4. Timing Training - RunMeet

RunMeet – Your Meet Flow Control Panel

🔹 What Is RunMeet?

RunMeet is your central meet operations dashboard. It gives you control over the events, the seeding, entries, results, scoring, and reports — all in one stop for managing your meet. The best part is that it is Cloud based, so that you can access it from any computer or browser.

🧭 RunMeet vs. RunMeetLocal — What’s the Difference?

RunMeet (Web Page): This is the interface you use during the meet — a web page where you mark event results, control what’s loaded into FinishLynx, advancing prelim events, and managing Field Event field series marks. It’s what you interact with to run the meet smoothly.

RunMeetLocal (Program): This is the background application that runs on your timing computer. It syncs data between FinishLynx, AthleticLIVE, and the RunMeet web page. You don’t usually touch it after setup — it just needs to be running and connected to the correct meet.

🔧 What It Controls

• The event order and schedule
• Athletes and Teams
• Scores and Points
• What shows up on on the your Live Results page
• Seeding and changes to the meet are instantly downloaded for your FinishLynx system
• Field event results and scoring
• Reports: Rosters, Check-in, Meet Program, Session, Field Event sheets, and Results.

🎯 What You’re Responsible For

As the timer, you’ll:

• Communicate with your meet Host regularly!
• Know your entries deadline
• Start RunMeet and set the proper settings for lanes and seeding for Running and Field events and assigning competitor numbers
• Matching information provided by meet host (if you don't know! ASK!)
• Download and use the RunMeet Local program to link your computer to the RunMeet web page
• Print Meet Programs, Field Event Score sheets, Check-In Sheets, etc.
• Use RunMeet to pull in results from FinishLynx after each race
• Verifying times and marking events Completed
• Entering Field Event Results from paper copies to Field Series
• Update status quickly so ALIVE + Scoreboards stay accurate
• Use it to keep coaches, fans, and volunteers in sync
• Using RunMeet with AthleticLIVE for instant Live Results

🛠️ Tips for Clean RunMeet Use

• Utilize the filters to combine races in XC
• Start RunMeet early and you can use it to create your AthleticLIVE web page using the easy portal, and you can reset RunMeet afterwards and the two pages will still be linked
• Only update to “Final” after all results are in and confirmed
• Use this link to deep dive into more RunMeet information and guides.

Now for the fun part! Your next stop is [Utilizing AthleticLIVE]