This one was built on holiday. Between beach days and family time this summer, I had downtime and a deadline: the FORGE race — Cambodia's first hybrid fitness event — happens at the end of the year, and I need to arrive fit. Getting there means months of structured training across three very different disciplines: strength work in the gym, running on the road, and CrossFit-style workouts that mix everything at intensity. So I spent the quiet hours building the tool I'd want for the leadup, and named it after the race: FORGE.
The problem it solves is fragmentation. Hybrid training doesn't fit neatly into any one app. Strava is brilliant for running but has nothing useful to say about a heavy squat session. Strength apps log sets and reps but don't know what a 21-15-9 is. CrossFit workouts usually end up in a notebook or a whiteboard photo. Train across all three and your progress is scattered across places that never talk to each other — which means you can't see the one thing that actually matters: whether the whole system is improving.
FORGE puts it all in one place. Strength sessions get proper logging — sets, reps, personal records, per-exercise history and graphs. Runs sync automatically from a Garmin watch, complete with route maps, pace, and heart-rate detail. And CrossFit workouts are logged the way you'd say them out loud: type "21-15-9 thrusters @43kg / pull-ups, 6:42" and it understands the format, the loads, and the score. Because everything lands in the same database, FORGE can do things single-sport apps can't — track training load across all three disciplines, show which muscle groups are still recovering, predict your score on a workout before you attempt it, and put you on a leaderboard with your friends.
It's also a free alternative to the subscription treadmill. Strava wants a yearly fee to show you your own trends; most strength apps gate history behind "premium." FORGE follows the same rule as everything else I've built and shared here, from TripSplitter to GlobeTrotter: it's free to use, forever. No ads, no premium tier, no locked features. It exists because I needed it, and sharing it costs me almost nothing.
If you're training for FORGE, chasing a hybrid event like HYROX, or just tired of juggling three apps to see one picture of your fitness, you're welcome to it. Sign up, connect your watch if you have one, and start logging. I'll be the one at the top of the leaderboard — at least until race day sorts out whether the app worked.