Depending on the size of your event you can choose how you register participants.
Online Registration
The best way you can register participants is through an outside 3rd party registration website or through your own online process. This way is the most popular way of registering participants. The advantages of online registration are:
– Participants can register at any time they want at any time of the day
– Online registration can reach more potential participants
– Organized list of participants
Active.com is a 3rd party website that is a nationwide resource that also specializes in helping people with race registration
This form of registration may be expensive depending on the budget you are working with, but it certainly takes a lot of work off of you.
Some other alternatives you could choose to do would work better with a smaller more intimate road race event:
– On-site registration where participants show up on the day of and register for the event
– In-Person registration where participants come to you to sign up in person while you take down their information yourself
These two methods cost less money, but the disadvantages are that you won’t know the amount of participants you are working with and it requires more work and time that you need to make yourself available.
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