I deleted my Strava account after almost 15 years. This is what I built instead.
Not another app. Not another subscription. A single sheet that tracks the things that actually matter, and nothing else.
Runs, Shoes & You
For well over a decade I tracked every run the way everyone does. More data, more charts, more segments, more badges. At some point I stopped asking whether any of it was making me a better runner.
Most of it wasn't. It was just noise disguised as insight, adding nothing.
So I got rid of it. What was left is what this sheet tracks.
What it actually does
RSY logs two things well: your runs, and your shoes. That's it.
Every run gets logged with distance, duration, pace, cadence, heart rate, and effort level, using a simple four tier system, easy, steady, workout, race, instead of a dozen confusing zones. Every shoe gets tracked from first run to retirement, so you always know exactly how many kilometers or miles are on your feet.
From that, one dashboard shows you what's true about your training right now. Your effort balance for the month, the year, and all time. Your most used shoes. Your weekly and monthly mileage. No noise, no vanity metrics, no algorithm deciding what you should care about.
Why a spreadsheet
Because you already own it. Because it works offline, forever, with no subscription and no company deciding one day to change the app or shut it down. It comes as a ZIP file with both a km and a mi version of the .xlsx file inside, so you get both, no need to pick one at checkout. Opens fully in Google Sheets or Excel. It'll open in Apple Numbers too, but some formulas and features don't behave correctly there depending on version, so Numbers isn't a platform I can fully vouch for right now. Google Sheets is my recommended platform, since that's what it was built and tested in.
I'm a product designer by trade. I didn't build this because I couldn't build something more complex. I built it because complexity wasn't the point.
What's inside
Runs log with automatic pace, effort tracking, and cadence and heart rate fields
Shoe tracker with automatic lifetime mileage per shoe, plus active, inactive, and retired status
A dashboard that breaks down your training by current month, selected year, and all time
Top shoes by mileage, ranked automatically
Weekly and monthly breakdowns for the year you pick
Comes as two versions, km and mi, both included, so you always work in the unit you actually track in
Built to scale to years of logged runs without slowing down
One price, no subscription
$3.99, once. No monthly fee, no upsell inside the sheet, no ads. One less thing billing you every month, one more thing you actually own.
Free updates, forever. If the file gets a bug fix or an improvement down the line, the new version lands in your inbox automatically. That's it.
FAQ
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I don't run paid shoe reviews, ever. That's not changing. This sheet is a different kind of product, something I built for myself first, and I think it's worth a few dollars. If you disagree after trying it, I'd rather know than have you feel like you were sold something.
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Your Runs and Shoes tabs stay in whichever unit that file version uses, that data never changes. The You tab dashboard has a toggle to view the other unit, for display only. That's also why the sheet ships in two versions, km and mi, so you work in whichever you actually track in.
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No, runs are entered manually. Part of the point is spending less time inside tracking apps, not more.
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Excel, yes, fully. The sheet was built and tested in Google Sheets, so that's still the recommended platform, but current versions of Excel run it with no known issues. Numbers will open the file, but some formulas and features don't behave correctly there depending on version, so it isn't a supported platform right now.
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No pro tier is planned. Any further development of this sheet would be a separate purchase, not a free upgrade. What's planned instead is exploring RSY outside the spreadsheet format entirely. For now, support is limited to bug fixes and updates to keep it working.