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A 15-minute weekly review with your Run Game stats

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A weekly review in Run Game takes about 15 minutes: check your approach count and success rate for the last seven days, compare them with the week before, read your notes, glance at the funnel, and pick one thing to change. Pick one fixed time each week so it happens whether the week went well or not. Most of it happens on the Stats page.

Why weekly

Checking your progress on a schedule has some research behind it. A 2016 meta-analysis by Harkin and colleagues in Psychological Bulletin pooled 138 randomized studies with 19,951 participants. It found that prompting people to monitor their progress improved goal attainment (d+ = 0.40), and the effect was larger when progress was physically recorded and when it was reported or made public. Only the abstract was read for this post, and it doesn't list the goal areas, so treat this as general evidence on tracking, not evidence about dating. The routine below follows it: it's recorded, and it can be shared with a friend.

Before you start

Pick a day and time. Sunday evening works for many people because the week is finished and the next one hasn't begun. Put it in your calendar and keep a notes app open. Logging works offline and syncs when you have signal, so anything from a night with no reception should be in by now.

Minutes 0 to 3: the totals

Open Improve, then Stats. At the top there are range choices: Today, This week and All time, with 3 days and 30 days under More. Choose This week. In Run Game, This week means the last seven days, not Monday to Sunday.

Write down four numbers:

Approaches are only successes and rejections. The success rate is successes divided by successes plus rejections (how Run Game counts it).

Minutes 3 to 6: this week against last

Scroll to This week vs last. It shows approaches and success rate for each week, a short bar for each, and a line such as "12% vs last week (+3)" that gives the change in approaches.

Look at the count first. Count is mostly in your control. Rate depends on many things you can't see.

Then check Streaks (Current, Best and Active days) and Night by night, a chart of approaches per day. If your plan was two outings a week, the chart shows at a glance whether you did them.

Minutes 6 to 10: your notes

This is the part that tells you what to change. Scroll to Recent logs and tap the header to open it. Each row shows the outcome, the time, any name and your note. The chips at the top let you filter to Success or Rejected. For the nights themselves, Session history lets you open a session and read its notes.

Read the week's notes once and mark anything that appears twice. Examples:

Two repeats are enough to pick a theme.

Minutes 10 to 12: the funnel

Stats has a Pipeline section that follows your successes through got number, texted, date set, went on a date and dating. It only has data if you've marked what happened next, so spend a minute updating the stages for this week's successes first. How the outcome funnel works shows where to tap. You don't need to analyze the funnel every week. A glance for changes is plenty.

Minutes 12 to 15: one change

Choose one change for next week, write it down, and put a number on it. Specific works better than vague:

Dating goals you can control explains why a goal built from actions you control beats a goal built on a result. If you're unsure how many approaches to aim for, how many approaches per week lays out the options.

Don't overreact to a small week

A week is a small sample. Two successes out of five approaches is 40%. Three out of five is 60%. One conversation moved the rate by 20 points. If a week had five approaches or fewer, give the count and your notes more weight than the rate.

A week with zero approaches says something about your schedule or energy, not your ability. If it happens twice in a row, look at what got in the way. Staying motivated when progress is slow covers the common patterns.

Change only one thing at a time. If you change three things and the next week goes better, you won't know which one did it. After four weeks you'll have a trend to read, and the Peak hours and 7-day rolling success rate sections in Stats begin to say something.

What to do next

  1. Pick the day and time for your review and put it in your calendar now.
  2. This Sunday, open Stats on This week and write down approaches, successes, rejected and success rate.
  3. Compare with last week in This week vs last. Note whether the count went up, held or fell.
  4. Read your notes in Recent logs and underline any theme that appears twice.
  5. Write one change with a number for next week.
  6. Send the number to a friend if you have one. The Friends tab has a "This week" board with each person's approaches over the last seven days, and using a friend as an accountability partner explains a simple routine.

The full guide to tracking your progress covers what to log in the first place.

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