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The Audible Energy of the Race Announcer

A big part of the race experience is the sound of the race: motivational music, the countdown to the start, and hearing the finisher’s names as they cross the line. It is a spectacle, and it should be. In most cases runners arrive at a race in the mindset that this is not just an every day training run, and all of the sights and sounds on race day feed into that feeling that this is special.

The voice you hear on race day is the voice of the race announcer, who acts as the narrator, the story-teller of the race. Without it, you’d not only miss out on important information, like if the race is…

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