About

Getting Started

Step by step, from your first registration to the podium — or from an empty event to published results.

6 chapters For riders — first race or fiftieth

From your first entry to the rankings

Ride, race, climb

R4WRUN keeps your whole racing life in one place: the races you enter, every heat you ride, your results, your R4W rating and the runs you record in between. Six short chapters show where everything is, with real screens.

The whole season in one line

  1. Set up your profile and suit
  2. Find a race and register
  3. Check in with your QR code
  4. Qualify, then race your heats
  5. Your result lands on your profile
  6. Your R4W rating moves

The nine chapters

  1. ~10 min, once

    Chapter 1 ·Your profile

    Photo, country, suit, sponsors, preferred bib — and how R4WRUN reaches you.

    How you look on every start list →

  2. Chapter 2 ·Find & enter a race

    The events list, the event page, the register sheet, waivers, paying and managing your entry.

    Entering, changing, cancelling → Browse races

  3. Chapter 3 ·Race day

    Your check-in QR, Who will win? picks, qualifying, heats, Heat Insights and results.

    How a race day runs →

  4. Chapter 4 ·Results, rating & badges

    Results, championship points, what's behind the R4W rating and the 88 badges.

    How your number is built →
  5. RaceBox, CSV or GPX

    Chapter 5 ·Your runs

    Upload a run, replay it, read corners and slides, chase the spot board, compare.

    Where your time goes →

  6. Chapter 6 ·Riders & community

    The riders directory, following, head-to-head, the stat boards, messages and chat.

    Who you're racing → Riders directory

A race weekend, from your side

  1. Weeks before

    Enter

    • Register for your categories
    • Answer the questions, accept the waiver
    • Pay online or at the desk

  2. Race week

    Get ready

    • Make your Who will win? picks
    • Check the schedule and the forecast
    • Say hi in the event chat

  3. Race morning

    Check in

    • Show your QR code at the desk
    • Collect your bib
    • Turn on push for your live times

  4. Racing

    Qualify and race

    • Qualifying sets your seed
    • In each heat, the top half goes through
    • Follow the heats on the event page

  5. After

    Results

    • Your result is pushed to you
    • Points and standings update
    • Your rating and badges move

What's free, and what Premium adds

Racing never costs anything extra

Free for every rider

  • Entering races, check-in, results and championship standings
  • Your R4W rating, radar, rating journey and all 88 badges
  • Who will win? picks, event chat and direct messages
  • Your runs: replay, corners, slides, spot boards, compare and clip export
  • Head-to-head against you, and the top 10 of every stat board

Premium adds

  • Every stat board in full, with your own rank
  • Head-to-head between any two riders, every meeting, rating over time
  • Heat Insights in depth, and the whole qualifying field with distance gaps
  • Your Analysis page, and category filters on other riders' stats
  • Ask the coach on run comparisons, a suit without the chest logo, the R4W badge
See Premium →

Words you'll see

Seed
Your place in the qualifying order. It decides who you meet in the knockout.
Heat
2, 4 or 6 riders racing each other at once.
Qualifying
Timed runs, or race-to-qualify heats, that rank the field before the knockout.
Knockout
Elimination bracket — the top half of every heat goes through.
DNS · DNF · DSQ
Did not start · did not finish · disqualified.
R4W rating
One number from 40 to 100, built from every result you have on R4WRUN.
Gold · Silver · Bronze
The rating tiers: 80 and up, 70 and up, 60 and up.
Best N of M
A championship that only counts your best results. The others stay visible, marked as dropped.
Full reference Every feature explained in detail, with search. Try it in the sandbox Run a full competition in your browser with made-up names — no sign-up, nothing saved.