Responding to popular demand… starting today, racers will be able to upload mileage directly through their race’s map. Accessed via the ‘log miles’ tab, the upload form has today’s date auto-filled, but also allows back-dating mileage for racers who miss logging a day or two. Right now, the app assumes …
ExitEvent’s article about Racery, written by Laura Braverman, has a nice summary of Racery’s origin story, which grounds and the fact that our former colleague Bruno Sokic’s brother lives in Sweden. Oh, and zombies. The idea came after a former Blogads employee started to use the Zombies, Run! app, which …
Remember when Team IBM had its own jerseys and Triangle tech behemoths took corporate competition to the streets by contending in road races? To celebrate a new Racery feature that allows teams to use real miles to race against each other on a digital route, we’re excited to revive this …
The secret to running farther may not be some highfalutin training program, but the simple act of joining a running group. We’ve just finished crunching additional data from our survey of Racery participants earlier this year. We found that racers who reported never or rarely running with other people ran …
Looking back, Ed McDaniel was in for a bunch of surprises when he signed up to race 466 miles on the Blue Ridge Parkway in January. First, McDaniel didn’t really understand what kind of race he’d entered. McDaniel is a psychologist at the Black Mountain Neuro-Medical Treatment Center, where he’d …
This spring, customers and staff of North Carolina’s Weaver Street Market food co-op covered 105 miles on a virtual route connecting ten local farms and artisans that the co-op buys from. In all, 74 runners logged more than 6,000 miles, with 49 finishing the course by June 1. Local runner …
