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Guidelines
Online since 10.11.05

Guidelines for submission of results to Cool Running

Please send your results!

We love to receive race results! Please send your results to us by email for inclusion on the Cool Running site. This will generate extra interest in your event and bring along more participants next time you run!

Formats

You will notice that all our results are posted as plain html web pages. We will not post PDF or excel files, etc. This is for the simple reason that these files are not universally readable, and when we have posted pages like that in the past we receive too many complaints to deal with from people that can't open them. This policy is not likely to change in the near future.

Here at Cool Running we are permanently overworked because running is so popular in New Zealand. We only have limited time to convert results from one format to another so to maximise the chance that we can post your results please send them in a format we can deal with easily.

Here are our preferred formats, in order of preference:

  1. Microsoft Excel - this is the preferred format. Just save your file as .xls, and excel workbook. Don't save as html or attempt to convert to html.
  2. Microsoft Word, results in a table or tab-delimited - this is next best as we can cut & paste to excel and go from there.
  3. Plain text, tab delimited - easy for us to deal with.
  4. Plain text, fixed width format - also easy to deal with.

DON'T SEND PDF

Please don't send PDFs. With the diversity of versions now floating around, extraction of results from PDF has become a nightmare and we can no longer afford the time to handle your PDFs. Please send the raw text/excel/word file that the PDF was made from.

Layout

We prefer the following layout for events

Running/Walking events
Place | Name | Town or Club | Grade | Grade Place | Time
Results sorted ascending by time
Example: http://www.coolrunning.co.nz/results/2005/2005r124.html

Track & Field
Event | Grade | Grade Place | Name | Club | Performance | Wind | Comment or Trial results
(attach HJ & PV score sheets as plain text)
Example: http://www.coolrunning.co.nz/results/2005/2005r131.html

Run/walk series
Name | Time (event 1) | Time (event 2) | Time (event 3)
Results sorted ascending by Time in the latest event
Example: http://www.coolrunning.co.nz/results/2005/2005r122.html

Thanks

Thanks for your help in making it easier for us to help you. please send any questions or comments by email to ian@coolrunning.co.nz.

Cool Running New Zealand