What’s New in Track3D Race Planner

Major Race Planner, pacing, course and tracking updates from the beginning of Track3D Race Planner to today.

The earliest milestones are dated by feature completion while the Race Planner was being built. Later updates use customer release dates.

  1. Crew

    Track3D Crew launches on the App Store

    Track3D Crew is now publicly available for iPhone, bringing live ultra marathon race tracking, checkpoint ETA, alerts, notes, navigation, weather, Live Activities and CarPlay into a dedicated race day app for crews and followers.

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  2. Pacing

    Race Strategy

    Course-Aware Pacing can now shape how effort is distributed through the race, giving runners more control over how the calculated plan approaches the course while keeping the requested finish time as the planning target.

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  3. Garmin

    Track3D launches on the Garmin Connect IQ Store

    The Track3D Data Field is now publicly available through the Garmin Connect IQ Store, allowing compatible Garmin watches to provide race tracking observations to Track3D Crew through the paired phone.

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  4. Crew

    Your own Crew Live link

    Public Crew races can use an easy to share live.track3d.com.au address that the account owner can set and change.

  5. Pacing

    Course-Aware Pacing gets a major upgrade

    Course-Aware Pacing receives a major production update to improve how the target finish time is distributed across the course while continuing to respect planned stops and race cutoffs.

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  6. Tracking

    Garmin inReach tracking source

    Track3D Crew adds customer facing Garmin inReach MapShare setup and readiness, allowing inReach location data to be used as a race tracking source.

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  7. Tracking

    Live race tracking for crew

    Race Plans can now support live race tracking so crew and followers can see runner progress on the course and estimated arrival information as new locations are received.

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  8. Help

    Race Planner User Guide

    Race Planner adds a customer facing guide with structured help and real application screenshots covering course selection, checkpoints, timing, saving, printing and community sharing.

  9. Courses

    Course Library

    Browse published courses, use one as the starting point for a private Race Plan, share sanitised courses with the Track3D community, and identify Track3D validated course content.

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  10. Accounts

    My Plans

    Signed in users can save Race Plans to their Track3D account, reopen them later, update them or save a new copy.

  11. Reports

    Full Race Plan and Runner Summary

    Generate a detailed Full Race Plan and a compact Runner Summary for race day reference.

  12. Planning

    Checkpoint Plan

    Checkpoints become an operational race plan with estimated arrivals, cutoffs, planned stops, services and notes.

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  13. Courses

    Interactive course map

    Race Planner adds an interactive course map with checkpoint markers and grade colouring so course terrain can be understood visually.

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  14. Pacing

    Terrain-aware pacing

    Timing moves beyond a single average pace by using the course elevation profile to distribute time according to climbing and descending terrain.

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  15. Planning

    The Race Planner foundation

    Upload a GPX course, see distance and elevation, add checkpoints, set a target finish, calculate checkpoint timing, compare against cutoffs and include planned aid station stops.

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