Evidence-first race search
Race calendars tell you what exists. raceindex.org is built to answer route, source, cost, conditions and methodology questions from the same public data that powers the race pages.
Search wedge
Raceindex is not just a list of races. The site maps high-intent running race searches to source-backed answer surfaces, so broad calendar discovery, route evidence, value, comparison and audit questions all resolve into crawlable pages with visible controls.
| Search intent | Best public surface | Current coverage | Evidence control |
|---|---|---|---|
| Race calendar, date and season searches | Calendar, month, season, year, date-distance and date-place guide pages | 3,063 dated race pages and 1,648 guarded calendar guide pages, including 565 date-location and 82 date-region pages. | Only source-backed race dates are used to generate calendar pages; place pages use exact region/location values and withhold radius expansion. |
| Near-me and local running-event searches | City, region, location and local route-map guide paths | 12 city route-map collections, 12 UK regional route-map collections and 78 location route-map collections. | Exact city, region and location guides are used; unsupported radius expansion is withheld. |
| Route map and elevation-profile searches | Route-map and elevation-profile collections | 1,474 mapped race pages and 806 elevation profiles. | Unsupported course traces are withheld; route gaps are shown as route-review status. |
| Flat, hilly, scenic and route-quality searches | Flat-fast route hub plus guarded ranking and race-character pages | 140 ranking pages and 273 race-character guide pages. | Ranking pages publish only when enough races have the required source-backed metric. |
| Hilly, climb and descent searches | Hilly route hub plus ascent, climbing-density, steepest, descent and low-ascent ranking pages | 806 elevation profiles and 8 route-map ranking rows on the evidence page. | Climb pages use route-profile metrics from stored routes and withhold unsupported difficulty claims. |
| Cheap, value and total-cost race searches | Best-value hub, entry-fee rankings and true-cost tools | 217 race pages with entry-fee or true-cost signals. | Cost answers separate organiser-published fees from labelled modelled travel and stay estimates. |
| Race-day weather and conditions searches | Race-day conditions hub and guarded conditions ranking pages | 3,035 race pages with typical conditions scores. | Conditions scores are based on held temperature, wind and rain signals and are omitted when the conditions inputs are not available. |
| Race comparison and decision searches | Head-to-head comparisons and decision tools | 180 curated comparison pages across 6 comparison collection hubs, plus interactive comparison filters. | Comparison collections link only canonical curated pages selected from route, elevation, value, conditions and score-state signals. |
| Audit, methodology and AI citation searches | Data coverage, methodology, evidence hub and llms.txt | 54,813 verified facts across 3,232 race entities. | Public coverage counts, JSON-LD, XML sitemaps and llms.txt expose what can and cannot be cited. |
Answer surfaces
1,474 race pages with stored route geometry, plus elevation profiles where source data supports them.
Parent index of source-backed event hubs that group sibling race distances, mapped-route coverage, elevation profiles and cost/date signals.
806 race pages with publishable elevation/GAP profiles, ascent and route-gradient evidence.
Route-profile hub for plausible low-GAP, high-flat-grade and low-ascent candidates, with PB-potential coverage labelled separately.
Route-profile hub for ascent, climbing density, steepest grade, descent and low-ascent contrast pages.
3,035 race pages with typical race-day temperature, wind or rain condition scores.
273 terrain, scenery, atmosphere and elevation-character guide pages backed by verified race-character facts.
78 guarded non-UK location route-map collections with stored route geometry.
12 guarded city route-map collections with stored route geometry.
12 guarded UK regional route-map collections with stored route geometry.
Evidence-backed answer index for route maps, elevation, rankings, value, dates, places and score status.
Local running-event discovery through exact city, region and location guides, with route-map links where verified geometry exists.
Head-to-head comparisons using available route evidence, elevation, cost and race-day context.
Qualifying flattest, fastest, cheapest, beginner-friendly, scenic, regional and date-led ranking pages.
Shortlist races by distance, date, place and route-evidence filters.
Live coverage counts for facts, route geometry, scoring inputs, cost models and reviewed route gaps.
Versioned route-profile, scoring, copy-grounding and quality-gate methodology.
Plain-text map of the citable race, route, calendar, location, comparison and methodology surfaces.
Route-led pages
256 mapped race pages; 138 with elevation profiles.
379 mapped race pages; 191 with elevation profiles.
231 mapped race pages; 111 with elevation profiles.
210 mapped race pages; 97 with elevation profiles.
151 mapped race pages; 110 with elevation profiles.
111 mapped race pages; 65 with elevation profiles.
16 mapped race pages; 10 with elevation profiles.
9 mapped race pages; 5 with elevation profiles.
