History was made at the Mandela Day Marathon, when FinishTime introduced for the first time Live 5km split timing for the 10km, Half Marathon and Marathon, timing a total of 17 500 runners across all three races.
Being able to provide the 5km timing splits is yet another innovation of FinishTime and means that those who are not able to watch the race unfold live on Television, can now follow how the race unpacks at the front end as well as tracking their friends and families more accurately than ever before.
(photo courtesy Nelson Mandela Day Marathon)
All three races, 10km, Half Marathon and Marathon finished at the Nelson Mandela Capture Site, some 5km outside of Howick. Unlike with most races, the starting points of each race were not close to, or at the same venue of the finish, rather all three races were Point-to-Point races, meaning they begin and end at different venues far apart from each other. In this case the start of each race was exactly 10km (Howick Sports Grounds), 21.1km (Hillary Road, Hilton) and 42,2km (Manaye Hall, Pietermaritzburg) from the finish. This meant having three separate crews at the start venue of for each of the three different starts. The advantage of having all three races on the same route meant that the 5km timing splits used for the marathon were also used for the 10km and Half Marathon Races.
(photo courtesy Nelson Mandela Day Marathon)
The Mandela Day Marathon weekend was a busy one, as not only were the 10km, Half Marathon and Marathon results put out by FinishTime, but also the Mandela Day Triathlon and Youth Run on 25 August.
(photo courtesy Nelson Mandela Day Marathon)
