Computer Services and Software for Road Races
and Track and Cross Country Meets

USATF Minnesota Hall of Fame

The 2022 Nomination form is now available here. We are accepting nominations between Jan 31st and Feb 28th. Current members are listed here.

Voting will take place between March 7th and March 13th.

A Brief History of Times (like Minnesota Age Records)

If you are looking for current Minnesota road race age records, click here. I am currently acting for the new Minnesota Record Keeper (Tom Ruen), who has already taken over the publication of Minnesota Runner of the Year statistics (see below) from Mike Setter. Inevitably, most of these records will be broken. If you want to view all the records that have been set since we started keeping track, click here. You can list all the records set by a particular runner (like yourself?) or in a particular race.

Minnesota Runners of the Year

I signed on as Minnesota state record keeper in 1986, at the request of the National Running Data Center, to which I reported the results of Minnesota races on certified courses. Following their lead, I established a system of state records and rankings in five-year age groups. Like the NRDC, minimum standards were set for each group to eliminate "junk" records.
To make it interesting (for me as well as the runners), I followed the NRDC's example by publishing an annual list of the top performances of the year as well as state records in "A Minnesota Runner's Yearbook." I kept it up for 20 years, and, after another year or two, found a kindred spirit in Mike Setter, who kept it going until he, too, gave it up in 2020. The mantle has now passed to Tom Ruen.
Although the "Yearbook" became too costly to continue, from the beginning the rankings have been used to identify Minnesota Runners of the Year in open and age groups. Mike Setter's statistics are available on the Run Minnesota web site and Tom Ruen has a huge and highly informative web site here. For quick access to the MNROY history from 1986 to 2021, click here.

To add your race information to the schedule (a free service of Run Minnesota), click here.
To update data on a race already in the schedule, click here.