New Balance Power Race 08 – Updated Unofficial Results

Our friend Dindo (runningDATCom) published in his post this morning an e-mail from Eric Imperio of extribe regarding the New Balance Power Race Unofficial Results:

We have been getting a lot of questions about the results being termed
unofficial.. …. well, this is just a technicality because as a
“hired” organizers- we are not authorized to release results of a
client’s event. Making things unofficial is the best compromise we can
propose so that we can already release finish times for the
participants- something we know everyone was itching to have already.

This also works better for extribe in general- it gives us a chance to
clear up individual issues (changing of race numbers, starting at a
different wave, arrving at finish line withou a band marker,
registering at a different age group…etc etc etc) which we take on a
case to case basis as much as we can.

Extribe has to be commended with coming up with the “Unofficial Results” as it appears to be the win-win solution under the circumstances.  Runners are obviously anxious to know how they fared.  On the other hand extribe is at a bind not to release the results without the approval of New Balance.

I just checked the results and found out that they have updated it. Check out their extribe website here to see the Updated Unofficial Results.

I must say that Extribe went further in verifying the results.  I got a call from Eric Imperio yesterday where he asked me to clarify why my bib was checked in at the 25k category. I told him that the gate marshal represented that it will be sorted out and I later went to the 10k corral to start the race with them.  I really appreciate what Eric and Extribe did