Help me do what I came to do

Choose The Run can be a simple run recorder. You do not need to choose a story, book, race, route or companion before you move.

A walk or ride can be saved like a run. Whether it scores in a particular challenge depends on that challenge's rules, which are shown before you join.

This keeps the activity in your personal history without choosing a challenge. It is the simplest choice when you only want a record of what you did.

The phone needs a clear enough GPS signal to measure where you went. Traffic, weather, terrain, and local rules always matter more than points or territory.

Use Pause for a short interruption. Use Finish only when the whole activity is over. Read the visible state before tapping while you are moving.

Choose The Run saves a completed activity on the device before trying the internet. A failed upload should not erase the run; it moves to the waiting-to-sync list instead.

GPS and the internet are different. Your phone can often record GPS in a dead zone even when it cannot upload. Maps or online details may be limited until a connection returns.

Choose The Run keeps the screen awake during recording because background location is not dependable in every build and permission setup. You can lower screen brightness if that is safe and comfortable.

Tall buildings, heavy tree cover, tunnels, battery restrictions, and starting indoors can make phone GPS jump or arrive late.

Choose The Run can surface an unfinished local recording so you can recover it or discard it. Discard only when you are sure you do not need those unsaved GPS points.

Choose The Run retries when the app opens and when the network becomes reachable. You can also ask it to try now. Do not delete the local item while you still want the run.

A waiting-to-sync run has not reached the server yet. Keep it unless you intentionally want to throw it away, and read the confirmation carefully.

A shared post shows your story, figures, and any claimed area - never the line you traveled. But each run you record with GPS also saves a route: the exact line, including where it starts, often your own door. That route is private until you choose Friends or Public on the route itself, and sharing the route publishes the line. Still avoid putting sensitive details in photos or captions.

The dot is coarse, not your route. The first two minutes are hidden, and the dot disappears when recording stops. You choose Friends or Challenge as the audience and choose how approximate the dot is.

There is no separate post: the feed shows saved runs to the people each run's audience allows. A run saves with your standing default - Friends for a personal or private challenge, Public for an open one, or whatever default you have set - even when you skip the share step. You can change any run's audience later on its own screen, including to Private.

Photos can travel beyond the audience you expected if someone obtains or copies a direct link. Treat every uploaded photo as something another person might save.

A programme breaks a goal into sessions. The session title is the instruction, and the recorder guides you through warm-up, effort blocks, and cool-down when the plan includes them.

Audio can announce parts of the workout, distance, pace, a pacer, or story characters. The exact choices depend on the session and your Audio cues settings.

Coach, pacer, and story actors are different audio modes. A story cast can replace ordinary coaching on purpose, so hearing one instead of another may be the session design.

Both can react to the gap between you and a moving target, but their purpose and audio are different. Start with a plain pacer if you want calm pace help.

Characters and scenes play at planned moments in the workout. The story is entertainment layered onto the session; you still choose a safe route and control your effort.

A person can follow you without you following them back. Privacy and challenge access can still have separate rules, so friendship does not make every activity public.

Reports are handled by a person. Send the username, the kind of content and roughly when you saw it, and the team will review it. Never include your password. If anyone is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services first.

Quick start is a saved device preference. It shortens setup without enabling unrelated game features or changing their saved preferences.

Larger text can make some pages longer, which is normal. Scroll to see the rest. Simple Mode can reduce how much information appears at once.

A hidden gesture should be a shortcut, not the only way to do something. On a recorder, the current state and visible words matter more than the symbol alone.

The unit changes how distances and areas are displayed. It does not change the ground you covered or give a scoring advantage.

Imported workouts go through validation. A workout without a usable GPS trace can still be added to your history, but it cannot supply a route map.

Do not enter restricted or unsafe places to follow a route, reach a story point, or beat a pacer. Choose The Run is not an emergency service.

Choose The Run is not directed to children under 13. Families should also use age-appropriate supervision, safe routes, and the privacy settings that fit them.

Most sign-in problems are a mistyped address, a stray space, or a dropped connection. Check those first. If you still cannot get in, contact support from the address on the account and the team will help you recover it — never include your password in the message.

Deleting your account is not the same as signing out or uninstalling. Your name, photo, country, any body measurements and your friend connections are deleted, and there is no way back into the account. Routes you published stay on the map with no name attached to them, because deleting those would break the saved routes of other runners who use them. Runs still waiting to upload from this phone have never reached the server, so they cannot be kept — sync them first if you want them.

