// Guidelines

What counts
as a race?

RaceLog+ is a record of race achievements, not training. Most of the time it's obvious. For the grey areas, here's the standard we use, and how to name things so your history stays clean.

The four-part test

If you can say yes to all four, log it:

01
OrganizedA real event someone staged: a start line, a date, other participants. Not a solo effort against your watch.
02
TimedYour finish was recorded: chip, gun, or an official taking times.
03
CompetitiveFinishers are ranked, even if you personally ran it for fun. Racing the clock in an organized time trial counts.
04
Results existA results page, a league table, a printout on a clubhouse wall. Somewhere beyond your own device.

Price and entry rules are not part of the test. Free events count. Club-members-only events count. National championships restrict entry too.

The common grey areas

YESLeague & series fixtures

Cross country leagues, club road series, track leagues. Organized, timed, ranked: they're races. Name each fixture by its venue, not its round number, so editions group across seasons (see naming below).

YESRelays & team events

Log your leg's distance and time; the team story goes in the notes. Swimrun and Hyrox doubles are first-class citizens here already.

YESOrganized time trials

Club 10s and 25s, uphill TTs: an organizer, a course, recorded times, a result sheet. A Strava segment effort on your own is not.

YOUR CALLparkrun

Timed, ranked, results published, and parkrun itself insists it's "a run, not a race". Both things are true. Our suggestion: log the parkruns that meant something (your first, a PB, a milestone, a special venue) rather than every Saturday, or your race log becomes a training log.

YOUR CALLVirtual races

An organized virtual event with a field, a window and published results: fine. An app badge for running 5K in October: that's a challenge, not a race.

NOSolo efforts

Time trials against your watch, segment hunts, workouts that went well. That's what training apps are for. The one exception: an organized solo challenge with independent verification (think FKT with witnesses and a published record) can earn a place.

YESRaces that went wrong

Started but didn't finish? It happened, it's part of your story. Log it and say so in the notes. A proper DNF marker is on the roadmap.

Naming your races

The name field is for the event's name, nothing else. Everything else has its own home: the date has a field, your position has a field, the story goes in the notes.

Stubbington 10k 2024 53rd place tough day 🏃
Stubbington 10k + date field + position field + notes

League fixtures: name them "League - Venue", because fixtures recur at venues across seasons and this makes your editions line up.

Southern league round 4 (54th)
Southern Cross Country League - Chawton House

Keep the same name for the same event every year. That's how RaceLog+ knows your 2019 and 2025 finishes belong to the same story, and how it finds other athletes who were there with you.

It's your log. These are guidelines, not enforcement: if an event mattered to you and passes the spirit of the test, it belongs in your record. Importing from Strava? Names arrive as your activity titles, so give them a quick tidy on the preview screen before you confirm.