A running manager game

Trail Dynasty is an online sports management game about endurance running: trail, ultra-trail, vertical kilometer and backyard ultra. You don't run yourself: you manage a team of runners, the way a football manager runs a club.

What a running manager does

Every runner has their own strengths (endurance, climbing, descending, speed, technique, mental, recovery) and a hidden potential. Your job is to get the best out of them over a whole season.

Plan the weekly training: session type and intensity, while watching fatigue and injuries.
Pick races from the calendar and enter the right runners.
Build the race plan: pace on climbs and descents, aid station stops, sleep, headlamp, nutrition.
Manage the money: sponsors, wages, prize money, entry fees and travel costs.
Recruit: transfer market with auctions between teams, youth academy, staff (coach, physio, nutritionist).

Real races, on their real dates

The game calendar follows the real one: Templiers, UTMB, Diagonale des Fous, Western States, Lavaredo, the backyard world championships and many more, on their real date and start time. Runners are fictional and results are the game's own.

Each race is played live over its real duration: an hour for a vertical kilometer, a night and a day for an ultra. During the race, you can change your runners' orders.

Why trail running and not sprinting

Over 100 meters, a manager has little to decide. Over 170 km, everything matters: the starting pace, the night, the weather, the aid stations, the fatigue that builds up. That is where a good plan wins places.