Personalised social images and profile photos

Announce your victories to the Internet!

Today we’re delighted to announce a fun new feature for the athletes. You can share any performance, quickly add a profile image or an action pic, and send it out on social media, straight from your phone!

How to do it

As the diagram above shows, just log in, find yourself in the race you just ran, and touch the share button. You don’t need to add a photo, but if you’re using your phone, you can take a pic and upload it in seconds.

Copy the link we generate into a social media site, and people will see your image and result - but anyone clicking it goes back to the full results page.

Sharing other peoples’ performances

You can share anyone else’s performance, but you can’t add a photo or customize it - only the account owner / athlete can do that. If they have a profile photo in the system, that will appear; otherwise there will be a plain card with their result.

So, if you’re impressed with anybody’s race and want to talk about it online, start by getting a sharing link that highlights them, and drop it in

And, if you are an athlete, make sure you have a profile photo you like on OpenTrack, which you are happy to have shared!

About profile photos in OpenTrack

We’ve long had space for a profile photo. From the top right menu, click “My Athlete Profile” and you can upload one. This is possibly easiest from a phone, as you can just pick off your camera roll. In future we plan to do things like showing the winner’s photo above a race, if we have one.

For this feature we have also added the idea of a second “action” or “recent” photo. We need to store this on the server, so Facebook etc can all pull it in. But we won’t use it in any other context, just when you share it. So, if you take a particularly sweaty-but-happy selfie to share after your race, nobody else will see that (apart from your legions of Facebook and Twitter followers, or you club’s Whatsapp group!)

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Many thanks to Llewellyn, our developer, and our testers, for all the hard work which went into this! We welcome suggestions for improvements to make this even more fun.