For the second year, L.A. Marathon officials will deploy an RFID solution to track the running times of its competitors. More than 20,000 competitors at this year’s marathon, scheduled for May 25, ...

Somewhere near the halfway point of last November’s New York City Marathon, a runner passed an RFID interrogator on the road that captured the ID number on her shoe’s RFID tag. Within seconds, a video ...

“The last thing you want to do at the end of a race is put your leg on a rail and get your chip off,” explains Bob Finnegan, director of business development for ChronoTrack, one of the new timing ...

My cousin, Diane Bownes, ran this year’s New York City Marathon on Nov. 1. I, meanwhile, sat at home and tracked her progress. Diane finished the first 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) in 27 minutes and 12 ...