Run more. Win stuff.
Find your people.

The global running community that makes showing up more rewarding. Races, Tribes, points, real prizes.

Join Sparkies free

Free to join. No pace requirement. No running club ego.

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161 km run by sparkies this week.

You don't need another fitness tracker

You need a reason to come back tomorrow.

Plenty of apps can tell you how far or fast you ran. Sparkies is built around something different: making running more fun to stick with.

Race, earn points, compete for prizes and have people around the world pushing you to keep showing up.

Join the global run club

Find your people

Meet your Tribe.

Every Tribe is made up of three runners. Bring two mates and create your own, or let Sparkies automatically match you with two runners from around the world.

From there, you're in it together. Your activity earns points for the Tribe, you climb the rankings as a team and you can win prizes together. More importantly, you've suddenly got two people who notice when you show up.

Find my Tribe →

Two runners in your corner

Running gets a lot harder to skip when someone else is doing it with you. Your Tribe gives you two global running peers to keep you accountable, celebrate the good weeks and drag you back into it when motivation disappears.

You don't need to run together. You don't need to be the same speed. You just need to keep showing up for the team.

A run club without the 6am meet-up

Run wherever you live and still be part of something bigger. Sparkies connects runners around the world through Tribes, virtual races, challenges and leaderboards.

No local club required. No pace to keep up with. Just join and run.

A Sparkies virtual race bib
Next up: The Home Town 10K · Sunday 27 September. One race, every hometown: run 10km where you live and see how you stack up against the world. Free entry. Race terms
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The leaderboards

Put your country on the board.

Your eligible activities contribute to Sparkies leaderboards, giving you another way to compete without making every run a PB attempt.

See which countries are showing up and help yours climb.

Country leaderboard this week
1🇦🇺Australia640 km
2🇺🇸United States410 km
3🇨🇦Canada300 km
4🇬🇧United Kingdom250 km
The prizes

The fastest runner shouldn't win everything. So they don't.

Sparkies prizes aren't reserved for the podium. Win individually, win with your Tribe or get lucky through random draws, challenges and Clubhouse giveaways. Shoes. Headphones. Running gear. And plenty more.

Sometimes performance matters. Sometimes showing up is enough.

Join free
ASICS Megablast running shoe
This month's giveaway3 pairs of ASICS Megablast, one each for the winning Tribe of 3.
A quiet road at sunset, mid walk

Points for moving

Even walking the dog can earn you points.

Sparkies rewards the movement that keeps you consistent, whether that's a training run, recovery walk or taking the dog out. And those points can help your Tribe too. Because doing a little is still better than doing nothing.

Yes, the dog walk counts.

Got a race on the calendar?

That's when you buy a plan.

You shouldn't have to pay for a training plan when you're not training for anything. Choose your goal, buy your plan once and follow it through to race day.

5K Blueprint$39 · one-off
5K
Blueprint
06weeks
Chasing a fast 5K
Six weeks of speed. Short sharp 200m and 400m intervals over a solid aerobic base. Your first 5K or your fastest, done properly.
Buy this plan →
10K Blueprint$39 · one-off
10K
Blueprint
08weeks
Ready to race the 10K
Eight weeks built around VO2max and controlled threshold work. Race-ready in two months, with the endurance to hold your pace when it hurts.
Buy this plan →
Half Marathon Blueprint$49 · one-off
Half
Marathon
12weeks
Going long
Twelve weeks, the full build. Aerobic base, intervals, tempo, and the long runs that make 21.1km feel within reach.
See the half plan →
Marathon Blueprint$49 · one-off
Marathon
16weeks
The big one
Sixteen weeks to the start line. Long runs peaking at 32km, race-pace work, and a proper taper. For when the half was not enough.
Buy this plan →
Know what to do without obsessing over it.
Sparkies gives you the sessions you need, how hard they should feel and how your training builds towards race day. Open the app. Know what you're doing. Go run. No random workouts. No guessing. No ongoing coaching subscription.
Find my run plan
Not racing yet? The Base and The Engine, our beginner plans, are free in the app.

