NavRun for Ultras: Every Feature, Explained¶
An ultra is more than the running.
There is the race you pick, the months of weeks before it, the bags you pack the night before, the clock at every aid station, and the people driving between stops in the dark. Most of that has always lived in a spreadsheet, a race PDF, and your head.
Over the last two months NavRun took on most of it. Each feature has its own post that says what it does, why it matters out here, and what it does not do yet. This is the map, in the order you meet them.
A few words first, for anyone newer to this: an aid station is a stop on the course with food, water and help. A cutoff is the time you have to leave it by to stay in the race. Your crew are the people who meet you at stops, and a drop bag is a bag of your own gear the race carries to a station for you.
Before You Sign Up¶
Ultra race guides: aid stations and cutoffs. A free page per race at navrun.app/ultras: every aid station, its cutoff, whether crew and drop bags can get there, where pacers join. Anything nobody has checked says "not checked yet" instead of guessing. Add a race to NavRun and its course comes with it.
Ultra training plan: every week to race day. Pick your race and see every week between now and the start line, with time on your feet for each and which weeks build and which ease off. Weeks you have already run count.
The Weeks In Between¶
Ultra training load: is this week a lot? The iPhone's Today screen and You tab put your week next to your last twelve, count your hours on your feet, and say in one plain line how this week compares to a usual one for you.
How much water to carry on each ultra leg. Save your own sweat rate, sodium and carbs, list what you carry, and see the water each stretch between stations takes at your goal pace.
Race Week¶
Ultra race week checklist, night by night. On the iPhone, your race page moves through race week with you: weeks out, race week, the night before, race morning, and after.
Ultra drop bags: plan every bag by station. Go station by station, pack each bag, tick items as they go in, and share the plan with the people meeting you.
Race notes your ultra crew reads word for word. Write down what you will need while you can still say it. Your crew reads your words exactly as you wrote them.
Race Day¶
Ultra cutoff times at every aid station. When you reach each station at your goal pace, the cutoff there, and the room between them, as a plain sentence. No red, no countdown. Free.
Ultra crew arrival times: when to leave. One link your crew opens with no account. Its first line tells them plenty of time, getting close, or leave now, with an arrival window as wide as the truth.
After¶
How to share a run without showing pace. Put your route and climb on your own photo, with no pace on it. A long day on a mountain is worth posting at any speed.
What Is Free¶
Almost everything above. The training plan, the race guides, cutoff times, the crew page, drop bags, your own fuel and water numbers, and the iPhone screens are free, and they stay free.
The paid part of NavRun is called the Crew: $6.99 a month or $59.99 a year. It adds a written race strategy leg by leg, a new weekly training report each Monday, a course elevation profile from a GPX file, a comparison of your recent climbing with the course's, and where your water runs out on a long leg. Adding your first race starts 30 days of it, with no credit card, and nothing free goes away when it ends. Pricing has the details.
Common Questions¶
Is NavRun for my distance?¶
No. It works for a first trail 50K, a 100 miler you have run for years, and every race and runner in between. Backyard and timed races can be saved too, though the aid station tools and the whole training build need a distance.
Does my crew need the app?¶
No. Your crew opens the link you send in any browser, with no account.
Is it on Android?¶
The website works on any phone. The native app is iPhone only for now.
Where does my running data come from?¶
Strava or Apple Health. NavRun reads your runs from there; you do not log anything by hand.
What is the newest iPhone version?¶
Version 1.4.1, released September 20, 2026.
Pick the one that takes the biggest worry off you right now, and start there.
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