10 The 2025 Marathon and Half Marathon Calendar

A race director can never have enough, so we’d like a lifetime membership (plus free shipping) on BuyCableTies.com. We could also use a zip-tie fanny pack to store used ties in when cutting them off signs and posters after a race.

Dorky, but useful—just trying to keep up with the ever-changing world of technology. 

As with zip ties, we can never have enough. Duct tape is what holds a race together—pun intended.

We all know that GPS devices will often register a race distance longer than how the course was measured along the tangents (that is, the shortest possible route). That doesn’t stop runners from thinking the course was measured incorrectly when they don’t run the tangents perfectly.

Although I still personally feel that sleep is overrated, I suppose a race director needs a little of it every now and then, even when leaving the job site to do it isn’t practical.

One of the most dangerous parts of our job is stenciling mile markers or turns out on a live course. This piece of equipment could help save lives—ours!

No matter how many times you ask spectators to move back or out of the finish area, they just don’t. This invention would move them out of the way.

Races require thousands of road cones. There is a real device that does this—and it’s worth its weight in gold—but a robot would work, too. Anything to avoid humans having to undertake this huge task.

Greed in the refreshment tent is a no-no. It’s frustrating when some runners feel they can take as much as they can carry, leaving nothing for those in the back of the pack.

Collegiate Records Go Down at BU.