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On-Demand
Join this refresher on RaceDay Scoring’s lap race and duration-based timing features, timed for ultra and relay season. We’ll walk through updates to relay reporting and how to set up duration-based timing for lap and ultra events.
We’ll cover:
- Relay reporting updates
- Duration-based timing setup for ultras and lap events
- Best practices for configuring these event types in RaceDay Scoring
Bring your questions — we’ll leave time for Q&A at the end.
Webinar Overview
This webinar provides an in-depth overview of lap scoring and duration-based timing in RaceDay Scoring, including recent product updates, event setup, scoring configurations, reporting tools, and best practices. The session focuses on events where participants complete as much distance as possible within a set time, such as 6-hour, 12-hour, and 24-hour ultramarathons, cycling events, and relay races.
Lap Scoring Setup & Configurations
Unlike traditional races with a fixed distance, lap races rank participants by total distance completed, with time used to break ties.
The webinar reviews three common lap scoring configurations:
Basic Lap Setup: A single timing location records participants completing the same loop repeatedly.
Advanced Lap Setup: Multiple timing locations and segments allow timers to track participants through checkpoints along a course.
Multiple Lap Options: Events can offer different loop distances, such as long and short laps, with RaceDay Scoring combining the distances into each participant’s total.
Timers must configure lap-specific timing locations before enabling lap scoring for an event. Proper gap factors are also essential to prevent duplicate reads from being counted as additional laps.
Recent Features & Updates
Several updates provide greater flexibility for managing lap races and duration-based events:
Partial Lap Distance Adjustments: Manually award distance to participants who are partway through a lap when the event ends.
Time Adjustments: Add or subtract time for individual participants, including penalties or other corrections.
Final Lap Flexibility: Allow participants to complete a final lap after the event’s duration expires, provided they started it before the cutoff.
Read Cutoff Controls: Stop counting additional reads after a specific time, lap count, or distance. Individual cutoff times are especially useful for participants who withdraw or for last-person-standing events.
Rest Time Management: Exclude rest periods from scoring and determine whether rest time counts toward the event’s duration.
Fastest Lap Scoring: Rank participants based on their fastest specified number of laps rather than total distance.
Improved Lap Details: View individual lap times, completed laps, laps in progress, and counts for different lap distances.
Finisher Determination & Notifications
The webinar explains how timers can customize when participants are considered finishers. Options include determining finisher status immediately or after completing a specific number of laps, distance, or duration.
These settings are particularly important for RunSignup result notifications. Because participants receive only one finisher notification, timers should configure finisher determination to prevent notifications from being triggered after the first lap instead of at the appropriate point in the event.
Results, Reporting & Leaderboards
RaceDay Scoring offers several reporting options designed specifically for lap races:
Detailed Lap Reports: Display lap counts, individual lap times, paces, total distance, and rest time.
Custom Leaderboards: Highlight recent finish-line crossings, fastest and slowest laps, and cumulative distance.
Announcer Displays: Use RaceDay Hub or RaceDay Mobile to show live lap information on a monitor, tablet, or phone.
Relay & Team Reporting: Track team distance totals and averages, with improvements to relay lap counts and results syncing.
Recent performance improvements in RaceDay Scoring V6 also help keep the interface responsive while publishing reports or exporting data. Incremental publishing sends only changed results, making updates more efficient during long-duration events.
Best Practices for Lap Races
The presenters emphasize the importance of testing configurations before race day, particularly for events with multiple lap distances, checkpoints, or complicated cutoff rules.
Timers should verify timing locations and gap factors, determine how final and partial laps will be handled, configure finisher notifications, and establish procedures for participants who withdraw.
The webinar also recommends testing with replayed reads from previous events and preparing live results displays in advance. Timers managing complex configurations are encouraged to contact RaceDay support or schedule one-on-one training.
Key Takeaways
RaceDay Scoring provides flexible tools for timing lap races and duration-based events, from simple single-loop races to complex ultramarathons with multiple distances, checkpoints, and rest periods.
Recent updates make it easier to manage partial laps, cutoffs, finisher determination, and customized results. Combined with improved reporting, live leaderboards, and faster publishing, these features help timers deliver accurate results and a better experience for participants throughout long-duration events.