Feedback Needed: Is a dedicated race log for amateur athletes better than a spreadsheet?
Hey, PH community!
I'm Stefan, and I got into amateur XC racing about a year ago. I quickly discovered that I love looking at my race results even more than the finisher medals (which are starting to pile up anyway!).
I started logging everything in a spreadsheet, but I kept hitting a wall. I couldn't easily answer the real questions, like:
How do I compare my 16th place finish out of 35 racers on one course with my 16th place out of 108 on another?
The raw numbers just didn't tell the whole story.
So, I built the tool I wished existed: RaceLog.pro. It’s a web app for motivated amateur and hobby racers who love to prove themselves and measure their progress.
Instead of just listing results, it automatically calculates metrics that give you real context:
Percentile Rank (%): It instantly shows you that finishing 16th out of 108 is a much stronger performance (top 15%) than 16th out of 35 (top 45%).
Elevation Factor (EF): It gives a "difficulty score" to each course, so you can objectively compare your times on different terrains.
This isn't for casual tracking; it's for those of us who want to separate our key races from training rides and truly analyze our performance.
I'd love to get your honest opinion. My main goal is to see if other data-obsessed racers feel this same "pain".
I'd love to know:
How do you currently track and compare your race results?
Does a tool focused on these specific metrics (Percentile, EF) seem useful to you?
What's the one feature that would make you say, "Okay, I need to try this"?
Thanks so much for your time and insights!
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