Recent Blogs


Running Club Websites Released

We have released the same website capabilities for Clubs that we recently released for Races. All of the existing Clubs were automatically updated. The new design brings a number of benefits: We have also updated your Club Dashboard where you set everything up…

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AWS Outages

There have been outages on Amazon AWS, our cloud infrastructure provider, this morning. This has caused some delays in completion of transactions and notification to customers. The good news is that unlike other systems with less fault tolerance built into them, RunSignup stayed…

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Maintenance Outage on Tuesday

RunSignUp will be unavailable for 1-2 minutes between 3:45-4:15AM Eastern on Tuesday, September 22 to do a database upgrade. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Registration Market Analysis – September 2015

We are a very open company (with things like public annual and availability reports as well as public roadmap), and we thought we would share some analysis we have done as well as general thoughts on the future size and direction of the registration market. We do…

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HeatMaps for Races and Partners

We have introduced Heatmaps for Races and Partners (folks who manage multiple races). Here is an example of a small Race Series Partner Heatmap: You can see the cities where they have races and how many people relatively have signed up from…

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The Synthesis of Races, Stores, and Training Programs

At our 2015 RunSignup Race Director/Timer Symposium, Andy Marsh from Playmakers shared his view of the synthesis between Races, Training Programs, and Running Stores: We’ve shared our philosophy of the Running Community before; that  the running community is made up of tens…

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USA Triathlon 1 hour outage Sept. 30

USA Triathlon will have a one hour outage on Sept. 30. They will be performing a network upgrade starting 9/30/2015 at 11pm until 10/1/2015 at 12am Mountain Time (1 hour in duration). This means our automated mechanism for confirming USAT memberships will not…

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Participant Management Makeover

We have extended our new Race Website capabilities to participant management to give your runners a clean, simple experience. Runners can look themselves up in the Find a Participant page on your race website (remember you can hide information or just put…

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Partner Dashboard Improvements

We have added some nice features for Partners with multiple races to give them better visibility across those races. Compare Races allows you to pick up to 10 races to compare on a single chart. This is on the Dashboard -> Compare…

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