Signing Up and Entering Races¶
This page is for first-time users wanting to enter a competition.
Preface¶
OpenTrack is the complete system for entering athletics events.
If you are entering a competition with just a single race for the first time, it can seem more complex than necessary. We're sorry, but we also commonly have to handle:
- Remembering your details for next time
- Entering lots of people in an athletics meeting (e.g. you enter ten kids from your club)
- Selecting events (e.g. 800m or Shot Put)
A quick read through this page will take about 2-3 minutes, and hopefully tell you what to expect.
Key Steps¶
- Sign up for an account on OpenTrack
- Fill in some basic personal details such as name and nationality.
- wait for a click-on an activation email.
- Select an event to participate in from our list of competitions
- Click the green 'Enter Here' button to begin.
- Or if you want you can choose to make your own event.
- Add athletes to a basket (usually just yourself)
- confirm who is entering (probably yourself, but it might not be - e.g. your child, in which case choose the second option and enter a name, if they are not in the database there should be a new athlete option in the menu that drops down)
- say who you are running for today (usually your regular club, but it might be for a university, or school, or something ephemeral like the pub darts team, depending on the competition)
- select the events you want to compete in. If there's just one, it will be pre-ticked, so just click 'OK'
- there may be extra options, like buying a T-shirt
- there might be a charitable donation
- there might be extra info required by some organisers, like Emergency Contact info at a physical race.
- Repeat for more athletes, if entering friends, partners or a team
- confirm who is entering (probably yourself, but it might not be - e.g. your child, in which case choose the second option and enter a name, if they are not in the database there should be a new athlete option in the menu that drops down)
- Confirm or Pay.
- If there's money involved, click on the Pay button and get out your credit card
- If there's no money, make sure you click the Confirm button!
- Check for a confirmation email.
If you've done it before, entering a race will take about one minute. Also, if the competition is a series, like the England Weekly 30, you don't need to enter every time.