So much industry insights were covered in the last Strength in Number Session. See the highlights below: Events in UK have been coming back and catching up to lost events in the past months – they have had 78 events (135k participants across all events) since August – which they normally would have run in …
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Strength in Numbers Highlights: 6 & 7 September 2021
So much industry insights were covered in the last Strength in Number Session. See the highlights below: Numerous events have taken place in Europe in the past few weeks including Paris Half Marathon with 25,000 participants, UTMB with 10,000 and other medium and small events. At the same time there have been lots of cancellations …
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Strength in Numbers Highlights: 2 & 3 August 2021
Another week of interesting sessions and engagement with the Strength In Numbers session. See highlights below: Organisers in Indonesia have been successfully organising and running smaller triathlon and running events from a 30-150 participants. Commercial models are only possible due to government support of the events with a focus primarily on tourism. Currently ongoing restrictions …
Strength in Numbers Highlights: 5 & 6 July 2021
Another week of interesting sessions and engagement with the Strength In Numbers session. See highlights below: In Egypt, running events are still restricted to small groups. Organisers though are still optimistic and have been preparing for events scheduled in the last quarter of 2021. As always finding appropriate courses due to the heavy traffic in …
Strength in Numbers Highlights: 21 & 22 June 2021
Another week of interesting sessions and engagement with the Strength In Numbers session. See highlights below: Continued optimism in UK as organisers prepare for events in August focusing on two scenarios: one is taking into consideration COVID-safe precautions and social distancing and the other based on a more “normal” set-up assuming that restrictions are lifted …
Strength in Numbers Highlights: 7 & 8 June 2021
Another week of interesting sessions and engagement with the Strength In Numbers session. See highlights below: More positive news in US as “a slow thaw in the freeze” continues with events confirmed and more councils starting to consider permit applications. Still much discussion around guidelines and inconsistencies of tracking and analysis of proof of vaccines, …
Strength in Numbers Highlights: 24 & 25 May 2021
Another week of interesting sessions and engagement with the Strength In Numbers session. See highlights below: The delay in return of parkrun in England due to push-back from local councils resulted in significant social and mainstream media activity including an open letter from World Athletics CEO, Lord Sebastian Coe. There …
Strength in Numbers Highlights: 10 & 11 May 2021
Another week of interesting sessions and engagement albeit unfortunately highlighting the massively contrasting situation in our industry across the globe with increasing pockets of optimism in some countries offset by abject frustration and anger in other parts of the world. 1. The UK government has announced it will allow in-person events after June 21. The …
Strength in Numbers Highlights: 26 & 27 April 2021
Another insightful Strength in Numbers session this week and great to see so many new faces and countries on the sessions. Here are some highlights: So many constantly changing moving parts that it’s hard to pin down and announce policies and then turn them into actionable delivery plans. Important to read the fine print in …
Strength in Numbers Highlights: 12 & 13 April 2021
Another insightful Strength in Numbers session this week and great to see so many new faces and countries on the sessions. Here are some highlights: 1. With lots of government restrictions in Hong Kong, only a few very small races are allowed to return. These restrictions include testing and regulation of the number of participants …