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If you need to wear a throw away shirt at the start of the race due to the cold, are you allowed to wear it over the bib as long as you remove it before the first photographer?
Runs4Sanity
Not sure about before the first photographer, but people normally start taking off their throw-aways just before the start.
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5k - 24:15 (7:49 min/mile pace)
10k - 51:47 (8:16 min/mile pace)
15k -1:18:09 (8:24 min/mile pace)
13.1 - 1:53:12 (8:39 min/mile pace)
26:2 - 4:14:55 (9:44 min/mile)
Most of the races I've been in allow this. And it doesn't matter about the race photographer, as no photo identification is your loss, not the race organizers. You can wear your extra layer and dispose of it anytime you feel like it. Unless of course there are rules against this for safety reasons (tripping on throw away clothes would not be fun, for sure).
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Cornwall Half-Marathon, 1:35, April 27th 2013
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Some people do not even move it for the photographer. You'll be fine.
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I wore a throw away sweatshirt for the first 10 miles of a marathon that was 34 degrees at the start. The starter reminded us to lift the shirts up when we crossed the timing mats at the start because the chips were on the back of the bibs. If you have a shoe chip it doesn't matter.
Yes, good tip!
I have some ridiculous marathonfotos that I will never buy. The photographers were out in force at the pre-race port-a-potty line. I had on a throwaway neon green fleece over a red charity team shirt. The photographers kept asking to see my number to take the picture. Um, yea, just what I want to remember, standing in line to pee and looking like I am doing some weird strip tease with the fleece have pulled up.
Super B****
AFAIK it's most important that your bib be visible when you cross the start and the finish... if the photographer can't see it, that's your loss. Less work for them because no tagging involved! (Pardon me, I'm a bit bitter about yet another race in which I apparently wore an invisibility cloak.)
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LMAO!!! That is hilarious
Did the timing chip work with the invisibility cloak?
Fortunately.
Do you really have to lift up your extra shirt when crossing the timing mats? Wouldn't the chip pick up the signal through your shirt? I'm no expert on RFID technology, but seems like it would.
Dave
Yes, it would. I have no idea how this works with huge cluster**** races, but in the smaller ones around here, they also have someone taking the times manually, so the bib needs to be visible for that.
Do you really have to lift up your extra shirt when crossing the timing mats?
They instruct you to lift it before the race begins (at Detroit anyway), and while it should be able to read it through the shirt I did not take a chance. I lifted it.
A hoodie with a zipper will be like $5 at Goodwill.
I forget who it was, but I remember somebody over on RWOL talking about making a photocopy of their bib for their outer later. I was just a baby 5Ker at that point, thinking about how complicated marathoning needed to be if you had to photocopy your bib!