Timing Tag Problems Get Bigger

It’s a public relations predicament when 15 percent of your marathoners don’t receive an accurate finishing time – or any time at all. But when you discover that perhaps all of your 24,000 marathon finishers have inaccurate times, that’s a nightmare.
Preliminary reports from the December 9, 2007, Honolulu Marathon indicated as many as 3,500 were [...]

Honolulu Marathon Suffers Chip Slip

Ah, the joys of technology.
It was only a few years ago that most road races still used manual timing for individual runners. The preferred method was to tear off a perforated part of your bib number and hand it to a volunteer as you went through the finish chute, where your time was recorded.
The advent [...]