viRACE - Virtual Running

Quevita AG

About this app

Join the viRACE community of over 200,000 athletes from 162 countries and participate in virtual races and challenges. Live updates about the intermediate results of you and your marked favorites and friends are delivered directly to your ears via headphones.

viRACE offers you:

• Participation in various virtual runs and challenges (timing and tracking via app): virtual runs, virtual cross-country skiing events and other sports.


• Live information on intermediate results and additional motivation provided by the organizers is delivered straight to your ears via headphones. All participants of a virtual run or challenge are listed on the details page of the different events and can be selected as favorites. This allows participants to keep up on progress of thier friends. You can also compare yourself directly with your personal best time.


• Different challenges: with free choice of routes or with predefined routes


• Automatic sending of start number and diploma (for selected events)


• Regular raffle of prizes at different virtual runs and challenges

 

This is how it works:

Immediately after registering, you will be taken to the international event feed. From here you can register for virtual runs or challenges in just a few steps. These are either started at a predefined start time by all participants at the same time or the start time can be freely selected within a certain time window. Live updates via headphones keep you informed about the race (countdown to the start, remaining distance, intermediate positions, results of the marked favourites, ...) and motivate you to achieve your best performance. Timing, distance measurement, start and finish - everything is handled directly by the app.

 

For organizers:

We offer event organizers the ability to plan and run virtual events themselves. There are also numerous options for running charity events. Don't hesitate to contact us if you are interested.

Ratings and reviews

The app constantly crashes when trying to start a race. I'd like to support my selected charity, but can't with this app. Unfortunately, the app does not appear to work properly on Android 12 and higher based on the information in the crash report I generated. (Edit: the developer's response that I can just use a different app and upload is a bad joke. This means that they don't bother testing on newer versions at all. Avoid this app if possible!) (Second edit: they're spammers!)

I am changing from 1 to 2 stars to acknowledge the update from viRACE team. #### Original Review ##### I installed viRACE to take part in Virtual Great North Run. The search didn't work in the sense that it was showing me the race but now allowing me to select the same. On race day, the app downloaded modules and then kept showing Loading... and repeating the message that GPS signal is not there. This is the place where I use other GPS Apps regularly with no issues. Finally, I had to switch on Runkeeper and get on with running. It was very frustrating to be lined up to run Half Marathon and not being able to live experience due to App issues. I am on Android 9.

Ran the great North run this morning, the app struggled to maintain GPS, kept interrupting my music, and ended up one kilometer out of sync with the actual distance I had covered. I ended up running an extra kilometer but the app never said that I had finished, it probably still thinks I'm still running. Would not recommend and will not be using again.