Steve Hughes dropped by with a comment recently, sending me to a link that listed many of my races.
http://www.athlinks.com/racer.aspx?rid=96579856
I actually had a print out of those races from the site, but I had not taken the time to register and claim my races, and I'm glad Steve's comment prompted me to do it.
Athlinks.com was missing a few of my races, including my NY, Paris and Boston Marathons and many fundraiser 5K/10K races. But when I claimed the race results it had as mine, the site offered my out-of-state Boston 2003 and NYC 2008 Marathon as possible matches and allowed me to claim them. I guess out-of-country is a little much to ask.
I also had credit for an 8k timed at 1:26 or a blistering 17:18 per mile, but I only ran the 5k that day. The site made it easy to delete that bogus result.
Another great feature is listing runners who live near you who've claimed their results. What better way to find a running partner and connect with the local running scene?
Other services also have race results, but none that I know of do the hard work for you and make it easy to claim additional results. I've paid for a number of races through Active.com, for example, and all of those times are available through Active. But Active makes you search one at a time by race to claim your results. WAY too much trouble.
If you're a race organizer, do all of your runners a favor by sharing your results with athlinks.com.
AND ... if you're from the athlinks organization, accept my kudos but get in touch by dropping me a comment. I'd love to get some of my best races in there (a 5 mile 32:03 in a Palo Alto Run Club race that Active still has on the books and the EIF Revlon Run/Walk for Women 5K in which I broke 20 minutes).
