Line 1: overall time in
hour:min & (current position in
event).
Line 2: time for current stage in hour:min & (change in position)
Line 3: Speed as min:sec/km & (ranking on current stage)
Note: if you were in a group,
your position can fluctuate through the event.
Timing is to the nearest minute at intermediate checkpoints, so apparent
different positions get a the same ranking. If, at the finish, you want
your 2 second advantage to be recognised, let me know as groups have usually
been batched. Timing to the second helps separate people on different
start times.
In HTML format (as used in the internet browser) this is a very large file that is almost unintelligible. The information is provided in a .pdf file that can be printed on 6 pages. Click on the following link, either to view it or right click, Save Target As and then print it
Splits in a .pdf file
More sophisticated methods of analysing split times, sing WinSplits and SplitsBrowser:
Split times have been adjusted to remove anomalies, e.g. where someone reached Woodsetts before Harthill, or covered a stage at an amazing speed, e.g. fastest time for the stage despite finishing down the field. Checks are required
Split times in WinSplits Online
(Table)
A number of queries have arisen within the splits analysis, to be checked.
Current Best Guess is shown.
WinSplits is commercial software that helps analysis of split times from events
For each runner, position, name, club, finish time, time behind the winner and times and positions at each checkpoint are shown. There are two time rows. The upper row contains the split times, i.e. times between two subsequent checkpoints, and the lower row contains the total times, i e accumulated times from the start to a certain checkpoint. The positions are displayed within parentheses, on the upper row the ranking for the stage and on the second row the current race position. The appearance of the split time list can be altered by changing the settings at the bottom of the page. Read more about this (and other) topics in the WinSplits Help pages.
Colours are used to make certain information in the table appear more distinctly.
red text colour | Red text colour indicates best split time and total time, respectively. |
blue text colour | Blue text colour indicates that the split time or total time is among the three best. |
grey, italic text colour | Interpolated times (times were interpolated before uploading, so this was not used) |
pink background colour | Pink background colour means that time was lost on this stage, time taken was 25% longer than expected (taking overall time into account). See WinSplits Help for more information. |
light yellow background colour | The light yellow hue of the background of the upper time row for each runner indicates that the times are split times. |
darker yellow back colour | The somewhat darker yellow hue of the background of the lower of the time rows for each runner indicates that the times are total times (or real times if that setting is active). |
Graphical presentation of split times in
SplitsBrowser (relay has in a separate link)
Select competitors (All or specific people, by clicking on them). The
graph shows how each competitor has lost time, compared to the fastest time for
each stage. WinSplits has split times for retirees, but not SplitsBrowser.
A straight declining line is ideal (you were consistently that bit slower than
the fastest). A step down shows (for example) a particularly slow stage or
getting lost.
As an example of splits analysis, look at the graphs and tables for Stage 1; see how quite a number of 7am starters were slow (low position for the stage, or presented a steeply falling line for this stage), caused by missing the turn towards Elsecar and instead continuing towards the centre of Barnsley; the recovery time depended on how long it took to realise that a mistake had been made.
Note: this is one case where distance measurement is more accurate than the time. Time was only recorded to the nearest minute (at best) at intermediate checkpoints. Times were recorded for race monitoring purposes rather than for the split times. Time is recorded for the first of a group, and at the next convenient time at least after the next minute, but maybe several minutes later. Thus, 12.2 km in 57 min could be 12.3 km in 56 min, presented as 12.84 or 13.18 km/h respectively (or a still greater difference)