Running Log
free
A training diary with an honest read-out — it shows what you actually ran, including the parts coaching theory would frown at.
Before you start
This app locks nothing and judges no one. It calculates and it shows — whether you run stays your decision. That is precisely why this stands here: it lists what the app cannot take off your hands.
- Do not run through pain. Runner's knee, shin splints and Achilles trouble announce themselves, and taking the announcement seriously costs you a week instead of three months. The app carries its own knowledge cards on this, but it cannot stop you.
- With cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, recent surgery, during pregnancy or shortly after birth, and when returning after a longer break, get medical advice first. Endurance load asks a lot of the heart even when it feels easy.
- Increase your weekly volume slowly. Tendons, bones and connective tissue adapt considerably more slowly than heart and muscle — fitness runs ahead of resilience. The app shows you the jump from week to week, but it does not cap it.
- Off-road has its own rules. Tell someone where you are going and when you mean to be back, take a charged phone and expect the weather to turn. This app works offline, but it is neither a map nor a navigation device — it does not know where you are.
- For children and adolescents, volume belongs in the hands of a coach; the stages in this app are calculated for adults.
- This app is no substitute for medical advice or for guidance from a coach.
No sign-up. No ads. No tracking. If you like, you can support the project voluntarily.
What is it?
It does not measure, it calculates. The app records nothing and wants no GPS: runs go in by hand or from a GPX or TCX file off your watch. What it makes of them is the read-out — and the read-out flatters nothing.
Elevation counts as load, not as decoration. A kilometre stays a kilometre; every hundred metres of ascent adds another one. An eight-kilometre mountain run with seven hundred metres of climbing therefore weighs more than a flat ten — in almost every other app it weighs less.
Ascent and descent are kept apart. Uphill costs breath, downhill costs tissue. Most apps throw both into one number; here they stay two.
The share of genuinely easy minutes comes from the talk test: could you have spoken in full sentences? That needs no watch and no chest strap, and it exposes the most common training mistake — running the easy days too fast.
Alongside it runs a martial-arts strand with eighteen disciplines and their round formats, from karate kumite through boxing to newaza. Mat training counts as a session but enters with zero load kilometres.
How it works
- On first start, set language, goal and any complaints that should be taken into account. None of it locks anything — it only colours the notes.
- Log runs: date, duration, kilometres, metres up and down, type. Or drop in a GPX or TCX file and confirm the preview.
- For hard sessions, answer the talk test — it decides what counts as easy.
- Look at Progress: weekly volume, load kilometres, elevation kept apart, the easy share and the plateau line of your stage.
- To prepare a session, build it in the workshop from seventeen templates and let the player call it out — on the track or on the mat.
Who is it for?
For anyone who runs regularly and wants to know what they actually did — not what a plan would have prescribed.
Especially for anyone who runs off-road: an app that treats elevation as a decorative number talks every flat run up against a mountain run.
And for martial artists whose week is made of running and mat training and who want to see both in one overview.
What you get
- Run typesseven, from steady runs through intervals and trail to the mat
- Stageseleven — seven on the flat ladder, three off-road, one for martial arts
- Disciplineseighteen, each with its own round format
- Session templatesseventeen in four groups: classic, tempo, trail, martial arts
- Knowledge cardsseven, from injuries to safety off-road
- File importGPX and TCX, with a preview before anything is taken over
- LanguagesGerman, English, Italian
What it deliberately does not do
It locks nothing. There is no button that refuses, no session that is turned away and no training section behind a questionnaire. If you ran, you must be able to log it — an app that prevents that only teaches people to leave out the awkward sessions. It therefore names the dangers as content: seven knowledge cards on runner's knee, shin splints and the Achilles tendon, the rule of thumb for weekly volume, descending technique and safety off-road.
Also not built in: GPS recording, maps and route traces, FIT files, a social feed, weather, calories, shopping advice, accounts and syncing between devices.
What is still missing
The chart does not know the elevation condition of the stages: the plateau line under Progress shows load kilometres only. If you run off-road you can therefore be on the line and still not have reached the stage.
The round formats of the disciplines and the fight times of the ju-jitsu systems come from general knowledge, not from verified rule books. They are built as presets and can be changed.
Privacy and technology
Runs entirely in your browser. Your progress stays on your device and is sent nowhere — no account, no sign-up, no ads, no tracking. The share menu puts the app on your home screen; after that it works without an internet connection as well.
Because nothing sits on a server, nothing can be fetched back from one: clear your browser data and your progress is gone. That is why More offers Create backup — a file you can keep and load again, on another device too.
Common questions
Why do you convert elevation into kilometres?
Because otherwise the hills would be the quiet back door. Eight kilometres with seven hundred metres of climbing would count as less training than a flat ten, and every weekly overview would be wrong. A hundred metres of ascent therefore count as one kilometre. Descent does not enter — it stands as its own number beside it.
Does the app need a running watch?
No. It measures nothing itself and demands nothing. If you have a watch, drop in its GPX or TCX file and confirm the preview; if you do not, enter duration and distance by hand. The share of easy minutes comes from the talk test, not from a heart-rate strap.
What is the talk test?
The question of whether you could have spoken in full sentences during the session. It is the oldest and most robust measure of easy running and needs no device. From it the app works out the share of genuinely easy minutes in your week — the number most training plans come to grief on.
Is my route sent anywhere?
No. From a GPX or TCX file the app reads duration, distance and elevation; the route itself is neither stored nor sent anywhere. The app has no server, no account and no map.
Can I log a run from weeks ago?
Yes. Logging is never blocked, and the history only grows. Only a date in the future is refused — it would disguise a real break in training.
What happens to my progress if I clear my browser?
It is gone — there is no server to fetch it back from. Safari clears a website's storage after seven days without a visit anyway. That is why every app here has Create backup: keep the file, load it again later, on another device if you like.
Log a runSomething missing? Something wrong?
If you notice anything — a mistake, a suggestion, or a tool that is not here yet — write to me. I am glad about every message, though I cannot always reply straight away.
Support
This app is free and stays free. If it has been useful to you, a voluntary contribution helps build the next one.
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