Athlinks Website Review

I was surprised to recently find out that there are some in the running community that haven't heard of www.athlinks.com, so I have decided to write a review on this handy website.  Athlinks houses over 155 million results in their database and adds 3 million new results each month to the site (from tris to trail and road races).  Usually within two weeks of race date, the full results are uploaded-even the one local 5k my mom walked in 2008 is in there!

Athletes create profiles and add their friends to their circle where they can compete against each other virtually in the same races.  This website is a great tool for tracking your own progress and, if you are as competitive as myself, looking up others Personal Records to set your own goals ;-)

When you first log in, the main screen lists all of your races and you can scroll through all of your PRs.  The PRs compare you against the rest of the Athlinks Community so one can see how they measure up against other runners.  In the middle of the page, there's an option to view all unclaimed results that match your name.  You can also add races and results (pending verification from Athlinks).  If the user adds upcoming races to their profile, the results are added even quicker!

Overall, I would give this website an A+ as it's easy to use and new features are constantly being added.  If you haven't checked it out yet, you definitely should!