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Every run is a story. Pick a distance, pick a plot, and run into it. Outrun zombies, follow a coach, build your own course, or scan into your next race.

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Choose your run

One app. Every kind of run.

Pick an experience before you head out — or make your own. Every mode reacts to your pace, distance, and the events on your route.

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Story runs

Audio novels you run through. An epic, a thriller, a book — total immersion that unfolds chapter by chapter, kilometre by kilometre.

02

Outrun the zombies

The horde reacts to your pace. Speed up when they close in, hold your line, and survive the overpass. Distance becomes drama.

03

Coaches & interactive audio

Get 5K or 10K ready with a pacer that gets quicker each week, spoken cues, and a final run at your target pace.

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Build your own course

Set the distance, pick a plot, choose a pacer, and drop your fueling stops. Your route, your adventure — saved and repeatable.

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Find & scan a race

Discover your next event, scan the code, and join the curated narrative — the stops, the traditions, the history along the course.

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Fuel, reminders & friends

Set fueling stops and reminders, then compare where your friends are on the same course in real time.

Running stories

Run into the plot.

Each story is an audio novel paced by your run. The faster you go, the deeper you get.

Survive the Zombies story cover
In progress

Survive the Zombies

12 episodes · Horror

The Courier story cover
New

The Courier

6 episodes · Thriller

The Long Way Home story cover
Story

The Long Way Home

8 episodes · Drama

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Story

Against the Storm

5 episodes · Endurance

Race packs

Download the course.
Run the tradition.

Free packs for the world's known marathons and shorter races. Load one from the organizer, a sponsor, or the community — then run it as a companion or an adventure.

Chicago Marathon course map with fueling and landmark stops
Featured
Scan at the expo
SponsorFree

Chicago Marathon

Chicago, IL

A narrated tour of all 29 neighborhoods — the Willis Tower stretch, the bridges over the river, and the final Roosevelt climb into Grant Park. Fueling plan and cheer zones called out live.

Distance
42.2 KM
Elevation
+58 m
Aid
20

More packs · Available now

5 courses
++And many moreFull catalog in the app
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Find your race

Browse curated marathons and shorter events, and preview the full course before race day.

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Load or scan the pack

Download packs from sponsors and organizers, grab free community packs, or scan the QR at the expo.

03

Run it your way

Get a personal companion for the real course, or turn the same route into an adventure.

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Lace up. Choose the run.

Your next kilometre is the start of a story. Download CTR and pick your plot.

50K+

Runners

120+

Stories

1.2M

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