Bibs are for timing. Faces are for photos.
Runners want the shot at mile 13 and the finish. They will not hunt a bib number in a 4,000-image folder on Thursday.
How race day actually goes
Cards dump while the course is open
Shooters upload from a phone page. Indexing runs in the background. You do not wait for a studio to sort files.
A selfie at the chute
The finish-line QR is the lookup. One face, every frame they are in. No bib they already forgot.
Works on the phone they have
No app. No account they will abandon. The same browser they used to check the start time.
What you keep
Next year's list is already warm
Registration email goes to people who already ran, not a rented list that never opened last year.
Sponsors see opted-in reach
A real count of people who said yes. Not a Facebook estimate taped to a recap deck.
You stay the director
The photo moment lives on your drop page, next to results, merch, and next year's signup.
Walk a race-day drop
The Harbor 5K demo is the guest side of a finish-line page. Scan a selfie the way a runner would.