Pocket Crew: Race Pace Planner

Pocket Crew turns the course GPX and the race's list of aid stations into a plan you can actually run: every station with an ETA, your buffer to each cutoff, what to eat between them, and a race-day screen that shows only what comes next. Built by a trail runner for the ultra distance. Your plan and the race-day screen work with no signal, on the mountain, with the phone in your vest. PLAN THE RACE • Import the course GPX: distance, climbs and the elevation profile appear at once • Add aid stations by typing the distance or placing them on the map • Trail-aware pacing: grade, altitude, fatigue, night and heat shape every leg. Or use even pacing from one goal time • Find Pace: enter a target finish and see the flat pace it needs, with a warning when that's faster than your own flat pace • Cutoffs as clock times, the way races publish them, with your buffer at every station • Loops and out-and-backs: a GPX waypoint you pass twice gets a row for each visit, and live tracking stays on the right lap • Running the same race again? Start from last year's plan FUEL & GEAR • Hourly carb, fluid and sodium targets, suggested from your race time, the temperature and how salty you sweat • Measure your sweat rate with a simple weigh-in test • One tap fills the fuel plan to your target with the gels, drinks and real food you've tested and approved. Any brand • A plain eating plan: what to eat every hour • Gear library with shoe mileage, and a packing list per race with drop bags RACE DAY • Map-first live screen: next station, distance to go, ETA and your cutoff buffer, always in view • Arrive and leave with one tap, a station timer, and a list of what to grab from your drop bag • GPS auto-arrival, voice cues for turns and for each climb ahead, and an alert when you go off course • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with pause • Fuel reminders that say what to eat, and play over your music • Send Update: text your family your distance, next stop and finish time, with a map link, whenever you have signal • Dim red night mode TRAINING • Plan long runs with checkpoints and stash points, or just press Record and go • Splits per kilometer or mile, elevation, best efforts, and heart rate from a Bluetooth strap or Apple Health • Share a safety plan before a long run: route, checkpoints, bail-out plan and emergency contact • A short debrief that feeds back into your fuel and gear libraries • Weekly distance, time and climb • Ask Siri to start a run AFTER • Planned vs actual splits, time at aid stations, finish vs goal • Runs and races saved to Apple Health; export a GPX for Strava in one tap • A paced GPX for your watch, a printable pace card for your crew, or a wrist card • A share image of your course and time PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking. Your plans stay on your phone, and in your own iCloud if you turn sync on. Everything in Pocket Crew is free, with no subscription. An optional one-time "Buy Me a Gel" supports the developer and adds three extra app icons. Kilometers or miles, meters or feet. Pocket Crew is the tool I wanted at 3 a.m. at mile 45. If it helps you, a rating helps me keep building it.