Both do the similar things with high school track and field/cc data. For some states neither are complete and it's a scramble between the two to get results. Which does your state lean toward?
Both do the similar things with high school track and field/cc data. For some states neither are complete and it's a scramble between the two to get results. Which does your state lean toward?
Athletic.net is usually pretty reliable for California, but there is the occasional 12 minute 5k.
Milesplit is by far better, which is why you have to pay for it. If you're really into following high school running, I definitely recommend buying a subscription.
ps: Don't buy the monthly subscription as 4 months with the monthly subscription amounts to the price of the full year subscription.
every local invitational and some clusters are on athletic.net here. it's easy to view my results, and reflect back on my progression through the season. I love it.
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Both do the similar things with high school track and field/cc data. For some states neither are complete and it's a scramble between the two to get results. Which does your state lean toward?
On the east coast, milesplit is better
On the west coast, athletic.net is better
in between it is a mix. Colorado is better on milesplit, Michigan is better on athletic.net.
Beyond that, both sites are usually pretty mediocre.
Unfortunately Athletic.net has aligned itself with the Taylor's formally of XC Nation. Milesplit is the way to go.
Most Michigan high school meets submit data to athletic.net. Athletic.net is used by most Michigan invitationals for team registrations. Few Michingan runners' post-season results from New Balance, NXN, and Foot Locker are on athletic.net. Some schools in the northern lower peninsula do not submit results from their meets to any websites. MITS (indoor track) is outside of the state association. None of the results are at athletic.net. Most of the meets are available at Milesplit. All are available at mitstrack.org.
If one does not have an account at athletic.net then do not bother to contact them to point out even an obvious error. I have had great success in getting obvious errors corrected by contacting the timing company or by contacting the host school's coach or athletic director.
If one is a regular contributor of content to Milesplit then they may provide a Milesplit Insider account for free. All one likely needs to do is regularly submit photos from the meets they attend. They are also interested in videos of races of elite runners as you can tell by their prior coverage. Michigan coverage has been limited mostly to the bigger meets but Milesplit seems to be trying to improve the coverage at the state website to increase subscriptions. I think they could use more contributors in Michigan and other states.
Coaches with accounts can create virtual meet (hypothetical) results at athletic.net. I have not seen a way to do that without an account. A Milesplit Insider account can create virtual meet results.
Milesplit has photos, videos, and some brief articles from some meets. Athletic.net has none of these. Some of the videos at Milesplit required a paid account. All the athlete profiles and most of the rankings require a paid account at Milesplit.
Dyestat has ranking and some profile data available for free but their database of race results is much more limited than Milesplits or Athletic.nets. I have requested that timing companies send results to Dyestat or have sent them myself at times. So they are willing to post more if they receive them.