Crew
The other five people at your race get the plan too
Crewing an ultra is a job. Right now it's done off a spreadsheet nobody has open and a WhatsApp group at three in the morning.
This part of Absorb was not on any roadmap. It exists because my own crew stood in car parks in the dark working out from a tracker ping whether they had ten minutes or two hours, off a document that was out of date before the start gun. They were doing a job as hard as mine. That's the whole story.
A short code, and they're in
No Absorb account, nothing to install, nothing to pay. They pick a name and a password and they're looking at your race.
A crew member is never a customer, and never has to become one.
What they get
Every stop in course order, including where to park
Down to a what3words square, with the cutoff, which drop bag is there, and the forecast for the hour you're expected.
Exactly what to hand you, written by you
Per stop, plus your own note for that stop, so nobody has to interpret a text message sent eleven hours earlier.
Tick you through one checkpoint and every earlier one clears
Nobody has to remember where you were an hour ago. The next stop becomes the default view.
It still reads in a valley with no signal
One button saves the whole race to their phone before the start. Deliberate, not something they have to hope happened.
They see that race and nothing else
Not your training, your patterns, your other races, your email or your name. Enforced on the server on every request, not just hidden in the interface.
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For people aged 16 or over.