INDOOR TRACK MEETS

INSTRUCTIONS FOR 55-METER TIMERS

• 8:00 a.m. After start of Racewalk, please gather at 55-meter Finish Line for TIMERS' MEETING.
• 8:15 a.m. First 55-meter race begins.
• 9:00 a.m. Last 55-meter race ends. You're done. Please run the other races!

• Bring your own stopwatch. (We only have a few extras.)
• We expect about 100 kids and 50 adults in the 55 meter. Expect about 25 heats.
• We run the athletes in heats of 6 each, starting from youngest to oldest.
• Each timer gets a supply of about 20 ribbons and a pen.
• Each timer picks a lane. Lanes 1 and 2 are on infield. Lanes 3, 4, 5, and 6 are on track.
• We have 2 teams of 6 timers each, plus a Head Timer. The teams switch after every heat.
• Team 1 timers take positions 5 meters past the finish line.
•         Lane 1/2/3 timers stand INSIDE track
•         Lane 4/5/6 timers stand OUTSIDE track
• Each timer identifies the runner starting in his/her lane.
•         NOTE: Since younger runners often deviate from their lanes,
•         be sure to time the runner you identify, no matter where s/he finishes.
• Before each heat, Head Timer stands across track with his/her back to starting line, arms outstretched, until timers are ready.
• Starter blows two whistles to ask "Timers, Are You Ready?"
• Timers set their stopwatches to 00:00.
• Two volunteers stretch tape across the Finish Line.
• When timers are ready, Head Timer signals Starter with both arms vertical, then steps off track.
• Starter gives raises arm. Starter says commands "Runners to your marks" and "Set."
• When Starter drops arm and blows whistle, start your stopwatch. Watch the ARM.
• When your runner crosses the finish line, stop your stopwatch.
• Write your runner's time on the back of a ribbon.
• Walk to your runner, announce the finish time, and present the ribbon
• Help your runner off the track toward the infield.
• In case of injury, we have first aid, water, and ice.
• Clear the track as soon as possible after each heat.
• Immediately after each heat, as soon as all runners are off track, the other team moves into place.
• The Head Timer takes his/her place across the track and prepares timers for next heat.
• We expect about 25 heats. We want each heat to take less than one minute.
• The secret to success is to keep everything moving efficiently.
• THANK YOU!!!

EVENTS:

•   7:45 a.m. 800m/3000m Racewalk
•   8:10 a.m. Please gather at 55m Starting Line
•   8:15 a.m. First 55m race
•   9:00 a.m. Please gather at One-Mile Starting Line for subsequent events:
• Kids Mile, Women's Mile, Men's Open Mile, Men's Elite Mile, Men's Masters Mile
•   9:30 a.m. 400-meter run, followed by 4x400m relay
• 10:10 a.m. 800-meter run
• 10:35 a.m. 200-meter run, followed by 4x200m relay
• 11:30 a.m. 3000-meter run

• In the 55m, we expect about 100 kids and 50 adults.
• Please group them into heats of 6 runners each, by age and gender, and assign lanes.
• We expect about 25 heats. We want each heat to take less than one minute.

• In the mile, we expect about 20 in each of 5 heats:
•     Kids, Women, Open Men over 5:00, Elite Men under 5:00, and Masters.
•     Milers may compete in more than one heat.
• In the 400m, we expect about 100 kids and 50 adults.
•     Please group the kids into heats of 8 runners each (two to a lane), by age and gender.
•     Please group the adults into heats of 4 runners each (stagger-start OK).
•     Please set up two heats of 4x400m kids' teams and one heat of 4x400 adult teams.
• In the 800m, we expect about 20 kids and 50 adults.
•     Please set up 4 heats: Kids, Women, Open over 2:30, and Elite under 2:30.
• In the 200m, we expect about 100 kids and 50 adults.
•     Please group the kids into heats of 8 runners each (two to a lane), by age and gender.
•     Please group the adults into heats of 4 runners each (stagger-start OK).
•     Please set up two heats of 4x200m kids' teams and one heat of 4x200m adult teams.
• In the 3000-meter, we expect about 50 runners, one heat only.

• Clerk of Course sets up the groups and assigns lanes as quickly as possible.
• During each heat, Deputy Clerks get the next heat ready to step onto the track.
• In the 55m, immediately after the start of each heat, Shepherd brings the next heat onto the track
• In the longer races, immediately after the last finisher, Shepherd brings the next heat onto the track.
• Starter blows whistle twice to ask "Timers, are you ready?" When Head Timer signals "Ready", Starter raises arm, says "Runners to your marks ... Set" and blows whistle and drops arm
• The secret to success is to keep everything moving efficiently.
• THANK YOU!!!