Ccaucasus.run

About the project

caucasus.run is a race calendar, running clubs, tools and knowledge for runners in the Caucasus: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey. Marathons, half marathons, trail, parkrun, ultra, triathlon. Started in 2026, built in spare time, gradually expanding into other sports — cycling, swimming, skating, triathlon, padel, tennis, gym training, yoga.

What already works

Race calendarGeorgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey
Running clubsClub and community profiles
BlogStories and notes about running in the Caucasus
GlossarySports terms — running, trail, cycling, swimming, triathlon, gym, padel, nutrition
For runnersServices, specialists, recipes, products
Three languagesRussian, English, Georgian

Calculators

  • Race pace calculator — Kilometer-by-kilometer pace plan, strategy, finish time
  • Race time predictor — Predict 5K/10K/half/marathon from one known result
  • Splits calculator — Target time → per-km pace: even, negative, positive split
  • Heart rate zones — 5 zones via Tanaka/Gulati/Karvonen — what each does and feels like
  • Grade adjusted pace — Flat-equivalent pace for uphill/downhill running — built for Caucasus trails
  • VO2max and VDOT — Estimate VO2max from a race result, compare to norms
  • Pace & distance converter — min/km ↔ min/mile, km ↔ miles, speed ↔ pace
  • Running calories — Calories burned by weight, distance, pace and elevation gain
  • Calorie needs (BMR + TDEE) — Basal metabolism and daily target for loss/maintenance/gain
  • Macronutrients — Protein/fat/carbs by goal and weight, tuned for runners
  • Race nutrition & hydration — Gels, water and electrolytes to carry — heat-adjusted

An Android app is in development.

Databases and data sources

Some of the data on the site isn't ours — it comes from open databases. Their licenses require honest attribution, so here it is.

Public domain

Food and nutrition data

Source — USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy dataset: about 7,800 lab-measured foods, no brands or product names ("Bananas, raw", not "Chiquita Bananas 1kg"). U.S. federal government data, free of copyright. We used to run on Open Food Facts (a crowd-sourced barcode database), but it produced noisy results for photo-based food recognition — replaced it.

CC0 1.0

Part of the recipes

Kaggle "Recipes Dataset" (thedevastator/better-recipes-for-a-better-life), CC0 1.0 (public domain). Used as a working base for recipe nutrition calculations — the imported recipes themselves aren't published as standalone pages (that would be secondary English-language content). Public recipes on this site are Caucasian cuisine and original recipes, hand-picked.

Calorie estimates from photos

AI estimation, not an exact measurement. AI can't see how much oil is in the pan or how fatty the sour cream is, so photo-based food recognition carries a 20-50% margin of error. We show an honest range, not a made-up exact number.

Who's behind it

One person, built in spare time. Reach out via the Telegram channel: @caucasus_run.

How to help

Tell us about a race missing from the calendar. Share a good specialist's contact. Spotted an error — message us on Telegram. The project is early-stage, and any feedback helps.