Your run list, your metrics

For most of my running life, every app showed me the same thing: distance, duration, pace. That trio is a reasonable default. It’s also a blunt instrument.

When I started a heart-rate base-building block last spring, I didn’t care about pace at all — the whole point was to ignore pace and stay in zone 2. But every time I scrolled my run list, pace was right there, judging me. I had to mentally filter out the number I was training myself to stop chasing.

What you see shapes what you think about. A run list isn’t just a log — it’s a daily signal of what your training is for.

Choosing your two

Besides Distance (always displayed), the run list in Apex Run lets you pick exactly two metrics to display on each run card. The options cover everything the app tracks:

• Duration
• Pace
• Avg. heart rate
• Calories
• Power
• Stride length
• Cadence

Two slots. Pick the ones that reflect your current training focus. If you’re deep in a base phase, you might want distance, duration, and average heart rate. If you’re chasing a 5K PR, maybe pace, cadence, and heart rate. If you’re experimenting with power-based training, swap pace out for watts.

The configuration lives in Settings and takes ten seconds to change.

Why it matters more than it sounds

Metrics you don’t care about right now aren’t neutral — they’re noise. Seeing a slow pace when you’re deliberately running easy, or seeing low calorie burn when you’re focused on long-slow-distance, creates a small friction every time you open the app.

Removing that friction means your run list becomes a clean record of the thing you’re actually building. A month of heart-rate data, lined up in a list, tells a story that a month of mixed signals can’t.

Change the metrics when your training focus changes. The app should reflect where you are, not where you were.