Your profile, privacy & account

Your public profile

Everyone gets a profile page at runthis.run/u/yourname. It shows your header photo and avatar, your name and @username, follower and following counts, your bio, your upcoming and saved events, events you direct, your trophies and race history, and the clubs and communities you belong to. Tapping a follower count opens the list. To see your profile the way others do, click your name at the bottom of the sidebar.

Visitors see only your public, upcoming events under Events you direct. In the Run This app, opening that list on your own profile shows every event you direct, split into Upcoming and Past, with a search box to find one by name.

Settings

Your account settings live on one page. Click the gear at the bottom of the sidebar to open Settings, which has:

• Your account: Edit profile, Connected accounts, and Blocked users.
• Notifications: which push notifications reach you, and your email preferences. See Notifications.
• Appearance: Light, Dark, or System (follows your device).
• Help and info: the help docs, Contact Run This, and our policies.
• Log out.

The ? button next to the gear is a shortcut to the help docs and the contact form.

Editing your profile

Open Settings and choose Edit profile. It's organized into cards, tap a row to edit it; selection fields (like gender or your date of birth) save the moment you pick, and each row shows its own saved indicator.

• Basics: first and last name, date of birth (never shown publicly), gender, and your home address. Your address is private: it prefills registrations and powers races-near-you, and only your city and state are ever shown on your profile (and on a private account, only to your followers). See Changing your email below.
• Photos: a square profile photo (at least 512×512) and a header banner shown across the top of your profile.
• Your Profile: your @username (used for mentions across Run This; the editor checks availability as you type), your bio, and the two privacy switches below.

Changing your email

In Edit profile, tap Change next to your email and enter the new address. We send a confirmation link to the new address, and nothing changes until you click it. You keep signing in with your old address until then, which is what stops anyone who borrows your signed-in device from moving your account to an address you don't control.

To change the email on a race you're already registered for, ask the race to update it. Open My races and use the Contact race link on that registration. Directors can edit your details from their roster.

A couple of things worth knowing. If you see a message asking you to sign out and back in first, that's normal: changing the address you sign in with needs a recent sign-in. And if the new address already belongs to another Run This account, the change is refused rather than merging the two.

Going private

The Private account switch in Edit profile changes who can see your details:

• Follows become requests. Anyone tapping Follow sends a request you approve or decline from the Requests tab on your People page, see Following & finding friends.
• Your profile content locks to non-followers. Your city and state, bio, race history and trophies, upcoming and saved events, and clubs and communities are hidden. A visitor sees a “This profile is private” card with a Request button instead. Your name, username, photos, and follower counts stay visible (a private profile is never a blank page), and your follower and following lists only open for approved followers.
• Your feed posts go to your followers only. A post you write from your feed is visible to your approved followers, and its link opens for them only. Posts you write in a club or community, or on a race page, work differently: they stay visible to that group's audience, and the composer says who can see a post before you share it.
• You're hidden from event start lines. On the public list of who's registered for a race, viewers who don't follow you never see your name. You're only reflected in an anonymous count of hidden private accounts.
• Game leaderboards mask you. On the Run This Runner global leaderboard you appear as “Private runner” with a default avatar to everyone but yourself.

Separate from the private switch, the Share my activity toggle controls whether your saves, registrations, RSVPs, and club joins broadcast to your followers' feeds. It does not change who can see your posts. See The Feed.

Blocking someone

Block from the block button on a person's profile, or from the ⋯ menu on any of their feed posts. Blocking is silent. They aren't notified. While a block is in place, in either direction:

• Neither of you can message the other, and any direct chat between you is hidden from both chat lists (not deleted). See Chats & messaging.
• You stop seeing each other's posts and comments in feeds and comment threads.
• Neither of you can open the other's profile page.
• Blocking also removes your follow (or pending request) of that person.

You can unblock anytime. Your blocked list lives in Settings, under Blocked users, on the website and in the Run This app, with an Unblock button per person. Unblocking restores chats and content; it doesn't restore any follows that were removed.

Connected accounts

Connected accounts (in Settings) links you with another Run This user (a spouse, a training partner) so either of you can register the other for events in one cart. Send an invite by @username or email (or share the invite link); the other person accepts or declines, and either of you can disconnect at any time.

A connection grants exactly one thing: when your connection registers you for an event, the form prefills with the details needed to register (name, email, date of birth, gender, address, phone, emergency contact). It does not share anything else, no access to bookmarks, calendar, registrations, chats, or the rest of your profile. The same page also manages your dependents, kids or family members without their own login whom you register for events yourself. See Registering & your receipts.

Deleting your account

In Edit profile, scroll to the Delete account card and tap Delete my account. You'll see exactly what happens before you confirm:

• Your account is hidden immediately and permanently deleted after a 30-day recovery window. Change your mind? Sign back in during that window. You'll see a banner with the scheduled deletion date and a Cancel deletion button.
• Deletion removes your login, profile, username, photos, posts, comments, messages, and follows.
• Because Run This is also a race-registration platform, your event registrations, payments, waivers, and results are kept as transaction records (for accounting, refunds, and legal and safety reasons), no longer linked to an account. Details are in the Privacy Policy.
• If you direct a live event or manage event payouts, you'll be asked to wind those down first.

Can't sign in? Email info@runthis.run from your account's email address with the subject “Delete my account.”