A huge thank you to regular participant and RaceReviewer developer, Jody Snowdon for developing this software for Lactic Turkey Events - it adds a lot to our events, being able to compare your route with other teams and allow those that couldn't come to the event a chance to see how they would have done it.

Installing

RaceReviewer should work on any computer that is running windows 95 or later. You will need a half decent graphics card to get the 3d stuff to look smooth. The 2d stuff should look decent on anything. RaceReviewer will take up about 10mb of space on your hard disk. It will work best if you have a resolution of 1024 x 768 or higher and at least 256 colours. Install RaceReviewer by unzipping the application to a folder on your computer. If you have other racereviewers (good for you) put this one in a separate folder.

RaceReviewer does not use the Registry and will only read from and write to the directory it is installed in. It will create two bitmap files, map.bmp and photo.bmp in the directory it is installed in when it first runs.

Double-click the executable file to run the application.

Download
Click the following link to download RaceReviewer

• 2008 Lactic Turkey Piha Rogaine - Google Earth (0.6mb) - If you have Google Earth on your computer. Save the file to your computer and double click to have a replay of the event on Google Earth. Select the top level folder (Piha Rogaine 2008) then select teams and play using the controls in the top right of the Google Eareth screen. You can zoom in and slow the animation using these controls.
• 2008 Lactic Turkey Piha Rogaine - traditional (3mb)
• 2007 Lactic Turkey Hunua Rogaine 3D Version! (2.92mb)
• 2007 Lactic Turkey Piha Rogaine 3D Version! (1.74mb)  
• 2006 Shoe Science Huia Rogaine 3D Version! (2.43mb) 
• 2006 Shoe Science Huia Rogaine Armchair version - you try to plan a better route! (258kb)
• 2006 Shoe Science Piha Rogaine 3D Version! (2.1mb)
• 2006 Shoe Science Piha Rogaine Armchair version - you try to plan a better route! (820kb)
• 2005 Shoe Science Cascades Rogaine 3D Version! (1.6mb)
• 2005 Shoe Science Cascades Rogaine Armchair version - you try to plan a better route! (227kb)
• 2005 Shoe Science Piha Rogaine (676kb)

Using RaceReviewer [Rogaine]

1    Race viewer - The race will be replayed in this area.

2    Options - These options control what you see on the screen

• Topo - Select this to show the race map
• Photo - Select this to show a aerial photo of the course
• Route - Check this to display route markers of the course as the simulation plays
• Controls - Check this to show the controls on the photo

3    View type - Click this to toggle between two and three dimensional views of the course area

4    Viewer control - There are five buttons that control RaceReviewer.

• Stop - Click this button to stop the race and return the clock to the start of the race
• Play - Click this button to start the race. There might be a slight pause between clicking this button and the replay starting
• Pause - Click this button to pause the race
• Slow down - Click this button to decrease the speed at which the race is being replayed
• Speed up - Click this button to increase the speed at which the race is being replayed

5    Entrant filter - Filter the team names in the entrant drop down box by selecting one or more filters and clicking the apply filter button (circle arrow thingy). You can find a team by clicking on the down arrow on the team name drop down and typing the name into the box, the box will scroll as you type. Teams are in place order e.g. winning team at the top.
Click the green arrow when you have found the team you want to display, this will put their name in the next free square in the entrants list (5). You can view up to five teams at once.

6    Entrant display - The teams you have selected are displayed in this area. The colour to the left of the team name is the colour of the course that will be displayed in the map viewer area and the colour of the 'worm' in the height map.
Click the red cross next to the team name to remove the team from the display
Underneath each team are four fields pieces of information.

• Time - Race time (only shown at the end)
• Points - Accumulates as the race progresses. At the end will show total control points and time penalty points (e.g. 700[30] = 700 control points and 30 time penalty points)
• Distance - Total distance travelled in kilometres
• Elevation - Accumulated 'up' elevation. Every time Race Reviewer thinks that you went up it will accumluate this counter. See the FAQ below about heights

7    Height - A height profile of each of the selected teams is displayed here. Use the scroll bar at the bottom to see more of the profile. Double click this display to bring up a form that will show you the entire profile. The scale of this form is meters above sea level up the side and kilometres along the bottom. (Again see the height FAQ below)

Moving around in the 3d view

The easiest way to navigate is to click one of the option buttons next to one of the entrants that you have chosen to display on the map. This will put you into auto follow mode and the map will scroll around keeping the entrant you are following in sight. Click another entrant to 'auto follow' them.
If you remove all follow checks then you are in 'free mode' and you can navigate around using the arrow keys on your keyboard.

