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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 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 ]

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 ]

IPICO Sports held three very successful Users' Conferences recently. The first one was held in Grenoble, France December 5th-7th, 2012. The North American Users' Conference was held in Las Vegas January 20th-22nd, 2013. The Latin American Users' Conference was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil March 18th-20th 2013. Sessions included the introduction of several exciting new products such as the Power Tag, Cycling Antenna, Handheld Reader, and the Integrated Test Tag. Other sessions incorporated into the conference were Customer Profiles and Sharing of Ideas, Breakout Sessions on topics requested by customers , and Hands-On Technical Training. [ ... read more ]

For the second consecutive year the Tokyo Marathon was timed by IPICO Sports' partner in Japan, R-bies, and their timing group RECS, using custom souvenir shoe tags with outstanding results. Led by Motohiko Kato, truly one of the global leaders as a timer, from the RECS team achieved fantastic results. Dennis Kimetto (Kenya) wins the 2013 Tokyo Marathon in a new course record time of 2:06:50 Motohiko Kato, said: "We've lost only 2 runners’ finish times in 3 5,252 finishers . We were able to show very high performance with IPICO timing." No kidding!! Tokyo Marathon 2013 information: • 13 Timing points - start, finish, midpoint, • 2 turning points and every 5km points • 83 RECS staff • 42 Elite Readers [ ... read more ]