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Choosing an Event Hosting Service—Where’s Your Money?
We’ve all been there—you paid for a product or service, confident you’ll be receiving what you expected—but some complication led to broken promises and an unhappy wallet. Organizing a running event does not have to be this way; make sure you know the circumstances surrounding an event hosting service before making a commitment. Your wallet—and your sanity—will thank you.
Nobody likes to be short-changed or have their money tied up somewhere it can’t be readily accessed. We’ve heard horror stories of race directors who have used an online registration service only to have some financial concern tie up…
Read More…Trail Marking for Running Events
Trail marking for running events:
Things you need to know and do.
If there is a fork in trail you will have some participants use it and get lost. The front runners will be going 10mph….which is pretty fast, so when marking think of the speed and how tired these participants will be and you need to mark accordingly. Chalk is good, but after a bunch of runners pass over it can start to be confusing. Assume nothing on the navigational ability of runners. Before EVERY turn and AFTER every turn you need to have arrows. Your Chalk… Read More…