ButI did end up winning "Most Improved" attheawardsbanquet at the endof the summer. That'sonlybecause there was a ten-minutedifference between myfirst race andmy last one.
Although the MIT study does not give margins of error, the 2.6 minute average difference in waiting time surely falls within a reasonable margin of error.
Over a few decades this would amount to a minute's difference, but over several hundred years this would mean the atomic clock time-scale and the time-scale based on the Earth's rotation would be out by an hour.
The NRDC award acknowledges those accomplishments and allows us all to take a minute to celebrate the real difference these people are making in our lives.