Evansville, IN.  January 15, 2013. ChronoTrack, an industry trusted provider of race solutions, announced that ChronoTrack Live delivered new online, mobile and social race experiences in 2012, engaging athletes and spectators, increasing event exposure and generating new revenue opportunities for event directors.

“ChronoTrack Live’s online and mobile results, as well as the athlete update services were a big hit with the event audience, spectators and runners alike,” said Peter Delaney, Race Director for the Vermont City Marathon.  “It was an added bonus that these services offered us new platforms to attract sponsors. Truly a win-win proposition.”

Since launching in early 2012, ChronoTrack Live has supported over 900 events with mobile results and real-time online results, the delivery of athlete updates to Facebook and Twitter, athlete finish video and digital photography and more.

Deployed through certified ChronoTrack timers, ChronoTrack Live enables new sponsorship opportunities, including finisher badges in Facebook posts, pre-roll video advertisements, watermarked photos, custom skinned results pages and custom branded athlete updates into Facebook and Twitter.

“As a timer, we’ve gone from being an expense to becoming a revenue generating partner,” said Matt Helbig, President of Big River Race Management in St. Louis and a certified ChronoTrack Live provider.  “Even better, the events that switched to ChronoTrack Live grew three times more than other events we managed, showing athletes are looking for these services.”

From capturing athlete video of a race finish on the top of a mountain in Alaska, to posting Twitter updates for Meb Keflezighi in Bay to Breakers, delivering video ads helping Women’s Health generate awareness of the Run 10 Feed 10 events fighting hunger, as well as providing Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg real-time results and video at the first annual Facebook Half Marathon, ChronoTrack Live has created new online, mobile and social race experiences in 2012.

For more information on how to create a next generation digital race experience, download ChronoTrack’s,  “Creating Online, Mobile and Social Engagement at Your Next Event.”

About ChronoTrack Live

ChronoTrack Live is the next generation race platform providing real-time online, mobile and social race experiences as well as registration, on-site registration, race check-in and live scoring solutions.  Available as modules or as an entire platform, ChronoTrack Live offers a single data source for an entire race.

About ChronoTrack:

ChronoTrack is a trusted provider of race solutions for race organizers and timing partners.  ChronoTrack solutions time 25 of the 30 largest races in the US and has a network of over 200 timers in 35+ countries.

In 2012, ChronoTrack launched ChronoTrack Live, the next generation race platform providing race management and live race services.  Combined with ChronoTrack’s hardware and certified partner network, ChronoTrack provides the most comprehensive set of race services.  To learn more visit www.chronotrack.com

Contact:

Patrick Grogan

503 702 1250

pgrogan@chronotrack.com

The Conference will be hosted at the beautiful Tradewind’s Resort and Spa located directly on the beach of St. Petersburg. The annual event will provide each attendee with the opportunity to learn more about our continued innovation and product releases while networking with the largest body of timers in the country.

As an added opportunity, ChronoTrack will be providing a live Demo of the ChronoTrack Live Platform on Sunday morning January 20th.  The full demo will be in conjunction with the St. Pete Beach Classic Half Marathon which starts and finishes right near the Tradewinds Resort. If you are interested please make your travel arrangements to arrive on Saturday night.

A link to the ChronoTrack Live Registration page has been provided  to allow you to get signed up for the  the 2013 Users Conference. Additionally pricing information as well as details on getting your reservations for the Tradewinds Resort is available below.

Conference Registration Pricing Information:

Take advantage of early registration and save yourselves fifty dollars on each attendee by signing up before January 1st.
$225 Before January 1st
$275 After January 1st

Click Here to Register

Hotel Reservation Information:

The rate for the hotel is $145.00 which includes free wireless internet in each guest room, free access to the fitness center/recreational facilities, a complimentary beach side cabana and free parking. To reserve your room in the room block at the ChronoTrack rate, please click here

on-site race registration and live race services. 

Evansville, IN.  November 8, 2012.   ChronoTrack, an industry-trusted race solutions provider, announced the availability of the ChronoTrack API, providing data connections to leading race scoring solutions, RunScore and Race Director.  The announcement means timing partners can more easily benefit from ChronoTrack Live’s next generation race platform services including registration and on-site registration as well as mobile results, real-time results, athlete video and more.

“This connection to RunScore will help timers take advantage of the ChronoTrack Live services introduced this year,” said Alan Jones of RunScore.

The initial release of the ChronoTrack Live connection to Race Director and RunScore will immediately benefit timers in two ways:

• Timers can eliminate race day paper registration, manual data entry and the associated errors and timing inaccuracies. Using ChronoTrack Live’s on-site registration with the API allows data to seamlessly move to RunScore or Race Director and eliminates race day hassles.
• Timers can deploy ChronoTrack Live’s real-time results, mobile results, Facebook & Twitter athlete updates, athlete video and more while easily moving data to score and produce awards in the scoring solutions they are familiar using.

