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June 27, 2018
Expert Endurance Event Advice from Legendary Race Director Dave McGillivray
Dave McGillivray is the founder of DMSE Sports, managing more than 30 major road races and charitable events per year, including working with the Boston Athletic Association Operations Team to manage all the logistics of the B.A.A. Boston Marathon. His name is a household word throughout the endurance industry–the term...
June 13, 2018
Gear Up for Success: How Connecting Athletes to Affordable Gear Builds Relationships
As many runners will tell you, the gear to support their passion can be more expensive than newbies may anticipate and many veterans would like to admit. From shoes and shirts to heart monitors and GPS watches, the costs add up quickly. Mix in cycling and swimming gear, too, and...
June 13, 2018
Gear Up for Success: How Connecting Athletes to Affordable Gear Builds Relationships
As many runners will tell you, the gear to support their passion can be more expensive than newbies may anticipate and many veterans would like to admit. From shoes and shirts to heart monitors and GPS watches, the costs add up quickly. Mix in cycling and swimming gear, too, and...
May 23, 2018
The Complete Race Director’s Guide to Portable Restrooms
From concerts to conferences, festivals to football games, one common question will always arise: Where are the restrooms? The placement, number, access and cleanliness of restroom facilities is hugely important to the success (or failure) of any event, and this goes double for races. Seasoned distance runners know that a...
May 23, 2018
The Complete Race Director’s Guide to Portable Restrooms
From concerts to conferences, festivals to football games, one common question will always arise: Where are the restrooms? The placement, number, access and cleanliness of restroom facilities is hugely important to the success (or failure) of any event, and this goes double for races. Seasoned distance runners know that a...
May 9, 2018
When Every Second Counts: Tips for Race Timers
In the world of endurance events, every second counts, and nobody knows the need for speed like a race timer. Tasked with tracking, tabulating and delivering results, timers take on a crucial and often logistically complicated job–but a new solution is streamlining the process from start to finish line. BEATING...
April 25, 2018
We Love What You Love
Hi. It’s great to be here. We’re ACTIVE Network, and on our Active Insights page, we look forward to sharing fascinating stories, industry trends and insider tips to power outstanding endurance events. Why? Because we love what you love. Founded in 1999, ACTIVE Network is headquartered in Dallas, with offices...
April 11, 2018
Beyond Gamification: Creating Rewarding Race Experiences
Love a great game? You’re not alone–and we’re not just talkin’ courts and balls. To gamify is to transform an action into a game by adding points, badges and other engaging elements. From soda companies to airlines, brands of all kinds are using gamification as a way to boost participation...
September 21, 2016
haku announces partnership and provides innovative event management solutions for Track Shack Events
Miami, FL, September 12, 2016 – haku, the most innovative and fastest-growing event management platform, has announced its partnership with Track Shack Events, the premier event production company in Orlando, FL. Track Shack hosts 14 events with over 50,000 active participants. These events range from half marathons to the greatly anticipated...
March 26, 2015
Team Gluten-Free Goes Off-Road at Renegade XTERRA Events as the Official Charity Partner
Renegade Racing, a premier running, triathlon & adventure sports production company in Southern California, is excited to partner with Celiac Disease Foundation’s Team Gluten-Free (TGF) for the XTERRA Renegade Off-Road Triathlon, Duathlon & 3 Mile Trail Run Challenge. TGF is a community fundraising program that provides a simple way for athletes...
October 2, 2019
ACTIVE Network Announced October Race Director of the Month: Brennan Lindner
By Jackie Veling As Co-founder and President of Generic Events, Brennan Lindner manages a large list of endurance events that span the globe, reaching as far as Bali, Indonesia, where he organizes the annual Bali International Triathlon—known as the “Triathlon for the Soul”—now in its 12th year. We recently spoke...
September 20, 2019
How to Manage Your Running Volunteers
As much as participants may think races run themselves, they don’t. It often takes an army of volunteers to make sure these events go smoothly with minimal setbacks. And the real key to a successful race are those perennial volunteers who come back year after year. They are enthusiastic about...
