Your accountability to your customers begins when they arrive at your venue, and only ends when you are certain they have left your venue safely.

Insurance is the minimum financial protection a race director needs to protect themselves, their staff, their volunteers, their business, and their family from other people’s injuries.

Collegiate sports clubs can give college kids a platform for racing while serving as your personal laboratory for testing your race direction ideas.

There are certain levels of outreach where the marketing of each endeavor depends on how much time you have or what kind of impact you want.

Enter the Jellysode -- Jennifer “Jelly” Crawford from The JellyVision Show is the founder and event director of DC Podfest, a small but scrappy podcasting conference held once a year in Washington, DC. In this interview, Jennifer lays out seven keys points that all event managers need to consider when building an event.

Don’t be the single point of failure by being the only one with all the gear by building a few gear redundancy strategies into your plans. Next year might be the year something really bad happens. However, if you build in a gear redundancy strategies now, you can help yourself avoid total disaster later. Today, we talk through three (3) ideas on how to do that:

#1 -- Distribute your Gear

#2 -- Mobile Storage On-Site

#3 -- Portable Storage Containers

There are some hidden challenges that hide within the multi-day slogfest that few one-and-done race directors have experienced. In this episode, I’m going to give you the five (5) takeaways I learned after directing a Multi-Day racing event that include:

-- Race Day Plans Change -- Both Days

-- Keeping Everyone in Town

-- Keeping the Venue Alive

-- Volunteer Burnout

-- Race Director Burnout

Exploring a new trial on a holiday like Thanksgiving can be very rewarding so long as your plan includes these 7 important tips.

Break your race out of obscurity by announcing your event at other events using the roadshow concept to get the word out.

When you compare your local races to championship races you learn that it's the same plan, course design, and processes, only on a bigger scale.