We are looking for support
Dear ultra runners,
The German ultramarathon Association (DUV) offers this statistics database to the whole ultrarunning community.
From the feedback we get, we know that it is very well appreciated among athletes, race directors, researchers and journalists. We want to continue this service offered for free to all interested.
But the number of ultra marathon races is still growing and we are struggling to cover all the races world-wide which is our ultimate goal. We include more than 5000 races per year. To continue offering this service and this level of completeness we need more persons helping us with including races into our database.
If you are interested then please contact us via the contact form.
We are especially looking for help with these countries:
- Europe
- Spain, Portugal
- UK
- France
- Eastern Europe (POL, SVK, HUN, BLR, RUS, UKR)
- Southeast Europe (SLO, CRO, SRB, BIH, GRE, ROU, BUL)
- Americas
- USA, Canada
- Mexiko
- Brazil
- Argentina, Uruguay
- Latin America
- Asia
- Japan
- Korea
- Southeast Asia (MAS, INA, PHI)
- India
- Africa
If you are coming from or living in one of these countries we would be very happy to have you as a representative and coworker in our group. The requirements are:
- You are able to dedicate regularly at least 5 hours per week to this work.
- You are part of the ultra running community in one of the above countries.
- You can communicate in one of the above mentioned languages with race directors, athletes and timekeepers.
- You are familiar with Excel.
- You have a PC and MS Excel (version 2007 or newer), a web browser and email available.
- You can communicate in writing in English with us.
- You are a meticulous worker.
- You are willing to learn: About our processes, about Excel, about ultra races, about languages.
We offer:
- A thorough introduction in the work
- A sophisticated Excel Addin and an Excel workbook used to scrape results from the web, format them, compare against our database and finally include the results into our database.
- A DUV statistics email address to be used for official communication.
- The reputation of being the representative of your country at the biggest and best ultrarunning database of the world.
- We can not offer any financial recompensation as DUV is a non-profit organisation and all work is done voluntarily.
If you are interested then please contact us via the contact form.