Route planning for organizers
Choose your ground.
Plan the course, mark the medics, water, and cutoffs, and hand the whole thing to your runners and volunteers. Free.
Free for runners and organizers. Cast as many routes as you like, keep them, share them. No account needed to start.
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Why this exists
Built by an organizer who got tired of it.
Race week is the same every time: people asking where to stand, where the water is, when the cutoff closes. The answers are all in your head and in six files.
Skad puts them on the map.
Drawing the course costs money.
Every planner worth using puts the draw tool behind a subscription. You pay a year's fee to plan one race, or you trace it in something that can't export.
The map is only the line.
It doesn't say where the medic tent is, which junction needs a marshal, how far it is to the next water, or where the 12:30 cutoff sits. So you write it all down somewhere else.
The details live in six places.
A PDF for the runners, a spreadsheet for the volunteers, a screenshot for the medics, and a group chat where it all goes out of date by Thursday.
How it works
Line, points, link.
Three steps from a blank map to race day. Drawing, saving, and sharing are free, for as many routes as you want.
Cast the line.
Draw it, snap it to the trail, or drop in a GPX. Distance, climb, and the profile update as you go. No limit on how many you keep.
Drop the waypoints.
Medic, water, cutoff, marshal post. Each one sits at its kilometre on the course, not in a spreadsheet.
Hand out one link.
Runners open the course page. Crew open theirs behind a code. Anyone who wants paper gets the print pack.
Waypoints
A course is more than a line.
Drop the points that make a route an event. Everyone who opens the link sees the same plan.
Medics
Mark every first-aid post. Runners see it on the course map, medics see exactly where to set up.
Hydration
Water and aid stations with the distance between them, so nobody guesses how far the next one is.
Cutoffs
Cutoff points with the time on them. Sweepers and runners read the same number.
Volunteers
Marshal posts, junctions that need a body, turnarounds. Hand a volunteer the link and they know their spot.
Logistics
Parking, start and finish, drop bags, toilets. The stuff that fills your inbox the week before.
Elevation
Climb per segment and a profile you can scrub. Put the aid station before the hard part, not after.
Race day
One event. Three audiences. One map.
Routes stay free. An event is the organizer's job, and that is what Skad charges for: set it up for nothing, preview every page, and when it goes live Organizer Solo covers it until a month after race day, at about one race entry. Your first event is free.
- Runners
The course page, by link
- Course, aid and water, cutoffs, hazards
- Start time and registration link per race
- Unlisted: only the people you send it to
- Crew
Their own page, behind a code
- Marshal posts, shifts, access roads, coordinates
- The briefing, in one place
- Change the code and old browsers are out
- Paper
The print pack
- A course map per race with numbered pins
- Cutoff table and a sheet per post
- Prints from the browser
Who it's for
Built for the people who set the course.
Race directors, club captains, and the runner planning Saturday's long one. Same map, different jobs.
Trail and ultra races
Aid, cutoffs, and marshal posts on the course, for every distance on the day.
How it works for youRoad races and fun runs
The 10k, the 5k, and the kids' mile from one start, with every junction covered.
How it works for youRunning clubs
Tuesday's route in the club chat by Monday. The club champs as a proper event.
How it works for youRunners
Plan your own lines without a subscription. No feed, no kudos, no strangers.
How it works for you
Skad
Your next event starts with a line.
Draw the course. Free, no account needed until you want to save it.
Runners never pay: cast, keep, and share as many routes as you like. Organizers pay per event, when it goes live.