On light runs (where I can comfortably breathe through just my nose) my hr settles between 160-170
Resting hr between 50 and 55 going around or below 40 when sleeping with hrv of 130-150 average
Do not run regularly enough to be a runner but have covered distances upto 35km and several half marathons fairly easily
Have a sporting background and 17yo male
Rant:
Today I finished my 12 week plan. And again, the new plan will not be build on my old runs.
Why does it take so long to implement such an import feature. It’s so easy to do that. All data is in the app!
It’s really annoying.
Today I tryed another app. I was able to connect to Strava and already the first plan was build on these data.
Should be much easier for Runna.
Very disappointing!
Rant over. :)
Hey everyone,
I just started using Runna and am currently following one of the new runner programs. Because my phone's onboard GPS is incredibly inaccurate and drops connection constantly, I've decided not to use the actual Runna app to record my runs live.
Instead, I’m tracking everything directly on my Pixel Watch, which automatically shares and syncs the completed sessions over to Runna as soon as I'm done.
My question is: Does Runna's algorithm still "see" these imported workouts and automatically adjust my future weeks/pacing targets based on my progress? Or does the auto-regulation feature only work if you record the session natively inside the phone app?
Appreciate any insights from anyone else using a watch-only setup!
39 years old, a few weeks from my 40th birthday. Not particularly in shape and I’ve never run before. I did the complete beginner plan and at the start I thought there was NO WAY I would be at a 5k in 12 weeks. I did it and if there’s anyone else doubting they can do it, if I can, I promise you can. It was hard, and rewarding and now I have a new habit for the rest of my life or until I injure myself into retirement. Subscribing to Runna was an easy decision. I’m really thankful that I found this app.
My PB time for a 5k is 36 mins. I’m still in shock. Even this morning while doing the warmup stretch, I was doubting myself.
I’ve been running for a few months now, but I can’t run for very long because I keep getting what I think are shin splints. It feels like my tibia is going to crack.
The pain usually only starts once I’ve run more than about 2 km. After that, I can’t go for another run for the next 2–3 days because it’s so sore. If I try to run while it’s still sore, it hurts like hell.
I’m not sure if it’s my tibialis anterior or something else, but the pain feels like it’s right on the bone. I can’t even rub my hand over the area with a little pressure because it’s so tender. I can’t massage it either it feels so delicate that it’s like the bone is going to crack if I press on it. And I am not exaggerating when I say it’s going to crack, I can usually pretty good with pain tolerance but this is something else. Cuz my cousin accidentally hit my shin and it was such a light hit but i fell and had to sit down for the next 15 mins before i felt like i can walk again
Has anyone experienced something similar or know what it could be?
How do i fix this?
Runna has helped me unlock a new PB at Gold Coast today.
Time: 3:59:50
Just snuck in under 4 hours and after thinking I had it covered I had to step on the gas for the last km and a bit.
An emergency toilet stop around 25km didn’t help.
Missed my Boston goal (sub 3:50) but Kobe is planned for November.
Runna has been good for me. I know not everyone feels the same but it helped me to my Valencia PB of 4:11 and now GC.
Prefacing this - I am new to using both Garmin and Runna.
I am using Runna’s scheduled runs on a treadmill. I am “starting” the run on my Garmin under “scheduled workouts”. However - I realized today, mid-run, that Garmin thinks I am running on the road and not a treadmill. I see there is “Run” and “Treadmill Run” as Garmin run options, but I do not see any way to toggle this in Runna.
This left me with really bad data - both page and distance. What’s the easy fix here? I would like to have the run data on my watch so I can track as I go. Thanks!
Deadline to transfer is Oct 7, 2026. My husband and I purchased not realizing we had another event scheduled that weekend! Please DM if interested. TY!
Background: I’ve been using Runna for over a year now but this is the first time I’ve ran intervals on track.
The problem: Runna consistently records less distance than I actually ran for each interval, which throws off the calculated pace even though my effort was consistent.
For example, my 800m reps are showing as 0.79 km instead of 0.80+ actual, and my 600m reps are showing as 0.59km — small shortfalls, but enough to make the pace/km numbers look off compared to what I actually ran.
Attaching a screenshot of the lap breakdown from a recent session — you can see the distances aren’t lining up with the prescribed rep distances, which is throwing the per-km splits off.
Has anyone found a fix for this? Trying to figure out if it’s:
• A GPS/Track Detection accuracy issue
• A Runna sync/rounding issue when pulling data from Apple Health
• Something in my watch settings (auto-lap, auto-pause, etc.)
Would appreciate any insight from people who’ve dealt with this and gotten clean, accurate track data into Runna.
Are pace insights working properly?
I've come back to Runna after a period away and beaten every target it sets for speed sessions. When I used it before it would adjust my pace when I was consistently beating the targets - now it's just saying I'm not consistent enough despite my least consistent split having just a 3 second disparity (bar the last split which I always try to finish stronger on). I've also beaten every target by a pretty significant margin.
