Archive for November, 2009

November 7, 2009 saw the joining of two racing giants: ChronoTrack Systems and the Iceman Cometh Challenge Bicycle Race, the largest single-day mountain bike race in America. As the largest group of competitors in the history of the race, 4400 cyclists lined up that Saturday to compete in the 28-mile mountain bike race starting in downtown Kalkaska, Michigan. continue

The ChronoTrack D-Tag has become the industry standard for high-tech road race timing. The ground-breaking disposable D-Tag and the introduction of racing’s first successful tag-on-a-bib system, called the B-Tag, have made ChronoTrack timers’ primary choice for road races around the world. One timer, however, has been experimenting with other ways to use the ChronoTrack system. continue

On Sunday, November 1, nearly 44,000 runners gathered at the base of the Varrazano-Narrows Bridge in Staten Island, New York to celebrate –and run– the fortieth New York City Marathon. This year, after vetting over 100,000 applicants, the New York Road Runners hosted the world’s largest marathon in history, breaking records for both the number of entrants and the largest number of finishers. In addition to drawing a record amount of runners, they managed it all with a brand new timing system: invented and produced by eighteen month old ChronoTrack Systems and featuring a device called the D-tag, it is the race world’s first and most successful disposable timing system.

The ChronoTrack timing system utilizes an adhesive tag, printed on and numbered according to the runners’ bibs. Athletes remove the tag from their own bib, and loop the D-tag through their shoe laces, forming the signature D shape. Although significantly different from its predecessors, “It’s a simple system to use,” says New York Road Runners VP of Administration and Operations Ken Winell. “It doesn’t require an engineering degree. We basically trained our finance team, among others, to score races for us.”

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