Trail and Ultras on RunSignup

Trail races and ultrarunning continue to grow in popularity, and race organizers need technology that can keep up. RunSignup continues to lead the way as a technology-based registration platform, supporting a growing number of trail and ultras with powerful tools for registration, race-day operations, and participant management.

This blog reviews some of the top reasons trail races and ultras continue to move to RunSignup, along with several customer examples.

Some of Our Favorite Features

Free Website: Races get more than a simple page, they get a full website. Easily create and match your branding for your race website, with unlimited pages and system data like countdown clocks, participant and team lists, results, photos, and more ur own content.

Free Email: Upload any number of contacts and send any number of emails — for free. Emails are branded for your race and tailored for your needs with custom list uploads, smart data replacement tags, and beautiful designs.

RaceDay CheckIn App: Streamline your race day and eliminate lines with the RaceDay CheckIn App. Whether you’re assigning bibs dynamically on race morning, managing add-on pickups, or checking in teams, the RaceDay CheckIn App can help.

Multiple Waivers: Support multiple waivers to make paperwork easy when you, your venue, and/or your sponsor all need different waivers.

Participant Insurance: Boost revenue and reduce admin work with optional participant insurance during registration—Protecht RegShield handles all insurance management and refunds.

Participant Management: Reduce customer service headaches with self-serve tools for transfers, bib exchanges, and (optional) refunds—plus waitlists, registration caps, fees, and bulk actions for easy updates at scale.

Volunteer Management: Manage volunteers right from your race dashboard—create roles and shifts (with coordinators), set min/max capacity, collect waivers and custom info, email targeted lists by role, and reward volunteers with vouchers for future events.

Customer Examples

Endure Trail Runs

Endure Trail Runs is a unique trail event that includes a 10k, half marathon, and full marathon with very generous cutoffs — plus a one-of-a-kind 12-hour event where runners pick a colored ball from a bucket to determine which loop they run. Their event page includes social media links, highlights sponsors, and uses custom wording for their store — changing Store to Camping, where they sell camping spots and tents to participants for the weekend.

Habanero Hundred

Habanero Hundred, a trail race with a memorable name and a desert‑heat theme, offers distances from 10 K to 100 miles, including relays that are cleanly displayed using event tiles. The race organizers are capturing more emails by enabling the email capture form.

They’re leveraging system pages to run a robust volunteer program with ton of distinct opportunities and timeslots. They also have a dedicated donation page raising money for a local non-profit. And for a new distance this year — Habanera 135 — they’re using our lottery function.

HOKA Bandera Endurance Trail Race

HOKA Bandera Endurance Trail Race is a trail ultramarathon that offers multiple race options (100K, 50K, 25K, and a youth trail run) and encourages participants to purchase the race insurance as peace of mind during registration. Right on their front page, they highlight their Referral Rewards program, allowing runners to earn cash by recruiting more runners!

Loopy Looper presented by HOKA

Loopy Looper presented by HOKA is a road ultramarathon with options ranging from solo efforts to tram relays and up to 100 miles. They use event tiles to display all event options and have fully customized their race website — not only by updating the favicon, but also implementing an AI chatbot as well.

They’ve also customized their menu options to include everything from important race details and volunteer opportunities to their upcoming races using the event listing component.

Rabid Raccoon 100

Rabid Raccoon 100 is a trail ultramarathon that is is utilizing Website V2 to its fullest, with a comprehensive dropdown menu that includes custom pages for course maps, aid stations, volunteers, race insurance, more.

They’ve also included an FAQ page and have the AI Chatbot available to help save time on support inquiries, as well as a race store that allows participants to purchase merchandise — an additional way to increase revenue.

Here is a list of some of the trail and ultra events that use RunSignup:

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