Not sure which desert race should come next?
The assessment helps you find one sensible next race — based on your current experience, timeline, appetite for self-sufficiency, and real-world constraints.
Choosing the wrong next race wastes time, entry fees, and preparation months. This tool gives you a clear, specific recommendation — not a generic suggestion — so your next step actually builds toward where you want to go.
What you will come away with
A specific, reasoned recommendation — not a generic list. The tool accounts for your experience, your constraints, and what the next step actually needs to achieve for you.
Your best next desert race
One clear recommendation — the race that makes the most sense for where you are now. Plus a couple of alternatives if your situation is less clear-cut.
Why that race suits you
Not just a name and a distance. The result explains which gaps this race addresses, what it will develop, and why it fits your experience level and constraints.
What it does and does not prepare you for
Honest assessment of what this race closes and what it leaves open. So you know exactly what the next step after it looks like.
Why getting the next race right matters
The wrong next race is an expensive mistake.
Entry fees, flights, accommodation, kit, and months of training — desert races are costly to enter and costly to prepare for. Choosing a race that is too advanced, too easy, or simply the wrong format wastes all of that and can undermine confidence at the worst moment.
Not every desert race builds the same skills.
A single-day desert marathon develops heat tolerance and desert running economy. A five-day self-sufficient stage race develops pack carrying, consecutive fatigue, and bivouac logistics. These are different things. The right next step depends on which gaps you actually need to close.
There is a big difference between one next race and a full roadmap.
This tool is for people who want one clear next step — not a five-year plan. If you have a longer-term goal like MDS and want to map the full progression, that is what the roadmap tool is for.
How the assessment works
5–10 minutes
Quick questions about your experience, fitness, schedule, and what you are looking for. No long forms.
Specific recommendation
Not a generic shortlist. One primary recommendation, with clear reasoning, based on your actual situation.
Results by email
Enter your name and email. Your personalised race recommendation comes straight to your inbox.
Accounts for your constraints
Timeline, location, self-sufficiency appetite, experience level, training availability — the result accounts for the real situation, not the ideal one.
Desert-race specific
Built for desert racing specifically — not general endurance sport. The recommendations come from coaches who understand what each desert race actually demands.
Coach consultation option
Want to talk through the results or what comes after? You can book a call with our coaches after receiving your recommendation.
What happens after
Plan your own preparation
Use the race recommendation to enter the right event and plan your own training. You know the race, you know why it fits, and you have a clear sense of what it is building toward.
Get a race-specific plan or coaching
Once you know which race comes next, we can provide a structured training plan for it — either a fixed race plan from £79, or full personalised coaching from £150/month. Choose your commitment level at intake.
If you are thinking further ahead and want to map the full route to a longer-term goal:
Build Your Desert Race Roadmap →This tool is for you if:
You are new to desert racing
You want to know which event makes sense as a first step — something that is achievable, meaningful, and sets you up well for whatever comes next.
You are choosing between options
You have seen a few events and want an honest read on which one actually fits your current level and goals.
You want one clear next step
Not a five-year plan. Just the right next race — with a reason why it makes sense for where you are now.
Find your next desert race
Five to ten minutes. Tell us where you are and what you are looking for — we will recommend the race that makes the most sense for your next step.
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