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Racing 105 miles, runners virtually tour North Carolina farms

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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 …

Ripmaster: Taking on Alaska.

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Peter Ripmaster lives in Fairview, NC and is the owner of Black Mountain Running Co. in Black Mountain, NC. A 50 marathons in 50 states finisher, Peter has now been running ultra races for years of all distances from 50k to 350 miles. Next February 2016, Peter will attempt to …

What’s Racery

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We surveyed some of you, and 140 of you responded! We asked you how you  would describe RunWithMe and we loved your responses so much, we made a word cloud out of them!!! Top words? Virtual, Fun, Motivating (motivation, motivator!)

 

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Racery looking for a Virtual Race Manager

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Do you love helping people accomplish great things? We’re hiring a customer service people to help racers in Racery, a website where runners use real miles to compete in virtual long-distance races. To succeed, you’ll need: great communication skills a huge desire to see our racers and sponsors succeed a …

Murakami writes about running (and vice versa)

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Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami started running because he hoped to become healthy and write novels long term.Murakami managed a jazz club in Tokyo and smoked sixty cigarettes a day. “If I wanted to have a long life as a novelist, I needed to find a way to keep fit and …