Runner tracking for races that lose signal.
RaceTrak is built for ultra-marathons and trail races, where aid stations sit hours from the nearest bar of reception. Tablets keep recording whether or not anything else is working, and catch up when they can.
Offline is the normal case, not the failure case
Most timing systems treat a dropped connection as an error to recover from. On a hundred-mile course through the backcountry, it is simply Tuesday. RaceTrak assumes it from the start.
Records without waiting
Every tap is written to the tablet immediately. Nothing pauses for a network round trip, because at a busy aid station a two-second wait is a runner nobody logged.
Syncs opportunistically
When a device finds signal it uploads what it has and collects what everyone else recorded. A station offline since dawn loses nothing by reconnecting at dusk.
Corrections, not deletions
Mistakes are fixed by recording the correction, so the log always shows both what was written and what put it right. Nothing is silently overwritten.
Radio is a first-class path
For a station with no data at all, the radio is the only way off the mountain. Net Control types what it hears, following read-back procedure, and those calls become part of the same record.
Knowing where everyone is
The reason to track runners at all is that somebody eventually asks where one of them is, and the answer matters.
Whole-race view
Every runner's position across every station, and which stations have gone quiet — the thing no single aid station can see.
Cutoff warnings
Who has missed a cutoff, and who is behind pace for the next one, with the numbers behind the estimate rather than just a verdict.
Contact details stay restricted
A runner's phone number reaches the race director and medical command. It is never sent to a station tablet at all — not hidden there, absent.
Who uses what
Three jobs, three surfaces, one record underneath.
A tablet with oversized buttons for cold, gloved hands. Tap a runner in, tap them out. Works in the dark and with no signal.
A queue of what still needs calling in, and a desk that copies calls off the air with read-back and correction before anything is recorded.
The whole field at a glance, roster import from a spreadsheet, and the privileged views nobody else gets.