August 29, 2019
ACTIVE Network Announces Race Director of the Month: Krys Davis
ACTIVE Network spoke with event creator Krys Davis on her extraordinarily popular Wicked Wine Run series. When Krys Davis planned her first Wicked Wine Run with her husband, Sam, they could have never guessed what it would eventually turn into: a large, nationwide race series that draws in thousands and...
August 16, 2019
How to Increase Volunteer Sign Up at Your Next Event
It can be easy as a race organizer to spend all your time focusing on attracting participants to your event. After all, participants are the ones you put your events on for, and they are your key revenue source. But having enough registrants is just half the equation. Your event...
August 2, 2019
ACTIVE Network Names Race Director of the Month: Paula Harkin
Event creator Paula Harkin lives and breathes all things running. She is known in the running community as a “streaker” or someone who runs every single day. She hasn’t missed a run since January 1, 2009—that’s 10 years of consecutive running with an average of six miles per day. Paula...
July 10, 2019
ACTIVE Network Announces Race Director of the Month: Jorge Carmona
“If you build it, they will come.” Race director Jorge Carmona lives by this famous quote from the movie “Field of Dreams.” As the head of TnT Cycling, he plans a number of events each year where his focus is always the same: wowing his participants so they come back...
June 4, 2019
ACTIVE Network Announces Race Director of the Month: Tyler Wren
Tyler Wren was a professional cyclist for 13 years before he discovered a new passion—producing events with an important message behind them. As a professional cyclist, Tyler Wren was no stranger to organized cycling events, having attended many over the course of his 13-year career. During that time, his appreciation...
June 4, 2019
ACTIVE Network Announces Race Director of the Month: Tyler Wren
Tyler Wren was a professional cyclist for 13 years before he discovered a new passion—producing events with an important message behind them. As a professional cyclist, Tyler Wren was no stranger to organized cycling events, having attended many over the course of his 13-year career. During that time, his appreciation...
May 31, 2019
10 Questions Event Directors Need to Ask to Get the Most out of a Marketing Services Partner
Marketing used to be a passive exercise; an afterthought if you will. Whether you were trying to sell someone sunglasses or get them to register for your event, you spent time setting up a marketing campaign, put that campaign into motion, then went off and did other things while it...
May 31, 2019
10 Questions Event Directors Need to Ask to Get the Most out of a Marketing Services Partner
Marketing used to be a passive exercise; an afterthought if you will. Whether you were trying to sell someone sunglasses or get them to register for your event, you spent time setting up a marketing campaign, put that campaign into motion, then went off and did other things while it...
May 16, 2019
Is Mass Participation Dead?
In late April, ACTIVE Network hosted its third annual Race Director’s Lunch in London. We were honored to be joined by Rick Jenner of Limelight Sports who gave an insightful presentation titled, “Is Mass Participation Dead?” The answer to that question, in short, is a resounding no. The industry would...
May 1, 2019
ACTIVE Network Race Director of the Month: Doug Thurston
Doug Thurston began his career as a running journalist and race director 35 years ago, but he says planning events is still “an honor” for him. “Entrants decide to pay their hard-earned money to do your race,” he explains. “They have plenty of other options, including just running on their...
May 1, 2019
ACTIVE Network Race Director of the Month: Doug Thurston
Doug Thurston began his career as a running journalist and race director 35 years ago, but he says planning events is still “an honor” for him. “Entrants decide to pay their hard-earned money to do your race,” he explains. “They have plenty of other options, including just running on their...
April 8, 2019
Race Directors of the Month: Bill and Valerie Spata
When Bill and Valerie Spata began planning events, they had one goal in mind: to give back to Phoenix Children’s Hospital. The hospital had done so much for them after identifying a very serious misdiagnosis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in their eldest daughter. “There just aren’t words for the positive...
March 27, 2019
A Look Back at the Endurance Connect Conference
ACTIVE Network, many of our partners and members of the Endurance industry took a trip down to Puerto Rico in February, for the first-ever Endurance Connect conference at the beautiful San Juan Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino. We coordinated this event to bring together endurance event organizers and timers to...
