RaceClocker News #21

Easy manual sports timing

👋 Hello and welcome to our intermittently appearing newsletter with news, events, updates and other information about our race timing app. #happytiming

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HYROX and Spartan DEKA manual timing 💪

HYROX and Spartan DEKA Fit or DEKA Strong are global and popular fitness competitions that combine endurance running with functional workout stations. Participants complete multiple rounds of running followed by strength and conditioning workouts in a structured race format. This standardized format enables global rankings and easy comparison. RaceClocker offers a tailor made manual timing solution.

In the stage editor, a feature of any custom lap race, workouts can be changed, ordered and customized

Large events are usually happening at a big venue and are chip timed, yet many smaller events are taking place at the local level. To facilitate race managers with easy timing and to provide participants with live results and engaging insights in their performance, we developed a specific timing experience for this. Special thanks to Hyrox Buitenpost and Breda CrossBox for being early customers helping us make the right product - that we further developed over the past weeks.

Results include a personalized visual overview of a participants performance

More detail about the manual timing features in RaceClocker for these race formats is available over here.

Partnering with Rowing Australia NSW 🚀

As RaceClocker continues to gain recognition in the international rowing community, we’re strengthening our commitment to supporting rowing associations as a trusted partner. We’re proud to be the official timing solution for Rowing New South Wales, where NSW GM Business & Sport Development, Elliot Shackcloth-Bertinetti, said: “We’re excited about our partnership with RaceClocker and our shared commitments to technology development, integration with existing systems, and race sanctioning processes. Whether it’s the Manning River, Hen & Chicken, Berry Park or beyond, non-SIRC regattas are instrumental in growing participation, building community and developing talent within NSW. Through our RaceClocker partnership we will continue to offer innovative regatta solutions to our members.” More detail here.

Lap timer improvements ⏱️

The lap timer now includes an ‘Undo’ button that removes the last timing action. As with all corrections, even wrongly made time stamps are captured in the timing history of the event, such that the race director can make additional corrections if needed.

The lap timer has integrated ‘Start’ buttons for an individual race format, as typically a lap race has start and finish at the same location. Additionally, a link to a separate start timer is included so that timing can also be done at another location, or that features like the countdown timer can be used in a lap race.

Events timed with RaceClocker in the first months of 2025.

📢 And some more new bits

• In last newsletter’s poll the favorite ‘to be’ feature was clearly camera based timing - so that’s what we have started the design and development for. The goal is to build a camera vision app that can assist with both primary timing as well as backup timing. More about this will follow soon. Additionally, we’ll focus in ‘25 on race management features next to a long list of smaller features and quality and performance improvements.

• The two-step timing mode has now been added as a start timer option. This enables race directors with ‘ad hoc’ wave timing, by pairing a two-step time stamp with multiple participants without having to structure that in the start list up front.

• RaceClocker users with a paid subscription can now download the invoice as a PDF file from the user profile page.

• Participant information in the ‘Extra Info’ pop-up is now editable. Note this data can only be included in your start list when it was imported via file upload. If included, then just open the pop-up from the three-dot menu on the far right side of a line in the editor, and the data can be changed inline. All changes are instantly saved.

  

  Editable extra participant info in the start list editor

#happytiming #raceclocker

Made with 🖤 and ☕ from the Netherlands by Cees van Dok and Lucas Tijssen and the RaceClocker support team. Our mission is to become the best manual timing solution race managers could wish for.