FAQ

Questions, answered plainly.

Organizers ask the first three before they will try anything. The rest are what comes up in race week.

Before you start

What does it cost?

Drawing, saving, and sharing courses is free forever, and runners never pay for anything. An event is what costs: €29 once, for one event, live until a month after race day whenever you pay. Renewing the same event the next year is €19, since the course and the stations are already built. While the launch offer runs, your first event is free.

You can build the whole event, place every station, and preview every page before paying anything. Pricing has the rest.

Can I get a refund?

Yes. Email us within fourteen days of paying and the full amount goes back to your card, no reason needed. The refund closes the edition you paid for; the event and its course stay in your account. If the race is postponed, you may not need one at all: move the date inside the window you paid for at no charge. If we charged you twice, or took a payment and nothing went live, that is ours to fix whenever you notice. The refund policy has the details.

Who can see my course before I publish it?

Nobody. Every route and event is private: visible to you alone, and the link 404s for anyone who tries it. Share a route or publish an event and it opens for whoever holds the link. Nothing is listed, nothing is searchable, and turning sharing off closes the link again.

What happens to my data if I stop using Skad?

It stays yours. Download every route you have drawn as one GPX file from your account page at any time, and delete the account from the same page: that erases your routes and events with it, for good. Nothing is sold, and nothing is kept back as a hostage for a renewal.

Do I need an account?

Not to draw. You need one to save a course, keep it in Your Ground, or share it. Runners and volunteers never need one: they open a link.

Race week

What waypoints can I add?

Medics, hydration and aid stations, cutoffs, volunteer and marshal posts, traffic and hazard warnings, and a custom marker for anything else. Each one carries a time or a shift window, who staffs it, how a vehicle gets there, and notes.

How do volunteers see their spot?

An event has a crew page behind a six-character code you set. It shows the marshal posts, shifts, access roads, and coordinates, none of which the runner page carries. Change the code and every browser holding the old one is out.

Yes. Each event has a print pack: a course map per race with numbered pins, a sheet per station, and the cutoff table. It prints from the browser, so no plotter and no design software.

Is it only for running events?

No. Pick run, hike, walk, or ride and the time estimate and snapping follow.

Can I draw off-trail?

Yes. Snap to trails and roads, or switch to free-draw where the trail is not on the map. You can also import a GPX file if the course already exists as a track.

Can I export the course as GPX?

Yes, from a course's share page or its embed, and anyone you send the link to can do the same. Your whole library exports as one file from your account page.

How do I put the course on my event site?

Every public course has an embed: open its share page and copy the snippet. It drops into any site that takes HTML, and shows the line, the waypoints, the elevation profile, and a GPX download.

Can I change the course after I publish it?

Yes. Move the line, move a station, add a race. Every page comes off the same event, so the runner page, the crew page, and the print pack update together. There is no second copy to keep in step.

Something else?

Write to hello@skad.run. If it is about your race, say which one: it is easier to answer with the course in front of me.

Skad

Your next event starts with a line.

Draw the course. Free, no account needed until you want to save it.

Runners never pay: cast, keep, and share as many routes as you like. Organizers pay per event, when it goes live.