 foot gap between each Gantry with 4 overhead AN480 Circular Antennae (6dbi)

Pictures Courtesy of Ger Buckley

Here is an example where I placed the Tag. They we tiewrapped on and clipped at the end of the funnel. We lost no tag whaich was great.

[MarkE]

Hello all.  My name is Mark Eben and my wife and I have been using ART for a few months but I've been following this forum for over a year now.  I run a small timing company called XM Timing (www.xmtiming.com or www.facebook.com/xmtiming) that did manual timing only prior to this year.  We've now used ART along with an FX9500 and 4 antenna for 2 fun runs and a HS Cross Country meet.  We also used it manually for a couple more 5k's.  Roughly 400 runners through the chute so far with 102% read rate.  Yes, 102.  (At the CC meet we had a couple of stray runners walk too close to the finish chute and got picked up as well)  The only real issue we've had so far was our SLR camera not connecting at one event.

We've really enjoyed the system so far and have enjoyed the comments from people regarding the tag check station and the public display with the runner results scrolling.  Thanks to Brian for an awesome system!  

Looking forward to learning more from this group.  Attached is a picture of our finish line at the CC meet earlier this week.

Good times . . .

Mark

[Ohio Race Day]

A very belated Hello to Reid Sowder & Scott Sutter!  Welcome to the ART group page.

[Ohio Race Day]

Hi to John Kennedy and Mark Eben.  Welcome aboard!

[JK Race Timing Systems]

Thanks Ohio.
It's good to be part of the forum and I hope to be able to contribute.
Best regards
John

[JK Race Timing Systems]

[JTF Racing]

Hi My Name is Joe Fertsch and I own a small timing company called JTF Racing which just moved from Southern New Jersey to Saint Augustine, Florida. I am just switching over to the Agee system after using Webscorer for the last 18 months.  I was a high school cross country and track guy when younger and a marathoner as i got a bit older. Now more of a cyclist dues to knee and back issues.  I missed the race day atmosphere when i stopped running consistently.  Timing has been great, I started out just timing races pretty much for free and now try to charge a little just to make it good for all involved.  I have a friend who is timing my races in new jersey and i am looking for timing opportunities here in Fla . Brian has been very helpful as some of you  have helped me make this transition. I never used a chip system before and have many questions!  Thank everyone  

[strongislandrunningclub]

Hi all,
John McHugh with the Strong Island Running Club. We are based out of New York. Im an adult onset runner turned Ironman triathlete who got completely hooked on racing doing my first local 5k. It was truly like that scene in Forrest Gump when his braces fall off, you know the scene, makes me smile everytime. Always been interested in the timing side of things just as a curiosity, but in the last year my group started putting on events as a management company and realized how much we were getting taken advantage of by some of the local timers. Not on time, not nice to my staff...just not working out. So here we are, I've been a lurker on here for a while and we finally timed our first event today, a Dog Jog 5k! People actually running with their dogs. Pretty cool stuff, starting out slow but with a great product from Brian and the wealth of knowledge I've been able to pull from on here, things are looking up! Thanks in advance and happy running,
John McHugh
Strong Island Running Club

[Carsten Machholdt]

Name: Carsten Machholdt

Business name: Hviodvre Cykle Klub

Location: Vallensbæk Strand, Denmark

Web site: www.hvidovrecykleklub.dk

I have only been timing cycling races, and plan to build a RFID timing system for cycling races. I have for some time been looking at the Agee Race Timing software, and want to try to build a system around the software. 

[Jordan Schmidt]

Hi all, I'm Jordan, a marketing professional in Southern Ontario, Canada. I volunteer with a nonprofit here called Run Waterloo and we do running programs and events for a community of about 500,000 people. 

We have a great relationship with our chip timing company, but we also have a desire to hold some small events that just don't scale for outsourcing, and we want to have quality non-manual timing. That's what brought us here. I'm just trying to learn everything I can, as this will be a huge investment for us. 

[Ohio Race Day]

Welcome to the ART Users Group ... Jordan Schmidt, Carsten Machholdt, John McHugh & Joe Fertsch!

[My Best Friend's 5k Road Race]

Hi everyone,

    I'm Susan, the race director for our church, Shepherd of the Hills in Simsbury, CT. We just started "My Best Friend's 5k Road Race" last year as part of our Outreach Mission. We hired a timer last year, but couldn't find anyone for this year (in our price range.) So, I looked into purchasing timing equipment and found the ART system. This year will be our first time using the system, so I'm busy playing with it to learn how to use it.

