Despite having an Olympic champion in the event, track 10,000m races are rare in the UK. Cue the Highgate Harriers Night of the 10,000m PBs.
With strong performances despite the windy conditions, pacing assistance, photo finish and chip timing equipment, a live band and a new mobile PA system, the inaugural event, held at the Parliament Hill Fields track in London, was deemed a huge success and proved that if certain events are believed to be missing from the athletics calendar, it’s possible to create your own.
With the goal of an annual 10,000m-specific event that brings together passionate middle distance runners and provides them with a platform to work together to achieve their 10,000m PB potential, [ ... read more ] Posts
Highgate Harriers Night of the 10,000m PBs : timed with IPICO
Despite having an Olympic champion in the event, track 10,000m races are rare in the UK. Cue the Highgate Harriers Night of the 10,000m PBs.
With strong performances despite the windy conditions, pacing assistance, photo finish and chip timing equipment, a live band and a new mobile PA system, the inaugural event, held at the Parliament Hill Fields track in London, was deemed a huge success and proved that if certain events are believed to be missing from the athletics calendar, it’s possible to create your own.
With the goal of an annual 10,000m-specific event that brings together passionate middle distance runners and provides them with a platform to work together to achieve their 10,000m PB potential, [ ... read more ]
Despite having an Olympic champion in the event, track 10,000m races are rare in the UK. Cue the Highgate Harriers Night of the 10,000m PBs.
With strong performances despite the windy conditions, pacing assistance, photo finish and chip timing equipment, a live band and a new mobile PA system, the inaugural event, held at the Parliament Hill Fields track in London, was deemed a huge success and proved that if certain events are believed to be missing from the athletics calendar, it’s possible to create your own.
With the goal of an annual 10,000m-specific event that brings together passionate middle distance runners and provides them with a platform to work together to achieve their 10,000m PB potential, [ ... read more ]
IRONMAN Brasil 2013
Ironman is the biggest triathlon event around the world and challenges athletes to go 3.8 km swim, 180.2 km cycling and 42.2 running through breathtaking journeys. In total, 29 Ironman events are realized around the world but only one is held in South America: the Ironman Brasil. In this 13th edition, two thousand athletes from 34 countries raced in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, on May 26th.
Our partners at LATIN SPORTS had a great weekend by successfully timing some record setting times and first time wins. Tim O'Donnell won the 2013 Ironman Brasil on Sunday, completing the grueling course that includes a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and 26.2-mile run in a time of eight hours, one minute and 31 seconds.
Igor [ ... read more ]
Ironman is the biggest triathlon event around the world and challenges athletes to go 3.8 km swim, 180.2 km cycling and 42.2 running through breathtaking journeys. In total, 29 Ironman events are realized around the world but only one is held in South America: the Ironman Brasil. In this 13th edition, two thousand athletes from 34 countries raced in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, on May 26th.
Our partners at LATIN SPORTS had a great weekend by successfully timing some record setting times and first time wins. Tim O'Donnell won the 2013 Ironman Brasil on Sunday, completing the grueling course that includes a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and 26.2-mile run in a time of eight hours, one minute and 31 seconds.
Igor [ ... read more ] Posted in Customers, Events, Featured Customers & Events, Running, Swimming, Triathlon, Uncategorized
IPICO Sports helps combat the decline of children’s aerobic fitness
Worldwide, children’s aerobic fitness is declining with a rate of about 4% per decade. To help revise this trend, IPICO Sports, a global leader in timing systems, is pleased to launch A-PASS!, a low-cost high performance scoring and timing system for aerobic fitness tests and other school physical activities.
The A-PASS!, Automatic Physical Activity Scoring System is based on radio frequency identification (RFID) and was developed to simplify the scoring of ALL aerobic capacity assessments of FITNESSGRAM® (the PACER, 1-mile run, and the walk test). The system lessens the workload on teachers and coaches along with having the capability of being able to assess other fitness or school activities.
IPICO Sports’ [ ... read more ]
Worldwide, children’s aerobic fitness is declining with a rate of about 4% per decade. To help revise this trend, IPICO Sports, a global leader in timing systems, is pleased to launch A-PASS!, a low-cost high performance scoring and timing system for aerobic fitness tests and other school physical activities.
The A-PASS!, Automatic Physical Activity Scoring System is based on radio frequency identification (RFID) and was developed to simplify the scoring of ALL aerobic capacity assessments of FITNESSGRAM® (the PACER, 1-mile run, and the walk test). The system lessens the workload on teachers and coaches along with having the capability of being able to assess other fitness or school activities.
IPICO Sports’ [ ... read more ]
2013 Virgin London Marathon
Last weekend the 33rd Virgin London Marathon had 34,278 runners cross the finish line in The Mall after passing a record crowd of more than 700,000 spectators along the route. They watched Tsegaye Kebede and Priscah Jeptoo win two dramatic elite races under cloudless skies, while Tatyana McFadden and Kurt Fearnley raced to victory in the wheelchair contests.
Kebede who emerged from nearly a minute behind the leaders at 35km to regain the men's title he won three years ago, while Jeptoo made it third time lucky in London, improving from third last year to win the women's race after taking Olympic silver in the capital eight months ago.
McFadden celebrated her 24th birthday by breaking the women's course record [ ... read more ]
Last weekend the 33rd Virgin London Marathon had 34,278 runners cross the finish line in The Mall after passing a record crowd of more than 700,000 spectators along the route. They watched Tsegaye Kebede and Priscah Jeptoo win two dramatic elite races under cloudless skies, while Tatyana McFadden and Kurt Fearnley raced to victory in the wheelchair contests.
Kebede who emerged from nearly a minute behind the leaders at 35km to regain the men's title he won three years ago, while Jeptoo made it third time lucky in London, improving from third last year to win the women's race after taking Olympic silver in the capital eight months ago.
McFadden celebrated her 24th birthday by breaking the women's course record [ ... read more ]
FINA’s 2013 10km Swimming World Cup
FINA’s 2013 10km Swimming World Cup in Cancun Mexico was a success. Believe it or not only seconds separated the winners in this event and one of our great IPICO Sports timers was their timing with our new Power Tag. Rodrigo Calderon of Mexico’s entusmarcas.com has been electronic timing all over Latin America for about 20 years.
Martina Grimaldi (ITA) and Daniel Fogg (GBR) emerged victorious at the fourth stop of the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup 2013, held for the first time in Cozumel, Mexico. The event had a record 128 participants (53 women and 75 men) from 24 countries, who swam in the crystal-clear waters of the Mexican Caribbean and enjoyed the naturally stunning scene.
The women's race was [ ... read more ]
FINA’s 2013 10km Swimming World Cup in Cancun Mexico was a success. Believe it or not only seconds separated the winners in this event and one of our great IPICO Sports timers was their timing with our new Power Tag. Rodrigo Calderon of Mexico’s entusmarcas.com has been electronic timing all over Latin America for about 20 years.
Martina Grimaldi (ITA) and Daniel Fogg (GBR) emerged victorious at the fourth stop of the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup 2013, held for the first time in Cozumel, Mexico. The event had a record 128 participants (53 women and 75 men) from 24 countries, who swam in the crystal-clear waters of the Mexican Caribbean and enjoyed the naturally stunning scene.
The women's race was [ ... read more ] 
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