Weekly volume builders that respect the 10% rule, 5k-to-marathon equivalent pace maths, honest load and rest-day checks, season countdowns, team budgets, shoe-replacement timing and plain-spoken training guides β type your sports question and get a straight answer in seconds, with real numbers you can plan a week around. The full detailed report costs less than a coffee: $2.95.

Away games are where family sports budgets quietly leak. A single trip looks small, but a season of twelve 60-mile round trips is 720 miles of driving β and at the recent IRS-style rate of around 67 cents a mile, that is hundreds of dollars before a single toll, parking charge or tournament hotel. This calculator does the full-season maths properly: it takes the round-trip distance, the number of away games, a per-mile rate that includes fuel, wear, tyres and servicing, and the per-trip extras, then multiplies it across the whole fixture list. You get the per-trip cost, the season total and the season mileage β the figure that belongs next to registration fees in the family budget β plus the carpool maths that can cut the bill by roughly three quarters.
Work out what a season of away games really costs your family β round-trip miles at a realistic per-mile rate, plus tolls and parking, multiplied across the fixture list, with carpooling maths that cuts the bill.
Because fuel is only part of the real cost of driving. The IRS-style per-mile rate β around 65-70 cents in recent figures β includes fuel, wear, tyres and servicing, and it is the honest way to budget a season of travel rather than discovering the servicing bill in June.
Roughly 75% of the per-family driving cost: four families sharing one car to each away game divide the miles, the fuel and the parking one way instead of four. It also halves the driving time for each family.
Round trips beyond about 250-300 miles usually mean an overnight stay. Two or three such trips a season can cost more than the registration fee itself, so the calculator flags trips that long and reminds you to add a hotel line.
Every tool answers instantly from our own knowledge and calculators β no AI wait, no account. Honest maths and plain guidance, always educational and never medical: training is a long game of consistent, sensible weeks, and these tools exist to keep your plan realistic and your body in one piece β not to sell you a miracle programme. Results are estimates and reflections, not diagnoses or prescriptions, and nothing you type is stored. Want the deeper, personalised version? Each has a $2.95 full report.