Runner’s Lab HQ

Your training plan should know you skipped Tuesday.

Runner’s Logbook is a running coach for iPhone that plans around the runs you do, not the ones you meant to do. Coming soon to the App Store.

Runner's Logbook
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Built in the Lab

Runner’s Logbook

Miss a run. Add a walk. Move your race. Take an extra rest day. The plan responds to your life instead of treating your calendar as evidence.

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What happened

Miss a run.Add a walk. Take an extra rest day.
Runner's Logbook plan summary and first workout

What changes

The plan responds.It plans around your life instead of your calendar.

We have a few opinions

Running apps love a number.

A readiness score. A recovery score. A performance score. A score for the score.

Some of those numbers are useful.

Some are wearing a lab coat they did not earn.

Scheduled is not completed.

A workout does not count because somebody placed it on a calendar. Very encouraging. Also false.

Rest should not come with homework.

If today is a rest day, the app should not suggest an easy three-mile run two sentences later. Rest means rest.

Sometimes there is not enough data yet.

That is a valid answer. Better than turning three nights of sleep and one slow run into a dramatic announcement about your athletic future.

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About the Lab

We started with articles.Then we got tired of complaining about running apps and built one.

Runner’s Lab HQ is a small independent studio making useful things for runners. We write clearly, build carefully, and try not to confuse more data with more truth.

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