Your profile is your home for the details that make Choose The Run feel like yours. Change only what you are comfortable sharing, then check your privacy choices if you want to limit what other people can see.

Include your username, phone model, operating-system version, app version, the screen involved, and what happened. For a run, include its approximate date and time.

You start it like any other run and the story plays as you move. It is not a recording that ignores you: the story is anchored to the distance you cover and responds to how you are running, so the same story is a different run at a different pace.

Both sit on the same shelf and both play while you run. An interactive story is anchored to your distance and pace, so what you hear depends on how you run it. An audiobook plays from beginning to end the same way every time — it does not react.

This is deliberate. On a story run the cast has the run to itself: no coach reading out your splits, no pacer, and no kilometre beep. A story is written with dramatic timing, and an interruption lands in the middle of it. If you want your splits read to you, choose a run that is not a story — or listen to an audiobook, where you can turn the coach on.

A story run is the one most likely to be long, and going hours without eating or drinking is a real risk — so a fuelling reminder is allowed through. A cue you recorded in your own voice, at a mark you chose, is allowed for the same reason: you set it before the run, and it arrives when you said it should. Neither talks over the cast; they wait for a pause.

Stories and their voices ship with the app rather than downloading when you press start. That is deliberate: a run happens where it happens, and a story that stopped halfway up a hill because the signal did would be worse than no story at all. Run it in a dead zone, on a plane, or with data switched off.

A story is written for a distance, and shorter runs get a version cut to fit or an ending that is honest about being one. What does not happen is the same story spread out with longer gaps: that would mean more silence rather than more story. Run a longer distance and you get more of it, not the same amount slower.

Marking a chapter you have not heard cannot be undone — you would open the story next time already past something you never listened to. Marking too few can always be fixed by running again. So when it is not certain, the app marks less and protects the story. Run it again and the chapters you hear get marked.

An audiobook is hours of continuous reading, and a short readout between paragraphs is close to what most listeners want on a long run — better than looking at your phone on the one kind of run where the point is not having to. It is off unless you turn it on. A pacer and a pursuer stay out either way: those are company, and company over someone's reading is a different thing entirely.

An imported book is still an audiobook and plays exactly the same way. The word is there so you can tell where a title came from — it is not a mark of quality and it does not change what you can do with it.

The word on a card tells you what kind of thing you are looking at. FREE means you can start it straight away. DEMO means it is a part of something longer, so it will end sooner than a full story. PACK means it belongs to a set rather than standing alone.

Whether a story is open is decided by the server for your account, not by the app guessing. If one shows as locked, it is not available to you at the moment — anything without that mark can be started right away. Sponsored stories can also open and close on a schedule set by the sponsor.

A race is an actual event: a named race, its edition, the distance, the date and where it is held. Nobody in the app is racing you. It is there so you can find an event, see what it involves, and prepare for it.

A course is a route you can run whenever you like — it exists on the map and it waits for you. A race is an event happening on a particular day in a particular place. A race may have a course; a course does not need a race.

The global challenge is a set of community boards that run all the time. You are already in them. Every validated run credits its board on its own, so there is nothing to sign up for and nothing to switch on.

Distance boards count every run. Pace boards wait until you have enough runs in the period to be a fair average, so one very fast short run cannot top the board. Runs under 1 km do not count toward it.

Board names are hidden unless you choose to show yours. You can change it at any time from the settings mark on the ranks page, and your own row is always marked for you either way.

Badges are a record of what you have done, in families. Each one states its own condition, and you meet it by recording runs. There is nothing to claim and nothing to buy.

A dimmed badge is not a lost badge. Badges that track an ongoing habit go grey while the habit is paused and come back on their own when you pick it up again. Your total is never reduced.

Labs finds your outline in a photo and measures across you — how wide you are at the neck, chest, waist and hips. It uses your height as the ruler, so how far you stand from the camera makes no difference.

The photo is measured on the phone and a copy is kept beside your log, visible only to you and only in this app. It is deleted with the entry. If you would rather nothing were kept, turn off “Keep photos with my log” in Labs settings.

Labs measures how wide you are at several points and tracks how that changes. It cannot weigh you, and anything claiming to do so from a photo is guessing. It is not a medical measurement and is not meant to replace one.