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Slightly unhinged.
Very well organized.

We design races for people to run, and we build software to manage those races. If any of that sounds useful, cool. If not, no hard feelings — the internet is a big place.

Tabs we haven’t closed
Battle for Hastings The Mess series Love Trails 2026
So what is this place

Creative races. Software that doesn’t suck. A perfect union

A lot of events feel like they were designed by the same tired template — generic voice, forgettable course, back office held together with prayer. We got grumpy about that. Stash is basically us doing something about it.

Half of us is Stash Events — stuff we run, co-build, or loudly endorse. The other half is Stash Studio, software for organizers who’d rather have one sane stack than seventeen logins. Same taste bar; you can engage with one side, both, or zero. We’ll cope.

Unlike your parents.

Photograph from a Stash event — runners together after the race.
For runners

Stash Events

The fun half — races we make, help make, or stan from the sidelines. Show up if the course looks interesting; skip it if you’d rather sleep in. Zero guilt either way.

  • Road, trail, city mass starts — relay legs long enough to make van friends.
  • Through-lines you feel on the course, not just on the entry page.
  • Big energy when the idea calls for it; quiet trails when the landscape should lead.
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For organizers

Stash Studio

The grown-up bit: tooling for organizers who need start lists, emails, and race-day panic to live somewhere that isn’t seventeen browser tabs. We use it ourselves; you’re welcome to kick the tires.

  • Registration, ticketing, and entrants in one system
  • Email and automations from entries through race week
  • Check-in, ops, volunteers, results, and timing in one workflow
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Current & upcoming

Stuff we’re actually doing

Flagship Upcoming

Battle for Hastings

Team relay, slightly unhinged story stakes, production that tries to keep up with the route. Entry and nerdy detail live on the Hastings site — we’re not pasting a novel here.

Series Ongoing

The Mess

A series we help with — smaller crowds, no fake hype, plenty of “why did I sign up for this” miles in the best way. Not your anonymous mass start.

Festival 2026

Love Trails

We’re organizing an event at Love Trails in 2026. More details are coming soon, but it’s real and in motion.

Where we’re showing up

We're not global (yet)

UK is home.
New York is happening.
The rest is… in progress.

We’re not in a rush — but we are quietly taking over.

If you want to know where we land next, you’ll want to be paying attention.

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London · NYC on the map — spin the globe to explore.

Opinions we’ll defend over a beer

Things we keep saying

01

Weird beats wallpaper

If your race could be anyone’s race, that’s a choice — just not one we’re excited to copy.

02

Ops are not “backstage, who cares”

Check-in, comms, and volunteers who’ve actually been briefed matter as much as whatever’s on the medal.

03

Brand isn’t a one-off poster

First Instagram post to last “thanks for coming” email — it should feel like the same people, not three different agencies.

04

Headcount isn’t a personality

We’ll take a smaller field that shows up again over a thousand anonymous bibs and a hangover.

05

Software should shrink your to-do list

If a tool needs a manual the size of a phone book, it’s not “powerful,” it’s homework. Pass.

The software bit

Stash Studio — for when your duct tape budget hits six figures.

Reg, emails, race-week chaos — one roof. We dogfood it on our own events and offer it to directors who want a baseline that doesn’t require a CS degree. Same Stash ethos; not a secret spin-off with a worse logo.