Trail running is a wonderful way to explore the wild. It is can enjoy nature and have a challenging physical exercise at the same time. Trail running is a recreational sport, but the real challenge is to run a race. RaceGorilla offers an excellent timing solution, as it is affordable and offers a great way to improve the race experience for everyone like competitors, supporters, audience, organisation, volunteers and sponsors. Real time and detailed results are available as soon as the competitor crosses the finish line. As a trail running race organizer, you just need a couple of volunteers with their mobile to have a great race.
RaceGorilla is great for Trail running races!
There are two main settings available in RaceGorilla: a mass-start and an individual start mode. For trail running, the mass start is most commonly used. As the athletes will reach the finish line individually it is a fairly easy task to record the times manually. When greater finishing densities occur, just add some extra smartphones to the finish line. That is one of the advantaged of working cloud based.
There is really only one thing you really have to take care of as a race organizer: Make sure your volunteers (timing assistants) are connected and know which task they have to do. It’s easy to learn, but it might at times get stressful at the finish line so the crew has to know what they are doing.
Formats for trail running
Most trail running races, use the mass start. This means that all competitors start at the same time, or in groups. It is possible to start the athletes individual, in pairs or in small groups (for example a group of four). In that case use the time trial setting and select one or more athletes at the same time to start.
Use a the standard format available in RaceGorilla to do a quick test.
This standard format has a start and a finish and a category of men and women. To set up a race with more splits or more categories, use the RaceGorilla dashboard to configure the race entirely to you demands.
Start – Split – Finish race format
Try it yourself
The RaceGorilla training app offers an easy to start application for timing at one or two locations (start and finish) and a maximum of 15 participants. It is very easy to use during a training session while still enjoying live results that can be shared instantly.
Download the app for IOS and experience how easy it is!
The RaceGorilla Competition app and management dashboard offers a full cloud based timing and results tool. Configure your entire event on-line and have a couple of timing assistants take times at start, split and finish using the RaceGorilla Competition app.
To start organizing your competition, read our Quick Start Guide.
If you have any questions, please send us a message.
Check what the results can look like. Have a look at this example of the Grizzly 100k trailrun in The Netherlands