Am I missing something or should it be suggesting adjustments?
my race is on July 26 in the morning and my plan officially renews on July 26 at 6:30 PM. I don’t have plans to run another race after that, so I’m wondering if there’s any reason I should not cancel my subscription. I’m a little worried about canceling since it is so close to the race, but I don’t want to spend another month until I have a race in mind.
Spent the last few months building this and just launched it in the App Store. It started from my own frustration as a runner: every app hands you a static plan built for some average person, then never really adjusts when life happens. You sleep badly, your knee's sore, you travel for work, you go out too hard on a Tuesday, and the plan just sits there unchanged. A real coach adapts to all of that, but a good one runs $150 to $300+ a month and is out of reach for most people. Training apps are dressed-up plans that lack the communication and personalization that comes from a coach. So I built Runsense: a coach that reads your actual training & biometrics and adapts the plan around you, and that you can talk to in plain language.
It pulls your workouts & biometrics from Apple Health, compares what you actually did against what was planned, and adjusts from there. You can message it like you'd text a coach ("legs are trashed today, can I move my long run to Thursday?" "what is a stride?") and it responds to you. The whole goal is coaching that fits one person, not a plan template with your name pasted on top.
We're live as of last week, still small, a handful of early users, and the feedback's been good so far.
Always open to feedback or criticism on the product itself too. Happy to talk through any of it.
I've done a couple of plans with Runna and I usually find it takes a week or 2 for Runna to re-adjust my pace particularly for intervals to a more accurate/challenging one.
The start of my plan has a slower pace than I know I can do for intervals.
Question. Do I trust the runna process and stick to the pace given or do I go a little faster on each leg?
If I stick to the process, will Runna notice and then re-adjust my pace? I don't see how they would?
Plan is a hilly 10k but these intervals are on flat ground (for now!)
After my run yesterday, my workout insights refuse to load. I've read that this can be due to an app error or backend congestion, but neither waiting a day nor removing and reinstalling the app has fixed the problem. Any suggestions for addressing this or is it just an occasional bug I need to get used to?
"Sorry, we are unable to load your Workout Insights at this moment."
Have a marathon in September and can no longer pay for a trainer for personal reasons.
I buy a half marathon in 2:30 and would like to finish the BMW Marathon just because I have a 70.3 Ironman a month before.
Do you think the Garmin Run Coach or the Runna app is better for training?
Of course I still have cycling and swimming training, but I have enough time for everything ~16h a week.
Please tell me your opinions on both plans
On a 16 week prep and targeting 1:40-1:45 (ideally sub 1:40, though unsure I'll get there).
I often feel like the interval/hard runs aren't actually that difficult. For instance, it says my 300m interval repeats (x3) are at 4:50/km & 5:35/km, which just doesn't feel that quick for me for a fartlek run.
I'm currently doing 3 runs a week, two are slow "long runs" that are sometimes as short as 5k, but up to about 10k with where I'm at in my plan. I'll occasionally add another 5-10k long run. All long runs are in zone 2, at a pace between 5:50-6:15/km - I'm happy with this as I've learned how amazing zone 2 is lol.
Is it okay for me to increase my pace on these hard runs? Does it have any benefit for me? Should I prioritise target HR zones when doing these fast runs? Also, how often can I just smash out a hard 5 or 10k? Thinking once every 3-4 weeks
After my run today I clicked the thumbs up for the insight.
After that I got the message as seen above. Anyone else having trouble today?
There is also no record for the pace insights today
Which was 20x 200m so it should be there..
I tried unlinking and linking up again, but to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas what might be going on?
Due to some lifestyle changes I have to reset some goals and priorities. Long story short I’m shifting to a race ideally later in the year. Got Runna to build me a new plan. Firstly, it was really resistant to letting me set my maximum mileage and run length unless I selected Elite? Secondly, it feels like it just doesn’t take into account any workout history whatsoever? Not even the PRs it has on record or from cross over with Strava. Has anyone else encountered this?
It’s making me feel confused about when to select the start date for the new plan because it’s setting some really weird distance goals etc and starting out really tame and underestimating my running up until this point
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,
Quick background: I was running outside in summer months and now winter came and I’m running on a non-smart treadmill. When running outside runna gave me some pace-increase recommendations cause I was running a bit faster than what runna had though.
So now I run indoors on a treadmill, and I follow the app instructions of speed.
I recently did a speed session and felt very very comfortable and not challenging at all. So now my question is:
Will runna see my “low” heartrate (which it gets from garmin) and suggest a pace increment? Or do I have to run faster for that to happen? Obviously right now my pace is always perfectly on point cause I follow the exact instructions.
In short: does the pace increase recommendation come only based on past speed, or does HR affect it as well?