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 …
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 …
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 …
Since early April, students, staff and faculty at the Duke University School of Nursing have been battling in a 9,000 mile virtual race from Durham, North Carolina to Wuhan, China. On the map tracing the race’s progress, the competitors are in Canada nearing the Arctic Circle. But, while the exertion …
