Athlinks
All Your Race Results in One Place
What is Athlinks?
If like me, you love obsessing over results and comparing your performance statistics, I've got great news! Athlinks is here to take the hassle out of finding all of your results. Instead, let Athlinks curate all your results in one place! Not only that, but it lets you know how you stack up against runners around the world.
I used to try to do all the math on my own. Sure, after finishing a race, you get the results and you can see what place you finished overall, in your age group, division, etc., but then I would have to use all those numbers to calculate my percentile on my own. Doing that for each race to look for improvement between races was exhausting. Athlinks does all of that for you, and best of all, it keeps all of your results and data posted in one place!
Finding Results is Easy
When I first heard about Athlinks on the BibRave Podcast last year, I was excited about the idea but I had this vision of needing to go in and enter every result from every race I'd ever run. Once I finally created an account though, I realized how easy it actually was. All you have to do is punch in your basic info; name, age, etc., and Athlinks searches through its database of race results.
Once they're done searching, you get to see a full list of every result it thinks "might" be yours, and you just have to go through and "claim" them. Claiming the results officially adds them to your profile for you to look at later. There were even a few races on the list that I had forgotten about and never would have thought to add myself.
Finding Friends and Rivals
The social part of Athlinks has also been a lot of fun as you start finding friends to follow on the site or app. Once you follow someone, your "main feed" will show you any upcoming races any of your friends have registered for. If you've ever run a race together, there's also a "Rivals" feature that shows you how your results stack up against each other.
Live Race Day Tracking
One of the coolest features I actually got to test during my first marathon this year is their live race day tracking. Athlinks partners with some races to offer live runner tracking where your friends and family can follow you along your race through the app. It shows a virtual course map and updates your position on the course in real time based on your splits. Every time you cross a timer, it updates your average pace and your avatar will move through the course based on that data.
Join Me
I'm always looking for new friends to follow, and new rivals to race against so if you create a profile, make sure you come and find me! If you post your profile below I'll be sure to give you a follow back!