4th Place Run Club

4th Place Run is a race plan and a run club in one native iPhone app, with an Apple Watch companion. Pick a race, a date, a goal, and your level, and the app builds the plan backwards from race day and tells you what to run today. Runs recorded on the Watch land in the plan on their own, and the club's weekly miles board moves the moment a clubmate finishes. 4thplacerunclub.com is the front door: the club, the Pro plan, the beta, and the App Store download.

Training plans live in PDFs and spreadsheets that never adjust, and run clubs live in group chats where nobody can see the miles. A runner with a half marathon on the calendar had to reconcile three things by hand every week: what the plan said, what the Watch recorded, and what everyone else was doing.

One app that owns the week. The plan engine splits every week so the days add up to the volume exactly, re-foots itself when a run comes in long or short, and a coach note explains the change. Verified runs only: the club board counts runs from Apple Health, so the Watch is the way in and the numbers can be trusted. Pro unlocks the coach and the race pass, with a seven-day free trial.

• Race plans built backwards from race day — distance, date, goal, and level in, a week-by-week plan out, with today's run on the first screen
• Apple Watch companion — runs recorded on the wrist land in the plan and the club board on their own
• Run club — a live weekly miles board, a feed of who ran what, one-tap high fives, and a Sunday wrap-up
• Coach notes that explain every change to the plan, including cutback weeks on purpose
• Eighteen badges, a race-day share card drawn from the real route map and splits, and Siri weekly summaries
• Pro subscription (monthly or yearly, seven-day trial) through the App Store, with account deletion and sign-in management built in
• The website — club pages, the Pro plan, a TestFlight beta sign-up that invites testers automatically, and transactional email in the club's own voice

Native SwiftUI for iPhone and watchOS, with HealthKit for runs and routes, SwiftData synced through CloudKit, and StoreKit 2 for the subscription. The club runs on Supabase (Postgres, row-level security, edge functions for the board, the feed, and email through Resend). The site is Astro on Vercel with a Supabase-backed beta sign-up that adds testers to TestFlight through the App Store Connect API. The release went through a full pre-submission review: a 200-plus test gate, performance runs on a clean simulator, and an independent code review with every finding fixed before resubmission.

On the App Store as of November 2026 with Pro Monthly and Pro Yearly live. The site at 4thplacerunclub.com carries the download and keeps a TestFlight beta open for the next builds.