Pig Works Events

The most important part of the app is live tracking of the runners. It does not offer accurate live tracking during the recent races and shows half marathoners running full marathons with arbitrary mile times applied to everyone. Embarrassing and useless.

It clearly says “Track Participant Live”, but it’s not live at all. It just records when you crossed the starting line and then estimates where they would be based on an average running pace. I was watching the live tracking to support my runner, and it showed they were almost to where we were standing. We kept watching for them, and nothing. Checked the app again, and it showed they were already past us. I knew we hadn’t seen them, so I pulled up the track my iPhone app, and they were still two miles back from where the supposed live tracker said they were.

This app has lots of whistles and bells, but the main reason I was using it was to track family and friends as they ran the course. App worked great for the first hour, then apparently couldn’t handle the traffic and began to crash after only a minute. Had to keep reopening it over and over. Finally gave up.

Runner does not show up on the map

Couldn’t find race results, search by bib number button isn’t working. Also can’t scroll past 1st page of results when just browsing.

It won’t even let me download it. On my brand new iPhone. So I don’t need to update my iOS.

This app told my family and friends that I was coming at a pace faster than I was, and when I was more than 10 minutes behind the app’s schedule, it frightened them thinking something medically had gone wrong. Meanwhile, the app on my phone did nothing but drain my battery and interfere with my Bluetooth when listening to music. Fix the app for next year.

I was so disappointed with the Pigworks App. My son and I flew into Cincinnati so he could run the flying pig marathon. The app never tracked him even though he ran the race and had an official finish time on the Flying Pig marathon site. It was very frustrating because I had no idea where he was or how he was doing. Even when I go on the App now, it says he didn’t finish. My son runs 2 - 3 marathons a year and this has never happened with any other tracking app. What a letdown!!

Server overwhelmed but finally got connected and was able to track my runner (if you could call this tracking.) We setup on the course and “watched” runner approaching but never saw them pass. App said runner had long passed us so we went home only to have the runner FaceTime us on the course wondering where we were. The app showed he had already finished the course. Terribly disappointed in the app AMD missed opportunity to support our friend.

Great idea but execution is spotty. Did not track one runner I was following until almost 40 minutes into race. Also sends too many useless alerts.