Running Group App: Weekly Runs, Sign-ups, Routes

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Start in two minutes

You need a name and a sport. No association, no committee, no paperwork.

Konia calls every group a club: give yours a name and choose Running
One invite code for everyone, shared by SMS, email, WhatsApp or any other app
People join straight away, with nothing to approve, and the code does not expire
Members can invite friends themselves, and one login works across several clubs

Guide: Invite your members

Manage club: the invite code at the top, then the members list

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Set up the weekly run once

Then everyone knows where to be, and you know who is coming.

Recurring trainings: Tuesday and Thursday are one series, and you can change a single week without touching the rest
A saved place with its photo and map link, and a GPX route on a map with distance and elevation gain
One tap to join, or to say you can't make it with an optional reason, and the faces of who is going show on the list
Cancel a run and everyone signed up gets a notification

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Free time, for a long run members do at their own hour that day
Comments on each run, for questions before you meet
A calendar feed that adds your runs to your phone calendar and stays in sync
Full-screen route with map, terrain and satellite views, and the GPX file to download

Guide: Schedule a training

Trainings list: each session with its route map, who is going and a Join button

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Keep the plan out of the group chat

The chat can stay for everything else. The time, the place and the route go where people can find them.

A club feed for news, photo galleries, reactions and comments
Polls to pick a day or a restaurant
Group messages, and private chats between members, without sharing phone numbers
Push notifications for new runs and changes

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Club feed with a poll, and the menu to create a post or a poll

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Split by pace

Training groups keep each pace group informed, without extra chats.

A group for each pace or target race, and coaches decide who is in it
A run for one group notifies only its members
Posts and messages can go to one group, and members can filter the run list to their own
Track sessions with a target pace on each step, which members send to Garmin Connect, COROS, Suunto or Apple Watch

Good to know

Groups decide who is notified, not who can attend. A member outside the group still sees the run and can sign up.

Guide: Set up training groups

Training groups: a list of groups and their members, here one for each target race

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Go to a race together

When the group picks a race, everything about the trip stays in one place.

Club races with a list of who is going
Meeting point, departure, contact person and accommodation for the trip
The route on a map, which members can send to Garmin Connect
After the race, everyone adds their finish time and position to one list

Guide: Plan a club race

Club races list: each race with its route map and who is going

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Add the rest when you need it

All of this is optional, and stays out of the way until you set it up.

More organisers: make any member a coach, so they can add runs and posts
Emergency contacts that only coaches can see
Waivers and other documents: members upload their own, and coaches see who is missing one
Payment requests on a post, for a kit order or a dinner, paid by card or bank transfer
Membership fees and renewal reminders, if you become a paying club

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Common questions

What to know before you move the group over.

Do we need to be an official club?

No. Konia calls every group a club, but nobody checks. A name and a sport are all you need, whether you are a run club, a group of friends or a company team.

Can someone just turn up and run?

Yes, but the schedule and sign-ups are in the app. Konia has no public page and no guest sign-up, so a newcomer installs the app and enters your code. For a run open to anyone, share the link and the code wherever people already find you.

Why does the app say Coach?

Konia calls anyone who runs the group a coach: the person who creates it, and anyone they add. It is a role in the app, not a qualification.

Can members add a run themselves?

No. Only coaches can add runs and posts. Make your regular leaders coaches, and they can add their own.

Can we keep WhatsApp and Strava?

Yes. Konia does not replace them. Strava stays the place to log your runs, the chat stays for talking, and the plan goes in Konia.

Does a weekly run repeat forever?

Nearly. A series creates up to 52 sessions, so a weekly run with no end date covers about a year. After that, create a new series.

Is Konia free?

Konia is free to download. If you collect money by card, Stripe's processing fees apply, and Konia takes nothing by default.

One app for your running group