Athlete Guild stands at the forefront of organizing and promoting athletic events, offering a platform that seamlessly connects athletes, enthusiasts, and event organizers. Our commitment is to enrich your sporting experience, whether you're a seasoned athlete or a newcomer to the world of sports. With this blog, we want to make you aware of the many features of our platform. Whether you are a race director, event organizer, or athlete participant, you will discover the richness of our platform provided to assist you.
In our last blog (https://www.athleteguild.com/node/46412), we talked about venues. This allows us to attach events to unique venues. While this is a great feature, it is not very useful for a race or other activity without a list of possible routes from that venue. Each venue can have multiple routes for different distances or even unique routes for the same distance. The routes are then attached to the events which allow us to compute pace and provide a visible viewing of the particular route a race will use.
Every event posted on our platform is attached to one or more routes depending on the races offered. When an event is posted to our platform, the appropriate route is attached to the individual divisions for that event. This allows you as a participant to look at the route for that race. We try to post valid maps against these routes so that you as a participant can make informed decisions about your running experience. The routes provide the distance and direction information for the venue.
There are several features that these routes provide to both the race organizer and the participant. Firstly, you do not have to have an account to access the routes on the platform. By navigating to the Routes menu (www.athleteguild.com/route) on the platform, you can search by city, postal code, and/or name of the route. You can also search for a minimum and maximum distance. Once found, you can click on the route and be taken to the route home page. The route home page contains a menu of options for looking at Events and Results. In addition, there are links for directions and weather.
This route feature has existed since day one of the platform's existence but has always been closed to race directors and system admins for creation. A new update to our platform now extends the ability to create routes for anyone. This will allow you as a participant to add your favorite route for any location. To access this feature you will first need to have a valid account on the platform. Once you log in, just navigate to the venue menu which will present you with two tabs: List and Create. The list of course will allow you to search for available venues. The Create tab will allow you to create a new venue. If you attempt to add a venue at an existing location, the platform will inform you. We want the list of venues to be clean so we reject attempts to add duplicate venues. Once you have found the appropriate venue, you can then add your route. There is a route builder tool that will allow you to draw the route and place markers. We are constantly adding features to this builder, so stay tuned for some exciting upgrades.
We hope that you will find this feature useful to your athletic adventures. Please let us know of any enhancements that would help improve the functionality.
