Reading your sprint data — Docs

After you record a few runs, Metric Sprint shifts from timing to showing you what is moving. Every run opens on its own summary. Metric Sprint compares each result against your personal best, and charts your splits and your velocity over time.

Read the test summary

The clip sits at the top of the summary. Metric Sprint draws the skeleton, your gate lines and a live velocity readout over it. You can watch the run back against the numbers.

On a linear sprint, the splits card leads with your longest split as the headline. The shorter splits sit underneath it. Each split row shows its time and a coloured bar. The bar shows where that time sits against your best. Peak velocity sits below the splits card, then the acceleration curve.

An agility summary leads with the total. It then breaks the run into legs. It then plots speed against time, with the turns marked.

Personal bests and % of PB

Metric Sprint keeps a personal best for every split distance and every agility test. It shows each result as a percentage of that best. The percentage appears as a ring on the hero card, and as a bar on each split row.

Read the percentage this way:

100% — you matched your best.
Above 100% — you set a new best, and the result picks up a star.
Below 100% — the number tells you how close you got.

The percentage is readable mid-session, at a glance, from a few metres away.

Metric Sprint files splits by distance, not by test. A 0–5 m split inside a 20 m run competes for the same personal best as a standalone 5 m sprint.

Read the home screen

After you have a couple of days of data, the header shows how much you have improved across your selected window. It shows this as a single percentage with an arrow. Coaches see the same figure across their whole roster.

Your performance chart sits under the header, then your recent activity calendar. Coaches also get the team leaderboard.

Compare splits and velocity trends

The performance chart has two modes. Choose the mode from the dropdown on the card.

Splits — plots your times, with a filter pill for each distance. Use the pills to isolate one metric or compare several. Lower is better here, so improvement runs downhill.
Velocity — plots peak velocity, separated by run distance. Top speed off a 10 m run and off a 20 m run are not the same question. Improvement runs uphill.

The trend window defaults to six weeks. Shorten it to look at a training block. Lengthen it to look at a season.

Tip: A single session tells you very little. Sprint times move around with surface, wind, footwear, warm-up and time of day. Judge the line, not the last dot.

Review your history

The calendar card shows the last four weeks, with your active days filled in. This makes gaps in testing obvious at a glance.

Tap through to the full history to see every test, grouped by month. Each row shows the test name, the date and the headline number. To delete a test you do not want in your data, swipe the row.

Team views for coaches

Coaches get a leaderboard alongside the chart. It ranks the roster on the metric and the window that you selected. Both views share that selection. When you change the metric in one view, the other view changes too.

Each athlete also has a profile with their personal bests and their recent sprints. If Metric Sprint recorded a run against the wrong name, re-attribute the set from the summary screen.

For what each metric measures, see Sprint metrics.