Clara and I wanted to share some information about the state of women's coverage in our Tour Tracker Pro Cycling app. This is a topic we discuss every season, and a topic our users ask about often.
To start, let us say that we do care about women's cycling and have provided coverage of the women's peloton in some form for the last 10 years. That has included providing free custom apps for women's races, providing an app for Tour de France Femmes in select countries, and when possible including coverage within our main app. We have both have close friends who race, and Clara is past US national champion cyclist.
The challenge, however, is resources. Tour Tracker is just Clara and me. I do the development. She covers the races. And while I can do my part in adding more races to the calendar, ultimately Clara is just one reporter working crazy hours to cover the races we can. And even if she could duplicate herself, as mentioned in a previous blog entry, getting the detailed data our apps need has proven impossible for most women's races.
For 2025 we thought we had an ideal solution and have been working on it since the middle of last year. Specifically, we agreed to build a dedicated women's app for a group that intended to cover the entire women's season. We were doing this at no charge, and the app was looking great. But in December they backed out and we were left with a beautiful app with no data.
So for this year we are going back to what we have been doing for the past 4 years and covering the races that provide good data and for which Clara is available. We know this isn't the answer people want to hear, but it is the best we can achieve with our very limited resources. We will continue to look for partners who want to use our platform, however.
Thanks for reading this and thanks for your support.
Allan & Clara
