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http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/top-stories/edinburgh-marathon-slammed-for-withholding-results-1-3424263
Anyone experienced this before?
Never been to the Americas, but how many of you guys have ever been to Derby?
not bad for mile 25
No, but I have noticed a trend toward making it more difficult to obtain the full results. Edinburgh has taken it to a ridiculous level.
Are you one of the affected participants?
Break on through
Very strange! If you enter a race, you expect the results to be public. Hopefully they'll see the light and see their privacy concerns are misplaced.
"Not to touch the Earth, not to see the Sun, nothing left to do but run, run, run..."
Feeling the growl again
FFS. Buy a cabin in the Highlands and go off the grid if you are so concerned about such mundane information as name and race time going public.
While I have actually seem people so insecure that they go nuts when they run what they consider a bad time and other people can see it, it's overkill. That's running. The concern about not being able to use the time as a qualifier for another limited entry race because the information is not publicly available is real.
Let's not fool ourselves. Post a race and result....or even a race date and finishing time...and someone with too much time on their hands can figure out who you are.
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I am spaniel - Crusher of Treadmills
No more marathons
FFS. Buy a cabin in the Highlands and go off the grid if you are so concerned about such mundane information as name and race time going public. While I have actually seem people so insecure that they go nuts when they run what they consider a bad time and other people can see it, it's overkill. That's running. The concern about not being able to use the time as a qualifier for another limited entry race because the information is not publicly available is real. Let's not fool ourselves. Post a race and result....or even a race date and finishing time...and someone with too much time on their hands can figure out who you are.
Doesn't even take much time.
Boston 2014 - a 33 year journey
Lordy, I hope there are tapes.
He's a leaker!
If someone were to look at my publicly available PR's, I'm sure they'd figure out right quick that I'm genetically inferior displaced yankee age-grouper who peaked in 2006 and who has been melting in the deep south for 5 years. Plus, I gave all my information to the CIA and the NSA already on Facebook and G+. They know not only my race times, but my soul.
(marathons should know many runners not only like getting the results quickly, but like sharing the official results with people. Very few of us are expecting privacy at this level---unless you called in sick to run the Boston Marathon)
This didn't affect me personally, but it did some members of my running club.
I'm actually astounded that someone somewhere considered race results to be a 'data protection' problem, given that marathons especially are meant to be a shared experience. I just cannot get into the mindset of a runner that would not want his or her results made public, as if putting on shorts and trainers and heading out the front door was not a public act already. Do we have cheaply available home treadmills to blame for this?
I'm not so keen on sharing my results by means of a link to the official results. If I want to publish my result, I'll just type the numbers into Facebook or whatever, and people can believe me or not as they wish. OTOH, I readily admit that stalking others' results is a big part of the the post-race fun.
Vader Herder
It's not like there is medically sensitive data listed in the results and they're violating HIPPA privacy statutes or something.
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