Race timing

Checkpoint timing for Hyrox-style events. Volunteers scan athletes with their own phones; no hardware, no app to install.

Running an event

Before the day

1. Sign in with Apple. You need to be on the allowlist first.
2. Create the event. Pick the standard course and rename or reorder the stations to match your layout.
3. Add athletes by pasting your entry list as CSV. Give everyone a wave.
4. Print the station sheets. One page per station plus the start line, each with a QR a volunteer scans to sign their phone in. Print them the moment they appear — the codes are shown once and cannot be recovered.
5. Print the athlete bibs. One QR per athlete. Cut them up.

On the day

1. Hand out the athlete bibs as people arrive.
2. Pin each judge sheet at its station, face-down or out of public view when nobody is using it.
3. Get the judges in place and signed in — each scans the sheet at their own station. Check they all show up under Phones before the horn.
4. Scan athletes into their waves at the start line. This is the roll call: it records who actually turned up.
5. Brief the athletes on the route between stations, and that they hold their bib out to be scanned rather than stopping.
6. Start the first wave. One horn covers everyone in it.
7. Judges scan bibs as athletes arrive at their station, and again as they leave if that station is set to both ends.

Your events

New event

You can rename stations afterwards. Every station starts scanned at both ends, which you can relax per station once the course is set.

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Setup

Course

Both ends gives a true station time and a true run time either side. Entry only halves the scanning at that station, but its time and the run after it can never be separated afterwards. The start and finish are fixed — results are measured from them — so they can be renamed but not moved or removed.

Join codes

Each sheet is one printed page with a QR square. A volunteer scans it to sign their phone in — a judge's code only works at its own station.

Phones

Every phone that has joined. A working phone checks in about once a minute, so one that has been quiet for several minutes has lost its network, been closed, or gone to sleep — worth chasing before athletes reach that station.

Roster

The first row must be a header, and it has to include bib. Everything else is optional: name, division, wave, sex (F, M or X), age. Column order does not matter and extra columns are ignored. Blank cells mean “not given” and stay empty rather than being guessed at.

bib,name,division,wave,sex,age
101,Jane Smith,Open Women,W1,F,34
102,"Ngata, Tui",Open,W1,,
103,Sam Reid,Pro Men,W2,M,41

Danger

Deleting an event destroys its course, roster, join codes and every time recorded against it. There is no undo and no backup.