Meridian

Running pace, translated for the day you're actually in.

You know what you can run in good conditions. Meridian tells you what that's worth today — in the heat, the wind and the hills in front of you.

Try it The real engine, running here
What you ran today
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Same effort, ideal day
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Put your own run in below.

One email when the beta opens. Nothing else, ever.

Where the time goes

Three things, orbiting one number.

Each ring is a separate cost, sized by what it is taking from you right now. Change anything above and watch them move.

Run this today
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Temperature, humidity and time on feet orbiting today's adjusted pace
Temperature
Humidity
Going long

The same fitness, different air

One runner. One race distance. Eight places.

A three-hour marathoner does not have a three-hour marathon everywhere. This is the same runner, in the same shape, on a typical summer day in each of these cities — and the honest finishing time each one supports.

The same three-hour marathon fitness costs different amounts of time in different cities, from Reykjavik to DubaiReykjavik+3mLondon+5mBoston+11mNew York+13mDenver+17mWest Palm Beach+23mSingapore+23mDubai+32mminutes added to a 3:00 marathon — typical summer conditions
Denver is the interesting one. It is cooler than West Palm Beach and still costs nearly as much, because a mile above sea level takes oxygen off you that no amount of shade gives back. Heat and altitude are separate bills and you pay both.

What it does

Why not a free calculator?

Because the average runner isn't you.

Two runners of identical fitness can lose two minutes or six over the same hot marathon. An average can't tell you which one you are.

Your own history can. That's the one thing a web form will never have.

Who's building it

A runner in West Palm Beach, which is a stupid place to train for a marathon.

I spent a summer watching my paces fall apart, unable to tell whether I was losing fitness or just running in soup. Nothing I found answered that honestly.

So I started building the thing I wanted. First real test is New York, 1 November. — Max

Built honestly

A range, not a false decimal.

It tells you which conditions are driving the adjustment, and it says modeled until your history has earned it the right to say personalized.

Not a training plan. Not a social feed. Not another dashboard. One number, one sentence, out the door.

Early access

TestFlight is opening to a small group of runners across a range of climates.