Run Analytics

What it is

Deep stats on how you run. Your runs are tracked with GPS. The math runs on your phone. You skip the accounts and the leaderboards, and nothing goes to the cloud. Your route history stays on your device.

What you get

On every run, on its own:

• Splits for each kilometer or mile. Each split shows your pace, heart rate, and elevation.
• Your best efforts (1 km, 1 mi, 5 km, 10 km, half, and full). Found in any run.
• A VO2 max guess. This is a fitness score from your heart rate and pace.
• A pacing score. This shows how even your pace was.
• A power guess from your pace and the slope.
• Calories burned, from your weight, your distance, and the climb.

On the Run Dashboard, across all your runs:

• An 8-week training load chart
• A pace trend for each distance
• Race time guesses for 5K, 10K, half, and full marathon
• A best-efforts list (you vs you)
• A weekly Zone Training summary (see Zone Training)

Rate how a run felt

After a run, Kinoku asks one quick question: how did that feel? Tap Easy, Moderate, Hard, or Max. That turns into a 1 to 10 effort rating. This is free on every run.

The old Effort card is now the Intensity card. It reads your run from the data and stays an observation, never a verdict. Your felt rating sits next to it. When the two do not match, Kinoku says so. An easy day that felt hard, or your first run back after a break, both show up here. It points out the gap and leaves the call to you.

Pace-colored routes

Each route gets colored by pace. Green means you ran fast there. Red means you slowed down. The colors fit your own pace range, not some global scale. So you can see the hills, the headwinds, and the spots where you faded.

Tier note: pace-colored routes work on every GPS run. The FREE tier gets them too, both on the live map and on share cards. The Run Analytics dashboard adds more on top.

The “private Strava” angle

Strava asks you to upload your runs so other people can see them. Kinoku does the opposite. You get the same kind of stats, like splits, VO2 max, race times, and route maps. Your run history is not sent to a Kinoku server. Map tiles and weather context are the only parts that use the network.

Part of Pro

This is one of the optional extras. The free app works without it.