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I was tracking a few friends at Boston on the BAA official app that used the timing mats for official splits and times. In addition, I was tracking my friend Ricky Campbell on RaceJoy. The apps worked pretty well together! The BAA app gave 5K chip splits and the RaceJoy gave GPS Mile Splits. The finish […]
With a growing number of running race options to choose from, event organizers are looking for ways to add to their race experience. Rock the Parkway Kansas City Half Marathon and 5K took place this last weekend and is one of the most popular half marathons in the Midwest. The race sells out every year […]
We are now offering the option for race organizers to provide participants and spectators with an innovative tracking experience through RaceJoy, a unique mobile platform that provides real-time interactive experiences for road race participants with their supporting spectators. Race organizers can now offer, as a complimentary service, RaceJoy’s innovative experience that includes live GPS tracking, GPS […]
This past weekend was a big race weekend in the United States. Overall, RaceJoy had close to 2,000 users over the course of the weekend and 340 phones were tracked with at least one supporting spectator tracking them. More than 7,000 GPS-timed Progress Alerts were sent out, as well as 1,700 cheers. We are continuing […]
RunSignUp’s RaceJoy GPS tracking was in full swing this last weekend at the Charlottesville Marathon in Charlottesville, Virginia. A total of 225 race participants and spectators accessed RaceJoy for live phone tracking, cheer sending and progress alerts. On race day, 44 phones were tracked and close to 400 cheers were sent to race participants for […]
RunSignUp’s RaceJoy mobile platform continued to debut its new GPS Progress Alerts at Cooper River Bridge Run this last weekend and at nine additional races across the country. Participants and spectators were able to receive notifications as they crossed every mile on the course that included their location, time elapsed, pace and estimated finish time. […]
RaceJoy Launches Timing Progress Alerts Based Upon GPS Tracking March 25, 2015 – Moorestown, NJ – RunSignUp, the leading industry innovator for race events, timing service providers, running stores and clubs, announces RaceJoy’s newest industry breakthrough, GPS Progress Alerts. RaceJoy, the premier mobile solution provider for race participant live tracking and cheer sending, breaks new ground […]
We have been live for a couple of weeks with the new GPS Timing Splits capability in RaceJoy. This is the new feature that takes RaceJoy beyond just GPS Tracking, and delivers splits to runners and spectators as shown on the right. We had 320 runners using RaceJoy and there were 5,557 progress alerts to […]
RaceJoy has become the go-to mobile app for GPS Tracking. We released a brand new capability over the past two weeks called GPS Timing Splits. The feedback has been great – here is an example: The Progress Alerts were very motivational. I loved being told my pace and estimated finish time. I really think this […]
The Haddonfield Adrenaline 5K enabled RaceJoy for their race this morning. There were 1,000 people signed up for the race and about 800 finishers (there was a big snow storm on Friday). There were 65 runners with RaceJoy on their phones and 62 spectators. Here are some sample comments: Love this app! My husband cheered […]
RunSignUp’s RaceJoy mobile platform was heavily accessed at Gate River Run in Jacksonville, Florida this weekend. Close to 250 people used RaceJoy’s PhoneTrak feature with about 110 being participants and 140 being spectators. Supporting spectators were tracking participants live on the race course from 104 cities in primarily the United States, but also in Denmark […]
RaceJoy is an open mobile platform. This follows the open approach RunSignUp has taken from the beginning. Our goal is to give runners and races plenty of choice when using RaceJoy for their race. This is probably best explained by the type of partners we will be looking to work with over the coming year. […]
We have made it easy to “RaceJoy Enable” your race on RunSignUp. Simply go to your race dashboard and select the Race Day Go menu and then the RaceJoy sub-menu. You can either point to a URL containing a digital map or upload a file. Note it will take a couple of weeks to add […]
Hopefully make it successful – which means that over the next couple of years we crack 1 Million users. Here is our plan: Introduce RaceJoy to RunSignUp races and timers. We hope that a number of them see the value in providing this service for their races and will promote the fact their race is […]
Many people are asking why we acquired RaceJoy and are integrating them with RunSignUp. The answer is quite simple. RaceJoy is Cool Technology! And lots of people are going to use GPS tracking in races in the years to come. Also, James Harris is a genius who writes great code 🙂 I guess that begs […]
With the rapid growth of RunSignUp and by adding the talents of The Race Director and RaceJoy to our offering, many people want to understand our strategy. We covered this in our presentation at RunningUSA (and our video of that presentation here). It is worth expanding on now that RaceJoy is formally a part of […]
We have a RaceJoy Promotion Toolkit that you can use to help promote RaceJoy to the runners in your race. Download the RaceJoy Promo Toolkit here.
Shared Vision of Innovation Leading to Next Generation Race Experience February 26, 2015 – Moorestown, NJ – RunSignUp, the leading industry innovator for race events, timing service providers, running stores and clubs, announces its acquisition of RaceJoy, the industry’s premium mobile and runner tracking solution. James Harris, creator of RaceJoy, will join RunSignUp to continue […]
Update (2/26/15): You can now RaceJoy Enable your race directly from your Race Dashboard. Instructions are here. We just announced a partnership with RaceJoy to allow any race using RunSignUp to RaceJoy enable their race for free. Adding Runner Tracking is a great benefit to your runners and spectators and will put your race on […]
RunSignUp Partners with RaceJoy for GPS Runner Tracking Strategic Partnership for Next Generation Race Experience February 5, 2015 – Moorestown, NJ– RunSignUp, the leading industry innovator for race events, timing service providers, running stores and clubs, announces its strategic partnership with RaceJoy, the industry’s premium mobile and runner tracking solution. RunSignUp and RaceJoy have a […]
RaceJoy is one of the coolest mobile apps for races. They do a bunch of different things, but the really unique feature we like is the GPS tracking capability. The basic idea is that a runner in a race with a mobile phone can share their position with others. I used this last year when […]