“We are excited about this connection to ChronoTrack because it will help timing partners,” said Roger Bradshaw of Race Director. “The ChronoTrack API further opens up the services and benefits that ChronoTrack Live has to offer timers and the races they service.  I look forward to extending this connection.”
Available through certified timing partners, ChronoTrack Live is the next generation race platform introduced by ChronoTrack earlier this year. It is the only turnkey platform that integrates registration, on-site registration and race check in with live scoring to deploy mobile results, real-time results, Facebook or Twitter athlete updates, athlete video & photography and more.
More information about ChronoTrack Live can be found at www.chronotrack.com .  For information about the ChronoTrack Live API email info@chronotrack.com

About ChronoTrack Systems:
ChronoTrack is an industry-trusted provider of race solutions for race organizers and timing partners. ChronoTrack solutions time 25 of the 30 largest races in the US and has a network of over 200 timers in 35+ countries.   Its hardware and software solutions paired with certified race timing network provide the most comprehensive set of timing, race management and live race services available.  To learn more visit www.chronotrack.com

Girls on the Run in St. Louis has close to 6,000 athletes – creating race registration, packet pick up, and race day registration challenges. The coordination of these issues causes them to shut down online race registration early to coordinate the logistics.

All of this is now handled by ChronoTrack Live – no packet pick up coordination, lines race morning  and best of all race registration can stay open to the start of the race.

Watch a short video on ChronoTrack Live registration

• To score a Triathlon, on the Race Set Up, select Type=Triathlon.
• Set the distances for each leg of the triathlon
• The Age Reference Date will default to the last day of the year

The scoring set up is automatically done, a timer just needs to name the course equipment points

 

ChronoTrack introduced the mobile results solution this year at a number of events including the Key Bank Vermont City Marathon and has since made the offering officially available to all races. “We were excited to offer mobile results at our marathon,” said Peter Delaney, Executive Director of Run Vermont. “Our athletes and spectators loved having access to our event through their phones. As the race was progressing they were able to see athlete’s paces, split times and more – all in real-time.”

ChronoTrack’s mobile results are turnkey and easily deployed by certified timing partners at weekly 5k races or large premier endurance events. ChronoTrack partner Don Garrett of DG Productions is involved in over 200 events a year and recently introduced the service at the Midnight Streak 5k in Oklahoma City. “It was apparent runners loved the results on their phones,” said Don. “The response was unbelievable. This is the future of our business without a doubt.”

ChronoTrack’s mobile results offerings are available as part of ChronoTrack Live, it’s next generation race platform. ChronoTrack Live offer real-time online, mobile and social race experiences integrated with registration and race management solutions. As a comprehensive, yet modular platform races can streamline data management and offer athletes the experience they want.

More information about ChronoTrack Live can be found at www.chronotrack.com or available by watching this video.

About ChronoTrack Systems:
ChronoTrack Systems is a provider of race solutions for race organizers and timing partners. ChronoTrack solutions time 25 of the 30 largest races in the US and has a network of over 200 timers in 35+ countries. Its hardware and software solutions paired with certified race timing network provide the most comprehensive set of timing, race management and live race services available. To learn more visit www.chronotrack.com

Your Timing Device for this event is the ChronoTrack B-Tag:

In order to receive an accurate time, please confirm your bib is…

• Clearly visible on the front of the torso

• Unaltered and unmodified(Do not fold or wrinkle)

•Pinned in all four corners

• Not covered (jackets, runner belts, water bottles, etc.)

Download CT B-Tag Directions

ChronoTrack Live – “The Future of our Business”

DG Productions, an event production operation supporting more than 200 events through out the southwest, rolled out their first ChronoTrack Live event using mobile results this August and claimed ChronoTrack Live “is the future of our business.”

Don Garrett rolled at ChronoTrack Live at Midnight Streak in Oklahoma City, an evening 5k featuring awards announcements from Subway’s Jared.  Using ChronoTrack Live, they delivered mobile results as well as real-time on-site results available from monitors at the race.  

“The response was unbelievable,” said Don. “It was apparent runners loved the results on their phones and people were lined up so they could get a photo next to the screen with their results showing. ChronoTrack has made a giant step forward in my opinion.”

Hold the date! - 4th European ChronoTrack Timers’ Conference

This year our conference will be held on November 13^th through November 15 in Rome.  We are currently finalizing details and will share more in the coming weeks.

This will be an exciting conference as we launch new products including ChronoTrack Live, the live scoring platform enabling real-time online, mobile and social race experiences.  We also will be introducing Flashpoint technology, enabling you to set up mat-less splits on the course – reducing equipment and course set up time. We also plan to share other developments on timing tags and other products.  

This conference is open to non ChronoTrack or prospective ChronoTrack users in addition to current ChronoTrack users.   More details will come shortly, but in the meantime put the dates on your calendar and we look forward to seeing you in Rome.

There we a number of competitive runners and a familiar face or two crossing the finish line – watch here