Racers have been asking about how they can incorporate Pokemon into their virtual races. We’re trying to figure out whether we should formally facilitate this with a Pokemon specific race… should we? After all, the Pokemon world virtually maps to some interesting real geography… in places as diffuse as Japan, …
Lots of scribblers are busy writing ‘what Pokemon means’ stories from various angles. I’ll bet there’s already a Medium article titled “what Pokemon Go can teach Democrats about Donald Trump.” Google News shows 3.58 million articles about Pokemon Go. On 42nd street in New York, the editorial board of The …
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 …
After launching street views for our virtual races last month, we’ve made a bunch of tweaks to the functionality. Our new community races, launching today, are designed to highlight some of Google’s better street views. Racers see their own views after each mileage upload. And you can see a clickable …
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 …
Last week we rolled out Racery’s new street view functionality. This cool functionality works for both our paid and free virtual races. Please give it a try and let us know what you think! As of now, you can get a view of your exact location on the virtual race route …
