Hi
After thoughts on the best way to run an informal club pursuit race, where the riders set off at staggered times (slowest first) with the aim being that folk should cross the line at approximately the same time.
Is a meet-up with race results as good as any other option? And then it’s just down to the individuals to start at the correct interval. I think with meet-ups you can be spread out over 100m or so or road but hopefully that wouldn’t affect the result too much. Or we could try and shuffle together before starting for real?
Another concern is that some riders will be waiting a few minutes and might cool down, I guess they could temporarlily disconnect their trainer and spin until their start time, but a bit fiddly.
Anyone done something similar?
Thanks
Mike
If you can group the riders into 5 categories, you could talk to the events team about putting on a private chase race, so it would be like any other chase race except not on the public calendar. You could use CE categories, or racing score, or not enforce pen assignment at all and just tell people which one to join.
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If you create a club event it will stagger the pens by 2 minutes, have people sign up in reverse order so if they are D cat they would sign up for the A pen to leave first. The issue is you can’t change the 2 minute stagger.
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Thanks both, I think we’re going to need to be a bit more fine-grained than that, some staggers will less than 30s, with a total spread of about 6 minutes over something like a 40 minute race. We’re doing the Zwift TTs so will be basing the handicaps on those results.
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