Set Goals and Track Your Progress

Goals let you set what you are working toward and watch your progress build as you train. FitKeep tracks your activities against each goal automatically.

Pick what the goal is for

Every goal has a purpose:

Total distance: all your activities added up, such as 100 km by the end of the month, or 30 km every week. It repeats every week or month if you make it recurring.
Race: a distance on a set date, optionally within a target time.
Finish a distance: one run of that distance, such as your first half marathon, optionally by a date. “5 km in total” is a total distance; “run 5 km” is finishing a distance.
Improve a time: beat a target time at a standard distance, such as 5 km under 25:00.
Stay fit: keep training, with no end. It is never achieved, so it stays ongoing.

Create a goal

Open the Goals page in FitKeep
Select Create goal
Pick the purpose and fill in what it needs: a distance, a date, a target time, or for a total distance the activity types that count
Check the start date and save

Start date

Progress counts from the goal’s start date. It is the day you create the goal, and you can set it earlier to count runs you have already done. An improve a time goal is achieved by a best effort from its start date on, so a time from before it doesn’t reach the goal for you.

How progress is tracked

For a total distance, FitKeep adds up the distance from every activity that matches your goal’s activity types and dates. For a goal with an end date it also shows where you should be today to finish on schedule:

Expected: the distance you’d have today if you spread the target evenly over the goal’s period. The tick on the progress bar marks it
km ahead or km behind: how far you are from that expected distance
Need X km / week to finish, or Only X km / week needed to finish when you’re ahead: what you’d need to cover each week from now to reach the goal on time

A race is judged on your run on the race date, finishing a distance on your longest run since the start date, and improving a time on your best effort at the distance.

Improve a time

An improve a time goal’s card shows where you stand today:

Recent best: your fastest best effort at the goal’s distance in the last 3 months, with its date. It is about your form now, so a fast time from long ago doesn’t hide how far you are from the target
to cut: how much faster than your Recent best the target is, such as “1:30 to cut”, and below it how much faster per kilometre that is, such as “8 s/km faster”
Target: the time you are aiming for, with the distance

When your Recent best is already at or under the target, for example from a run before the goal started, the card says how far under it is and “target reached”, but the goal is only Achieved by a run from its start date on.

If your all-time best says something more, a note under it tells you: that the target would be a new personal best, or that you have run it before, such as “You’ve run 24:30 before (Mar 2025), so this is about getting back there”. Without a run at the distance in the last 3 months the card shows the target with “No 5 km in the last 3 months”, and the all-time best when you have one.

Once the goal is Achieved, or Missed because its date passed, the card shows your best run from the start date to the goal’s date instead, with how far under the target it was or how far short it fell.

Status badges

The badge next to a goal tells you where it stands:

On track: a total distance goal at or ahead of its expected distance today
Below target: a total distance goal behind its expected distance
Achieved: you reached the goal
Missed: the goal’s date passed before you reached it
Ongoing: a goal with no end, such as staying fit

A goal that repeats every week or month is judged on the current week or month only. On track and Below target compare this week’s or month’s distance with where you would be today if you spread its target evenly over it, and Achieved means you reached this week’s or month’s target. It starts again with the next week or month.

A race goal shows “Race day is still ahead” until its date, and its result afterwards.

Goal detail

Select a total distance goal on the Goals page to open its own page:

Goal, Current, Remaining and vs. Expected: the target, the distance so far, what’s left, and how many km you are ahead of (+) or behind (−) the expected distance today
Progress over time: your distance building up against the expected line. The shading between them shows when you were Ahead of schedule or Behind schedule
Pacing: your average per week so far next to the average you need from now on
Weekly history or Monthly history, for a goal that repeats: one bar per week or month, marked Reached, Missed or Current, with a summary such as “9 of 21 weeks reached”

Other goals show everything on their card on the Goals page.

Let the AI Coach draft a goal

If the AI Coach is on for your account, you can ask it to create, adjust, or archive a goal in plain English. It shows the change for you to review, and nothing happens until you confirm. See Chat with the AI Coach.

Where to view goals

The Goals page lists all active goals with their progress. If you train with a Training Plan, the goal it works toward comes first and links to the plan, with the plan’s week and Phase, such as “Training Plan · week 5 of 9”. A goal you trained for with a plan that has ended says “Trained with a plan” and the plan’s dates. See Train with a Training Plan
The dashboard surfaces your goal progress alongside recent activity

Managing goals

Edit a goal at any time to adjust its name, target, or dates
Archive a goal you’ve finished with to hide it without losing its history. A goal with an active Training Plan can’t be archived until you end the plan
Delete a goal to remove it for good. A goal a Training Plan worked toward can only be archived, not deleted
Restore an archived goal from the archived goals on the Goals page