Distance Support Is Here: Track Distance, Pace, and More in Iridium
Distance support is here — track running, rowing, carries, sled pushes, and all distance-based conditioning in the same app you use for strength training.
The latest Iridium update adds full distance support across workout generation, logging, PRs, charts, and Year in Review. If you run, row, carry, push sleds, or do any distance-based conditioning, you can now track those sets in the same flow you already use for strength training.
What's New
- Distance-only tracking for cardio-style work
- Distance + weight tracking for loaded work like carries and sled pushes
- Distance + time tracking for pace-aware sessions
- Automatic pace calculation when both distance and time are logged
- Per-exercise distance unit customization (meters, kilometers, miles, feet, yards)
- Distance support in PRs, progress charts, exports, and Year in Review
How To Use Distance Mode
- Start a workout as usual.
- On any distance-capable exercise, open the exercise menu.
- Tap Switch to Distance (you can switch back with Switch to Time).
- Log your set with the fields shown for that exercise:
- Distance only
- Distance + weight
- Distance + time (for pace)
If an exercise is configured to prefer distance mode, Iridium can enable it automatically when your workout starts.
Distance mode works seamlessly with Iridium's AI workout generation — just request distance-based exercises or specify pace targets in your workout preferences.
Customize Distance Units
You can now set distance units per exercise:
- Open Settings.
- Go to Available Exercises.
- Open an exercise that supports distance.
- Set its Distance Unit to Auto, meters, kilometers, miles, feet, or yards.
This lets you keep runs in miles, rows in meters, and carries in feet if that matches how you train.
Setting a unit to "Auto" lets Iridium infer based on the exercise type — runners get kilometers or miles, rowers get meters, etc.
Why This Matters
Distance work often gets tracked in a separate app, disconnected from strength sessions. This update keeps everything together, so your recommendations, PRs, and trends reflect your full training picture.
If you already use Iridium for strength and recovery tracking, distance support makes mixed training blocks a lot more useful and much easier to review.
Ready to Track Distance?
Download Iridium on the App Store
All distance-based exercise types are now supported — everything from 5Ks and 400m repeats to farmer carries and prowler pushes.
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