u/nlabendeira

Up until late February, runs recorded in the Runna app used to bring the workout structure into Apple Health using a field called “intervals.” This was great as it allowed me to analyze the run using outside tools based on the structure of the run. I could isolate tempo segments, intervals, etc. individually. This no longer happens.

The runs with the workout structure had purple text in Apple Health/Fitness data, and as of 2/27/26, the text has been green and the intervals field is gone.

I’m sharing here because I spoke with customer service in late May, they said they’d get back to me, and it’s been crickets since. I’ll nudge them as that date split is extremely important to me for analytical purposes. Before, I could take my interval segments and isolate things like average pace, power, cadence, etc. for just the high intensity intervals or individual interval and that ability is lost to me now.

Hi Runnas,

I just finished my second plan with Runna and what a ride! My first plan was a full marathon build, and while the training went incredibly well, I did bonk at mile 22 and came up short of my goal time. Despite hitting the wall and resorting to run-walking most of the last 4 miles, I still took 20 minutes off of my marathon PR. After a 3-week post race recovery plan, I jumped straight into a 20-week half marathon plan with A LOT of B-races.

Going into this plan, my heart was set on a sub-1:30:00 half marathon and when using my new marathon PR and setting my plan up as elite, progressive, and challenging, my estimated finish time was 1:26:00-1:29:00. I mentioned before that there were a lot of B-races on my path to this race. I’m competing in a local series of races for title of runner of the year in my age group. There were 8 B-races from the start of my plan to its finale, one of which was not a part of the series of races and I just paced a friend to a HM PR at my conversational pace.

The training block went really well, although there were some speed bumps along the way. I picked up niggles a couple of times, the worst of which was shin splints which I haven’t had since 2024. I’m pretty persistent with my training and was very tempted to power through it, but I talked myself down, used the “Not feeling 100%” feature and decreased my difficulty settings. I’m so glad that I did because I have zero doubt that I would’ve ended up with a stress fracture or something if I doubled down and tried to train through it. I also have to add that the B-race feature is incredible and helped me navigate a loaded race schedule really well.

Race day:

The taper treated me really well. My symptoms of over training were well managed at this point and I felt better than I had in weeks by the time I toed the starting line. I used Maurten’s new fuel planner for my nutrition strategy, and decided to try a negative split strategy for this race. Runna does not have race day split strategies in the app, so I did go a little rogue here. I decided to approach this race as follows by programming the workout structure into my Apple Watch:

- 3mi @ 6:50-7:00/mi

- 6mi @ 6:40-6:50/mi

- 3mi @ 6:30-6:40/mi

- 1.1mi @ <6:30/mi

The strategy was great! I felt amazing the first half and the race definitely got progressively harder, as expected. By mile 12 I wasn’t sure that I had anything left in the tank, but I dug deep and ran my fastest split in mile 13! That segment as a whole looks slower than it actually was in the data because I let my watch continue running after I finished while I walked to get water until I had paid the Strava tax (about +1:13 after crossing the finish line).

To conclude my write up, I went into this training block with my heart set on a sub-1:30:00 half marathon and walked away with a huge PR. Thank you, Runna.

Chip time: 1:28:05.7