I used to be an active runner. Life happened — work, family, the usual — and like a lot of people, I stepped away from it for a while. Getting back into shape and back into racing means starting over in more ways than one.

One of the things I kept running into: how do you train locally for a race you've never run, in terrain you've never seen? I kept Googling "trails near me" and getting generic results that had nothing to do with the race I signed up for. My local roads were flat. My target races were anything but.

I was training on the wrong terrain. I knew it.

I just didn't have a better option.

So I built one.

Every race course has an elevation fingerprint — a unique signature of climbs, descents, and terrain that determines whether your training actually prepares you for race day.

RacePrint reads that fingerprint and works backward. Upload your race GPX file and we find local trails near you that match its climbs and descents.

Most running apps track where you've been.

We tell you where to go — and why.

RacePrint starts with your destination: the race you signed up for.

I'm Stevan Pierce. I have 27 years in technology — 15 of those in cybersecurity — and a background in professional counseling and sociology.

That combination shapes everything about how RacePrint works. The security background means your data is handled with care. The counseling background means RacePrint is designed around how athletes actually think and train — not just optimizing numbers on a dashboard.

This is a tool that works for you. Not at you.

Whether you're returning to racing after time away or training for the hardest race of your life, the problem is the same: your local terrain probably doesn't match your target race.

RacePrint is for anyone who has a race circled on the calendar and wants their training to actually mean something.

It's free for early athletes during invite-only early access. No credit card. If it helps you get to that start line ready — it's doing its job.