We have launched our 2023 Timer Survey! This annual industry research survey, now in its 5th year, is the only research available that is specifically tailored to timers and offers important insights and trends in race timing. A spectrum of topics are covered, including general business approaches, technology adoption, current trends, challenges, and potential future industry changes.
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We have been doing the US race registration market analysis every 6 months for many years. We include a ton of analytical data, and also include our analysis of happenings and directions in the market (of course that analysis is done from…
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Timers are the backbone of the race community. Unlike many volunteer race directors, and even professionals, they are the professionals who help with 10-300 races each year. And for an event to be called a “Race”, there kind of needs to be…
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We release an annual RaceTrends Report each winter to provide a thorough assessment of the state of the endurance and fundraising events industry. Today, we have a brief update looking at midyear data to help event organizers better understand the current state of the…
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We are returning with our Largest 100 Races Report now that things are returning to normal (although plenty of things were not really back to normal still in 2022). First, several notes:– This is based on an earlier set of data we…
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Our annual RaceTrends Report is here, breaking down the participation numbers and industry trends from 2022 to help you make better predictions and more successful decisions in 2023. You can access the full report below or watch the recorded webinar for a…
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The biggest US running day of the year had an impressive showing in 2022, with 756,894 people participating in 730 races across the country and raising more than $1.8 million dollars for charities. That represents record participation on the platform, likely due…
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Note from Dec. 15 2022 – We have deployed an upgraded layer of software that controls our session management that is adaptive to high demand and removes the problem with the Apache Webserver cache mechanism that caused some slow performance on Thanksgiving…
Read MoreWe did a quick check-in on how some of the data is looking this year so far for registration (November 7, 2022). We have been tracking how far races have recovered post pandemic. We also have done an annual wrap-up after turkey trots are done….
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We have been tracking a data point this year where we look at a cohort of races that were on our platform in both 2019 and 2022 by the month the race occurred. Meaning we looked at races that happened in October…
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