Running Signature
See the invisible pattern in your last 90 days of running, so training feels steadier and more sustainable.
Your watch shows pace, distance, and heart rate.
It doesn’t reveal deeper trends that influence your progress over time.
Running Signature reads your last 90 days of runs and shows you the underlying rhythm and gaps in your training that might be impacting your progress.
You’re not inconsistent.
Your training rhythm hasn’t been obvious yet.
Once you see it, adjusting your routine becomes much simpler.
Who this is for
Running Signature is for middle school, high school, and adult runners who keep hitting the same wall:
Training hard, then burning out
Feeling strong, then suddenly flat
Building up, then getting knocked off rhythm again and again
Most runners don’t need more discipline.
They need better clarity, particularly for runners juggling training with a busy lifestyle.
If that sounds familiar, this is for you.
For coaches who are reading this
If you coach runners, Running Signature offers practical terms and frameworks to define the patterns you might already observe.
Specific steps to adjust training over the next few weeks, moving beyond guesswork.
You still coach the athlete. This helps both of you focus on clear adjustments.
If you’d like to use Running Signature with multiple athletes, email us and ask about coach bundles and team pricing.
What you’ll get
Running Signature isn’t a new training plan. It’s a tool to help match your training plan to your real-life patterns and needs.
A named pattern for how you’ve actually been training over the last 90 days
A simple visual snapshot of your training rhythm—frequency, gaps, and load
A short narrative explaining how this pattern impacts your day-to-day running
3–5 practical adjustments you can try in your next block
A 4-week stability guide with suggestions for running a steadier month that fits your real life
So instead of asking, “What’s wrong with me?”,
you can ask, “What does my pattern need?”
How it works
Step 1 – Export your Strava data
We’ll show you exactly how to download your activities file (CSV) from Strava. It usually takes a few minutes.
Step 2 – Upload your file to Mettle
You upload the activities CSV to Mettle. No extra tracking, no new watch, no new app.
Step 3 – We analyze your last 90 days
We analyze training data to uncover gaps, rhythm shifts, and overall load during the last 90 days.
Step 4 – You get your Running Signature report
Within a few days, we send your report by email: your Signature, your visual pattern, a short explanation, and suggested adjustments.
Pricing
Running Signature - $79
You get:
Your Running Signature report
3–5 specific suggestions for your next training block
A 4-week stability guide to help you apply the insights
Email access for simple clarifying questions
If you read your report and it doesn’t feel useful—if it doesn’t offer insights that help you adjust your training—email us within 30 days and we’ll refund you. We only want you to keep it if it genuinely helps.
Questions runners often ask
Q: Is this a training plan?
No. Running Signature is not a training plan.
It’s a way of seeing your current pattern clearly, so you and/or your coach can design a plan that matches your lifestyle and supports consistent growth.
Q: Do I need to be fast or very experienced?
No. Pace doesn’t matter here.
You’ll get a clear Signature whether you’re just getting consistent, coming back from a break, or stacking serious mileage—the only requirement is at least 90 days of logged runs in Strava.
Q: Does this predict injury or future burnout?
No. Running Signature doesn’t predict the future.
It highlights breakdown patterns, infrastructure gaps, and readiness signals in how you’ve already been training. It’s about clarity and honest feedback, not prediction.
See your pattern
You’ve been tracking your runs a while, but racking isn’t the same as understanding.
Once you see your pattern, training gets easier to trust.
You’ll feel steadier, and progress no longer feels fragile or undone by rest.
Your pattern has been running your season.
Now you get to see it—and decide what to do with it.
Most runners fall into one of a small handful of patterns.
We call these Running Signatures.
The 8 Running Signatures
The Streaker — Thrives on streaks but struggles with bouncing back when the chain breaks.
The Spike-Crash — All-in training leads to bursts of effort followed by burnout; a steadier base is missing.
The Silent Gap — Training appears consistent weekly, but repeated gaps erase long-term progress.
The Evening Wobbler — Runs often occur in crowded, stressful evening hours, leading to inconsistent rhythm.
The Overcooker — Pushing too hard leads to skipped recovery; easy days still feel counterproductive.
The Gray-Zone Grinder — Moderate effort becomes the default, with rare extremes, stalling true progress.
The Sunday Anchor — Long runs anchor the entire week—losing them disrupts overall consistency.
The Plateau Holder — Steady rhythm is maintained, but the fear of discomfort limits growth.
Your report names your Signature, explains how it tends to feel day to day, and provides actionable tweaks for noticeable improvement.
A real example: The Silent Gap
Here’s the kind of pattern Running Signature reveals.
A runner uploads 90 days of Strava data. On paper:
4–5 runs per week
A few long runs
Intervals sprinkled in
It looks decent.
Running Signature shows deeper issue:
Recurring gaps every 3-4 weeks.
Pattern emerges: big weekend workouts → overly packed work weeks → training drops.
After each gap, the runner tries to push fitness aggressively, resulting in yet another burnout.
The Signature calls this The Silent Gap.
The report doesn’t say, “Push more.”
It says:
“Your body isn’t the problem. The rhythm is.”
“You’re asking yourself to restart too often.”
“If we protect these 1–2 key runs each week and shorten the ‘comeback hero’ efforts, you’ll finally be stacking, not restarting.”
Once the pattern becomes clear, training adjustments feel manageable. Now you’re solving a design problem, not a character flaw.
More questions
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No. Strava shows totals and trends. Running Signature reads your last 90 days as a pattern—where rhythm breaks, where gaps repeat, and how your load and life actually interact.
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Most runners normalize what they repeat. The loops feel “normal,” even when they’re costing you. Signature gives you an outside, pattern-first view you’re unlikely to create on your own.
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That’s often the point. It’s a mirror, not a report card. If you read it and it doesn’t feel useful or accurate, you’ve got a 30-day money-back guarantee.