RunMana
Apple Watch guide

Your workouts, on your wrist.

RunMana delivers every session to Apple's own Workout app on your watch. There is no separate RunMana watch app to install, and that's deliberate: you get Apple's battery life, reliability, and familiar screens, with your coaching built in. Here's how to find everything.

The short version

  1. Open RunMana on your iPhone once. That's when it hands your upcoming week to the watch.
  2. On your watch, open the Workout app (the green figure icon).
  3. Your RunMana sessions appear in the workout list with their names and dates, the next one first. Tap a session, then tap it again to start. Every warm-up, interval, and target is already inside it.

What's on the watch, and when

You'll see about a week at a time.

RunMana keeps your watch stocked with the coming week of sessions, plus any recent workout you haven't finished yet. Yesterday's missed run stays available on the wrist, because life happens and the run still counts when you get to it.

The list keeps itself current.

Finish a workout, skip it, or change your plan on the iPhone, and the watch list updates on its own the next time the app is opened. If you rename a workout, the new name shows on the wrist too.

Race day arrives as three workouts.

Your warm-up, the race itself, and your cool-down are delivered as three separate sessions, in order. Start each one when you're ready for it. During the race, each stretch of the course counts down on your wrist and rolls into the next one automatically, with a nudge if your pace drifts.

During a session

Let the watch do the thinking.

Each segment shows its target and alerts you when it's time to change gears. You don't need to remember the structure of the workout; that's the point. Run by feel, glance when the watch taps you.

When you're done, you're done.

End the workout on the watch as you normally would. It saves to Apple Health like any other run, RunMana reads it from there, and your plan takes it from that point. No extra syncing steps.

Set up your screens (one time, worth it)

See your whole-workout totals during a segmented session.

During a structured workout, the watch leads with the current segment: its target, its countdown, how far ahead or behind you are. Very useful, but you'll also want the big picture: total time and total distance so far. That lives on Apple's Metrics view, and it's worth putting one Crown-click away.

  1. Open the Workout app on your watch and scroll to Outdoor Run.
  2. Tap the button on it, then open Workout Views.
  3. Set Metrics to Include. Tap its pencil to pick exactly which numbers it shows; Distance and Average Pace are the whole-workout ones.
  4. Tap Reorder and drag Metrics to the top of the list.
From then on, in any RunMana session: the segment screen is where you start, and one turn of the Digital Crown shows your totals. This is a one-time setup per activity type, and it's your watch's setting; Apple doesn't let apps change these screens for you, so this small setup is yours to make once.

If you don't see your workouts

  1. Open RunMana on the iPhone and give it a moment. Delivery happens when the app opens.
  2. The first time, iOS asks permission for RunMana to schedule workouts. If that prompt was dismissed, RunMana will show a note on the workout card offering to try again.
  3. Make sure your watch is paired and nearby, then check the Workout app again.
Still stuck? Email support@runmana.com. A real person reads it, and telling us your watch model and watchOS version helps us help you faster.