Pig Works Events Reviews

App is repeatedly asking for reviews two days before marathon.
1. PigWorksEvents did not go “active” until 9 days before the race. The countdown space holder on PigWorksEvents has room for 999 days. A little misleading from when we were asked to download app months ago. Set realistic expectations or communicate changes!
2. The procedure to set up live tracking is not confidence building. No way to test a connection before start of of race.
It’s a wait and see for the rest of the skills on PigWorksEvents . So, there’s your review Flying Pig. Now, can I open app without the ful screen request to rate it??

There were parts, non-tracking related that were really really good. But the tracking for both the 5K and the half marathon were so far off that it was pointless to even have it.

Participant time tracking was amazingly on time every time. Saw my runners at six locations and app told when they were going to be there right when they arrived. Weekend info and other information was nice to have at fingertips also for the weekend

I’ve never written a review before but this felt necessary. My family was planning to meet me as I finished but PigWorksEvents was over an hour off of my projected finish time. Several different phones had the same unreliable result. I thought the purpose was to help people trying to follow a racer and my family was disappointed they didn’t get to see me at all throughout the race. I spoke with other racers and their families after the race and they had the same issue.

Ran the relay and I was not able to follow my team mates or even find my final pace. 4.5 hours later it still says we are all waiting to start. I looked for somewhere to register number in app but can’t find it. When I looked up our relay bib number I found an average pace for all 4 of us in total, but cannot find my individual pace. I didn’t start Runkeeper or another app because I figured I would have this information through the pig

So I’d easy to use . As a runners mom and previous half participant
I’m loving the actual live tracking. It updates quickly

PigWorksEvents was so far off on the live tracking. It went from telling me the person I was tracking had four miles left to all of a sudden she was finished and we missed cheering at the finish line because of this. Last year the tracker was exactly correct on time. This year couldn’t have been more incorrect

I am sure that app is full of great stuff. I had a very difficult working within PigWorksEvents - eg how to switch from Full to Half . I am sure there is an easy solution somewhere .

Much better than indy yesterday. Constantly current. And I didn’t get to a cheering point too late

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.

The live tracking was way off. It would show a running at mile 7 then a minute later show them at mile 4. It caused people to miss people at stops because you had no idea where they were on the course.

Be a five if the tracking was a little more accurate!!

I think PigWorksEvents was just ok. However, no cheers made it not fun for my supporters. Also, not very user-friendly. The Start Race button kept reappearing the whole time I was running the race, making me think it was not tracking me.
Race Joy is a much better app.

Possibly too many people using PigWorksEvents at one time? We couldn’t load any of our team’s updated location. PigWorksEvents says our other relay team members haven’t even crossed the start line yet. Great idea, but needs to work during the race.

App wasn’t accurate!

Privacy setting is not working properly. Once I set to hidden then no one was able to find me that is correct but if I changed back to normal then again it work as hidden only.

Wasn’t able to track any of my teammates. My run “saved” but now is inaccessible from PigWorksEvents . Units were in meters despite being set to miles. No road closure map. Can’t find link to results if there is one. Fail.

Missed cheering wife/mom along the rout as the “tracking” mark was an hour behind where she actually was. So disappointed in this piece of crap and expected more from Flying Pig!

I’m trying to sign up but keep getting an error. I’m pretty unhappy at the moment. Last year the Queen Bee used Race Joy and it was awesome hearing cheers from my family. Super disappointed about PigWorksEvents already.

Why no text tracking? I have to create an account to follow someone one?? What’s the point? Nd the timings were all wrong anyhow! For such a great marathon, such a DUMB DUMB DUMB app in order to follow friends times.