More race.
More you.
The only race platform where you can find, screen, and book your pacer — then brief them, track the race together, and leave a verified review afterwards.
Premium puts you near the top of the index: priority placement when runners search for pacers, your complete race CV Strava-verified, and the full suite of race-day tools. For long-distance runners, and the people they bring with them.
Everything a runner
actually needs.
Coaches, marshalls, pacers, crew, and organisers stay free forever. Premium is built specifically for runners who want the full picture — before, during, and after race day.
Filter pacers by experience — guide-running for visually-impaired athletes, adaptive pacing for runners with disabilities or chronic conditions, desert, jungle, polar, multi-day stage, wilderness first aid. Bield speaks the global long-distance running language.
Strava-verified reviews & activity verification
Reviews come with a Strava-verified badge when both parties' GPS tracks overlap on the race course. Engagement-only reviews — where both parties were members of the same race engagement but no Strava comparison was available — are clearly marked differently. They were either there, on the same ground, or they weren't.
What this gets you: a review profile the whole long-distance running community trusts — not just self-reported claims.
Full unified race history & race CV
Every race you run — no matter who organised it, or what platform it lives on — in one consistent place. Premium unlocks unlimited concurrent races and your complete career race CV: distances, terrains, finish times, verification status, and Strava-verified pacer reviews.
Free runners get 1 active race at a time. Premium removes that limit.
Race photo capture, tagging & gallery — Premium-gated
Your pacer pulls out a phone at mile 40 and captures the moment you're still moving when everyone else has quit. Your crew gets a photo of the three of them at the drop bag you don't remember. On Bield, they tag you into those photos right there — no spreadsheets, no "hey can you send me the one where I'm actually smiling". You get a gallery of yourself during the race, packaged and ready to download.
Bield deletes the raw photos after 14 days, so your race day doesn't live on someone's phone forever. Premium runners get unlimited storage; free runners get a tiered cap. GPS metadata pins each photo to the exact mile on your route map.
After the race: download a ZIP with all photos, the offline route-map gallery, and the race spec sheet. See an example ↓
Advanced profile analytics
See how your race CV is being viewed, which distance tiers are attracting the most attention, how your trust score compares within your verification tier, and how your pacer engagements have trended over time. Understand your reputation, not just carry it.
Also included: priority in race-fit sort, multi-race planning view, and five-year race-day weather history.
Full share-pack (Level 0 – Level 4)
Free runners can share up to Level 2 — contact details and pace plan. Premium unlocks Levels 3 & 4: emergency contacts and dietary info at commitment, full medical info and bib at race week. Your crew and pacers get exactly what they need, when they need it. Personal details are auto-deleted 14 days after race day regardless.
Recently added to Premium
Three new features landed this month for Premium runners.
3D terrain viewer with fly-through & UK OS detail
Every verified race now has a 3D terrain view — gradient-coloured by climb steepness, aid stations as 3D pins, fly-through animation, and UK OS OpenZoomStack basemap for British trail & fell races. Pre-computed and cached; loads instantly. See the 3D viewer →
Plan vs Actual post-race analysis
Upload your Strava activity after a race. Bield compares your finish time, pace, and checkpoint splits against your planned splits, with a narrative summary. “You opened on plan, the gap grew through the night section, strong close from AS3.”
Multi-year shared race history with pacers
When you look at a pacer’s profile, Bield shows every race you’ve both done — grouped by event series, across all years. Bidirectional, verified from Strava, not self-reported. “Spine Race — you 2024, them 2022, 2023.”
Photos where
they happened.
Upload your race photos and Bield pins them to the exact point on your route where they were taken. Scroll through your race CV and relive every mile — not just the finish line.
Tagged at 53.847° N, 2.091° W · Uploaded post-race · Visible in your race CV and to your crew/pacers at share-pack Level 3+
Illustration only — styled to show the feature concept. Not a live screenshot of the app.
Earn Premium free — marshal 6 events
Every verified marshall engagement earns credit. Marshal at 6 events and unlock a full month of Premium at no cost. The network gives back to the people who keep races safe.
Out on the trail
where it counts.
From the climb at mile 18 to the finish-line grab — this is what Bield is built around. Your people, your race, all in one place.
Your race photos. Organised. Then gone.
Take photos directly in the Bield app during a race. Your crew and pacer can tag you into each shot straight away — no email chains, no "send me the good ones". You get a gallery of yourself during the race, packaged and ready to download.
Raw photos auto-delete 14 days after race day. Your pacer doesn't keep your finish-line face forever. The downloadable gallery and race package are yours to keep. Premium runners get unlimited photo storage; free runners get a per-mile cap.
Upload a photo and Bield reads its GPS metadata (or you drag a pin) to place it at the exact mile marker on your route. Every photo in your race CV is anchored to where you were when you took it — not just sorted by time.
Free for the
whole network.
Premium puts you near the top of the index. Coaches, marshals, pacers, crew, and race organisers stay free forever — Premium is built for runners who want to be findable, with a verified pacer / crew CV that earns the trust of the people they're asking for help.
Coaches, marshalls, pacers, crew & organisers
- Unlimited race engagements and checkpoint posts
- All verification tiers — photo ID, Strava, First Aid, Mountain Leader
- Strava-verified review unlock when tracks match
- Publish unlimited races (organisers)
- Race statistics, results import, briefings, volunteer roster
Runner · Premium
- Unlimited concurrent races (free tier: 1 active race)
- Full race CV — complete career history, all distances and terrains
- Strava-verified reviews & activity verification
- Share-pack Levels 0 – 4 including medical & bib at race week
- Race photo upload — 5 photos per mile of race
- Advanced profile analytics & priority in race-fit sort
- Multi-race planning view & five-year weather history
- Earn it free — marshal 6 events to unlock Premium at no cost
One home for
every race you run.
£4 a month, or £30 for the year (save £18). Cancel anytime. Or marshal 6 events to earn it free. Coaches, marshalls, pacers, crew, and organisers are always free — this is for the runner who wants the full picture.
For context: other long-distance running platforms charge up to $100/year for pacer-matching alone. Bield's £30 covers your whole season — pacers, crew, marshalls, coaches and organisers, all in. At £30/year, the annual subscription costs roughly half the entry fee for one half-marathon.