$48/year to use Milesplit?

junkie wrote:

In Ilinois, both milesplit and dyestat are good resources. athletic.net not so much. both dyestat and milesplit have IL specific high school commentary (video and print) in addition to race results. I pay monthly for milesplit for the access to virtual meet tool even though it's not completely accurate (some athletes are listed twice so it screws up the team score) but with a good eye you can correct that and 95% of your work is done for you.

You live in Illinois but you pay for milesplit? Are you nuts? It's not bad, but Newman at Dyestat outworks those guys tenfold and is often more insightful despite doing literally every class, both genders, teams and individuals. He does a Monday morning video review of all of the important meets (and a lot of unimportant ones too) and manages the rankings of every class, every week. Don't get me wrong, I would honestly never go up and talk to Mike Newman. The way he manages twitter along with his personal ideals tell me we wouldn't get along, but holy crap does that guy outperform the milesplit crew.

Virtual meet is useless. To think that you can compare cross country times from different races is absurd

Mike Newman can't keep up with our network. Milesplit has been the Dyestat on steroids for years.

A Coach from Oregon wrote:

How is athletic.net a pain? I've been using the site for 8 years. It takes less than 5 minutes to upload results, assuming you are using results software. I've had meet results posted before the opposing team has left. The athletic.net XC Meet Manager is also really easy to use and free. I've used Hy-Tek for track, and again, it is a simple upload process. From a meet direction stand point, athletic.net makes life much easier.

It's a pain because the assumption I've bolded above isn't true. I'm dealing with paper results from a hand-timed dual meet. I can scan the paper results and email them to the opposing coach and league commissioner same day, but getting them into a digital format and uploaded takes several hours. Plus Athletic.net requires a format completely different than my own team software (XCStats), so I end up typing out every result for a meet at least twice. I wouldn't bother if I didn't have to, and as I mentioned before, my section requires using athletic.net so results can be verified for invitationals.

I have no doubt that uploading results from a meet management software is easy. If it wasn't a convenience for meet directors, they obviously wouldn't use it.

I suppose you could say it's a little unfair to say it's a pain to use athletic.net, when the real issue I have is having to manage paper results and being required to use a specific program/site to publish those results. Fortunately, our own timing system is on the way, so I'll be able to exchange those headaches for new ones!

Why do I pay for mile split? I'm not a coach, I have the funds, and I like my information from more than one source. And I think there is some value to looking at combined results from Detweiler, even if one result is FTTF and the other was Richard Spring or Peoria Invite.

I think Mike Newman does a very good job. I'm very familiar with who he is and what he offers on dyestatil

quote: "Are meet results Copyright or intellectual property?"

https://en-gb.facebook.com/Athlinks/posts/10152952607230341

Please read comment by Chris H about response from a RD.

Any LRC lawyers? Are results public record or IP?

At least one marathon refuses to have their results reposted on athlinks.com as shown in that previous post.

deserves another thread

Brohammer wrote:

Yeah results aren't intellectual property so I think anyone could make a results site. However, Milesplit doesn't charge to see results and therefore doesn't get any money (outside of the ad revenue that is) from results by themselves. Building a site with just results wouldn't really be competition.

I made a separate thread to discuss this since it is a really interesting question.

all i want to know, is the $48/ yearly membership. is it charged at one time or is it billed monthly?

You will be in buyers remorse soon enough if you do.

There are so many mistakes and bad information on milesplit.

Milesplit is what happens when spanish majors from low caliber institutions in Florida decide to echo a little PHP and call themselves software developers.

malmo wrote:

That's shocking that a business charges money for their services. That's an out-dated business model that can't be sustained in the modern world. Everything is free now or it should be free.

there are some great posts in this thread that gave me an LOL.

but in all seriousness, does anyone know how much a milesplit PRO account currently costs per month or per year?

thanks in advance

Cost $48 dollars to view rankings and we still have to watch ad's to get to some content. If we are paying to be on the site don't put ad's on there too.

Many of the milesplit workers are well just plain creepy.. at least in my state.

Seriously? $48 is not that much. Your running shoes would cost at least that much, and is likely more expensive than that.

The guys who made the Milesplit videos for you need to keep themselves from starving and becoming homeless. $48 is a rock-bottom price for what you're getting. Compare FloTrack, which is $150 / year.

Perrywinkle wrote:

Many of the milesplit workers are well just plain creepy.. at least in my state.

I'd be curious to know what state you're in.

Entitlement Generation 1986 wrote:

Dear entitled Millennial, I'm sure the makers of Milesplit could use a few bucks too. If you want to complain about someone siphoning your money, look no further than the tuition inflated by federally subsidized student loans.

Time to log off, grandpa.

no way.

Lack of money is also a problem. Everyone needs to eat (and have a roof over their heads, etc.).

But communication is the #1 problem for Milesplit. No company can survive without communication within.

Coffee Runs wrote:

Perrywinkle wrote:

Many of the milesplit workers are well just plain creepy.. at least in my state.

I'd be curious to know what state you're in.

You would be creep too if you had to pay to work.