The dot in the corner
Yellow and red are normal at a bike race. They don’t mean anything is wrong.
!!-IMAGE-NEEDED-!! — Close-up of the timing screen’s top bar with the sync dot showing queued finishes.
The one thing to be careful about
This is the only way to actually lose timing data, and it’s avoidable.What survives what
When it uploads
Automatically — as soon as signal returns, whenever you switch back to the tab, and periodically while you’re idle. You don’t have to trigger it. If you want to nudge it, pull down on the page to refresh. A phone that’s been offline for a long stretch sorts itself out within a few seconds of reconnecting, and slots its finishes into the right places in the results rather than tacking them on the end.The rescue export
At the bottom of the timing screen there’s an Export log button. It saves everything that phone has recorded to a file. Use it if a phone is in trouble and you want the finishes off it before anything worse happens — a dying battery, a cracked screen, a phone that won’t reconnect. Send the file to your race director, who can load it back in. Think of it as the fire extinguisher. You’ll probably never need it, and you’ll be glad it’s there if you do.Practical advice
- Battery packs for every timing phone. A phone with the screen on for three hours will not make it on its own.
- Set timing phones to never sleep while charging.
- Check for green before you pack up. Make it the last thing you do at each finish line.