Flashes of Panic

I can’t believe no race director has thought of this yet.

At the end of every race of any size, they post results. And there’s always a cramped crush of runners peering at single-spaced, twelve-point type trying to find their place and time. I’ve seen it happen at small races and I’ve seen it happen at national championships. The only places I haven’t seen it happen are the mega-races where they don’t bother trying to do results at the race; they just send you a postcard (or post the results online, which should be happening for all races anyway.)

How hard would it be to print fewer listings to a page, in bigger type, with wider line spacing?

And if you can’t do that, at least don’t feel you need to post up all the results in one space, with the sheets butted up against each other. Find a big long wall and put one sheet every ten feet or so. Then you’ve still got the type size issue, but at least it’s not the whole race in one place; it’s just the fifty-odd runners listed on each sheet. Instead of one big crush, it’s six or ten little crushes.

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