• up key - moves you forward in the direction you are facing
• down key - moves you backward away from the direction you are facing
• left key - rotates your view to the left
• right key - rotates you view to the right
• up key + shift - moves you down, closer to the ground
• down key + shift - moves you up, away from the ground
• up key + ctrl - tilts your point of view down. e.g. if you were looking at the top of a mountain, this will make you look at the bottom
• down key + ctrl - tilts your point of view up. e.g. if you were looking at the bottom of a mountain, this will make you look at the top

The only keys that work when you are in 'auto follow' mode are up key + shift and down key + shift to move you up and down.

If you get lost when in free mode (it is possible to fly through the map!) select an entrant to follow and you will be put back in a sensible place. If you are typing keys and nothing is happening, make sure the 3d map is selected by clicking on it with your mouse.

Uninstalling

Simply delete the folder containing the RaceReviewer files.

Problems or comments

Send an email to support@racereviewer.co.nz

Disclaimer

RaceReviewer © 2005, All Rights Reserved

Your use of this software indicates your acceptance to the terms and conditions as defined in this license agreement and warranty statement. Please carefully read these terms and conditions prior to the use of this software.

The RaceReviewer application and its accompanying support files are provided "as is" and no warranty of fitness for a particular use or purpose is offered. Liability shall not include or extend to any claim for or right to recover any other damages, including but not limited to loss of profit, data, or use of RaceReviewer or other software, or special, incidental, or consequential damages or other similar claims.

Frequently Asked Questions

These are not really frequently asked questions, I made them up last night when I wrote this help. They might be useful though. If you have any other questions or feedback send me an email faq@racereviewer.co.nz

The course you plotted is nothing like what we did, why?

Well, I don't actually know what you really did out there, so I'm guessing. The route displayed is worked out by travelling around the course visiting the points in the order that you said you visited them. The path between each pair of controls is the shortest distance route travelling on trails and roads. The course won't show the 30 minutes you spent wandering around lost. It won't show the super quick short cut you crashed through the bush. And it wont show the super smart route you took around the road, that even though was longer was quicker 'cause it avoided the muddy hill climb
RaceReviewer also assumes that you told the truth about the course you took so if you (not naming names) said you made a quick dash 500m from the finish to get a 100 pointer 10km away, then I believed you.
Please, let me know if I got your course is really wrong and I'll fix it.

Is that distance thing accurate?

Yep --- well kind of. It does assume the world is flat which is not quite the case as you no doubt are aware after the rogaine. It should be pretty close, it is the same distance you would get if you marked out your course on your map with about 200 pins, wound some string around them and then measured the string.

Is that height thing accurate?

Yep --- well kind of. This one is far more dubious than the distance measurement. Basically this works as follows. Use the map that still has all the pins stuck in it from the distance measurement. Now stick a label on each pin being the height of the map contour line that it is closest to. Trace your course using the pins with your piece of string, each time that you wrap you string around a pin put a dot on the height map at the distance (length of the string at the pin) and height (label on the pin) represented by the pin. Connect up the dots and you'll get the height chart. If you add up all the bits where the pin labels increase in value and ignore the down pins then you'll get the 'up metres'.
The problem is that contour lines are 20 vertical metres apart and where there are steep hills, getting your pin a little bit off the track can mean to closest contour line is 20 metres up the cliff and not on the nice flat track you are running on.

How come the dot speeds up and slows down?

I only know how long it took you to do the whole race, so average speed is that best I can do. However, I do some trickery to make the dot move relative to the gradient of the land, i.e. faster downhill than up. If you took some of your own splits then let me know them and I'll put them in.

Can I change my course and play that?

Not yet, but I agree that is a good idea, so that feature will be coming.

The 3d map looks really ugly when I zoom in

The resoultion of the 3d photo is not the greatest, this was intentional to keep the download size down. If you want a better one download this one hires cascades photo. Open the folder that you installed RaceReviewer into and delete the file photo.bmp. Replace the file photo.jpg with the one you downloaded. The map will look better next time you run RaceReviewer. Note, RaceReviewer will create a 12mb bitmap in the RaceReviewer directory when you next run it, this might take a couple of seconds.