Run With Me Seoul · the app
A running leaderboard you could actually get on.
The leaderboards in the Run With Me Seoul app rank whole routes rather than segments, among the people who run your neighbourhood rather than everyone on earth. Alongside it sits a private, invite-only friends board: how much your friends have run, nothing about where.
Free. iOS and Android.
- Your loop
- not a segment, and not against professionals
- 0
- of your map, trace or start point a friend can see
- Every Monday
- the board resets and everyone starts level
How the boards work.
01
Join a loop anywhere. Run a point-to-point end to end.
On a loop you do not have to reach the official start. Join wherever you live and the app works out which way you went. A kilometre of warm-up before you reach the line counts as warm-up, not as your time. A point-to-point route you run end to end.
02
Finish, and your time gets checked before it counts.
Your track goes up and gets recomputed: how much of the route you actually covered. Your phone cannot post a time, which is what makes the board worth looking at.
03
Add a friend and watch the week instead.
Friends see each other's totals: how far, how many runs, how long, what pace. Never your map or where you started. Follow by handle or invite link.
What the boards rank.
- What is ranked
- Whole curated routes, each variant on its own board
- Windows
- All time, this week, and your own personal bests
- To qualify
- The whole route, start to finish, plus distance and pace checks
- The clock
- Total elapsed time from where you joined the route to where you left it
- Your name on the board
- A display name you pick. It does not have to be your own
- Friends board
- Distance, run count, time and pace over a week, 7 days, 30 days or all time
- What friends never see
- Your map, your GPS trace, or where a run started or ended
- Price
- Free
Who it is for.
You are never going to podium at a race.
Almost nobody is. A race leaderboard is a list of people you will never catch, twice a year. The board on the loop by your building is one you could be on this Saturday.
You and three friends are training for the same race.
Seeing that somebody did 20K on Thursday is a better coach than any plan. That is the whole mechanism.
You want the competition without the audience.
Pick a handle that is not your name, or turn the board off entirely and keep the run.
What it is not.
The board is not official and it is not timing.
No chip, no mat, no certificate. GPS on a phone against a course nobody closed the roads for. A good time on a route, not a result.
It is not segments.
Strava's segments are the fastest 800 metres of a hill. This is the whole route, including the crossing you wait at and the stairs you take because the elevator is slow.
The friends board is their own numbers, not a verified contest.
Route times are recomputed from your track. Friends' weekly totals are summed from what each person's app recorded, and nothing re-checks them against a trace. Treat them as what your friends have been up to.
How it fits with the rest of the app.
- Curated Seoul routes
Every board belongs to a route. A route somebody actually runs earns one.
- Run tracking
Every run on a board was measured the same way, which is the only reason comparing them means anything.
- The route builder
A route you drew for yourself has no public board, deliberately. A board on a course only you have run is not a board.
Questions.
How do I get on a board?
Run one of the routes, all of it. Your track gets checked after you finish, and the finish screen tells you whether you made it and which gate you missed. Where the line sits stays hidden: a number people can see is a number people run to.
Does waiting at a light ruin my time?
It costs you the same as it costs everyone else. Total elapsed time, on purpose: a route in Seoul is not a closed course.
Can somebody win by skipping the hard bit?
No. Ranking is pace over the ground you actually covered, not raw time, so cutting a corner buys nothing: the shorter run is measured against the shorter distance. Short of the whole route, nothing counts at all.
What do my friends see?
How far you ran, how many runs, how long you were out and your pace, over the window they pick. Never your map, your trace, or where a run started.
Compete on the loop by your building.
Route boards and a private friends board, in the app, free, on iOS and Android.
The rest of the app.
- Curated Seoul routes64 routes, offline, turn by turn
- The route builderDraw a line, it snaps to runner paths
- Water, toilets and stores7,274 places on the map, no signal needed
- GPS run trackingRecords offline, follows your route, GPX in and out
- The running weather scoreOne number for whether to run right now
- The Korea race calendar400+ races, with an alarm before entries open