The deal, in plain words

TrailGoat is made and run by Capra, LLC, a small company in Georgia, USA. When these terms say "we", that's who they mean. Questions, takedowns, anything at all: email kris@trailgoat.run and a person answers.

By using the site you agree to these terms. If you don't, the honest thing is to not use it — but do tell us why.

Nothing. Everything on TrailGoat is free, with or without an account: the Run Planner and everything it calculates (pacing, fueling, hydration, weather, gear), the course pages and the race catalog, the live crew sheet, printouts and pace bands, GPX and watch files, offline plans and maps, and the Capra coach. Some of these need you to sign in, so your plans have somewhere to live.

If we ever decide to charge for something, we'll say so on this page, dated, before it happens. Nothing changes without notice.

• One person per account. Sign-in is through Google; we never hold a password.
• You need to be 13 or older to use the site.
• You're responsible for what happens under your account, so don't share it.
• You can delete your account, and everything in it, any time from the privacy page. That is immediate and permanent.

Reviews, photos and the routes you make public are yours. You give TrailGoat a licence to host them, resize them and show them on the site and in embeds, so that other runners can see what you posted. That's the whole reason to post them, and the whole extent of the licence.

• A route stays public once you've posted it, because other runners may already have planned from it. Deleting it detaches your name.
• Photo metadata (location, camera, timestamps) is stripped on upload — see the privacy page.
• Post only what you have the right to post. If something of yours is here and shouldn't be, email kris@trailgoat.run and it comes down.

A short list, in plain words:

• AI assistants and apps are welcome, within the limits. You may use TrailGoat through an AI assistant connected to https://trailgoat.run/mcp, and build on the public endpoints listed on the developers page, as long as you stay within the rate limits described there and link the course page each race's facts came from wherever you show them: in the assistant's answer, or next to the race in your app or on your site. Don't present TrailGoat's data as a race's official information. The endpoints and limits can change, and the developers page always has the current ones.
• Beyond that, no scraping, crawling or bulk-downloading the race catalog (course files, aid stations, cutoffs, course pages) with scripts or bots, and no republishing it as a dataset, a directory or another product, whether you collect it from the pages, the endpoints or the connector. Search engines that follow our robots.txt are fine, and race directors can embed their own course. Automated traffic over the limits gets slowed or blocked, and the course files we serve are marked so we can recognise a copy. Want the data for research or a race series? Ask.
• No false, paid-for or abusive reviews.
• No impersonating another runner, a race, or a race director.

We may hide or remove content, and close accounts, that break these. We'll say why when we do.

Everything TrailGoat calculates — pacing, fueling, hydration, arrival times, cutoff buffers, weather — is an estimate, and everything Capra, the AI coach, says is general guidance. None of it is medical advice, and none of it knows your body better than you and your doctor do.

Course data, cutoffs and aid stations come from race websites, GPX files and runners, and they can be wrong or out of date. When TrailGoat and the race's official sources disagree, the race wins. Read the race's own information before you toe the line.

TrailGoat is provided as-is. We work hard to keep it up and right, but we don't promise it will always be available, error-free, or suited to your particular race. Long races have long days, and no website replaces a crew chief with a printout.

To the extent the law allows, Capra, LLC's total liability to you for anything arising from the site is capped at what you paid us in the previous 12 months. Nothing here limits liability that can't be limited by law.

When these terms change, the date at the top changes with them. For anything material, you get an on-site notice before it takes effect. Keep using the site after that and the new terms apply.

You can stop using TrailGoat, and delete your account, whenever you like. We can close accounts that break these terms, and if we ever shut the service down we'll give notice first.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, USA. If a dispute can't be settled by email, which it almost always can, the courts of Georgia have jurisdiction.