Sparkies is on Google Play. On iPhone, join on the web, same club. Apple app coming.
Get the Android app
Real bib. Real start list. Real results board. Real medal. The only thing missing is the $90 entry, the 5am bus and the portaloo queue.
Claim your free bib →Sparkies is on Google Play. On iPhone, join on the web, same club. Apple app coming.
Get the Android app
Log the run, or let Strava do it, and your name is on here before you've untied your shoes. Overall, your country against everyone else's, and your tribe's turnout.
Your route, your pace, any time inside the window. One activity, the distance or more. Walk breaks fine. 90 minutes fine. A finish is a finish and the medal doesn't care about pace. The podium does, but that's three people.
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The struck-out prices are what a paid road race charges for the same things. Ours are a comparison, not a discount.
A free account, then one tap. Your name lands on the start list and 5 points land on your tribe.
Your route, your pace, any time in the race window. Treadmill, pram, slow. All good.
Log it like any run, or let Strava do it. Your time hits the board automatically.
Overall, your country, your tribe. Plus 15 points on the monthly board.
You pick these after you claim your bib, and pay for whatever you pick in one go. Skip all three and you still get everything above.
Chip in to help keep Sparkies races free to enter. Every dollar helps.
Posted anywhere on earth, once you finish. Velcro plus a sew-on loop, so it goes on a vest, a cap or a jacket.
Every training plan, a recovery read on every run, and the private board. Then $4.95 a month, cancel anytime.
No fee to lose. No shame post. Nobody chasing you with "did you do the race?". The only way to lose this race is to not claim the bib.
Fine, I'm in →A race on the calendar turns "I should run more" into a plan. Easy runs get a job. Hard sessions get a reason. You stop negotiating with yourself at 6am.
That's why the races are free. The race isn't the product. It's the thing that makes the training stick. It costs us less to give you a bib than it costs you to skip another week.
On race day, on your own clock wherever you are. The board stays open until race day is over in the last place on earth, so everyone gets the whole day. Log your run before then.
Really free. The bib, the board and the medal cost nothing, and you don't need a card. The extras (a donation, a posted patch, the Clubhouse) are optional and you can skip every one. You need a Sparkies account, also free, because that's where your bib, your results and your medal live.
No. Log the run in Sparkies like any other run. If Strava is connected it syncs on its own and you don't touch anything.
Yes. Run-walk, walk breaks, whatever gets you to the distance. A finish is a finish.
Yes. One activity, the distance or more. Splitting it across two runs doesn't count. That's the whole point of a race.
Anywhere on earth. First home in your country takes a medal, and the country board gets better the more countries are on it.
On your profile, the moment your finish is logged. The race badge lights up in your trophy cabinet the next time you open the app. Make the podium and it says so, right under the medal.
If you want to. The finisher patch is one of the optional extras: add it when you claim your bib, A$12 with postage anywhere on earth, and it ships once you finish.
When the results board does. You can claim one right up to and including race day, but claiming it now is the bit that changes how this week's training feels.
It's free, it's real, and it's yours in one tap. Run it where you live. See how your country stacks up.
Claim your free bib →The next races land here the moment they're set.