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Hello LinkedIn Trail Community! 🤠 What are your plans around The Broken Arrow Skyrace, TrailCon, and Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run, UltraSignup will be in Tahoe for all of it and we are compiling a list of the many awesome community happenings between June 18-30. Comment below or shoot our Content Manager an email so we can help spread the word: [email protected] ✌🏽 See you in Tahoe! 🌲

Huge news for recreation this week! Did you hear?

David Miller does it again with another year in photos. The range of emotions in the images is just amazing. Thank you David for sharing these with our UltraSignup community! Can’t wait to see 2024. https://lnkd.in/ggWG_H2Y

We're looking for a Full Stack Engineer to join the team at UltraSignup. All qualifications are available at the link below. Send your resume to [email protected] https://lnkd.in/gjv8Qaug #trailrunning #runningindustry #ultrarunning #hiring #hiringnow #fullstackdeveloper #fullstackengineer #endurancesport #outdoorindustry

Are 5K's the key to the future of trail running? Yesterday I was curious about one of the fastest growing races on the platform - Healdsburg Turkey Trot - by Skip Brand and his team. I wanted to know how many of the thousands of runners in this race were new to the UltraSignup platform. So, I asked our data guru - Matt Abbott - to find out. The results - 2/3 of the runners were new to the platform. That's huge. So, that means, because of the efforts of Skip and his team, thousands of people have now had exposure to the broader community of trail adventures. Certainly, many of these runners will race more of Skip's races, but they will also explore races from other directors. This is the power of the community. Skip's efforts to put on a local 5K will have ripple effects across the sport. How far will the ripples go? That's hard to tell. A certain percentage of these racers will sign up for other races in the next weeks, months, and years. They will also brings friends along with them to share the experience with. Then the ripples will extend into their circles of friends. These are network effects in action. So, I would encourage all of our race directors to think about the power of the 5K, even if it's not on a trail. New Years Day resolution runs, St. Paddy day, Firecrackers 5Ks, Turkey Trots, etc. They may be the key to the long-term growth of our sport. Providing these athletes with an entry point into this awesome community is so powerful. Creating an accessible laddering of distances will pay dividends for you and for the sport more broadly. Just look at the number of kids in the photos - the future members of our sport right up front! Great work Skip and our team is cheering you on! #TrailRunning #UltraSignup #RunningCommunity https://lnkd.in/gYwfKJ6J

Nothing warms my heart more than knowing that someone will get an UltraSignup gift card under the Christmas Tree. One of our major projects over 2023 was the full implementation of gift cards across the platform. I have to admit, I was pretty naive about the complexities of gift card deployment when I first proposed it nearly 2 years ago. But, of all the things we have done, I think that this one taps into the core of what so many runners want for the holidays - access to more adventures. This isn't a sales post, but my marketing team would be frustrated if I didn't include a link for where you could grab some for friends and family, so here you go - https://lnkd.in/dmpiwHzA So, let friends and family know. Give one to someone you love….or even better, someone you want to see suffer 😂

If you're tired of all the Sam Altman, OpenAI and Microsoft drama, then head over to the new Trailhead podcast by UltraSignup. Buzz Burrell and Corrine Malcolm did a great job with this episode as they wrap up 2023 and give us some insight into 2024. They brought on a string of guests to get their takes on what was great about 2023 and what they are looking forward in 2024. I have no part in the crafting of these shows so I listen to them when they drop just like everyone else. Buzz and Corrine really pulled together a unique and insightful episode. Larissa Rivers Doug Mayer Finn Melanson Michele Hartwig Callie Vinson @Drew Peterson @Megan Roche, @David Roche and @Allie Mac - thank you all for taking the time to help us wrap up the Trailhead season. And, just for fun (and because this has been such a crazy week for OpenAI), I thought I'd let DALL-E Open Ai create an image for this episode. https://lnkd.in/gPfPP-VK

At UltraSignup, we feel an important responsibility to elevate voices within the running community. Especially if those voices are as funny as Andy Pearson and Dominic Grossman. With that in mind, we bring you Between Two Pines, a running podcast for people who think running podcasts are stupid.

Is Trail Running in a Bubble? Follow-up public contemplation after my conversation with David Callahan & Jay Kelley.

Alright, here is the next cool project coming out of UltraSignup - but, mostly from the mad minds of Andy Pearson and Dominic Grossman. Here is a teaser for the Between Two Pines podcast....a running podcast for people that think running podcasts are stupid: https://lnkd.in/gfxy5Gta