Create Your Race with RunGo

Create, share, and enhance your race route with RunGo.

RunGo helps race organizers publish better course maps, guide participants with voice navigation, support virtual events, add live tracking, create leaderboards, and build more engaging race experiences.

Most races can start by creating a route themselves. From there, you can upgrade for more advanced tools or request paid setup support from RunGo.

Choose what you want to do

RunGo can support simple course sharing, advanced race-day features, virtual events, and more. Start with your race route, then add the features you need.

Create and share your race route

Best for races that want a clean, shareable course map for participants.

With RunGo, you can:

• Create or import your race route

• Share a public route link

• Add helpful waypoints

• Add route details

• Embed the route on your race website

• Let participants open the course in the RunGo app

This is the easiest place to start, and many race organizers can do this themselves.

Upgrade your race tools

For race organizers who want more control, RunGo Premium and Creator unlock more advanced route creation and customization tools.

Creator is especially helpful for organizers who want to:

• Build and edit more polished routes

• Add photos, logos, and custom route details

• Customize route share pages

• Unlock GPX tools

• Add race branding

• Create 3D maps and flyovers

• Prepare routes for audio navigation, live tracking, leaderboards, or virtual race features

Add race-day audio navigation

Help participants stay on course with voice-guided navigation.

RunGo provides turn-by-turn audio cues through the app, helping runners and walkers follow the course without constantly checking a map.

Audio navigation works best when the route is clean, accurate, and prepared for race-day use.

A race-ready route should have:

• An accurate start and finish

• A clean course line

• No unnecessary turns

• Helpful turn cues

• Important landmarks and aid stations

• Clear naming for different route distances

• No confusing duplicate or overlapping messages

You can prepare the route yourself, or request paid setup support from RunGo.

Add Race Live Tracking

Race Live Tracking lets participants share their progress with friends, family, spectators, and race organizers.

This is a powerful feature for events, but it depends on having a high-quality route. The course should be accurate, clean, and tested before race day.

Use Race Live Tracking when you want to:

• Help spectators follow participants

• Support remote friends and family

• Add confidence for longer or more complex courses

• Create a more connected race-day experience

Before using Race Live Tracking, your route should be race-ready.

Add leaderboards and challenges

RunGo can support leaderboards and challenges for races, virtual events, and ongoing course-based competitions.

These features work best when everyone is using the same clean, accurate route.

Use leaderboards and challenges for:

• Virtual races

• Race series

• Community challenges

• Corporate wellness events

• Fundraising events

• Destination or tourism events

• Training runs and course previews

To get the best experience, prepare one official race route for each distance or challenge.

Power a virtual race

RunGo Virtual Mode lets participants experience your race route from anywhere.

Virtual races can include route guidance, waypoints, stories, sponsor messages, landmarks, and custom audio moments. This helps make the experience feel more like your actual event, even when participants are not on site.

Virtual races are best when the route is enjoyable, well-described, and thoughtfully prepared.

Use a virtual race for:

• Remote participants

• Fundraising campaigns

• Race extensions

• Destination races

• Sponsor activations

• Off-season engagement

• Year-round course experiences

You can build this yourself, or request setup support from RunGo for a more polished virtual race experience.

Add achievement badges

Achievement badges give participants a simple digital reward for completing a route, race, challenge, or virtual event.

You can provide your own badge artwork as a PNG file, or RunGo can help create one for you.

Badges are useful for:

• Race finishers

• Distance challenges

• Multi-race series

• Virtual race completion

• Sponsor activations

• Special event milestones

Course Timing

RunGo is developing Course Timing, a lower-cost way to record accurate participant course times using a phone or Apple Watch.

Course Timing is not the same as chip timing, but it can be a useful option for events that want a simple, app-based way to record start-to-finish times.

This can be especially helpful for:

• Smaller races

• Community events

• Virtual races

• Time trials

• Course challenges

• Training events

• Events where chip timing is too expensive or unnecessary

Course Timing depends on a high-quality course route with a precise start and finish.

Make your route race-ready

Many RunGo race features depend on route quality.

A race-ready route helps participants stay on course, makes audio navigation clearer, improves tracking accuracy, and creates a better experience for everyone.

Before enabling advanced race features, check that your route has:

• Accurate start and finish points

• A clean course line that follows the real course

• No unnecessary loops, spikes, or GPS errors

• Clear turn guidance

• Important waypoints, aid stations, and landmarks

• Helpful names for each route distance

• No extra messages that would confuse participants

• Proper spacing between audio cues

• A final review or test before race day

You can prepare your own race-ready route, upgrade to Creator for more tools, or request paid setup support from RunGo.

