Your race sells out, the mud dries, and your athletes vanish until the next start line. The strength and conditioning that separates a finisher from a DNF happens in the off-season, but you have no way to see it, reward it, or keep your community warm. By race morning half your field is undertrained, and the only touchpoint you own is an email nobody opens.
- Racers train hard the two weeks before an event, then go dark for months, showing up to your obstacle course or trail underprepared and injury-prone.
- You have no visibility into off-season strength work, so you can't tell a conditioned field from one that's going to bottleneck at the first wall or climb.
- The community energy from race day evaporates by the following Monday, and you rebuild engagement from scratch for every single event.
- Free training plans and PDF challenges get downloaded and ignored, because nothing is on the line to make an athlete actually do the burpees, pullups, and step volume.
How Cadoo solves it
Put real stakes on off-season conditioning
Your racers bet their own money with training partners on hitting weekly pushup, squat, pullup, dip, situp, plank, and step goals. When cash is on the line, the grip-strength and core work that carries them over walls and up climbs actually gets done, on the days between your events when it matters most. You give athletes a reason to train that a free plan never could, and your event stays the thing they're training for.
Camera and step verification you can trust
Every rep is counted and form-scored by AI straight from the phone camera, so a claimed set of pullups is a real set of pullups, not a leaderboard fantasy. Daily step and distance volume reads directly from the athlete's health app. Nobody games their way to the top of your training board, which means the conditioning you see is conditioning that shows up on your course.
Leagues, leaderboards, and shareable wins that keep your field warm
Athletes climb leagues and battle up leaderboards through the whole off-season, so the competitive fire of race day never fully cools. Every verified effort becomes a shareable, skinned highlight clip your racers post to their own feeds, putting your event in front of exactly the trail and obstacle crowd you want at the next start line. Your community trains together, brags together, and comes back together.
Frequently asked questions
How does Cadoo help Adventure Races?
Cadoo keeps your athletes training in the months between events by turning conditioning into money-on-the-line games. Racers bet with training partners on verified pushup, squat, pullup, dip, situp, plank, and step goals, climb leagues and leaderboards, and share skinned highlight clips. You get a conditioned field, a community that stays warm year-round, and your event front-and-center in athletes' social feeds.
How do you stop athletes from faking their training numbers?
Reps are counted and form-scored by AI directly from the phone camera, so pushups, squats, situps, pullups, dips, and plank holds are verified movement, not self-reported claims. Daily steps read from the athlete's health app rather than the camera. Your training leaderboards reflect work that actually happened, which is why the conditioning translates to your course.
How do we set up Cadoo for our race?
Spin up a game for your athletes through the Cadoo Upside Hub, or email Tim@cadoo.io and we'll help you design an off-season training program built around your event.
Ready to launch a game for adventure and trail race organizers?
Set up a branded, camera-verified fitness game through the Cadoo Upside Hub, or talk to us and we’ll build it with you.