The Race Prep Card

One link for your crew. Gear checklist, aid station splits, weather, and a mobile race-day view — all on a single page, no login required.

<p class="blog-hook"><strong>The night before a race is not the time to be juggling five browser tabs.</strong></p> <p>Aid station spreadsheet. Weather tab. Gear list in Notes. Course map PDF. A text thread with your crew where you keep re-typing mileages. I've been that person at 4am with cold fingers, copying cutoff times into a group chat.</p> <p>The Race Prep Card fixes this. One page, everything your race (and your crew) needs.</p> <h2>Aid stations at a glance</h2> <img src="/blog/images/2026-04/blog-prep-aid-stations.png" alt="Aid station table with mileage, distance between stations, elevation gain and loss, and cutoff times" /> <p>Every station, in order. Mileage. Distance since the last one. Elevation gain and loss between stations. Cutoffs. Goal times if you've set them. This is the sheet your crew is going to squint at in a parking lot at 6am, so it's all there without a sidebar or a modal.</p> <h2>Gear checklist that travels with the race</h2> <img src="/blog/images/2026-04/blog-prep-gear.png" alt="Gear checklist showing Pre-Race, With Me, and Finish Line categories with 16 items including GPS watch, hydration vest, rain jacket, LMNT" /> <p>Build your gear list once — "With Me," "Pre-Race," "Finish Line," mandatory flags — and attach it to any race. Race Kiroku remembers. No more "did I pack the…" at the trailhead.</p> <h2>Weather, baked in</h2> <p>If your race is within 16 days, the card shows the forecast. Further out and it falls back to historical averages for the location. No extra tabs, no separate lookup. Just <em>High: 49°F, Low: 47°F, Rain: 61%</em> right at the top.</p> <h2>Race mode for your phone</h2> <img src="/blog/images/2026-04/blog-prep-race-mode.png" alt="Mobile race mode view — simplified aid station cards stacked vertically with mileage and cutoff times" /> <p>Toggle Race Mode and the same card collapses into a phone-friendly stack. Big numbers, cutoffs, one station per card. This is the view for your front pocket at mile 18. Also: one tap to save the whole thing offline, so it works in a canyon with no signal.</p> <h2>A link for your crew</h2> <p>The part I'm most proud of. Click Share on the race, get a URL, text it to your crew. They open it — no app to download, no login, no account — and see exactly what you see. When you update your gear list or fix a cutoff, their link updates too.</p> <p>I used this for Gorge Waterfalls 50K and the difference was immediate. My crew knew which aid stations they could meet me at without me explaining anything twice.</p> <p><a href="https://racekiroku.com"><strong>Build yours at racekiroku.com</strong></a> — free, no credit card.</p>