You can take part by reading it, joining it, or contributing to it — nothing is required. Every athlete who joins makes the evidence clearer, for themselves and for everyone who moves like them.
Most people start by simply reading the evidence, and go further as they get curious. Contributing your activity history is one way to take part — never the price of entry.
Taking part isn't a transaction. It's adding to a resource we all share — the patterns that quietly repeat across everyday sport, given back to the people who created them. Not a product feature. A community asset.
Most people start by reading and move along as they get curious. Every step is optional, and you can stop wherever feels right.
Explore the project freely. Nothing to sign up for.
Create a free account to make the evidence your own.
Add your activity history and unlock your own place in the evidence.
Help build the project in its earliest stages — and be recognised for it.
Personal in · aggregate out — at every level, you stay in control of what you share.
One athlete's history is a story. Millions of them, observed together, become evidence — the patterns that quietly repeat across everyday sport. You can only see where you fit because others chose to take part first.
More journeys mean tighter, more meaningful communities — so the group you belong with actually looks like you.
Patterns drawn from more athletes are more reliable, and they cover more kinds of people — beginners, comeback athletes, every pace.
The evidence you help create is open to read. Taking part isn't a transaction — it's adding to a resource everyone shares.
Your journey joins millions of others. Together they reveal what consistently appears across everyday sport — and everyone benefits from the evidence, not just the people who can afford a coach.
If you choose to contribute, here's exactly what you share — the activity you've already done, nothing more. You choose what to connect, and you can stop sharing at any time.
Sessions you've recorded — distance, pace, date and route summary — from the sources you connect.
You choose the sourcesPublic results like parkrun and race finishes that help place your journey in context.
Mostly already publicHow your activity has changed over time — the trend, not the personal detail.
Aggregated, not identifyingTaking part should feel safe, not like signing away your life. Here's exactly how we treat what you share — in four straight lines.
Evidence is built from thousands of athletes at once. No chart, study or cohort ever identifies an individual.
Connect the sources you want, leave out the ones you don't. Nothing is taken without your say-so.
Change your mind whenever you like. Disconnect a source and it stops contributing — no friction, no penalty.
We do not sell personal information, identifiable athlete records, or individual running histories. Aggregated and anonymised evidence may be published, shared, licensed, or commercialised as studies, benchmarks, reports, and population-level insights.
A small group of early athletes are shaping what Sports Evidence Lab becomes. Their journeys are the first evidence the whole community is built on — and that's something we mark, permanently.
No cost, ever. Founding status simply recognises the people who showed up first.
Three simple moves take you from reading the evidence to finding your place in it.
Start as a visitor — read selected public studies and see how the evidence is built.
Browse studiesBecome a member to open the full Evidence Library, save studies and get personalised picks.
Create an accountConnect your activity history to unlock personal insights and cohort matching.
Find Where You FitRead it, join it, or contribute to it — and help build the evidence base that everyday athletes, clubs and researchers are creating together.