Distance competitions are iPhone only. The Android app can’t create one and doesn’t show distance results or the sharing options on this page.
How a day scores
Each day scores 1 point per meter covered in recorded workouts that day, rounded to whole meters. There’s no daily cap. The leaderboard adds up every day in the competition.
- Only recorded workouts count. Everyday walking around the house doesn’t add distance. Start a workout on your watch, phone, or fitness app so the distance is saved as a workout.
- The host picks which workouts count: Runs (outdoor, trail, and treadmill runs) or Runs and walks (runs plus walks, hikes, and treadmill workouts). Cycling and swimming don’t count.
- A workout saved by two apps counts once. When workouts overlap in time, such as a watch run that also lands in Strava, only the longest one counts. Workouts that only touch end to start count separately.
- Steps and workouts typed in by hand never count.
Example: you record a 5 km run in the morning and a 2 km walk in the evening, in a Runs and walks competition. That day scores 7,000 points. In a Runs competition, it scores 5,000.
Create a Distance competition
- Tap +, then New competition, and choose Distance on the scoring step.
- On Set the distance rule, answer Which workouts count? with Runs or Runs and walks.
- Choose an optional target (see below).
- Under What does the leaderboard show?, choose Miles or Kilometers (whichever matches your units setting) or Points. This only changes how the leaderboard looks. Points are meters either way, and each person sees distances in their own units.
- Finish the wizard and tap Create competition.
A competition can’t be switched to Distance later, and the host can’t ask the group to change scoring to Distance. Its rules can only be set when it’s created.
The target to qualify
Set a target to qualify is on by default. It never changes points: the leaderboard still ranks by distance. It adds a pass or fail for each person. Turn it off for a plain race where most distance wins.
The host sets:
- The distance, in whole miles or kilometers (1 to 300).
- How do people reach it? In total adds up all counting workouts. In one go needs a single workout that long.
- How often? Every day, Every week, or Overall (once across the whole competition).
With Every week, each full 7 days from the start date is one week. Leftover days after the last full week don’t need their own target. Missing any finished day or week means that person doesn’t qualify for that round. On a repeating competition, the target is checked every round.
Example: a 4-week competition with “3 miles, In total, Every week” needs 3 miles of counting workouts in each of the 4 weeks.
Your progress
On the competition screen, the This cycle’s target card shows the rule (for example, “Cover 3 mi every week to qualify.”), your own total and longest workout, how many days or weeks you’ve hit, and how many people are on track or have qualified. It shows only your own numbers, plus counts for the group.
Share your results with the organizer
The person who created a Distance competition can export a spreadsheet of results, but only for people who agree.
As a participant: on the Distance card, turn on Share my results with the organizer. It lets the organizer export your weekly distance and pass or fail for this competition only. It’s off by default, and you can turn it off any time. The next export leaves you out.
As the organizer: tap Export results on the Distance card. You get a CSV spreadsheet with one row per person per round: name, username, round dates, points, distance in miles and kilometers, longest single workout, and pass or fail when there’s a target. People who didn’t turn on sharing aren’t in the file. Names follow the same privacy rules as the leaderboard, so a hidden name stays blank.
