Recent Blogs


Spring Lake 5 Opening

The Spring Lake 5 Mile opened for the second year with us. They sold out their 12,000 slots in the first 9 hours. They opened at 5AM and has nearly 2,000 registrations in the first 6 minutes! We were monitoring our systems, and are…

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Oauth Integration Docs and Sample Code

Attached are detailed documentation and sample code in PHP and Node for connecting with RunSignup via OAuth. This is useful for our partners who want to integrate tightly with our security system and give users bi-directional access to their information. RunSignUp OAuth…

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RaceJoy GPS Race Tracking

RaceJoy is one of the coolest mobile apps for races. They do a bunch of different things, but the really unique feature we like is the GPS tracking capability. The basic idea is that a runner in a race with a mobile phone…

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“Software is Eating the World”

My good friend Sacha Labourey wrote this blog today – CloudBees Raises $23.5 M because Software is Eating the World. He makes the point clear: “Software is not a tool that “helps” businesses anymore. Software has become *the* business. Everything companies do, from interacting with prospects,…

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Run Thru the Woods Thanksgiving Day Case Study

We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignUp users.  This Run Thru the Woods Case Study focuses on building a community event and making Race Day easy.  Overview: In…

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RunSignUp Email Roll Out Schedule

We are happy to release the new RunSignUp Email System! There are several significant improvements that will happen over the next couple of months. Here is the rough schedule: Phase 1 – Mid January – This will improve Basic Usability Phase 2 –…

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Race Director Go

In addition to the big news that The Race Director has joined forces with RunSignUp, we are also excited to introduce a new offering for Race Director timers – Race Director Go, or RD Go. RD Go allows any Race Director (RD) timer to simply…

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2014 RunSignup Year in Review

Much like last year, RunSignup has had another great year. The goal of our company is to provide web services to the running and endurance community. We feel our value is our ability to focus on technology that can be easily adopted by…

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2014 Availability Report

In 2014 we had outages totaling 16-21 minutes (depending on how you count an outage) for an availability of 99.996%.  This is down from 99.998% in 2013. As usual, we do a year end (well, almost – there are still 7 days…

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Guest Blog – Video Results

Steve Stone of Best Times Event Timing is kind enough to share his experience in setting up for video results. Camera PositioningI think we have final found a good GoPro camera position for filming finish line videos. From the attached picture, you can see…

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