The German Road Races (GRR) website is celebrating its 40,000th article and daily news post – Horst Milde reports

The  German Road Races (GRR) quietly celebrated a unique milestone recently: the 40,000th new article was publishined on September 5, 2014.

Fittingly,  it was an article in English about the  BUPA Great North Run: "IAAF AND BUPA GREAT NORTH RUN TO DISPLAY DRAMATIC OPENING CEREMONY."

The GRR website is unique in its bilingual reporting on international running and althletics in English and German and in its sheer volume of articles.

The GRR website is of course also a way to showcase the activities of the GRR members with their many events, schedules, pre-race reports, advertising and promotion, and naturally results, as well. It gives the events a public platform that most of them would not have otherwise.  

40,000 articles  are posted daily as news in the newsletter, which great efficiency for distribution. These 40,000 articles also included over 58,000 photographs from events around the world, a number that no other website in Germany comes close to reaching. With over 14,000 links to German and English language media,  GRR provides access to an even greater source of information.

The running organisation  "Swiss Runners" has been a partner of GRR for quite a while. GRR provides intensive information about events in the neighbouring country of Switzerland, and both the Swiss athletics association "Swiss Athletics" and the Austrian one, ÖLV, provide many articles for the GRR website.

German Road Races (GRR) is also dedicated to presenting the neighbouring country of Poland to German runners. With the series "Go run with your neighbours–in Poland", the diverse offerings  of the many large and small events are presented.

 Some of the GRR members are also members of AIMS (Association of International Marathons and Distances Races). The website also provides their information and events, as well as news from their annual  AIMS Marathon Symposium in Athens.

The contents of the articles are as diverse as running and athletics themselves are today, ranging from current news of the day to the historical roots of the Olympic sport, from sports medicine to the omnipresent questions about personal training and staying healthy as runners and the general population are becoming older.

German Road Races (GRR) also sees it as one of its responsibilities to give a voice to the event organisers and runners, and it is not afraid to address issues that might not be popular with the state organisations.

With its many English-language articles, GRR makes it possible to look beyond one's own four walls to follow the developments abroad and to see how advances can be applied at home.

There are numerouse pieces of news and information from English-speaking coutnries on the GRR website every day, which are distributed in the daily newsletter. There is a constant stream of press releases from the state athletics organisations in strong running nations such as the USA, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

The almost daily reports by Brett Larner (Japan Running News) from Japan are a specialty, as are the reports from  RUNNING USA – especially the statistics presented by Ry Lamppa. When correctly interpreted,  the German readership can gain helpful insights into the continued development and future of running. And of course the website includes many previews and results from  European Athletics (EA) and IAAF.

The GRR platform also serves as an ambassador for Germany abroad through its sereis "RUNNING GERMANY,"  German Meetings and Visiting Germany, where German running events, meetings, and other events in Germany are presented in an exemplary fashion.

The GRR website is constantly being improved to even better meet the demands of the readers.

Horst Milde