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Keep Your Results Page Working After Race Day
Race day may end, but your runners keep coming back to your results page. With RunSignup’s new AI Results Agent, that page becomes a tool they can explore, not just a place to look up a finish time.
Runners can analyze their own performance. The insights go deeper when your race has split data.
Runners can compare and look back. They can see how they stack up against other finishers and dig into past years’ results, not only the latest race.
It’s free and opt-in. You decide whether to turn it on. It works on both Website V2 and legacy race websites, and runners find it on the new Results Overview page.
The Results Agent is one of several free, opt-in AI agents that use your race website and RunSignup event data to answer runners’ questions for you. See how the Results Agent works and what’s coming next.
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FitLab says the loss of its Nike partnership and tariff-driven supply chain trouble helped push it into Chapter 11. It spent nearly all of Nike's $20 million Series B investment on a 10-studio pilot, then was left holding the leases when Nike ended the deal in early 2026. FitLab plans to sell its assets in bankruptcy.
Let's Do This, through SBAR Endurance, has joined Golazo as a proposed lender to Ragnar during parent FitLab's Chapter 11 case. The financing would fund Ragnar's operations while a sale of the business moves forward.
Singapore-based Dutech has acquired former Accell brands Winora and Haibike, to be run by its German subsidiary BikeTree from Sennfeld. A reported 87 employees will stay and 73 will not. Dutech picked up Batavus, Koga and Carqon in October, while Ghost still has no buyer.
Peloton beat expectations in its fiscal Q1, with revenue up 2% to $559 million and earnings of 19 cents a share versus an 8-cent consensus. Adjusted EBITDA jumped 40% to $168 million and gross margin hit 61.3%, while paid connected fitness subscriptions fell 9% to 2.475 million.
NikeSKIMS is dropping a women's-exclusive Waffle Racer capsule on November 10 in three colorways, keeping the late-1970s runner's original look. The $130 pairs replace the Air Rift used earlier in the partnership.
The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee has reportedly hired Raine Group to set up a commercial subsidiary holding Team USA's commercial rights and sell minority stakes in it, with several investors already approached. The USOPC brought in $282 million in 2025, including $154.8 million from sponsorship and licensing.
Adidas athletes won nine of 14 races and took 21 of 42 podium spots across the 2026 World Marathon Majors, versus three wins and eight podiums for Nike. Eight of those wins came in the Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3, and Adidas swept all six podium spots in Berlin.
Apple Fitness+ is adding Gym Strength, which builds progressive four-week lifting plans around your goals, schedule and equipment, adjusting each week to the reps and weight you logged. Sessions run five or seven exercises from a library of more than 350.
Shark sightings forced the Noosa Triathlon to cancel its swim entirely for the first time in its 43-year history. The sold-out race of 8,500 athletes became a duathlon, with a 5 km run replacing the swim. Matt Hauser defended his title in 1:39:34, and Natalie Van Coevorden won the women's race in 1:58:11, 15 seconds ahead of Richelle Hill.
Short bursts may build strength as well as one long session. In an eight-week Tongji University study of 45 young men, three one-minute bouts of 20 weighted squats showed no significant difference in strength or endurance from one 60-squat session. The "snacking" group also enjoyed it more.
Exercise may help the body handle plastics, according to a study in The FASEB Journal. Researchers used zebrafish, which share about 70% of human genes and are widely used in medical research. Fish exposed to nanoplastics for 21 days that did 20 minutes of daily moderate exercise had less buildup in ovarian tissue, stronger antioxidant defenses and partly restored gut bacteria.
Injuries can hit pro marathoners hard in the wallet: Fiona O'Keeffe's hamstring surgery took her out of contention for a share of the NYC Marathon's $969,000 purse, and runners who miss the start line typically forfeit appearance fees. Most shoe deals don't include health insurance, and Lindsay Flanagan estimates she paid about $15,000 out of pocket for a single hamstring tear.
Ghost Bikes will shut down after parent Accell Group's investor search produced no viable offer, making it the first Accell brand to close rather than find a new owner. Its remaining bike stock will be sold as one lot to a single, unnamed dealer, and the German brand still had 53 employees when it filed for insolvency.
Thule has acquired Aeroe, a New Zealand maker of bikepacking bags, racks and accessories, to expand its bike bags portfolio for MTB and gravel riders. Aeroe products will move under the Thule brand by the second quarter of 2027, and terms were not disclosed.
Running led U.S. performance footwear gains in Q3, with dollar sales up 10% and units also growing, according to Circana point-of-sale data. Soccer posted double-digit gains in both dollars and units, and baseball, football and volleyball footwear also grew, even as the overall footwear market was flat.
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