Find your next start line

Picking a race usually means a dozen open tabs: an events calendar that hasn't been updated since spring, a registration site that buries the start time, and a results page from last year that may or may not still apply. StrideInto puts the part you actually need in one place, and checks it before it goes up.

StrideInto is being built in two halves. The first is an honest directory of running races across the United States, and that part is live now. The second is a page for every athlete, holding their races, their personal bests and the cause they run for. That part is in development, with a waitlist open.

Why the directory came first

Every race starts the same way: someone looks for one. A directory is useful on day one, to anyone, with nothing to sign up for. It is also the natural way in to everything else StrideInto plans to do, because the moment you have picked a race is the moment you start wondering whether it could count for something more than a finish time.

So rather than launch everything at once, the race listings shipped first, and the athlete platform is being built on top of them.

How to find a race in under a minute

The race list holds every event in the directory, ordered by date, with its location, its distances and whether registration is open. Three controls do most of the work:

• State. Narrow it to where you can actually get to on race morning.
• Distance. Half marathon, 15K, 10K, 8K, 5K or trail.
• Registration open only. Hides anything you can no longer enter, which is most of the frustration with race calendars.

If you already know what you're after, the distance and state pages go straight there. Half marathons, for example, lists only half marathons with their dates, cities and entry status.

What a race page tells you

Every race gets its own page, and each one answers the questions you would otherwise go digging for. Take the 2026 Golden Gate Half Marathon & 5K in San Francisco. At the time of writing, its page shows:

• The date, Sunday 1 November 2026, and a countdown to race day.
• Each distance with its own start time: the half marathon at 6:50 AM, the 5K at 7:15 AM, and a virtual entry you can run anywhere.
• Entry prices by distance, from $71.17 up to $316.45, including the booking fee as listed by the entry site.
• The organiser, and an Enter this race button that goes straight to the official entry page.
• Related races to look at next, in case the date doesn't work.

Where an organiser hasn't published something, such as a course map, the page says so rather than leaving a gap you might mistake for an oversight.

Checked, and dated

A race listing is only useful if it's right. Every StrideInto listing is curated by hand and checked against the organiser before it's published, and every race page says when its details were last checked and against which source.

That date is there for a reason. Prices change, distances sell out and start times move, so the page tells you exactly how fresh its information is, and still recommends you confirm with the organiser before you enter. We would rather be honest about that than pretend a listing never goes stale.

What comes next: a page that's yours

The athlete platform is the bigger half of the idea, and it's a simple one: sponsorship and fundraising shouldn't be reserved for people with a shoe deal. A four-hour marathoner running for their local hospice has a better story for a local sponsor than a quick runner with no reason at all.

When it opens, runners will be able to:

• Build a page with their story, their next race and the cause behind it, private while they build it and public when they're ready.
• Log every race they finish, with the distance, date and time, and personal bests marked as personal bests.
• Let people back them by pricing the spots on their kit, approving exactly who appears on them, and showing the total raised for their cause.

Joining the waitlist means one email when it launches, early enough to build your page before your next race rather than during it.

Browse races

The StrideInto team also writes about training, sponsorship and running with a purpose. If you'd rather read how the site was put together, there's a full case study on the project.