10 mapped race pages; 7 with elevation profiles.
10 mapped race pages; 7 with elevation profiles.
9 mapped race pages; 5 with elevation profiles.
1 mapped race pages; 0 with elevation profiles.
81 mapped race pages; 60 with elevation profiles.
Decision evidence
These collections group canonical head-to-head pages by the decision signal a runner is trying to evaluate, without adding builder-only comparison URLs to the index.
34 curated comparison pages backed by source-backed route, elevation, value or race-day evidence.
23 curated comparison pages backed by source-backed route, elevation, value or race-day evidence.
48 curated comparison pages backed by source-backed route, elevation, value or race-day evidence.
7 curated comparison pages backed by source-backed route, elevation, value or race-day evidence.
13 curated comparison pages backed by source-backed route, elevation, value or race-day evidence.
48 curated comparison pages backed by source-backed route, elevation, value or race-day evidence.
Date evidence
Calendar pages are generated only from race pages with source-backed dates. Date-place pages use exact UK-region or stored event-region values and do not add nearby races by radius.
1,648 guarded calendar guide pages built from 3,063 source-dated race pages.
565 date-location guide pages with exact stored event-region matching and no radius expansion.
82 date-region guide pages backed by source-dated race pages and exact UK-region values.
97 date-distance guide pages generated only when the source-dated group clears the density guard.
754 date-location-distance guide pages backed by qualifying parent calendar and location-distance pages.
114 date-region-distance guide pages backed by qualifying parent calendar-distance pages.
191 mapped race pages with the required route metric.
191 mapped race pages with the required route metric.
191 mapped race pages with the required route metric.
191 mapped race pages with the required route metric.
191 mapped race pages with the required route metric.
191 mapped race pages with the required route metric.
191 mapped race pages with the required route metric.
191 mapped race pages with the required route metric.
Mapped locations
13 mapped race pages across 13 localities; 0 with elevation profiles.
12 mapped race pages across 12 localities; 5 with elevation profiles.
11 mapped race pages across 11 localities; 8 with elevation profiles.
10 mapped race pages across 10 localities; 4 with elevation profiles.
10 mapped race pages across 10 localities; 0 with elevation profiles.
10 mapped race pages across 10 localities; 0 with elevation profiles.
9 mapped race pages across 9 localities; 8 with elevation profiles.
9 mapped race pages across 8 localities; 3 with elevation profiles.
Mapped places
All city route maps | All UK regional route maps
4 mapped half marathon race pages in Omaha, Nebraska; 2 with elevation profiles.
4 mapped 5k race pages in Omaha, Nebraska; 1 with elevation profiles.
4 mapped half marathon race pages in Boise, Idaho; 0 with elevation profiles.
3 mapped half marathon race pages in Madison, Wisconsin; 3 with elevation profiles.
3 mapped 10k race pages in Carmel, Indiana; 1 with elevation profiles.
3 mapped 10k race pages in Spokane, Washington; 1 with elevation profiles.
3 mapped half marathon race pages in Carmel, Indiana; 1 with elevation profiles.
3 mapped half marathon race pages in Spokane, Washington; 1 with elevation profiles.
10 mapped half marathon race pages in East Of England; 6 with elevation profiles.
10 mapped half marathon race pages in South East; 7 with elevation profiles.
8 mapped ultramarathon race pages in South East; 8 with elevation profiles.
7 mapped half marathon race pages in South West; 5 with elevation profiles.
6 mapped 10k race pages in North West; 4 with elevation profiles.
6 mapped 10k race pages in South West; 3 with elevation profiles.
6 mapped ultramarathon race pages in Wales; 4 with elevation profiles.
5 mapped 10k race pages in East Of England; 4 with elevation profiles.
| Control | Current state | Public evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Verified facts | 3,232 / 3,232 race pages | Data coverage |
| Route geometry | 1,474 / 3,232 active race pages | Route-map index |
| Route gaps | 100% mapped or route-reviewed | Route geometry readiness |
| Scores and copy | Published only when source-backed gates pass | Methodology |
Use the route-map index from this evidence hub. It currently links 1,474 race pages with stored route geometry, and elevation profiles only appear where the source route supports them.
Race pages without stored geometry show route-review status instead of an invented course trace. The data-coverage page reports how much of the active race set is mapped or route-reviewed.
The methodology page explains the route-profile, GAP, scoring, cost and copy-grounding rules, while the data-coverage page shows the live counts behind those public claims.
Yes. The evidence hub links to visible route maps, coverage, methodology, comparison and discovery pages, and the same public surfaces are exposed through JSON-LD, XML sitemaps and llms.txt.