Marathon Miles — a new marathon course every day

How to play

Three lanes, one road, and everything on it is in your way. The controls take about five seconds to learn; the record takes rather longer.

Move

Left and right

Swipe or use the arrow keys to change lane. You can move as often as you like — choosing the right lane early is most of the game.

Clear

Jump and slide

Swipe up to jump a barrier, down to slide under one. Some obstacles can be ridden over the top of, if you find the ramp.

Cost

One contact ends it

Hit something unprotected and the record is gone for that run. Water and fruit along the road buy you a cushion — collect enough and a mistake costs you nothing.

The road decides your pace

Coloured mats are laid along the course. They are the only thing that changes your speed, and they are placed where the decision is hardest — beside an obstacle, on top of a lorry, across the line you were already committed to.

Green lifts you A short burst of pace. Worth going out of your way for — usually.

Red drags you A short loss. Sometimes the safe lane and the fast lane are not the same lane.

Break it and you're done for the day

Run today's course as many times as you want. The moment you finish under 1:59:30, the day closes and the next course unlocks at midnight UTC. Your record cities are kept, and so is your streak.

Unlimited

Retries are free

There is no life system and nothing to wait for. If a run ends, start another one immediately.

Twelve

A city a day

Each day's course is set in one real marathon city, drawn so you see every one of them before any repeats.

Kept

Streaks and record cities

Every city where you have broken the record is marked, and consecutive record days build a streak.

Six blocks, no spoilers

Your finish gives you a result you can paste anywhere. One block for each leg of the course: green if you ran it clean, yellow if something clipped you and your cushion took it, red if it cost you. It says how your run went, never where the obstacles are.

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