    I've been running since high school. I'm not a natural, but I love the benefits (feeling healthy and reducing stress.) As a retired accountant, I have time to volunteer, so that's how I became involved in creating the 5k for my church. We sponsor a local nonprofit each year. Last year it was the Jordan Porco Foundation - teaching college students about suicide prevention. This year we're sponsoring Veterans Base Camp - a new organization in Connecticut with the mission to help "Support Wellness, Education, Training and Employment Needs for Veterans and First Responders." 

     You can check us out on our Facebook page, My Best Friend's 5k Road Race. I even created my first YouTube video from photos of last year's race! I can't wait to try the camera feature of the ART system this year! 

     Thanks for all your posts - I/m sure I'll learn a lot from all of you!

Susan

[Brian Agee]

Welcome to the group! There are a lot of amazing people here and everyone has always been very respectful. Let us know if you need any help along the way! :)

[Phil Cook]

Hi, I'm Phil, I'm based in Cardiff in the UK. I've been bouncing around the idea of getting my own timing system for a while now, and recently came across Brian's options. I particularly like the flexibility of the software which should help me with timing my Road and Track events. I've been bombarding Brian with questions over the last week and he has been brilliant in his replies. I'm now trying to find the best places to source the hardware in the UK so that I can get myself up and running.

[Ohio Race Day]

Phil Cook,
Welcome to the group! 
Mike Burrows
Ohio Race Day

[Eric Wright]

Hi my name is Eric Wright from South Africa operating as wright race timing and have been using the ageetiming system for about 4 years now.

i just want to give Agee timing a thumbs up.Just finished timing a 16 day race race which included a 1000 mile,16 day ,10 day, 6 day 48 hour ,24 hour 12 hour and various 6 hour races over a 0.5 mile circuit ,Total splits  of 15258 was recorded over the 16 day period .7629 miles or 12277.69 km.

[Brian Agee]

Cool! Thanks man...  I wanted to chime in real quick and say that with Version 5.1 the system should load the clock screen and results almost instantly. With that many splits I would expect that the clock screen and the reports take a while to load. 5.1 is a major overhaul of the database, the Open Race screen, and the Clock screen. I'm doing everything I can to have it finished by next week so that I can use it at two events I'll be timing.

[Ohio Race Day]

Welcome to the ART Google Group, Eric Wright.  That testimonial may be some sort of record for the total number of splits in an event.  Holy cow!

[Oscar Wagner]

My name is Lynwood (birth certificate) "Oscar" ( go by this ) Wagner and I live in Johnson City, TN.    In December of 1984, Runner Magazine named Johnson City, Tennessee the Best Running City in America.  They did visit Santa Monica, Corvallis, New York and Boston and many more.  Maybe there is just not a lot else to do around here.  

I time mostly small races in NE TN and SW VA.  Also, I am a IAAF 'B' Grade Measurer.  There are about 50 of us in the United States.  In 2017, I timed about 25 races and measured 15 courses for USATF certification.  Google "Oscar's Race Results" for my website.  I have spent the past year experimenting with ways to identify finishers quickly.   Bought a used ThingMagic from Tim Irvine earlier this year and have learned a lot from that.    With the advent of $75 FX 7400's on Ebay, I have been assembling an Agee system cheaply.  So far, 3 low loss cables and one antenna have arrived with more on order.  

Last few days, I have been designing a PVC finish arch (everybody wants you to have one anyway) that would run the far side cables inside it and so up and over the line.  Anybody with design experience is welcome to comment.  Has to have pieces no longer than 5' to fit in back seat of my car.  

[MarkE]

Welcome Oscar!  I lived in Johnson City for a couple of years back in the mid-90's and often think of going back.  Being in WI this time of year I certainly miss the weather. :)  Up here today it's 0 degrees outside with a -16 degree wind chill and getting colder.

ART is certainly a great way to allow a low $ start into an awesome timing system.  You can then expand as you want or need to and use the equipment that best suits your needs.  Enjoy the build out and good luck on your arch!  And don't forget to test everything before you go live.  You want to make sure you are comfortable with any situation that comes up.

Mark

[Tim Irvine]

Oscar, 

    PVC may work for a few simple race setups, but long run, you'll want to at the very least use a simple DJ truss. PVC will eventually get wear and stretch or get brittle and break apart. You really don't want to chance it falling on a runner on a windy day. An inexpensive alternative to PVC would be to use fence rails. Best of luck!

