I finished the 5K on St. Patrick’s Day on Saturday. It was an extremely warm day, but it was better than cold and rainy. I finished with a time of 37:08. I should have been under 37 minutes, but they didn’t have a timing pad at the start and we took our [...]

I was up at 5:45am on Wednesday morning to fight the crowds on active.com again. The first couple of times I clicked on the link prior to 6am I got a “too busy” error. Around 5:59, I refreshed the page again and got the registration page. I quickly checked all the waivers [...]

So they just posted on the Pikes Peak Marathon site the process to remedy the botch registration from last week. Looks like I’ve got to re-register now. The races that were less than 50% full which is all of the Triple Crown of Running spots and Wave 1 of the Ascent will [...]

The fine folks at the board of the Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon had an emergency meeting Thursday night to discuss the epic mishandling on the part of active.com during the registrations yesterday. They still don’t have a resolution for the problem, but I hope they can get something figured out quickly. The [...]

Active.com is a website that a lot of race organizers outsource the tasks of registration and collection of fees to. The Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon was no different. However, with the shotgun registration process that is in place for the PPAM, apparently Active.com wasn’t prepared for the traffic all at once.
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