Fall marathon season: what the results pages don't tell you
Berlin, Chicago, New York. The results databases will remember your time for a week. Your page remembers it forever.
Every fall the same thing happens. Hundreds of thousands of runners cross finish lines, the results go up, and for about a week your time lives on the organizer's website. Then the page gets buried under next year's registration link.
The time you trained sixteen weeks for deserves better than a row in a database nobody opens twice.
That's the quiet argument for keeping your own record. Not a spreadsheet, not a screenshot in your camera roll — a place where your marathons live next to each other, with the year, the city and the time. Where someone can see the arc: 4:12, then 3:41, then 3:28.
Results pages tell you where you placed. Your own page tells people who you are as a runner. This fall, put the race where it belongs — on an address you control.
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