Draw the course.
Print the meet.
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. Then it prints the flyer and the packets, with your course maps already in them.
Free to use · Nothing to install · No account
What it does
Three jobs, one file
Measures it properly
Every distance is solved on the WGS84 ellipsoid, not a sphere. The shortcut most tools take is wrong by ten to fifteen meters over a 5K, which is the difference between a legal course and an asterisk on every time run on it.
Colors it by mile
The line changes color at each measured mile, marks land where they actually fall, and a two-lap course knows that mile two is on lap two. Pick a palette or set each mile yourself.
Prints the paper
Enter the address, the races and the fees once. Out comes a flyer, a coaches packet and a parents and athletes packet — each carrying only what that reader needs, with the course maps on their own pages.
Samples
Real files, not screenshots
These three came out of the app for a meet at Norwalk High School. Open them, print them, hold them up to whatever you sent out last year.
How it works
Twenty minutes, once
- Find your venue by address. The map goes there.
- Click along the route the runners take. The distance updates with every point, so you can land on 5,000 meters exactly.
- Drop markers for tents, parking and the restrooms.
- Type the races, times, fees and the notes you send every year.
- Export the map, or the whole packet as one zip of PDFs.
Next season it takes five minutes, because the venue, the course, the policies and the sponsors are all still in the file.
Price
Free to use. $49 to take my name off it.
The whole app is free, and it stays that way — every feature, no trial, no account. Sheets printed without a license carry one line at the bottom with my name and email on it. That line is how anyone hears about this. A season pass removes it.
$49 per season
One person. Runs through 31 July, so a pass bought now covers this whole cross country season.
No subscription and no card kept on file — it expires rather than renews. Thirty day refund, no questions asked. Your key arrives by email within a minute.
CourseChalk is a service of ChalkBox, so your receipt comes from ChalkBox and your statement reads COURSECHALK.
Schools: purchase orders are welcome. Email ethanbores@gmail.com and you will get a W-9, a quote and an invoice the same day, Net 30, with your PO number on it. Tax-exempt districts can enter their exemption at checkout.
The honest part
Where this is up to
It is new and it is not finished. It works — a real meet is being run off it this autumn — but you are early, and you will find things I have not. There is no account to make and nothing to cancel; your meet plan is a file that stays on your own machine.
Aerial imagery is United States only, from the USGS National Map, and gets blurry past about 1:9,000. Address search finds street addresses, not park names. Both have better options behind them that switch on later.