[Gregg Mrkvicka]

My name is Gregg Mrkvicka. My wife is Suzi. We are both High School coaches and do coaching of adults besides our full-time real jobs. She thought race timing would be a good fit so we have dived in with Show-Me Running Company. Still have a small list of things to acquire and test before our first race in March (cameras, cables, printer) but we are ready for the sub zero temps in NW Missouri to go away so we can do a "test race" with some friends. We live about an hour North of Kansas City and nobody north of Kansas City does race timing. Every race in our area is manually timed or they hire someone from KC. Judging from the few meetings and contacts I've had in the last week I think we will stay as busy as we want to be. 

[Ohio Race Day]

Welcome to the group, Gregg.  Based on that description of your area, you'll be turning down more work than you accept.  Good luck!

[Steve Hudson]

Name : Steve and Lynn Hudson, hence our...
Company name : LuSH race timing
Location : Gloucestershire, UK
Website : http://www.lushracetiming.co.uk/

Hello everyone, it's about time I introduced myself. Like many others, I have enjoyed reading the marvellous and generous advice given by the forum. And I didn't mind my knuckles being wrapped a while back with an inappropriate jibe !

We met in the cycling world of Time Trials in the UK 40 years ago. With Lynn now enjoying running for the last 10 years, we decided to look into chip timing to improve on manual timing...what a find ART and ALR has turned out to be. Local RDs have been kind to allow us to test our system out and we have found it very successful. My cycling club's sportive event was out first venture into the cycling arena.

We have recently decided to take early retirement and see our venture to help keep the brain cells ticking over. Financially, to simply pay for the purchased equipment - we intend to treat this as a hobby, not as a salaried job, and allow local clubs to take advantage of the latest facilities that Brian and Justin are providing.

Here's to the future of ART and ALR and together with all you guys and gals...it can only be rosy.

[jackrabbittiming]

Name: Patrick Lynch

Business name: Jack Rabbit Race Timing

Location: Fort Mill, SC (south of Charlotte, NC)

Website:  JackRabbitTiming.com

Hello.  I am not much of a runner now at age 64, but enjoy the groups.   My wife is still runs half marathons and under.  My favorite pastime is working on the trails - we have about 15 miles of running trails in our neighborhood, and I am the main maintenance guy.  I also enjoy a good cigar and, of course, beer.

We just bought Jack Rabbit Timing from Susannah Cole after working for her for a couple of years.  We are looking forward to growing the business, but more importantly, providing a low-cost timing alternative for charities in my area (upstate SC, the Charlotte metropolitan area, and Columbia, SC).  It seems that the big boys in Charlotte is buying up all the small operators and jacki8ng prices waaaaaay up.  If I can do a couple of dozen races per year and help these charities keep most of the money they raise, I will be satisfied.   Look out for some novice questions!

Pat Lynch

Jack Rabbit Race TIming

704-941-0116

jackrabb...@gmail.com

[Carlos Galhano]

Name: Carlos Galhano
Business name: BTTManager.com/RunManager.net
Location: Cantanhede, Portugal
Website:  BTTManager.com/RunManager.net

I'm a web programmer and network manager and I'm a mtb practitioner and bttmanager.com signup manager.
The platform is indicated and used for mtb and trail running events essentially and has existed since 2011.
 
I also do sporadic race timing of XCM MTB, XCO MTB and Trail Running.

I have used software developed by me and I have been testing ART for specific cases that my solution is not ready.

I think ART is a great solution and probably the best in price quality.

I find this group fantastic and I find here much of my problems which is great for finding solutions and help.

thanks

https://bttmanager.com also runmanager.net
https://www.facebook.com/bttmanager
sup...@bttmanager.com

[Christopher Regan]

Name : Christopher Regan
Club name : Shawangunk Runners
Location : New Paltz, NY
Website : http://shawangunkrunners.com

Been running for about 7 years now and I've been the Technology Officer for the Shawangunk Runners club for 3 years now. We originally had a SRT-500 timer using the RaceTrak software. This worked but was prone to errors when it came to writing down BIB numbers manually. Not to mention the software started having issues that caused others not to be able to time a race when I wasn't around.

I got the board to purchase the ART timing system and we had our first race last weekend. Everything is so much easier and reliable and I feel less stressed during the event. Can't wait to time more events in the future.

Gotta give Brian amazing credit for his time and effort in helping to make sure everyone gets the best experience.