Besides photos, race results are one of the the last
things that people will experience as part of your race. SFTC encourages
races to report their results in a timely fashion and in a neat, user-friendly
format. "Timely" means normally sending the results within 2 days, if possible.
File Type:
Send your race results to SFTC in .TXT ,
.HTML or
.XLS (Microsoft Excel) file types although either .TXT or
.XLS types are preferred. If you use Excel, please see the note below on formatting times. .TXT files can be authored with
Microsoft Notepad (click on Start, Run, then type notepad ) or several other
software packages. HTML files can also be authored with several editing packages
including Microsoft Word. However, if you use Word, you must save the file as a webpage with either a
.HTML or .HTM file extension prior to submission to SFTC.
Microsoft Word documents or pdf files will not be accepted for posting.
Formatting Times:
When reporting road race times, the convention is to round up to the nearest second. So 24:23.30 is rounded up to 24:24.
Separate hours, minutes and seconds using colons and not periods. So 1 hour, 45
minutes and 23 seconds should be reported as 1:45:23 and not 1.45.23. If tenths
or hundredths of a second are reported, use a period between the seconds and the
fractions, for example, 7 minutes, 3 seconds and 32 hundredths should be
reported as 7:03.32 and not as 7:03:32. 7 minutes and 3 seconds should be reported as
7:03 and not as 7:03:00 - if you use this latter format, the results will returned to you for re-formatting prior to posting.
In Excel, it is often easier to format the appropriate cells as text and not as times before you start typing them in.
Overall and Age Groups:
SFTC suggests that a race provide both Overall and Age-Group results. These can
be combined into a single file or reported separately in 2 files. It is recommended that all of the participants are listed in the age
group results and not just the award winners. The following are
links to good examples of reported race results:
Overall
Age Groups
Submitting Results:
Results should be sent to
webmaster@runtricities.org . Be sure to read the above sections on File Types and Formatting Times before sending. If you have any questions, please be sure to ask first before spending hours typing up results only to
find out that the format you used is unacceptable.