How realms work: owning the streets you run on Run on Realms
A route you run can become a realm. Here is how you ask for one, how ROR checks it, how points and the daily crown work, and how a rival takes it from you.
A realm is a route you ran
Most running apps give you a number. Run on Realms gives you a map — your actual city — and lets the streets you run become realms: named pieces of ground with a holder, a board and a crown.
A realm is the ground you actually ran — the streets under your feet, not a box drawn around them.
How you get one
How a realm is held
- Points come from running it. Your points on a realm are the distance you ran there plus the distinct days you ran there, over a rolling window. Coming back often counts.
- The crown is checked once a day. Each day ROR looks at the board and decides who holds the realm.
- A challenger has to win by enough. To take a realm, a rival must out-run the holder by a clear margin. A tie stays with the holder.
- No timer takes it. There is no countdown and no expiry. A realm changes hands only when someone out-runs the holder there.
You can also race the holder’s ghost on any realm, and the fastest time there is kept as a separate record — it wins no ground.
Why the GPS matters
A game about ground needs honest tracking. ROR uses Kalman-filtered GPS, keeps recording with the screen locked, and uses your phone’s step count to fill distance across a GPS gap. Runs flagged as faked GPS win nothing.
New accounts start with a privacy zone that hides the start and end of your routes from everyone else, and you can change it.
Start running your city
ROR launches on iOS and Android, India first. Free to start.
Join the waitlist → — then go run the route you want to hold.
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