Territory, on foot
Close the loop.
Own what's inside.
RUNVHAL turns running into territory. The ground your route encloses becomes yours to hold — until somebody runs it better.
How it works
Three things, and
you are playing.
01
Run a loop
Anywhere. A block, a park, the long way home. No course, no route to follow, nothing to download first.
02
Close it
Come back to roughly where you started. The moment the shape shuts, the ground inside it is yours.
03
Hold it
A claim lasts seven days. Run it again to reset the clock. Let it lapse and the ground opens for whoever turns up.
Ground you
actually ran
routes. Ever.
Most running apps hand you a course and score you against it. RUNVHAL has no courses. You draw the shape by running it, and the only question between two runners is how much ground each one ended up holding.
The rules
The parts most
apps leave vague.
If you can run it, you can own it
There is no minimum size. A courtyard counts. The only test is whether the loop is bigger than its own GPS error — because a shape smaller than that could have been drawn by a phone sitting still.
Ground is run, never drifted into
A GPS fix jumping across town is the device moving, not you. Steps too fast to be human are refused, and so are steps smaller than the error bar on the fix that reported them. A phone on a windowsill earns nothing.
Ground is occupied, not banked
Holding turf means going back to it. Runners who genuinely challenge your ground shorten your next defence window — the more pressure, the sooner you have to run.
Your route is deleted after 90 days
The exact path you ran is the most sensitive thing this app will ever hold, so it expires. The ground you won from it does not — that stays yours. We do not sell it, advertise against it, or hand it to data brokers.
Early access
Be there before
the ground is taken.
RUNVHAL is coming to iOS. Empty streets do not stay empty — the first runners in a neighbourhood get to draw on a blank map.