Support

As part of helping, we would like to give something back to the Fell Running Community.

Graham Revell was a character.

Brought up in Bradwell, he used to organise the Bradwell Fell Race. He created a great Excel Spread Sheet to help manage the event. It was fantastic: well designed and carefully thought through. Graham succumbed to cancer a few years ago, so we have updated the spreadsheet in his memory.

The Revell Timing software has been created to make the process of managing a fell race easy.

It is free to use.

Here is a simple CSV file with just the dummy data so you can alter the information and then try out importing a start list.

The dummy data displays the file headers/ positions, and you can copy this format if you want to add your own data manually. If you use an entries company such as Fabian 4 or SPORTident, then currently, the spreadsheet is set to use the standard V11 OEscore/ Fabian 4 Competitor data format as an input file.

If you use a different file format we are happy to add other standard formats. The only basic data we need is Firstname (Column G), Surname (Column F), Date of Birth (Column H), Club (Column U) and Gender (Column I). Any other data will be ignored.

The file uses the runner’s Data of Birth to calculate categories. For each class, you can choose either to use age as at the End Of The Year (EOY), or age On The Day (OTD), or a combination of either. For example Juniors, U21 and U23 typically use EOY, but other seniors typically use Age OTD. Non-champs races are free to use either EOY or OTD as long as it is clear to entrants.

Standard 5 years senior age categories are displayed, but you can group them together for prize categories. For example, the V40 prize could include both V40 and V45.

Even if you don’t want to use the Revell file at the event, you could use the file to correctly assign categories and race numbers where you are using a mix of age at EOY for young runners and then age OTD for older runners. The maths behind the calculations is complex but we hope we have made the process easy for you.

The file can assign race numbers.  This is really flexible and allows you to use different ranges for different categories or you can share ranges between categories. I often use up old numbers with part used ranges, and the file allows you to have up to 5 different blocks of numbers per group.

Numbers are assigned in simple numeric order, alphabetically to each group. So Alfred Ainsworth will get the first number and William Zackry the last used number in the sequence.

Your start list is automatically produced. The list can be sorted and printed, either by surname, club or category.

Finish times are added by simply inputting the race number and time. We have split Hours/ Minutes/ Seconds into 3 columns, and the file automatically populates some suggested times for you.

For a safety check, you are also able to add Non-Starters (NS) and runners who Did Not Finisher but are back safe (DNF). As you add data, a list of runners who are yet to be accounted for starts regularly updating, so you are able to see who is left to come back.

A quick list of finishers is visible, or a formal list can be viewed.

Category winners can be viewed.

Team prizes can be viewed. Currently, you can choose 3 or 4 runners to count to a team. If you want to use Team Prizes you do need to make sure the club names are uniform. To help with this there is a section in the set-up to allow you to add common abbreviations which will allow club names to then be standardised automatically. For example, ‘dpfr’ and ‘dark peak’ need converting to ‘Dark Peak Fell Runners’

Once you are happy with the results you can save them either as a CSV file or a PDF file. You are then able to email them directly to the relevant results bodies, local clubs or newspapers.