To pair your Garmin watch with your Runna plan, click on your Train tab followed by Connected Apps & Watches on the Runna App and turn on your Garmin connection! You’ll be prompted to log in with your Garmin Connect credentials and the workouts will be synced automatically to your Connect App. When you switch plan or edit your current plan, we’ll automatically update your workouts for you. And when you mark a workout as complete, we’ll remove it from your profile. Please note that your Garmin workout will appear in the same unit of measurement as your Runna plan so we recommend making sure your Garmin account is configured to use that same unit of measurement.

Our Garmin integration will automatically sync any future unlocked weeks to your Garmin Connect profile. For users on a free week, they'll get access to workouts from that week only. For Runna Premium users, we'll automatically sync the following two weeks of workouts to your profile.

Your Garmin workouts should automatically sync to your watch based on the calendar schedule that they follow. To manually sync your workouts from your Garmin Connect app to your watch, please open your app and navigate to ‘Workouts’. This can typically be found under Garmin Connect > More > Training & Planning > Workouts. You will see all of the workouts from your plan here and can click on each one to see more details. To send it to your watch, click on the workout and select the below button to send it to your watch. You’ll then need to sync your watch to make sure the workout is copied across.

We advise setting up Strava on your Garmin Connect App. Garmin Connect > More > Settings > Connected Apps > Strava. This will help your Garmin recorded Runna Workout push through automatically, with the minimum of fuss!
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It's important to note here that, if you are used to recording on your Phone, or an Apple Watch with the Runna app, then you won't receive the 'with Runna ✅ ' title and workout description automatically. This is due to the limitations of the Garmin Workout file type, and we don't have anywhere to include this, whereas recordings from your Phone (or an Apple Watch) do allow us to include this when pushing to Strava!

To start the workout from your watch, the exact steps will depend on the model that you have. For most Garmin watches, the steps are:

There are some settings that we recommend configuring to make the most out of your Runna workouts when downloaded to your Garmin watch.

By default, your Garmin watch will automatically create a new ‘lap’ every 1km or 1mi. For the longer splits that we set you (e.g., 2km repeats) this means that the splits will automatically be lapped (split into a new step in your run) mid-way through which makes analysing your average pace afterwards difficult. We recommend turning off auto-lap when following your Runna workouts but also recommend turning it back on again if you’re going for a casual run, time trial or race so that your watch will keep you updated on your pace.

Auto-pause will automatically pause your workout when it detects that you’ve stopped moving (e.g., at traffic lights). However, this can be a problem when running interval workouts since while you’re resting, even if walking around, it can detect that you’ve stopped running and pause the workout including the timer to start running again. We recommend turning off auto-pause and getting into the habit of manually pausing and resuming the workout when you are forced to stop running temporarily (e.g., at traffic lights).

If you connect your Garmin to headphones to listen to music / podcasts then it can be helpful to receive pace and audio alerts through your headphones too.

On your Garmin app head to Garmin Connect App > More > Garmin Devices > Select your Watch > Audio Prompts.
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Enable Workout Alerts, Activity Alerts, Lap Alerts and Pace/Speed Alerts. See what you get on with and feel free to enable/disable as necessary.

You can check your device's compatibility with the audio cue feature here.

After you’ve completed your run, your completed workout will then be stored in your Runna app, Garmin Connect app and optionally synced to Strava if you have enabled the connection from within the Garmin app. You can then analyse your post-workout stats and compare them to the pace targets that you were set. If you’re consistently beating, or not making, your pace targets then we suggest editing them to make your targets challenging yet achievable.

If you've added a Race Date to your plan then we'll automatically add your workouts to the Garmin Calendar and it will suggest your workout automatically on your watch when it's time to go. If you don't have a Race Date added, we'll still add the workouts to your calendar each week and update them ahead of time so that they're suggested on the correct days, whenever you're ready to start.

At the moment, only 'Run' type workouts are supported for us to sync to your Garmin Training Calendar, and to your watch! You can use our new Calendar Sync Feature to track your training and schedule these though! We also cannot sync back any other activity types, such as strength sessions, weights or yoga, back to Runna from your Garmin Connect Account. We hope to add more functionality for this in the future, however!

All watches that support Garmin Coach will support your Runna plan. Please check Garmin’s website for the latest list of compatible watches but we’ve compiled a list via the below article, which was correct at the time of writing.

If you have any questions about using your Garmin watch with your Runna plan then please first check out our support article I'm having issues syncing my Garmin, what should I do? If you have any further questions or problems, don’t hesitate to contact us. If it’s a problem using your watch, including technical issues, we’ll try and help as much as we can, but you may be required to contact Garmin directly to get support.