Motivational Running App Design

I’ve never had cardio endurance. Not as a kid, not now. Even after regular strength training, a couple flights of stairs still leave me out of breath. And yet, somewhere along the way, I started to like running (not love, let’s not get crazy).

So I had this idea: What if I turned this struggle into a personal design project?

The concept? A running app designed to make running feel doable, motivating, and fun, especially for people like me. I started with copy, short, energetic lines like:

“Couch to conqueror” “Run smart, reach farther”

From there, I sketched a character. A cute, slightly clumsy, very relatable runner who struggles but shows up anyway.