Transgrancanaria Livestream

Just here with a note to give The North Face Transgrancanaria¹, a race part of the World Trail Majors, a big shout out for making the livestream and live tracking easily accessible on their website. This is not easy, event websites serve many purposes and have to switch over quickly from being an information source for registered racers to coverage of the event for spectators. But especially for big events, with pro runners at the starting line and the expectation of spectators tuning in from around the world it’s great to see when there’s someone with the foresight and ability to make the switch on the homepage and link live-streaming, tracking information and other important stuff for fans to quickly connect and see who won and how their favorite runner performed. So many other events still rely on various social media sites as their main way to communicate results and updates while their homepage sits dormant during race weekend and missing all the important links to videos and tracking. Kudos to Transgrancanaria for getting this right.

And speaking of which, if you missed it, rewatch Francesco Puppi and Robertz Lemtukei’s final kilometers as Puppi comes from behind and takes the win on the final turns almost with the finish line already in sight. Start at 3H 49min to watch to get the commentators observations. Amazing moment.

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1. Transgrancanaria is such a long compound word that when I use it in the headline it breaks the design of my website. You’d think me as a German, having grown up with long compound words, would’ve prepared for this eventuality. I apologize for the wonkiness.