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Your Race Director is at work… trying to understand the best practices of others and see how they can be incorporated here too+++++++++++++++++++ . Rut Jiroajvanichakorn (Race Director, Bangsaen21 Half Marathon / Chonburi Marathon; Board Member of the Thai Mass...

There is an expectation that hot breakfast must be served in all running events. Some runners complain on social media about it without realising the practical difficulties in such arrangements. . Here is my point of view 1. Arranging hot breakfast is a matter of whether it has...

Many runners end up running races and not getting their basic right. Their race results. . In this multipart post, we seek to answer how errors get injected into different parts of the process. The first step is where the data gets captured. The registration platform. It has...

Q.1 I intend to personally pace a friend of mine in the next running event. I am not registered and I intend to run a part of the distance to encourage him. Nothing wrong in that I suppose? . Ans. Before going into the answer, some preface. There are rules for any sport and it is...

I was in conversation with Savio D’Souza, ( one of India’s most leading National level Olympian of yesteryears and trainer, for those who came in late ) and asked him for a photo from his winning days. He confessed that he had probably none. . Compared to this, most...

Can BKC accommodate so many runners is a moot point of discussion. Also what are safety precautions to prevent the HM runners doing 02.05 or faster from being elbowed by the 10K back??? I have had an incident & thus this is not a story…  . My response: TLDR: Too many...

With the running calendar becoming busier with each passing year, it has become very common to organize running events in the rain. Here’s YouTooCanRun sharing some key points for organizers to conduct a race in the rains more efficiently. . AT THE START HOLD AREA 1. Read...

IAAF, AFI and AIMS – A Primer – 1  . Most often runners do not know enough about the role of these organisations and assume that if those labels are used, the event should be of a higher standard.  . Most of the times, use of these organisation labels only means that...