This year, the RunSignup Community is introducing an annual program to give back to charities who promote running or utilize running as a way to improve their communities. We collected nearly 100 nominations and ended up with eleven finalists. The RunSignup Customer Advisory Board voted…
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We are very happy to announce that Matt Morrisson will be joining our development team. He comes to us from Amazon where he spent the last 5 years working on various projects including the console that anyone who uses AWS logs into to…
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In Philadelphia, we’ll be hearing about… We’ll be teaching about… We’ll follow all of that with a Keynote by Jim Marino of the Blue Cross Broad Street Run and the Philadelphia Marathon, on the explosion of Broad Street from a 5,000 runner…
Read MoreWe’re excited about all the Race Directors and Timers heading into Philadelphia soon for our 3rd Annual Race Director/Timer Symposium…but we might be the most excited to hear from someone who is already here. Meet Jim Marino, Philadelphian. Jim first became involved with the…
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We updated our site with this security patch – https://blog.cloudflare.com/yet-another-padding-oracle-in-openssl-cbc-ciphersuites/. Other webmasters may want to run the free Qualys SSL scanning tool to check their grades – https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html. Users can also check out their most common websites as well (proud to say RunSignUp beat…
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I (Bob) was on vacation last week. I got time to read Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers. While it focused on people, I kept thinking of it in terms of the attributes of success as they related to RunSignUp. A key quote I liked was: “My…
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We are seeing a trend of relay races – from marathon distances to multi-day 300+ miles – requesting to load their events into RaceJoy so that they can offer live runner tracking and cheers to their participants and spectators. RaceJoy provides interactive,…
Read MoreOver this last weekend, runners and cyclists around the country used RaceJoy to add to their race day experience. We had race participants use RaceJoy’s live GPS tracking, progress alerts and cheer sending in 13 races – from 5Ks to multi day…
Read MoreUPDATE: We have made two changes to our system to try to improve this situation if it happens again. First, we have adjusted the settings on our New Relic Monitoring tool to try to catch this type of error so we can…
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With so many races to choose from, runners often select races that can offer something truly personal to add to the race day experience not only for themselves, but also for their supporting family and friends – like planning a vacation around…
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