Preparation, explained

The Kit module holds 3 lists, one set per runner — a second runner inherits the first one's lists, then adjusts them.

• Hydration — your containers: soft flask, bladder, bottle, or anything else with a name of your own. Capacity, weight, how many. This is the set the app will use to tell you what to pour into what. A container the rules require is ticked “Mandatory”: the checklist of the runner will say so.
• Mandatory kit — the rulebook's, by category: safety, lighting, clothing, footwear, medical, electronics. No “life base” box here: the rules require you to carry it from start to finish.
• Personal kit — everything else. Each item has a menu saying where it waits for you: on you at the start, or at the life base of your choice — a race with 2 life bases can at last say what goes where.

The lists are shown grouped by place — on you at the start first, then each life base in race order. Each item also has an “On you” box: a watch, a belt, poles in your hands weigh something, but not in the pack. And these lists go and fetch the kit drawer of the runner, in their Cupboard: a weight corrected there comes back down here, and what you add in a race joins their drawer.

At the bottom of the panel, the totals: pack at the start and on the body, separately, and the water capacity you are carrying. The water itself is not weighed, only the containers — you drink it.

One ziplock covers one leg: everything you eat between one aid station and the next. You open a bag as you leave each point, and it holds exactly what you need until the next one — no more, no less.

Powdered drink counts too: the app works out how many sachets to slip into each bag, from what you have to drink on that leg and the size of one refill you set in the Feeding plan panel. A leg where you only drink still gets its ziplock — it just holds sachets.

Right at the bottom of the race, a section of its own weighs your pack leg by leg. You set off with all your ziplocks — powder included — until the next crew point or life base: an aid station only gives you water back. So the weight at the start of a leg counts the ziplocks of the legs that follow, and what you carry on your body does not come into it.

• Each ziplock, with its contents and where it goes: on you at the start, handed to a crew, or packed in the bag of a life base.
• The drop bag of each life base: what you leave there.
• To prepare in total, under the bags: “5 × Potato purée · 3 × Lemon gel · 9 × Sachet Tailwind”. Preparing 12 hours of racing no longer means adding up 8 bags in your head.

A checklist that lives in the runner's app, after the map. Red while something is missing, green when everything is ticked — and it disappears when you check in at the start: a packing list makes no sense once the race is under way.

It now knows how many of each line are needed, keeps the name of your containers — “Salomon Soft 500”, not “Flask” —, says “hydration · mandatory” when the rules require it, and counts salt capsules separately. And your page shows it without opening it: next to your race, red while something is missing from your ziplocks, green when everything is in.

To take products out of the cupboard, the Cupboard has its Get your race ready tab: you tick, and the stock goes down — see the Cupboard guide.

After the ziplocks, it is organised by handover — that is: who gives you what, and where.

• 🏁 At the start — on you: all the mandatory kit, your containers, your personal kit, and the ziplocks up to the first crew point or life base.
• 👥 At each crew point: the ziplocks for the leg that starts there. Your crew knows exactly what to have ready at that point.
• 🎒 At each life base: the following ziplocks, plus what your route planner has put there. Each item waits at the life base chosen for it — not with the crew you meet before it.

A ↺ Reset the list button at the bottom of the page unticks everything, for a dress rehearsal or a second race.

On every aid-station row, in large type: what to make up as you leave the point. Drink first, water second, each split across the containers you are actually carrying.

• Drink is rounded to whole refills. 917 ml becomes 1 L, which is 2 sachets — you do not measure powder by eye at the side of a trail.
• Water is rounded to the capacity of the containers. Nobody measures water at an aid station: you fill to the brim. 700 ml into a 1000 ml bladder means you leave with 1 L.
• If your containers are not enough, the row says so in red: “375 ml of capacity missing”. Better to find that out on the sofa than on the aid-station table.