MARATHON: Race Your Friends

Race a friend in another city, or the ghost of a run they already finished. Run or ride — one number tells you if you're ahead or behind.

MARATHON turns a run — or a ride — into a race.

Pick a friend, pick a distance, and go. You don't have to be in the same city, on the same street, or even out at the same time — a race here is distance and time, so Tokyo against Amsterdam works exactly as well as two people in the same park.

While you run, the screen answers one question: am I ahead or behind. One number, as big as the screen allows, with a lane underneath showing every runner in the race. No dashboard, no menus, nothing to read at 5:00 per kilometre.

RUN OR RIDE • Pick the sport before the race; everything else works the same • Cycling keeps its own records and its own boards, at 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 km — a bike would wipe out every running board otherwise • A pace for a run, a speed for a ride, and the right kind of workout in the Health app

RACE ANYONE • Live against friends, wherever they are • Against a ghost — a run someone already finished, replayed metre for metre • Against your own best time • Group races up to eight runners, with a six-character code

BUILT FOR RUNNING, NOT FOR SCROLLING • A dark race screen with four numbers and one button • Haptics on the wrist and in the hand when the lead changes — nothing to look at • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Works with the screen off and the phone in your pocket

RECORDS THAT MEAN SOMETHING • Your best 1K, 5K, 10K, half and marathon on foot, and 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 km on a bike — read out of any outing that went far enough, so the first five kilometres of a 10K count as a 5K • A board per distance with you and your friends on it, so a time stops being a private number • Lose a record to a friend and you hear about it

AFTER THE FINISH • Watch the race back on the same lane, and see exactly where it turned • Your route on a map, with elevation and splits • A feed of every run from you and your friends, with cheers and comments • Every run saved to the Health app

PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No advertising. No analytics companies. No third parties inside the app at all. Your route is never handed to anyone else — a friend racing your ghost gets the times you ran and no places. Delete your account from Settings and everything goes at once.

Sign in with Apple. That's the only account there is.

MARATHON PRO Racing, ghosts, records, boards and the feed are free and stay free. Pro adds hosting group races of up to eight runners, head-to-head history and race analysis, as a monthly or a yearly subscription. The price in your own currency is on the screen before you buy. Anyone can join a group race with a six-character code whether or not they pay.

Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and the account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. Manage or cancel it in Settings > your name > Subscriptions.

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