‘Time on Trails’

A new app/website for building your race day pace, nutrition and crew strategy. From the creator Luis K in his introduction of the product:

 Time on Trails is a website where you can plan everything about a trail running race or route that you are going to do. You just need to upload the GPX file (if you don’t have it or don’t find it just let me know and I’ll find it for you) and then you have a full interface to plan your pace, your nutrition, add notes of what you plan to do on every section of the race or on every aid station and also you can export all your plan as a PDF to study it or to share it with your crew.

This strikes me as a smart idea. It’s definitely trying to address an issue every ultra/trail runner faces at some point, and I have tried solving with spreadsheets and sharpies before. I need to spend some time taking the tool through its paces, probably uploading both future runs and past ones to compare how much the app “gets me”. What I wish Luis would explain a bit more is what happens in the background and how it pulls all the data together. But for a first iteration this looks promising.

Time on Trails costs just $6/month (which should be enough time to put a race plan for one race together) or $36 for the year, but creating an account and uploading a route is free so you can take it for a spin and see it in action.

Update: I was reminded by friend of Electric Cable Car Federico Hernandez that something very similar already exists: ultraPacer. And even better, I had already posted about it, back in 2022.