COLORADO BASED RACE Timing Company WITH INNOVATIVE TIMING, SCORING, & RESULTS SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR PARTICIPANTS

Electronic Chip Timing | Live Results Website | Live Streaming on YouTube | Results Kiosks | Finish Line Video | Finisher Certificates | Participant Photos | Virtual Race Results

Finish Line Timing offers a full range of sport timing services for running, open water swim, triathlon, cycling, snowshoe, and Nordic ski events. We pride ourselves on providing a personalized service not found with many companies. Our philosophy is Your race’s success is our success. Ease of registration, accurate timing, quick access to results, and the appearance of a finish line reflects the quality and integrity of your race. Our goal is to eliminate your stress on this aspect of your race.

As a Colorado race timing company, we are experienced in timing road and  trail runs, High School and Collegiate cross country meets (including uploading results to TFRRS), triathlons, open water swims, bike races, and Nordic ski races.

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Our services include:

• Live Results Website
• Live Streaming of the Finish Line on our YouTube channel
• Results emailed to participant shortly after their finish; ability to share their results with others
• Results Kiosk
• Finish Line Video and Finisher Certificates for each participant
• Optional: Free Photos for your participants
• Optional: Finish Line announcer

Whether you are an experienced race director managing a well established annual event, or a first-time organizer creating an inaugural race, we are here to provide assistance from event concept and planning, to race day timing, and results. We will provide great customer service to both you and your race participants.

Contact Finish Line Timing today to discuss how we can help you at your next event.

Our mobile timing office

We offer a choice of timing technologies: the state of the art MyLaps BibTag disposable chip timing system, and the bar-code scanning/tag-pull method for smaller races.

We offer more race related and personalized services than any of the Denver area timing companies.

With our website and our email distribution list, we will help promote your event. We build a page on this website for each race we time, and we email out our race calendar to our distribution list once or twice each month during the race season.

RACE RESULTS POLICIES

It is a universal standard that anyone who registers for an event and successfully completes the race appears in the results. Read more here.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GUN TIME AND NET TIME

When it comes to awards, a winner of a race is determined by who crosses the finish line first. Therefore, overall and age category results are based on Gun Time. Read more here.

CHIP TIMING

MyLaps is considered the most reliable chip timing system with a read rate approaching 99.8%. Prestigious races like the Boston Marathon, Chicago Marathon, and Houston Marathon, now use the MyLaps Bibtag system. This system also eliminates the need and expense of collecting chips at the finish. For runners, the disposable runner's chip is a thin, lightweight antenna stuck on to the back of each participants bib. For swim, cycling, triathlon, and mud runs, the chip is embedded in a disposable lightweight foam band that goes around the athlete's ankle.

TAG PULL TIMING

Tag-pull timing is how races where timed before chip timing was invented. This timing method is ideal for smaller races were your timing budget is limited. Start and finish line banners, and runner chute equipment, is included in our bar-code scanning timing packages.

FLTRESULTS.COM - LIVE RESULTS AND MORE

Our new results page, FLTResults.com,provides many services to race directors and participants:

• Live race results on the web updated during the race (provided cell coverage is available)
• Detailed results making it easier for participants to compared their results to others.
• The ability for participants to print out a Finishers Certificate
• Runners can view themselves crossing the finish line on our finish line video posted on our YouTube channel (when available)
• Ability for participants to easily share their results on Facebook and Twitter (which also promotes your race)
• Demographic data of interest to race directors

RESULTS KIOSK - INDIVIDUALIZED PRINTED RACE RESULTS

To get personalized results to your runners faster, we have created the FLT Race Results Ticket software. Individual runners can come to the FLT results kiosk at the finish, give us their bib number, and we will print out a results ticket that has their personal race results that is customized for your race. Each ticket will have your race logo, race name, location, date, the runner's name, and their complete results including their time, pace, overall place, division place (gender and age group), and their gender place.

Runner Getting Her Personalized Results Ticket from our Results Kiosk

FLT YOUTUBE CHANNEL

Watch live streaming of your finish line and videos of finishers at many of our recent races on our YouTube Channel.

FLT RACE REGISTRATION

FLT Race Registration is not online registration - there are already plenty of options. FLT Race Registration a stand alone program that takes the place of registration forms filled out by hand. This program is ideal for races that have pre-race expos or bib pickup where registrations are taken. Runners register on one of our laptops and then print out a race customized race registration form complete with your waiver. The participant signs the form and take it to your team to pay and collect their assigned bib. This eliminates the need to decipher poor handwriting AND having to do data entry. Contact us for details. 

ONLINE RACE REGISTRATION

We are happy to set up your online registration for no additional charge. We use GetMeRegistered.com. The fees they pass on to the runners are more reasonable, they don't fill up the registration process trying to sell your participants magazines, and their site is more user friendly, both for the participant and the race director. And most importantly, they do not sell your participants contact information to other businesses and races.

We offer a variety of other services to accommodate your needs. We are runners and Race Directors, so we know the challenges you are facing. Based in the Denver, Colorado area, we are happy to travel to time your race.

Learn more of what we can do for you.

We are also involved with the community having been members of 1% For the Planet since 2006. One percent of our total revenue is donated to non-profit environmental organizations.

This was our first year working with Finish Line Timing after using our previous timing company for the past 7 years. We were nervous moving to a new timing company as a few of our events are unique and have a few challenges for the timer. Paul put all of my worries to rest and is absolutely amazing to work with. We used Paul for 3 separate events this year; a triathlon, a stair climb, and a trail series (5k through 50k). Every single race went off without a hitch in large part to Paul and his crew. Paul does everything he can to make the race organizers job as easy as it can be. He is extremely knowledgeable and willing to help make your event the best that it can be. We will continue to use Paul for all of our races/events for the Town of Castle Rock.
Jake S; Race Director Town of Castle Rock

I have used Finish Line Timing for the past two years, and all I can say is... WOW! Talk about professionalism, efficiency, and timeliness. Paul Vanderheiden is such a pleasure to have at our meet and truly excels at his craft. As a high school cross country coach who hosts a meet at one of the most popular tourist attractions in Colorado (the Royal Gorge Bridge), a timing system is the most important part of its success. Paul is exceptional, and guarantees that a high school meet will have the same feel as a professional race. I highly recommend and encourage other coaches to contact Paul for their running contests. They will have peace of mind knowing their event is in good hands with Finish Line Timing.
Marcy E; Head Coach Canon City High School Cross Country