The run is only part of training

Clubhouse takes care of the bits around it.

Clubhouse is the premium Sparkies membership for runners who want more support between sessions. Unlock personalised recovery and nutrition tools, exclusive prizes and extra member perks.

Personalised recovery

Understand when you're ready to train, when you should back off and what your body needs between sessions. Less guessing. Better recovery.

Personalised nutrition

Get practical guidance around pre-run fuel, carbs, hydration and post-run recovery based on your training. Useful enough to make a difference. Simple enough to actually follow.

Exclusive Clubhouse prizes

Clubhouse members get more chances to win through exclusive giveaways, prize drops and member-only rewards. Because membership should come with some good stuff.

Join the Clubhouse · $4.95/mo

Sparkies grows with your running.

Join the community for free. Get matched with a Tribe or build your own. Buy a plan when you enter a race. Join the Clubhouse when you want more recovery, nutrition and member benefits.

Pay for the parts you actually need.

Three ways to use Sparkies.

Join the community
$0 / free, forever
  • Join a Tribe of three, or bring your mates
  • Enter virtual races
  • Earn activity points, climb global leaderboards
  • Win community prizes
Join Sparkies free
Train for a race
$39+ / one-off purchase
  • Personalised plans for 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon goals
  • 5K $39 · 10K $39 · half $49 · marathon $49
  • Pay once, yours forever
Find my plan
Premium membership
Join the Clubhouse
$4.95 / per month · launch price
  • Personalised recovery
  • Personalised nutrition
  • Exclusive prizes and extra member perks
Join the Clubhouse

Already a paying sparkie from before the change? You are a founding member: you keep everything, Clubhouse included, for life. Nothing to do, thank you for being early.

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Ben, founder of Sparkies Running

Built by BoltinBen

I'm Ben. I've been coaching this for years.

Sydney-based running coach, ASICS partner, host of the TrainHybrd podcast. I've spent years DMing people the same answers: am I running easy enough, what does my zone mean, should I run if I missed yesterday.

Sparkies is all of it in one place. The plans I write, the coaching I give, the tribe of runners I've been building. The running is free, log a run and you're in.

ASICS TrainHybrd

Questions

Yes. Logging runs, your streak, the recovery read, tribes and prizes, the country leaderboard, the clubhouse feed, Strava sync, Ask Ben, and the free plans (The Base and The Engine) are free forever, no card needed. The only paid things are the race blueprints (one-off, from $39) and the clubhouse membership ($4.95 a month).
Pick your distance, pay once, and the blueprint is yours forever: 5K $39, 10K $39, half marathon $49, marathon $49. No subscription. Day-by-day sessions written by a real coach, delivered in the app, and you can reuse the plan for every race after.
The inner circle, $4.95 a month at the launch price. Your name goes violet across the whole app, you get the recovery hub (what to do tonight so tomorrow's run feels better), guided breathwork and wind-down audio, plus members-only prize drops and first access to everything new.
The Base plan is built for exactly this. Four weeks of easy Zone 2 running you can repeat as many times as you like. If you can walk 30 minutes you can finish it, and you'll have a real aerobic base by the end.
You get a team of 3, your mates or runners we place you with. Every run of 20 minutes or more counts, easy Zone 2 runs and streaks earn bonus points, and the team that shows up most each month wins the prize. If one of you goes quiet, the whole team drops, so you keep each other running. Free to play.
No. You can log runs manually, or paste a Strava link. A heart rate monitor makes the zone coaching sharper, but it is not required to start.
Yes, anytime from your profile or the Stripe portal, no dark patterns. Cancel and you keep running free, you just lose the clubhouse extras. Any race plan you bought stays yours forever.

The best running app is the one that makes you want to run again. Sparkies gives you more reasons to keep showing up, with two Tribe mates in your corner, races to enter, points to earn and prizes worth chasing.

Make your next run count.

Join Sparkies free

Join 121 runners. 161 km already this week.

Run your roads. Back your Tribe. See where it takes you.