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The Long LapNotes on fixed-time ultrarunning: the loop, the clock and the table.

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Write to the table

Corrections, race records and suggestions for the wall: how to reach the keeper of The Long Lap.

The table is the part of a fixed-time race that never sleeps, and it is the right name for this page. If a frame on the wall carries a wrong figure, a misspelled name or a date that the record contradicts, write to the table and it will be corrected on the cartel, marked and dated, never silently changed.

What to send

  • Corrections: a lap count, a finishing distance, a year, a name. Point to the frame and to the record that disagrees with it.
  • Records: a results sheet, an old race page, a programme or a photograph that belongs in the public memory of the format.
  • Suggestions: a fixed-time race, a loop course or an aid-station tradition the wall has not covered yet.

Write to [email protected]. The keeper reads everything; corrections to the record are answered first.

What the table is not

Questions about entering, volunteering for or sponsoring a specific event belong with that event's own organisers, not with this notebook.