Choose your setup path

RunGo can be simple and self-serve, or more fully supported depending on what your race needs.

Build it yourself

Best for race organizers who want to create, publish, and share their own course map.

You can:

• Create or import your race route

• Add route details and waypoints

• Share the route link with participants

• Embed the route on your website

• Let participants open the course in the RunGo app

This is the best starting point for most races.

Upgrade your race tools

Best for organizers who want more control over route customization, branding, and advanced route features.

With RunGo Premium or Creator, you can unlock more tools to improve and customize your route.

This is helpful if you want to:

• Create a more polished race route

• Add photos, logos, and route details

• Customize how the route is shared

• Use GPX tools

• Prepare your route for audio navigation, live tracking, leaderboards, or virtual race features

Get RunGo setup support

Best for races using advanced features or organizers who want help preparing the route.

RunGo can provide paid setup support for:

• Race-ready route review

• Route cleanup and optimization

• Audio navigation setup

• Race Live Tracking setup

• Leaderboards and challenges

• Virtual race experiences

• Achievement badges

• Course Timing setup

• Participant instructions

Advanced race features work best with a clean, accurate, race-ready route. You can prepare the route yourself, or ask RunGo to help.

Setup support is quoted based on route length, complexity, features, and timeline.

Suggested setup path

If you only need a course map

1. Create or import your route

2. Clean up the route

3. Add race details

4. Share the RunGo route link

5. Embed it on your website

If you want audio navigation

1. Create your route

2. Make it race-ready

3. Add helpful waypoints

4. Test the route

5. Share instructions with participants

If you want live tracking, leaderboards, or timing

1. Create your official route

2. Complete the race-ready checklist

3. Request setup support if needed

4. Enable the race feature

5. Test before race day

6. Share participant instructions

If you want a virtual race

1. Create or choose the route

2. Add stories, landmarks, sponsor messages, or audio moments

3. Add a badge if needed

4. Test the participant experience

5. Share the virtual race with your community

Pricing

Many race organizers can get started with RunGo for free or by upgrading to a standard RunGo plan.

Paid setup support is available when you want RunGo to review, optimize, or help launch your race experience.

Self-serve options

• Basic route creation and sharing

• Premium route tools

• Creator tools for advanced route customization

Paid setup support

RunGo setup support can include:

• Route review

• Route cleanup and optimization

• Race Live Tracking setup

• Leaderboard or challenge setup

• Virtual race setup

• Achievement badge creation

• Course Timing setup

• Participant instructions

• Custom race programs

Pricing depends on the route, event size, feature set, and amount of setup support required.

Frequently asked questions

Can we create the race route ourselves?

Yes. Many race organizers create and share their own routes with RunGo.

For the best participant experience, take time to clean up the route, add useful waypoints, and test it before race day.

Do we need RunGo to build the route?

Not always.

If you only need a shareable route map, you can usually do it yourself.

If you want audio navigation, live tracking, leaderboards, Course Timing, or a virtual race, your route should be race-ready. You can prepare it yourself or request paid setup support from RunGo.

Why does route quality matter?

Route quality affects the entire participant experience.

A better route improves:

• Audio navigation

• Live tracking

• Leaderboards

• Course Timing

• Virtual race experience

• Participant confidence

A messy route can create confusing turns, inaccurate progress, or a weaker race-day experience.

Can we use RunGo instead of chip timing?

RunGo Course Timing is not chip timing.

It is designed as a simpler, lower-cost way to record accurate course times using a phone or Apple Watch. It may be useful for smaller events, virtual races, challenges, time trials, and events that do not need traditional chip timing.

Can we add sponsor messages or stories?

Yes.

You can add waypoints, messages, stories, and audio moments to your route. This is especially useful for virtual races, charity events, tourism partners, and sponsored experiences.

Can RunGo create our achievement badge?

Yes. You can provide your own badge artwork as a PNG, or RunGo can help create one for you as part of paid setup support.

How much support is included?

RunGo is designed to be self-serve for most race organizers.

If you need custom route work, setup support, launch help, or advanced feature configuration, paid setup support is available.

Request RunGo setup support

Tell us what you’re planning, which RunGo features you’re interested in, and whether you already have a route.

We’ll let you know the best next step, including whether you can set it up yourself or whether paid setup support is recommended.

Start with your route

The best way to begin is to create your race route.

From there, you can decide whether you want to keep it simple, upgrade your tools, add race features, or request setup support from RunGo.