I’m excited to share a new virtual race that we’re launching soon for Habitat for Humanity of Orange County. Seven-person teams representing student groups at the University of North Carolina — clubs, sororities, teams, squads, fraternities, faith-based groups, classes, hallmates — will log miles to race on a 1190-mile virtual route …
When the dust finally settled, the Hogwarts Running Club raised more than $56k for the Trevor Project. Runners World summed the situation up beautifully when it described our virtual race as “an unusual but highly effective fund-raising effort.” The two week virtual race’s fundraising goal was $10,000. The fundraising sprint …
Our programming and customer service teams have had an exhausting and humbling 24 hours. They’ve been digging out of a perfect storm of digital snafus triggered by a 9,340 mile virtual race we’re powering for the Hogwarts Running Club. In honor of Orlando, the HRC is raising money for …
From many angles, our recent TechGirlz Virtual Race was a big success. More than 200 runners on 72 teams ran 19,653 miles in 40 days. In the process of the dashing and dishing, racers raised more than $7,000 for TechGirlz, a charity that helps middle school girls learn to write …
The virtual race for the TechGirlz charity shows off two recent improvements in the Racery activity feed. Below, you’ll see how the bigger avatars help emphasize human participation and socializing. And you’ll notice that the ‘activity feed,’ where racers can track each other’s real time mileage logs, now include real …
In the summer of 1985, Mike King spent four months pushing his wheelchair from Fairbanks, Alaska to Washington, D.C. This summer, 136 people commemorated that trek by pooling their exercise miles to race the same distance in two weeks on a virtual route hosted by Racery. The commemorative race raised …
