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Running Goal Tracker for iPhone (Miles)

Track your mileage goal on iPhone. Set a target, log each run, and see your total grow without streaks or resets. Free to download.

You picked a mileage goal for the year — 500 miles, 1,000, whatever felt like a real stretch. You started logging runs, watching the total climb. Then came a planned taper week before your half marathon. You didn't run. The streak broke.

But you were tapering on purpose. The 340 miles banked over the previous months were real. The app didn't know that. It only knew you hadn't logged a run in five days, and it reset the counter accordingly.

Mileage goals don't punish rest. Running does. You build fitness, you recover, and the total distance grows across both phases. A tracker built around streaks can't model that. It treats a planned rest week the same as quitting.

A mileage tracker should show one number: how many miles you've run and how many remain. Taper weeks, injury weeks, and travel weeks cost zero miles from the goal.

Common targets

100 miles300 miles500 miles1,000 miles

Runners training for distance typically log 15 to 40 miles per week, with recovery weeks and tapers built in.

Why miles run is a milestone goal

Miles run is a cumulative metric. The number grows with every run and never decreases. A rest day costs zero miles. A streak tracker can't model that correctly: it measures consecutive days, not total distance. Two runners with 250 miles each look identical in total but completely different in streak counts depending on when they took rest days.

The problem with streak trackers for miles run

Miss one day and the streak goes to zero. Take a planned taper week before a race and the streak resets. The 250 miles logged before the taper are invisible to the tracker.

What the math looks like

Running 25 miles per week reaches 300 miles in 12 weeks. One planned rest week costs zero miles from the total.

How Notch tracks miles run

  1. 1
    Set a target. Enter how many miles you want to run. Notch knows where done is.
  2. 2
    Log each mile. Tap to add one. Each tap adds a dot to the grid and moves the total closer to your target.
  3. 3
    Watch the grid fill. Every dot represents a real mile you run. Nothing resets. Take a break and resume from exactly where you left off.
Pricing

Free to download. The full app unlocks with a one-time $9.99 purchase. No subscription.

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A milestone tracker for iPhone. Set a target for miles run, log each mile, and watch the dot grid fill. No streaks. No resets. No subscription.

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