How People Can Track You During Races - The Running Channel Advertisement

How People Can Track You During Races

BY: James Dunn
30 November 2022

There are lots of different ways for your friends and family to track you during a race, or whilst you’re out on your training runs. This can be used a safety precaution, but also a fun way for your family and friends to cheer you on.  

Apps that we use here in the office are:

Strava Beacon on Strava

Strava Beacon creates a unique weblink that you can send to others to allow them to track you in realtime on their app. Your location should update about every 15 seconds, but this is dependent on your phone signal and data.

Garmin LiveTrack on Garmin 

LiveTrack has similar tracking features to Strava using a unique link for whoever you want to share it with. Livetrack does offer an increased level of information that is shared including; average pace, elevation gain, heart rate and many others. It does require the runner to be wearing a Garmin device that has LiveTrack capabilities.

Share my location on WhatsApp 

A much more basic way to share your location is using the “Share my location’ feature in WhatsApp. It won’t show any information apart from where you are on a map and it can be suffer from slow updates of location depending on your signal and data.

Find My on Apple 

The next two are using your phone’s live tracking capabilities. Similar to WhatsApp they are very limited in their feature set but require no other devices to make them usable.

GPS Phone Tracker on Android 

Race Apps

Heading to a big city race? Some bigger races, like London Marathon, will have their own tracking apps that can be used and will contain varying information depending on the race.

What apps do you use to let your friends and family know where you are when you are out running? Let us know in the comments.

MOST VIEWED

1

How Long Is...

How long is a marathon in miles and kilometres? Why is...
2

What Should Your...

You’ve signed up for a marathon and know you’re going to...
3

What Are The...

The Abbott World Marathon Majors have places for runners who achieve...
4

How To Run...

Do you want to run further but feel too tired to...
5

This Tattoo Could...

Many Olympic athletes choose to commemorate their experience in a permanent...
6

Beats Solo 4...

Beats Solo headphones are some of the most popular on the...

Running News

24 March 2025

Ingebrigtsen Stars at World Athletics Indoor Championships 2025 – Plus All The Winners!

Jakob Ingebrigsten becomes double world champion, plus all the winners at the World Athletics Indoor Championship 2025.
19 March 2025

Sam Ruthe Is First 15-Year-Old To Run A Four-Minute Mile!

New Zealand’s Sam Ruthe has become the first 15-year-old to ever run a sub-four-minute mile, running a remarkable 3:58.35.
13 March 2025

Eliud Kipchoge Will Run The 2025 Sydney Marathon! 

Eliud Kipchoge will run the 2025 Sydney Marathon. The world's greatest marathoner will be there as Sydney becomes a Marathon Major.

Latest Video

31 March 2025

Stepping Up From Half Marathon To Marathon (How To Tackle Marathon Training)

You’ve conquered the half marathon, now you want to run full marathon. Here's how to take on marathon training.
Author icon BY: Mark Dredge
See more

Our Partners