A Note About: Results and Race Requests

Everyone could do a little help, I've already volunteered! Come on guys, this site is free, let's all lend a hand!

I'll promote the site at races. I've already asked about wearing a singlet with the logo to advertise at races. Waiting to hear back.

Lou - "unofficial" results will be kept completely separate from the official results. It would be presented as more of an individual placeholder than a complete set of results.

Hopefully we are getting closer to this being a faster process. I submitted on 5/1, along with some friends, a race done on 4/29, that still isn't posted.

Troy: Use us volunteers! We're here to help and want to see our results posted.

Lou -

It is a hotly requested item - mainly for older races that don't exist online any longer. But from a current race perspective, you would be allowed to put up your own individual unofficial time the day of the race along with your request. Then, a day or two later, once the official results are added, it would remove your unofficial time and replace it with the official time.

During that time, your unofficial time would not be mingled in with your official times - it will just be a line-item off the the right of your results on that page.

Brandon -

We're actually just about caught up! The guys are pretty much up to speed and we're just finishing the add-event form and will launch it over the weekend. Once it's up, you guys can add the events right to the directory for approval. Once approved, the events will show up right away.

Thanks guys!

Troy

I am just looking for Alaska results...We always get forgotten about up here!

Troy,

I think you guys are doing a great job. This site is really taking off and membership is increasing at a more rapid pace(and I am proud that you are local guys for me). I would be glad to help volunteer with entry, promotion, etc - what ever is needed. Someone should create a promotion banner that we could paste on other websites we may have. I think that you have great ideas and the things that have rolled out so far have been great. I like the unofficial results also - even the Kentucky Derby is your unofficial winner until the results are verified and made offical.

Mark - thanks for that. we'll have a bunch more promo tools coming soon to get out to you guys. Hey - did you get the t-shirt yet? Let me know. We'll be at the Tempe International race in two weeks. We're trying to get down to the Komen race this weekend - I'm sure that Andrew will be there.

Troy,

I have not received the shirt yet. I know Andrew said it was returned a couple of times. I live @ Dobson & Warner, so I could pick it up if need be. I might check out Tempe international. I will be at Lucky of the Draw in Peoria on Sunday.

You're doing the greatest work for people who want to see their times put up for historical reference. Thank you so much!

Athlinks.com rocks!

Sherryl

Sherryl - thanks a lot! We have an AMAZING team of guys and gals over here making this thing work. Our only curse has been success, so you can't beat that! Thanks again and know that we are striving to be the best and are doing everything in our power to become so.

Count me in!! I can help where needed.

I'd promote athlinks.com in some way at the local races

=)

There should be a way to promote Athlinks through running blogs (banners to promote the website.) That could help.

How about some sweet Athlinks.com jerseys???

I agree with Adama about banners etc I wrote about it on my blog and stole the logo but some bone fide stuff would help getting the name out there

If a race is 23 days out and still does not have posted results is it likely it slipped through the cracks? Obviously there are much more recent results up, and I know that the results are on the race website. It is posted here, but the results are not.

Matthew - yes. Some races do slip through the cracks.

We are launching the new tools on Wednesday this week that will let you add the race yourself and alert us to missing results. That will take a big step out of what our guys have to do and therefore free up a good chunk of time for them to add more and more results.

Also, you will also have some error/mistake reporting tools and other feedback options built in when there are problems with results that will allow us to respond even faster.

Matthew - let us know which race results you're looking for - you just drop me a direct message.

-Troy

Looks like we might have some Safari users here...

I'm using Safari....what are the problems with Athlinks and Safari?

that makes 2 of us...

The two known issues are with image uploads and some phantom post-backs on comments and results pages. We're working through it - Safari is just a completely different animal than any other browser out there, so it's difficult to test unless you're actually doing your development on a Mac - and I'm not even sure if that's possible ;-)

(Yes, mac-heads, I'm joking about the last part)

If I remember correctly, you guys have at least a couple MACs that you used at the Gage Benefit to register users. If you need a test case I am more than happy to help. Let me know if you need anything.

Just did a 1/2 marathon today.... I doubt I will see results on athlinks..You seem to have something against Alaska. I thought this site was sorta cool until I found out Alaska is out of the mix....Why??

Hey Ian. We have nothing against Alaska. We will get your results posted very soon. We are launching new tools that will let you add races yourself and alert us to missing results. This will speed up the process of getting results into your profile.

The new tools should be up in the next couple days.

Our team will start adding as many AK results as we can find. Send me a message directly and let me know the name of the 1/2 marathon you competed in today. Thanks for contacting us.

BTW - we have about 180 races in Alaska over the past three years (2004-2006), but for some reason, none yet for 2007. I assure you that we will remedy that right away.

- Troy

Whatever you guys can do i appreciate

The new form for adding a race is great!

Do you have any active graphics that we can place on our own blogs that would link back to our profiles?

I'll do what I can for my area of the country.

That would be cool SLB!

hi i dont know what to write here so ya... bye

This site is for endurance athletes but there's no listing for nordic events such as the Birkebeiner, Noquemanon, etc.

Thanks for the Add race section.

Thanks for the Add.

I enjoy the ability to look at all races in all states. I don't enjoy the wait for the local results. Last year in our local race, the times were posted on the same day. Its too bad we can't have both ... access to this year's instant local results and a longer wait for unofficial and official results from individuals and other races.

I also do not know what to say here exactly...I did add a Belgian triathlon race. This kind of athlete full follow up is highly developped in the US but here in Europe this is pretty new, so it's a good experience for me, us :-)

I hope to succeed in Antwerp, no podium objective, I remain realistics, reaching the end will already be great to me.

By the way, I did not find where we can post our coming 'races' !?

Aloha

Let me know what I can do. Have tried to spread the word through the forums as well

My race time isnt there.

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This is a terrific site. Please let me know if & how I can help w/its promotion.