Location-aware distributed sporting events

A computer-readable storage medium including non-transitory contents that, when executed, cause a computing system to facilitate a distributed sporting event, by performing a method comprising:

• aggregating a plurality of individual sporting activities into a distributed sporting event comprising a plurality of players that are each performing one of the individual sporting activities, that are each competing against one another by traveling over standard-distance tracks that are remotely located from one another, and that each have a corresponding client device, wherein the plurality of players are each competing against one another by traveling to obtain a lowest time to cross finish lines of the standard-distance tracks, by:
• receiving from each of the plurality of client devices information about a current location of the corresponding player;
• causing each of the plurality of client devices to graphically depict a virtual overlay of positions of at least some of the other players with respect to the corresponding player, such that the at least some players appear to be competing alongside the corresponding player, the depicted positions based on the current locations of the at least some of the players;
• and
• asserting a course to each of the plurality of players by causing each of the client devices to present instructions to the corresponding player to travel in a specified direction, thereby directing movements of the corresponding player relative to the distributed sporting event.

A system configured to facilitate a distributed sporting event, the system comprising:

• a memory;
• an event controller stored on the memory and configured, when executed, to aggregate a plurality of individual sporting activities into a distributed sporting event comprising a plurality of players that are each performing one of the individual sporting activities, that are each competing concurrently against one another by traveling over standard-distance tracks that are remotely located from one another, and that each have a corresponding client device, wherein the plurality of players are each competing against one another by traveling to obtain a lowest time to cross finish lines of the standard-distance tracks, by:
• receiving from each of the plurality of client devices information about a current location of the corresponding player;
• asserting a course to each of the plurality of players by causing each of the client devices to present instructions to the corresponding player to travel in a specified direction;
• and
• causing each of the plurality of client devices to present indications of positions of at least some of the other players with respect to the corresponding player, the indications of the positions presented upon a depiction of the asserted course.