See what kind of week you've actually run

Every run gets a type when it’s imported, read from your heart rate zones and how much your pace moved around during the session. You never have to set one — but you can always change one.

The six types

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Each type has a colour, and that colour is how you read the label in a list:

• Easy, orange — comfortable, conversational, and most of your week. The label you should see most often.
• Long, teal — the steady distance days: past about 90 minutes or 15 km at an easy to moderate effort. Race a half marathon hard and it comes back Tempo rather than Long, which is usually the label you’d want on it.
• Tempo, amber — sustained and comfortably hard. Most of the run spent above easy.
• Interval, coral — fast efforts with recovery between them. Recognised from an interval workout set on your watch, or from pace that swings hard with the heart rate to match.
• Recovery, cyan — short and genuinely slow, the day after something hard.
• Race, purple — yours to set. Apex Run never assigns this one on its own, because only you know whether that 10 km was a race or a good Tuesday.

Where the label shows

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• In your run list and grid — each route thumbnail is drawn in its type’s colour. It’s what makes scrolling a month readable: mostly orange is a base block, coral appearing every few days is a sharpening one.
• On the run itself — the type appears in words, as a chip beside the weather and your shoes.
• The ⓘ at the top of your run list opens all six, with what each is for and how it should feel.

What the labels are for

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• Run Insights groups your history by type — every interval session, every long run, every race in one list.
• Your own categories can filter on type, so “long runs over 20 km in these shoes” is a saved view.
• Trophy Room collects the runs you’ve labelled Race, and a Race run gets a photo gallery of its own on the run page.

Changing a label

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Open the run, tap the edit button top right, and pick from Run Type. The ⓘ beside it opens the same six descriptions, so you can check what you’re choosing without leaving the sheet.

Picking Race adds a photo section to this sheet — a cover shot and a gallery for that race.

Your choice stays put. Apex Run won’t relabel a run later, including after you change your heart rate zones — a label you picked is a decision, not a calculation.

How to actually use it

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• Label your races the week you run them. It’s what puts them in Trophy Room and unlocks the photo gallery on the run.
• Count your Easy labels. If they aren’t the clear majority of your month, your easy days are too fast — the single most common thing worth fixing.
• Read Recovery as a compliment. It means you managed to run genuinely slowly, which is harder than it sounds.
• Correct anything that reads wrong. A treadmill run with no pace variation, or a session where your watch lost heart rate, can land on the wrong label. Two taps and it’s right for good.