About CourseRecon

Know what you're taking on

What does the race goal actually demand? That's the question we ask before anything else — before a single session is planned, before any training begins. It's the foundation of how high performance sport works, and it's never optional. So when we started training toward 50 to 100 kilometre trail and ultra distances ourselves, embedded in a small, serious endurance community, we kept asking the same question — and kept noticing that, for most athletes, no one was answering it.

Recreational athletes taking on serious trail and ultra races have excellent tools for training — and almost nothing that tells them whether that training matches the race in front of them.

The gap

In high performance sport, the approach is always the same: start with the goal, understand exactly what that goal demands, find where the athlete currently falls short against those demands, then train specifically to close that gap. The goal drives the analysis. The analysis drives the training.

Recreational endurance athletes rarely get to work this way. Other training platforms tell you how fit you are — valuable data, but built around training, not around the race itself. None of them start with the course and work backwards to show what it demands or where preparation currently falls short against it. Without that, preparation becomes general fitness-building rather than a targeted approach to a specific course — and the gaps only show up on race day, in the form of DNFs, injuries, or races that should have been finished.

CourseRecon doesn't replace those platforms — it works with the data they already hold. It takes an athlete's existing training history and analyses it against what a specific race demands, turning data that already shows how fit someone is into an answer to the question that actually matters: is that fitness right for this race.

That gap is the reason CourseRecon exists.

What it is

CourseRecon applies a needs-analysis approach to trail and ultra running. It maps an athlete's training history against the specific demands of their chosen race — aerobic capacity, climbing, descending, and durability — and shows them exactly where their preparation lines up, and where it doesn't.

It doesn't replace a coach, and it doesn't write a training plan. It names the gap and the priority. What an athlete or their coach does with that information is the next step.

CourseRecon isn't built to make people train harder. It's built so people know what they're taking on — so they can prepare well, finish strong, and reduce the chance of getting hurt along the way.

Why it matters

Most people entering a serious trail race aren't chasing a podium. They're chasing something more personal — proving something to themselves, finishing what they started, taking on a real physical challenge and coming out the other side intact.

Every person who lines up for a 50k, a 100k, or their first serious mountain ultra is an athlete taking on something meaningful — and they deserve to know what they're up against. Not so they can optimize the finish time. So they can prepare properly, respect the challenge, and reduce the risk of the thing that ends a race early: being underprepared for a demand they never saw coming.

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Adam & Chris
Founders, CourseRecon