A jailbreak from my skull

This morning I woke up off-kilter — more than fuzzy-headed, less than full-on depressed, definitely sour. I shuffled around the dim house. Rather than focusing on the day ahead, I gnawed on yesterday. Itching a grievance. Trying to unforget something — what?! Leaning against a locked door. Even when I’ve …

Where does Racery come from?

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 …

Celebrating Triangle Tech with a real race on a digital route

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 …

People who run together run farther

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 …

Running store takes local runners on a race across Alaska

For Peter Ripmaster, the decision to use Racery was easy. Ripmaster, the owner of the Black Mountain Running Company, was burning out trying to juggle selling shoes with hosting community 5ks and running workshops, spending quality time  with his wife and two young daughters, and training to pull a sled …

Race on the Appalachian Trail becomes a months-long reunion

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 …