Name: ULTRA HUD - Ultra Trail Cutoff & Fuel Field
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Falkster

One full-screen field for ultra trail races from 50K to 200 miles. ULTRA HUD carries your own aid-station plan and keeps the number that decides your race on screen from the start to the finish: your minutes of margin at the next cutoff.

Free race planner, setup guide and FAQ: https://ultra.falkster.com

THE NEXT AID STATION, ALWAYS
• Its name, the distance and the climb left to it, from your plan.
• Minutes of margin at the next cutoff, big and colour-coded: green 30+, amber 10 to 30, red under 10.
• Cutoffs are leave-by times, so your planned stop counts. Clock, race-day (D3 14:00) or elapsed cutoffs; night cutoffs land on the next day by themselves.
• ETA at the next aid station and the finish, from effort: every 100 m of climb counts as 1 km, your last hour is blended with your race so far, aid stops are left out, and the rest of the race is slowed by a fade you set. Steady on climbs, where pace-based ETAs jump.

AID-STATION MODE
• Press LAP as you arrive: GPS distance snaps to the station's official distance, and the arrival summary shows your margin, the next leg and what to take.
• A stop timer against your planned minutes, and one "MOVE ON" nudge when they're up.
• Leave with: fluid and carbs for the next leg, worked out from its ETA.
• Forgot LAP? Nothing breaks: stations pass by distance and the next LAP corrects the distance.

FUEL LEDGER
• Set gel size and grams per hour: ULTRA HUD works out the interval (25 g at 60 g/h is every 25 minutes).
• Carbs taken against your plan, shown as grams behind. No prompts while you're stopped in an aid station.
• Drink prompts from your fluid per hour, optional salt prompts, heat mode.
• Carbs, fluid, cutoff margin and aid time are written to your activity file.

NIGHT AND BATTERY
• Sunset and sunrise times on the bottom line; brighter labels after dark; every prompt flashes the light.
• Will the battery last to your projected finish? If not, the bottom line turns red: charge at the next aid station.

120, 150 AND 200-MILERS
• Up to 60 aid stations, cutoffs days out, and a planned stop per station: a 3-hour sleep counts against the next cutoff and your finish.
• Far-off cutoffs and the finish show the weekday; the race clock runs past 100 hours.
• Watch died or saved on a low battery? A new activity carries the race on: same gun, stations, distance and fuel. LAP at the next aid station syncs it.

WARNINGS THAT MATTER
• A double buzz when the margin drops under 15 minutes, with the time to be at the aid station by.
• HR cap, battery and cutoff warnings are spaced out so they never stack up.

SET IT UP ONCE
1. Plan at ultra.falkster.com/planner: load the race GPX (distances and climb fill in) or type the aid stations and cutoffs from the athlete guide. Free, in your browser, nothing uploaded.
2. Paste the plan code into ULTRA HUD's settings in the Connect IQ app (two to five parts for most races) and set your fuel numbers.
3. Add ULTRA HUD as a one-field data screen to your Trail Run profile. Turn Auto Lap off, and enable ULTRA HUD under Alerts › Connect IQ for full-screen prompts.
4. Open the activity: the ready screen shows the distance, climb, aid stations and cutoffs it loaded.

No course needed on the watch: it works on every supported watch, including the Forerunner 255, 265 and 570. On watches with navigation it can also sync with your course's aid-station points by name.

Good to know
• A crash or "resume later" doesn't reset it: the race, stations passed and fuel ledger are saved.
• Estimates come from your plan and the watch's readings; your race's official cutoffs and rules always decide.
• Not affiliated with Garmin or any race.

One-time purchase. No subscription, no account, no internet permission.
Website and support: https://ultra.falkster.com