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.
Planning
Checkpoint planning improvements
Add and edit checkpoints before setting a target finish. Cancel an unsaved checkpoint addition and choose Arrival or Departure (leave by) cutoffs, including planned stop time for departure checks. Calculated timing becomes available when a valid target and pacing schedule are ready.
Courses
GPX waypoint import
Review named GPX waypoints before creating your Race Plan. Keep recommended checkpoints, select other candidates and bring waypoint descriptions into Checkpoint Notes.
Garmin
Garmin FIT Course support
Create a Race Plan from a Garmin FIT Course and choose which Course Points become checkpoints. Signed-in runners can export saved Race Plans as FIT Courses for Garmin navigation; downloads do not automatically synchronise with Garmin.
Courses
Searchable race pages
Eligible Track3D-published and validator-approved courses can have searchable public race pages. Unvalidated community-shared courses can still appear in the Course Library but are not automatically published as searchable race pages. Select Use this course to create your own private Race Plan from the selected public course.
Tracking
SPOT satellite tracking source
Track3D Crew now supports SPOT as a production race tracking source. SPOT location updates can be used on their own or alongside Garmin Connect IQ and Garmin inReach, with Track3D matching each update to the race course to update live progress and predicted checkpoint arrival times.
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.
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.
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.
Public Crew races can use an easy to share live.track3d.com.au address that the account owner can set and change.
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.
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.
Race Planner adds a customer facing guide with structured help and real application screenshots covering course selection, checkpoints, timing, saving, printing and community sharing.
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.
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.