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For trail & ultra directors

Every runner found, aid station to finish.

Trail and ultra courses are remote, long, and off-grid — bibs vanish under packs and jackets. PodiumBase matches runners by face, with timing windows as a fallback, across every aid station and the finish.

Get photos for your trail & ultra
No retainer · pay per pro or rep-only $0 · US metros
A trail runner on a mountain ridge during an off-road ultra
Where PodiumBase fits

Between an overpriced incumbent and a Drive link.

The incumbent

There isn’t one

Nobody serves remote courses
  • ·Road-race vendors can’t staff backcountry aid stations
  • ·Bib-only matching fails under packs and jackets
  • ·Runners leave with no photos at all
The DIY option

A photographer + a Drive link

You coordinate everything
  • ·Shooters scattered across miles of trail with no signal
  • ·Runners scroll thousands of unsorted frames
  • ·No sales, no payouts, no matching
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The middle option

Podiumbase

Pay per pro, or rep-only $0
  • ✓Face matching works where bibs are hidden
  • ✓Timing windows place runners across aid stations
  • ✓Pros upload off-grid; galleries sync when back in range
Get photos for your trail & ultra
How it works

Three steps to race-day photos.

01

Athletes find by selfie

One selfie, no bib. Athletes find every photo of themselves in seconds — across every leg, station, or heat.

02

Photos go live race day

Pros upload as they shoot. Matched galleries are live within hours of the finish, not weeks later.

03

You pay nothing to start

Post a bounty zone with a floor, or run rep-only at $0. Stay in the loop on coverage and sales the whole way.

The trail & ultra difference

No cell coverage, no problem.

A runner in a hydration pack, a buff, and a rain shell, mid-climb, hours from the start — a bib-reader has nothing to work with. PodiumBase matches by face and uses each runner’s timing splits to place them at the right aid station, so every recognizable frame lands in one gallery.

AID
Remote aid stations
Matched by face, placed by each runner’s split time
TRL
On-course + summits
The landscape shots that sell an ultra
FIN
Finish line
The hero shot, matched back across every station
Trail runners climbing a technical mountain section on an ultra course
Two more ways in

For your athletes, and the pros who shoot them.

For athletes

Find your photos.

Athletes enroll one selfie and get every photo of themselves from your event — swim to finish, station to line — yours to buy and share.

Find your photos
For photographers

Shoot trail & ultra races.

Get paid to shoot the trail & ultra events already happening in your city — a guaranteed floor when you cover a zone, plus your share of photo sales.

Shoot trail & ultra races
Questions

Before you add your event.

Our aid stations have no cell coverage. How do photos get uploaded?⌄
Photographers shoot offline and the galleries sync the moment they are back in range. Nothing is lost to a dead zone — uploads queue locally and reconcile to the right runner once connectivity returns.
Runners’ bibs are hidden under packs and jackets. Can you still match them?⌄
Yes — that is exactly where bib-only platforms fail and we don’t. Matching leads with facial geometry and uses each runner’s timing splits to place them at the right aid station, so a covered number isn’t a lost runner.
How do you cover a 50k or 100-mile course with stations miles apart?⌄
You post a bounty zone per aid station or segment and pros opt into the ones they can reach. Every frame flows into one event, matched to the right runner across the whole course regardless of which photographer shot it.
How do runners find themselves across so many locations?⌄
A runner enrolls one selfie and we surface every recognizable photo of them — every aid station and the finish — placed in order by their own timing splits. No bib reading required.
What does it cost me?⌄
You set a guaranteed floor per bounty zone and pay only the gap after photo sales — or run rep-only at $0 and pros earn from sales alone. No retainer either way.

Add your trail & ultra.

Free to post. See your coverage and suggested floor before you commit a dollar.

Get photos for your trail & ultraHow it works
Race photography for trail & ultra directors — PodiumBase