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Gather your group and train together: a feed, chats, group events and challenges

Gather your people: a shared workout feed straight from watches, topic chats, an announcement board and group events with sign-up — in the same PaceTrack where your workouts already live.

Create a group

Your first group is free, joining groups is always free. Already on PaceTrack? Sign in — it's under Community → Groups.

A group of runners gathered at a park entrance at dawn before a long run

PaceTrack groups in 10 minutes

Everything in one video: create a group, find it in the directory, apply and invite by email or a one-time link; the announcement board, chats with topics, quotes, reactions and voice messages, the workout feed, a group event and the group's own challenge. Four athletes, one group, all recorded live. The video is in Russian.

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Sound familiar?

Seven situations every crew of runners, cyclists or swimmers runs into once it's bigger than three people — and what PaceTrack does about them.

01 · The group chat

Where are we meeting on Saturday? Scroll back three hundred messages

The time and place are pinned somewhere at the top, the route was discussed on Tuesday, and the newcomer is asking for the third time. Everything that matters drowns in memes and voice notes.

What PaceTrack does

  • Announcement board — time, place, what to bring. The founder and moderators write, everyone reads; each participant gets a notification.
  • A General chat plus topic chats — "Saturday long run", "Shoes", "October race". Topics can be created, renamed and removed; the history stays.
  • Unread counts start from the day you join — a newcomer sees the history but doesn't inherit hundreds of old unread messages.
  • Bold, italics, lists, links and photos in messages. No email per message — just counters.

02 · Who's training how

Watch screenshots in the chat are the only way to see who ran what

One is on Strava, another on Garmin Connect, a third posts nothing. Who's ready for the half marathon and who hasn't run in three weeks — nobody knows.

What PaceTrack does

  • Group workout feed — participants' completed workouts with map, pace, heart rate and elevation, straight from the watch. No screenshots.
  • Four-week group summary — volume, average volume per person and pace for running, cycling and swimming; per participant, week by week.
  • Any watch — Garmin, Polar, Suunto, COROS, Wahoo, Apple Watch; workouts arrive on their own.
  • Sharing your workouts is a checkbox each person switches on and off. A single workout can be hidden from all groups.

03 · Group events

"Who's in for the long run?" — twenty thumbs-up, six people show up

Sign-up lives in the comments, the address with whoever knows it, the reminder with whoever remembers. And there's nowhere to invite friends to a trial session.

What PaceTrack does

  • Group events — a long run, track intervals, a race trip: date, place, host, seat limit, one-click sign-up.
  • Members only or open — guests can sign up to an open event by email, no account needed. The exact address can be shown to registered participants only.
  • Reminders and a calendar file — participants get an email and an .ics, and hear about cancellations right away.
  • Creating events is free; the organizer sees who signed up.
Two runners on a park bench after a run, looking at a phone

04 · Random people

Someone shared the chat link, and now there are forty strangers in it

The link travels the internet, anyone joins, and kicking people out feels awkward. Or the opposite: you want a closed circle and have no tools for it.

What PaceTrack does

  • Three join modes — open, by request with approval, invite only. Switch at any time.
  • Invite by email or a one-time link — one person joins by the link, the second attempt fails. Any participant can invite.
  • Request with a message — the founder or a moderator reads who wants in and why, then accepts or declines.
  • Removal with a ban on returning, a participant limit, a private group that appears in no list at all.

05 · One person holds it together

The group depends on one person — and falls apart when they leave

The chat admin goes on holiday, changes phones or simply gets tired — and a crew that ran together for three years dissolves in a month.

What PaceTrack does

  • A founder and moderators — moderators approve requests, write announcements, run topics and events, and can appoint another moderator.
  • Handing over the group — in one action, leaving or staying as a participant. If the founder deletes their account, the group passes to a moderator.
  • A permanent group address — guests and participants find it there; nothing is lost with a new phone.
  • Archive instead of deletion: the roster and history stay, and the group can be brought back any time.

06 · Coaches and clubs

We each have our own coach, but we run together

One trains with a coach, another follows an app plan, a third is self-coached. You don't need a club with a shared method — you need a crew that stays out of each other's plans.

What PaceTrack does

  • The group doesn't touch plans — the feed shows completed workouts only: no assignments, no coach plans, no reports.
  • Your coach doesn't see the group — not the chats, not the feed, not who's in it. And a group never creates a coaching relationship.
  • Works alongside everything — be in several groups, in a club and with a coach at the same time. Everyone trains their own way and runs with everyone.

07 · Privacy

I want to share workouts with friends, not with the whole internet

Most apps give you a simple choice: everything public or nothing. The route from your doorstep, your heart rate and pace are seen by random followers — or by nobody.

What PaceTrack does

  • The feed is visible to participants only — not the directory, not guests, not coaches. A workout from the feed opens only for people in the group.
  • Private or public — the founder decides. A public group has an open page with the roster, four-week volume and pace; participants are warned in advance.
  • A closed profile stays closed — on the open page such a participant is listed simply as "Participant", without a name.
  • Being in a group feed doesn't make a workout public: the general feed and the group feed are independent.
A group of runners running together along a riverside park path in the early morning

How it works

A group is not a coach's club and not a one-challenge team. It's your people, gathered by you, and it lives as long as you want it to.

⌚ Created by an active athlete

To create a group you need a connected watch and at least four watch-recorded workouts of 30 minutes or more. Joining a group needs none of that.

🔍 Group directory

Public groups are searched by name: participant count, men and women, join mode, volume and pace. Private groups aren't listed.

🛡️ Text is checked

The name, description and announcements go through the same automatic check as events: no contacts, no messenger links, no prohibited content.

📣 Notifications that matter

An invitation, a request, a new role, a new announcement and a new event land in your inbox. Chat messages don't send emails.

🌍 Three languages

Groups work in English, Russian and Spanish — a crew from different countries sees the same thing.

🏁 Next up: challenges

The group's own challenges and entering someone else's team challenge as one team are the next step, already in progress.

What it costs

Joining groups, chats, the feed, announcements and events are free. The first group you create is free. The second is a one-off 200 credits, the third and every next one 500 credits from the creator's personal balance. A group never pays for its participants.

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Gather your people

Sign up as an athlete, connect your watch and open Community → Groups. Friends can be invited by email — they'll be in the group the moment they register.

Create a group