Software for high school cross country and track
Made by a coach who needed it. Bores Sports Technologies is one person in Norwalk, Ohio.
My name is Ethan Bores, and I am a high school track and cross country coach in Ohio. Besides coaching, I work as a data engineer and analyst, database administrator, and applications developer. I hold a B.A. in computer science with a minor in mathematics, so numbers are my thing, and running has always been one of my favorite numbers games.
Since I started running in 2011, I have been drawn to the numbers side of the sport. I analyzed every workout, race and season from the beginning. Now I build tools that help other coaches do the same.
All of this runs alongside a season. If something breaks on a Saturday morning, tell me. I am probably at a meet too.
Ethan Bores
Norwalk, Ohio
ebores@borestechnologies.com
The tools
Each one does a job a coach or meet director does by hand today, and stops there.
CourseChalk
Live at coursechalk.com
Trace your cross country course on an aerial map and it measures itself to the meter, so you find out it is 4,860 before the coaches do. It colors the line mile by mile, then prints the flyer, the coaches packet and the parents packet with your course maps already in them.
Free to try, in your browser or as a Windows app. The free version runs a whole meet on one course and exports the real sheets with a SAMPLE watermark. A $49 season pass adds every course the meet needs and prints them clean.
PaceChalk
Live at pacechalk.com
Enter your team's race as you timed it: places, the mile splits you have, and the finish. If a split is missing, PaceChalk calculates it at even pace and marks it "est". Then it shows how each runner paced the race and how the team did.
Across the season it keeps team spreads, a page for each athlete with PRs and goals, top lists, team records and your schedule. A results file (PDF, web page or CSV) can fill in a race for you.
For track and field, enter each event at a meet, relays and field events included, in feet and inches or meters. It keeps PRs and season bests, top marks and team records by event. Age grades compare a freshman with a senior fairly.
Try the demo team with no sign-in. Sign in with your CourseChalk account and your own team saves online, free for 30 days, no card. After that, a pass is $49 a year for one coach, or $99 for a staff of up to six coaches. See every plan.
SplitWright
Live at splitwright.com
Build a workout from percents of race pace, such as 6 x 800 m at 95% of 5K PR. SplitWright prints a sheet with a target time for each athlete or pace group, and lap splits for a 400 m track, a 200 m track or any loop you run.
Race times come from your PaceChalk teams when you sign in, or you type them. If an athlete has no time at that distance, SplitWright predicts one and marks it. It can also make your pace groups, by pace gap or by number of groups, with boys and girls together or apart.
Sign in with your CourseChalk account and the first 30 days are free, no card. After that, a pass is $29 a year on its own, or $20 more on any PaceChalk plan. Without a pass, everything still works and the printed sheets carry the SplitWright mark.
Plans and prices
Buy one tool, or add the others to a PaceChalk plan for less. Prices are in US dollars, plus sales tax.
PaceChalk and SplitWright come as a yearly plan that renews, or as one season that ends July 31. The CourseChalk pass is always one season and does not renew.
| Plan | Who it covers | Price |
|---|---|---|
| CourseChalk season pass | One coach. Every course, clean prints | $49 a season |
| PaceChalk | One coach | $49 a year |
| PaceChalk Staff | You and up to 5 more coaches, on all your teams | $99 a year |
| SplitWright | One coach | $29 a year |
| PaceChalk plan | Alone | + SplitWright | + CourseChalk | + Both |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PaceChalk | $49 | $69 | $79 | $99 |
| PaceChalk Staff | $99 | $119 | $129 | $149 |
- SplitWright adds $20 to any PaceChalk plan, $9 less than on its own. On a Staff plan, it is for every coach on the staff.
- CourseChalk adds $30 to any PaceChalk plan, $19 less than on its own. The plan includes one CourseChalk season pass.
- Free to start. CourseChalk's free version runs a whole meet on one course. PaceChalk has a demo team and a 30-day trial of the Staff plan, with no card. SplitWright has a 30-day trial, with no card.
- Schools can pay by purchase order. See For schools.
How they are built
- It works with one bar of signal. A county park at 7 am on meet morning has bad reception. Nothing you need at that moment waits on the network.
- Your work stays yours. A meet plan is a file on your own computer, or a record in your own account. Your PaceChalk teams are saved to your own account. Your SplitWright workouts stay in your own browser. Nothing is sold, and nothing is tracked.
- You see it work before you pay. The free version runs a whole meet on one course and exports the real sheets, watermarked. You pay for clean paper and the rest of your courses, not to find out whether it works. PaceChalk and SplitWright each have a 30-day free trial with no card.
- Public data where it exists. Aerial imagery from the USGS National Map. Addresses from the US Census Bureau, and schools from the federal school list. All public domain, so the tools can stay cheap.
- One person answers the email. That is the whole support department, so you talk to the person who wrote the code.
For schools
Purchase orders are welcome, Net 30. Email billing@borestechnologies.com for a quote. When your PO arrives, you get an invoice with your PO number on it. Payment is by card, and a school purchasing card works; $49 clears most card limits with no PO at all. W-9 on request.
Stripe sells the passes as merchant of record. It collects and pays the sales tax and sends your receipt, and your card statement starts with LINK.COM* BORES. If your district is tax-exempt, email billing@ before you buy.
Something your meet still does by hand?
Tell me what it is. The next tool will come out of somebody's complaint. ebores@borestechnologies.com