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Running challenges where effort beats mileage.

FrontRunner turns your runs into fair monthly challenges, live leaderboards and weekly ranked leagues - scored on effort, not distance. So anyone can win, not just the runner with the most miles.

Bring runs from Garmin or Strava exports, a GPX, TCX or CSV file, or log by hand. Garmin auto-sync coming soon. No app to install.

On a leaderboard in under a minute.

No new tracker to learn, and no friends needed to start. FrontRunner is where you compete, not where you log.

  1. Bring your runs

    Import your history from Garmin or Strava exports, or a GPX, TCX or CSV file. Or log a run by hand.

  2. Join the challenge

    You're straight onto this month's leaderboard and matched into a weekly pack of runners like you.

  3. Compete

    Climb the ladder, duel your rivals and earn a place in the Hall of Fame. Effort beats mileage, every time.

Top fifth go up every Monday

A gutsy 5K can beat an easy 10K.

Most leaderboards reward whoever has the most free time. FrontRunner scores in Strides: your distance, weighted by how hard you ran compared with your own usual pace.

Run harder than usual and every kilometre counts for more, up to 1.5x. Ease off and it counts for less, down to 0.7x. Faster runners get no head start.

Strides=km×your usual pace ÷ this run's pace

Same week, two runners

Illustrative
Easy jogUsual 7:00 /kmFlat out
Alex - a gutsy 5KUsually runs 7:00 /km. Today: 4:40 /km.
1.5x
Distance5.0 kmStrides7.5
Sam - an easy 10KUsually runs 5:00 /km. Today: 7:15 /km.
0.7x
Distance10.0 kmStrides7.0
Alex ran half the distance and still scores more.

Effort is capped between 0.7x and 1.5x so no single run can run away with it.

A ranked ladder for running.

Monthly challenges, weekly leagues and head-to-head duels, all scored fairly. Something to race for every week of the year.

Weekly ranked leagues

Every Monday you're matched into a pack of similar runners. Finish in the top fifth and you're promoted up an eight-tier ladder. A new race starts every week, so there's always a reason to get out the door.

  • Packs of runners at your level, not the whole internet
  • Promotion every week for the top fifth
  • Competing from week one, no friends required
Two runners side by side on an embankment at sunset

Head-to-head duels

Call out a rival over a distance, a time-trial or a streak, and settle once and for all who's faster. Every duel is scored on effort, so it's a fair fight whatever your pace.

Groups and private leagues

Start a group, share an invite link, and run your own challenges and a private weekly ladder with friends, colleagues or your running club.

  • Distance
  • Runs
  • Elevation
  • Streaks
  • Time-trial
  • Team goals

Kudos, reactions and a feed

Cheer each other on with kudos, reactions and comments on a shared feed of everyone's runs. Live leaderboards reshuffle the moment a run lands.

Run somewhere famous.

Pool your group's kilometres to walk the South West Coast Path, Hadrian's Wall or the Coast to Coast, or race each other up Everest one metre of climb at a time. Every run moves you along a real route.

  • Hadrian's Wall Path
  • Coast to Coast
  • Camino de Santiago
  • Route 66
  • National Three Peaks
  • Kilimanjaro
  • Mont Blanc

Any group can set a route challenge. Live tracking on the map and elevation races are part of Pro.

Free to play. Pro to go further.

The core game is free forever. Pro adds a coach, deeper analytics and more ways to compete.

Free

£0forever

Everything you need to compete.

  • Monthly challenge and live leaderboards
  • Weekly ranked league and duels
  • Groups, feed, kudos and comments
  • Manual logging and file upload
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Pro

£1.99a month

7-day free trial. Cancel any time.

  • AI coach that reads your recent training
  • All-time history, heart-rate insights and a heatmap
  • Race predictor and personal bests
  • Custom challenges, multiple and private leagues
  • The full route map
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Ready to line up?

The next pack starts Monday. Import your runs, join a challenge, and you'll be racing your pack this week.

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