Three related tools for shaping where athletes go and where support sits on the map.
Good to know: this is a different tool from My routes, your personal route library (see Routes, start and finish lines). My routes holds a route's line for reuse anywhere; a course (below) belongs to one festival and also carries that festival's start/finish and feed stations as a bundle. Checkpoints and feed stations are always placed here, on the event's Course tab — the in-app route builder only draws the route line, it has no controls for either.
Reusable courses (for a festival)
A course belongs to a festival: if your festival has several events on the same roads (common when a weekend offers multiple distances), you can define a course once inside that festival and reuse it across its events, instead of uploading a GPX for every one. Courses aren't a general-purpose library across all your events, they live inside the festival that shares the roads.
A course is a reusable template that holds:
- The route shape.
- The start and finish line and lap settings.
- Feed stations along the route.
Build it once against your festival, then link it to as many of that festival's events as you like. When you link a course to an event, its route and lines are applied to that event. Edit the course once and apply the change to every linked event, so a last-minute reroute updates all your distances at once, rather than editing each event by hand. You can also pin an individual component (say, one event's own finish) so a course update doesn't overwrite it.
Checkpoints (point-to-point events)
A point-to-point event doesn't use a GPX route. Instead you place named checkpoints on the map: a start, a finish, and any waypoints between. Each checkpoint has a location and a detection radius (10 to 500 m, 50 m by default).
- The first checkpoint becomes the start line for the event.
- As athletes pass through each checkpoint's radius, the app records the crossing; reaching the final checkpoint finishes them.
- Spectators see the checkpoints on the map.
See Event formats for when point-to-point is the right choice.
Feed stations
Feed stations are named points along the route (aid stations, water stops, feed zones), each with a name, an optional description, a location, and an alert radius (200 m by default). They appear as markers on the event map so athletes and spectators can see where support is.
Add feed stations to a course (so every linked event gets them) or to an individual event.
Good to know
- Editing a course and applying it updates all linked events, so double-check before pushing a change during an event weekend.
- For a one-off event you don't need a course at all — just upload a GPX, build a route in the app, or reuse one from your library (or place checkpoints, for point-to-point) directly on the event itself. See Routes, start and finish lines.