Stupid question - but I need help

[Eden]

Eden - if you ever race in New England, be sure not to crumple or fold your number Our officials here are ruthless on that one! I think, partly, because we have a lot of races with cameras at the finish, and the crumpling/folding creates problems.

I've even heard an official tell someone with long hair that they HAD to tie it up because their number was obstructed. Glad I have short hair . Also glad not to be petite - those numbers can be HUGE!

SheFly

We use race camera here too - all at least use video, but 99% have gone to a better system - we have an official who went into business for himself by purchasing a FinishLynx (I think that's the spelling....) camera - same type they use in the pros. It's really great, because not only are the pictures much more clear, the thing can actually spit out a sorted, computerized finish list - makes the time it takes to get results much, much, much faster. Oregon has one owned by the racing association.

Yes - girls with long hair get yelled at for not tying it up...

No one's ever bothered me out here for folding the edges of the numbers, probably because I am petite and it would be worse if I didn't.... I do it carefully of course, so that I'm not cutting any of the actual number off, but I am very small - so if I don't, and it's a race that requires more than one number (one time I had to wear 3.... two on my back and one on my sleeve..) they will actually overlap or they won't be on my back.... or both not to mention cover my pockets... poke me in the arm pit... wrap 1/2 way around my front.... be hot as a rain jacket... The new cloth numbers are really nice.

Here in WA we also have frame numbers - which for any WSBA race are required. You can get DQ'd for not having both jersey numbers and your frame number on - though most of the time as long as you have one jersey number on, on the correct side, unless the officials are very grumpy that day, it's OK - frame numbers they are getting pretty stringent about though.

Here's one of my teammates getting called out for hair (but that's OK, because at the top of the page there's another of my teammates who serves as an example of "perfect" number placement)