3 ways to run a virtual race
For runners and for race directors, here are 3 ways you can run or operate your virtual race experience:
1. Solo on course
If your runners are allowed to run the actual race course solo for a virtual race, their choices to stay on track are to memorize every street and turn of the route, check their phone or map (likely every minute or so), or revert to a mediocre experience. Or, they could be guided by voice.
2. Virtually from anywhere
This is the most common virtual race, but typically a virtual race gives the option to log the race distance in any way and share the result (or not), thereby missing a way to stand out.
If your runners should not run the actual course, or your runners are not local to the course, you can still offer a unique run. They may not be local because either your event is already global, or the current force into virtual races has allowed you to grow globally.
For these runners, they can still have a taste of the race experience, with an audio-guided tour of the course as they do their tracked effort.
3. Your race, but conveniently done on a treadmill
If your runners would like to run indoors or on a treadmill, they both listen to the tour and watch an automatically animated progression of Street View images on their device, through RunGo Live Tracking.
Already a global running app
RunGo is the most popular running app featuring customized, turn-by-turn voice navigation and GPS tracking. On RunGo, you’ll find nearly 500,000 routes across 171 countries.
The RunGo app is consistently acknowledged as one of the top running apps and has been listed by Apple as App of the Day multiple times across 95 countries.
RunGo has been featured by Apple to "Run New Routes Wherever You Are,” “Walk to Get Fit,” “Run Your First 5K,” and "Unleash the Power of Apple Watch."
Interested to learn more?
If you’re a runner looking for a motivating race, check out any of the verified race courses in the RunGo app, and go for it! If you can, you can follow the voice navigation to run the real course, or, if you’d like to run a bucket list course, virtually from across the world, try the popular Boston Marathon, New York Marathon, BMO Vancouver Marathon 8K, and more.
For race directors looking to learn more and talk to the RunGo team, please visit rungoapp.com/virtual-races