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Volunteer operations for endurance events
Purpose-built for endurance eventsPlan, recruit, schedule, brief and track volunteers across race weekend — from 5Ks and marathons to sportives, trail ultras and triathlons. From signup to start line to finish chute.
No volunteer accounts required · Mobile-first signup
From course to briefed marshals
01
Map
Aid Station 2
6 / 6
Creek Crossing
3 / 4
Finish Chute
8 / 10
02
Assign
Sarah K · Marshal
James O · Marshal
Priya N · Marshal
03
Brief
Brief
Timing
Contact
Brief
Sections
Trusted by race organisers
“I am a huge fan of the insights dashboard — it's awesome to see everything visually. Everything has worked awesome and signups are coming in steadily with 0 dramas, so we are very happy!”
Zac · Race Director, Sydney Backyard Ultra
Volunteer coordination breaks down when race weekend gets real.
Endurance events rely on dozens — sometimes hundreds — of volunteers spread across aid stations, junctions, transitions and finish lines. Generic tools weren't built for that.
Spreadsheet sprawl
Rosters, waivers and contact lists scattered across tabs nobody trusts by race week.
Group-chat chaos
Last-minute changes buried in email chains and WhatsApp threads that half the team never sees.
Race-morning gaps
No-shows and unmanned points discovered when the first athletes are already on course.
Coming from a spreadsheet?
It's your volunteer
spreadsheet.
Just better.
Nothing to relearn. Paste your rows in and carry on working in a grid — mrshl just adds the columns a sheet was never going to give you: a mapped course, briefs that write themselves, and a live picture of race morning.
Bring your sheet acrossOne platform for every volunteer touchpoint
From first signup to final check-out — publish opportunities, collect the right information, assign shifts, message the right people, and see what's covered before the first athlete arrives.
See it in 8 animated stepsBranded volunteer signup
Publish a shareable, mobile-first signup page in your event's colours. Volunteers pick a role, shift and location in under a minute — no account needed. Every field is yours to rename, reorder, require or hide.
Roles, shifts & course zones
Build staffing around the actual course: aid stations, marshal points, transitions, registration desks and finish crews — with headcount targets per shift.
Waivers & data capture
Custom waivers signed at signup with a stored snapshot, plus role-specific questions for skills, certifications and availability.
Targeted communications
Segment by role, point or shift and send race-day instructions, parking details and last-minute changes to exactly the right people.
Team & section leads
WhatsApp group links per point, section-leader roles and shift-partner visibility so distributed teams know who's beside them.
Race-day check-in
Check volunteers in fast, see who's arrived and who hasn't, and spot unmanned points before they become race-day problems.
Reporting & insights
Coverage by role and zone, open-shift alerts, repeat-volunteer tracking and one-click CSV exports for your records.
Auto-generated marshal briefs
Every volunteer gets a personalised, printable brief: their point on the map, timings, ETAs, contacts and what3words location.
Your volunteer pool, year after year
Everyone who signs up joins your own private pool. Next season, open the new event and tick the people you want back — no starting from an empty roster.
Lanyard cards for race day
Print the full brief for the night before, then compact credit-card-sized lanyard cards — position, shift, release condition and emergency numbers — to hand out at check-in.
Bulk course import
Paste a Google My Maps link or upload a CSV, GPX or list of what3words addresses and your whole course lands at once, classified and pre-loaded with your default shifts.
Waitlists that fill the gaps
Full shifts never turn anyone away — volunteers join a waitlist, and when someone drops out mrshl surfaces the queue with the WhatsApp offer ready to send.
A race-ops copilotbuilt into mrshl
Ask it anything about your event. It spots what's missing, does the work when you tap Fix, and every job it runs can be undone.
Which points have nobody on them?
6 points unstaffed. I've drafted shifts for all of them from your event defaults.
Just shipped
Every sign-up question is now yours to shape
Rename, reorder, require or switch off every built-in field — last name compulsory, email optional, emergency contact off — and add your own questions alongside. The public form follows your layout exactly, so volunteers only ever see what you actually need.
