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Open the Profile tab → the gear (Settings) → the Apple Health section → Connect Apple Health, and allow read access. RunMana reads your completed runs and walks to notice when your fitness shifts. If you connected but don't see workouts, open iPhone Settings → Health → Data Access & Devices → RunMana and turn read access on.
Yes. Mana Walks builds a walking program around your life: you choose the days and how long you walk, and each session comes with heart-rate guidance so the effort is right for you. Walking is training, and the app treats it that way. Moving toward running is an offer you can take someday, never something the app pushes.
Absolutely. Tell RunMana you're just here to run, and it builds a steady, sustainable rhythm of easy running, strength, and gentle progression that you can keep up for as long as you like. If a race ever appears on your calendar, add it and the plan reshapes around it.
It's your anchor: RunMana's honest estimate of what you could race today at the distance that matters to you. Every pace in your plan is derived from that one number. As you get fitter, RunMana notices and offers to update it. You always confirm.
Profile tab → your Mana card. You have three ways: Update Mana Race Estimate (enter what you believe you could run), Estimate from recent runs (RunMana reads your Apple Health history and proposes one), or Enter Time Trial or Race Result (the strongest evidence, from a real all-out effort). RunMana may also propose an update on its own when your training shows a clear, sustained shift. You decide whether to accept.
Usually it means the run was faster than the prescription. RunMana coaches effort first, pace second: an easy day run at threshold pace will feel hard because it is hard. Check the run's zone breakdown; if you drifted above the target zone, ease off next time. That's the coaching working, not a problem.
It stays on your Today list for up to a week, and RunMana will ask whether you got it in while you were away. Life happens; the run still counts when you get to it. Nothing shames you and nothing silently disappears.
Yes. Tap any workout to open it: from there you can Customize it, rename it (the new name shows on your watch too), or skip it with one tap and put it back later if you change your mind. You can also add an extra easy run or walk any day with Add a run or Add a walk; extras never wreck the plan.
Yes. Open the workout and convert it to another activity: bike, pool, elliptical, and more. RunMana builds an equivalent session so you get the training benefit without the impact. Converting is following the plan, not skipping it. There's also a one-tap treadmill option for days the weather wins.
Strength work is part of the plan because a balanced athlete stays healthy. It's opt-in, and you pick your equipment level: bodyweight only, a few basics at home, or full gym. Every session spells out the movements in plain language.
Your race arrives as three watch workouts in order: warm-up, the race itself, and a cool-down. If you picked your course, the race is split into stretches that follow the terrain, each with its own pacing guidance, and RunMana writes you a plain-language read of the course beforehand so you know where to stay calm and where to spend.
Profile tab → Personal Bests. It's your trophy case: pick the distances you care about, add your own date ranges (a season, a comeback), and enter results by hand for races the watch missed. The trophy case celebrates you; it never changes your training paces.
A bike ride that logged as a run, someone else's workout on your watch: it happens. Open that workout in RunMana and exclude it. Your fitness reads and personal bests recompute without it, and Apple Health itself is untouched.
Yes. Profile tab → the gear (Settings) → Display, and choose your units.
RunMana sends your sessions to Apple's Workout app: warm-up, intervals, targets, and cues included. Open the workout on your Apple Watch and start it there; there's no separate RunMana watch app to install. Your watch carries the coming week of sessions plus any unfinished ones from the past week. Full walkthrough, including where to find them: the Apple Watch guide.
Yes, through your own iCloud. With iCloud Drive turned on, your plan and history come back automatically when you reinstall or set up a new iPhone. (This is iCloud sync, not iCloud Backup; they're separate switches.) It's private to you. We never see it.
Deleting the app removes everything from your device. To also clear your iCloud copy, use Settings → Erase my data & start over inside the app. Apple Health itself is never affected; RunMana only ever read from it.
Yes, RunMana is free to start. And whatever your plan, nothing goes to us: your data stays on your device and in your own iCloud. See our Privacy Policy for the details.