Are you ahead or behind? Now you can see it without reading a number. The band around the race screen edge fills with how far round the loop you are, and a red mark shows where the clock is. Ahead of the mark you are banking rest. Behind it you are spending it. Your recovery now talks to you. The watch buzzes and says the time out loud at three minutes, two and one, then again the moment the next yard starts. Three, two, one, GO, without opening your eyes. During the yard it calls your distance at two, four and six kilometres. And the corral clock now sits on your iPhone lock screen, so the phone at base is useful without picking it up. The recovery screen now shows the yard you just ran, time and pace, under the countdown. That is the number you actually want before deciding how to run the next one. Put the phone down through recovery and pick it up again and you get one alert, not the whole backlog at once. Also in this release: brighter labels on the race tiles so they hold up on a bouncing wrist, the bell no longer stops your music, and a fix for a rare case where a cancelled start could stop a race saving to Apple Health.

CHOOSE YOUR METRICS The two tiles on the Watch race screen are now yours to set. Pick from heart rate, estimated distance left, average yard pace and estimated rest. Change them mid-race straight from your wrist, with no phone needed. What matters at yard 2 is rarely what matters at yard 20. Tap a tile, pick a metric, and you are back on the race screen. NEW: ESTIMATED REST Projects how long you will have off your feet before the next yard starts, based on how the current yard is going. If you are running behind it shows how far behind, so you know whether to lift the pace or start thinking about the next yard. Defaults are unchanged, so if you liked it as it was, nothing moves.

Fixes estimated distance remaining after a missed lap tap. If a yard ended without you tapping Lap complete, the distance readout could stay wrong for the rest of the race.

ALSO IN THIS RELEASE Recovery screen now floods orange then red as the next yard approaches, matching the watch. Lap times can be edited after a race, including automatic cutoff yards. A yard that elapses without a lap tap is now recorded automatically at the full yard duration. Race summary adds course distance, lap pace trend and buffer. An in-progress race now survives a force quit and resumes where it was. Clearer Strava upload messaging, with TCX export as an alternative. Faster, branded launch screen.

Refreshed visuals and behind-the-scenes improvements. Thanks for racing with BackyardPace - one lap at a time.