Tell volunteers what each shift really involves
Give any shift its own one-line description — 'Tailwalk the 100-mile yard' — shown right in the sign-up box, with shared blurbs shown once per position. A calm 'what happens next' note at the foot of the form tells volunteers exactly what they'll receive, so more of them hit submit.
A whole run club signs up in one go
One person names their club, adds their club mates inline, and the group arrives as a single sign-up. Club chips follow them across the roster and your volunteer pool, and Assign a run club drops the club's available members straight into a shift's open slots.
The same brief, perfect on paper and on a phone
Marshal briefs still print as crisp A4 PDFs, but on a phone they now reflow into a clean single column — map, timings, contacts and WhatsApp link all thumb-scrollable at 6am in a field with one bar of signal.
A look inside the back office
No smoke and mirrors — this is the organiser dashboard you'll actually use, shown here with demo data from a fictional trail weekend. Course map, roster and comms, all in one place.
148
Volunteers signed up
92%
Shifts filled
27/29
Points covered
148
Briefs generated
Drop a pin to add a course point
Map the course — Drop pins for every junction, aid station and crossing.
Course Map — Ridgeline Ultra 50K
GPX loadedRoster — Race Weekend
CSV exportSarah Kelly
AS2 — Ridge Top
06:00–11:00
Checked inJames Okafor
Marshal — Creek Crossing
06:30–12:30
BriefedPriya Nair
Finish Chute
09:00–15:00
ConfirmedTom Hughes
Transition — Bike Racking
05:30–09:30
AppliedMei Lin
AS1 — River Gate
07:00–13:00
BriefedComms Centre — Targeted Message
12 recipientsMorning team — parking has moved to the village hall (what3words: ///filled.count.soap). Please be at your point by 06:15. Your brief and WhatsApp group link are in your confirmation. See you out there!
Send to segmentKnow your coverage in real time
Check volunteers in fast, see who's on site, and spot gaps before they become race-day problems. For events spread across routes, venues and stations, live visibility is the difference between calm and chaos.
- Live check-in feed as marshals arrive at their points
- Unmanned-point and understaffed-shift alerts on the dashboard
- Emergency contacts, radio channels and what3words on every brief
Race-Day Check-In
Sarah K
Aid Station 2
James O
Marshal — Creek Crossing
Priya N
Finish Chute
Tom H
Transition — Bike Racking
Make volunteering easier to say yes to
A simple mobile signup, clear shift details and a proper brief improve volunteer confidence — and turnout — on race morning.
Open the link
Volunteers tap your branded signup link from social, email or your event site — no app, no account.
Pick a shift
They choose a role, location and time that fits — or opt in to any shift and let you allocate them.
Sign the waiver
Your custom waiver and role-specific questions, completed in the same two-minute flow.
Get their brief
A personalised marshal brief with their point on the map, timings, ETAs, contacts and team group link.
Volunteer emails
Your volunteers hear from you
without you writing a thing
mrshl emails every volunteer at the right moment, from your event's own branding, with their position, shift and brief filled in. Edit the wording once, switch any stage off, and it runs itself.
- 1
On sign-up
Thanks for volunteering
Their position, shift and brief link, sent the moment they register.
- 2
4 weeks out
Can you still make it?
A confirmation prompt so drop-outs surface early, not on race morning.
- 3
10 days out
Everything for the day
Arrival time, where to report, parking, road closures and the race guide.
- 4
Day after
Thank you
A personal thank-you, with a free-entry code for individual volunteers.
Broadcast to any group
Filter by point, role, status or form answer and email just those people, from your own event branding.
Your own discount codes
Upload a list of codes from any registration platform and every volunteer gets their own unique code in their thank-you email.
Usage you can see
Every send counted per event, with the running cost, so there's never a surprise on your bill.
See mrshl in action
Book a walkthrough with the team, or join the waitlist and we'll be in touch.