Your ten best, at every distance, kept for you

Records in Apex Run aren’t one number each. Each of the ten record types is a board of your ten best, in order, with the run behind every row. So the question isn’t only “what’s my fastest 5 km” but “what were the ten fastest, and which was the race”.

Where the boards are

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Profile shows three boards under Personal Best Records — the three whose top spot was set most recently — with Show More for the rest. The same ten, as a full screen, sit behind the Records chip on the Insights tab.

Each card is a board’s top row: the value and the date it was set. Boards are ordered newest-set first, so whatever you just beat is at the top. A board with nothing on it yet reads No record yet. Go for it!

The ten boards

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Five are distances, and they’re filled from the best efforts inside every run:

• Best 1 km, Best 5 km, Best 10 km, Half Marathon, Marathon

A 10 km best doesn’t need a 10 km run. It’s the fastest 10 km stretch inside any run you’ve done — your half marathon’s opening 10 km counts, and often wins.

Five are whole-run records, read off each run as it is:

• Longest Distance, Longest Duration, Highest Elevation, Most Calories, Fastest Pace

Fastest Pace is the average over a whole run, whatever its length. A short, sharp one can hold it, and that’s fair: it was your fastest run.

Open a board

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Tap a card and the board opens: ten rows, ranked, each with the run’s name, its date, the record figure in orange beside two others for context — the half marathon’s pace and distance, say — and the route underneath when the run has one. Tap a row and it opens the run.

A run holds one row per board, its best. So ten rows are ten different runs, which is what makes the board readable as a history: it’s the ten days you were fastest at that distance, not one great day counted ten times.

What a row means elsewhere

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• On the run itself, the #1 to #5 badges on the Best Effort cards are that run’s rows on these boards. A #3 on the 5 km card means row three here; rows six to ten earn no badge on the run, only their place on the board.
• In the monthly report, the Achievements section is the month’s new rows, each with its rank on the board.
• When you set a #1, the run’s Best Effort section shows a New PR banner the first time you open it.

Worth knowing

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• Every board is free, and they fill from your whole history on day one. A best you set two years ago is already on it.
• A hike you converted into a run counts, and it’s usually how Highest Elevation and Longest Duration get set. If you’d rather they were runs only, that’s a reason to leave the hike where it was.
• Deleting a run takes its rows with it, and the next row moves up. On the five distance boards nothing refills the empty tenth place until a new run earns it — see what a delete does.
• The boards use your distance unit for how they read, not for what counts. Best 5 km is 5 km on a phone set to miles too.