Run on Apple Watch

Your beginner plan on your wrist. The watch taps you when it’s time to run and time to walk, and shows your heart rate live.

Run on Apple Watch during a plan run: run interval, 2:45 left

A plan run, start to finish

Five minutes of brisk walking, your run and walk intervals, five minutes to cool down. Then one question, and your streak.

  1. Warm-up on Apple Watch: 4:57 of brisk walking left, hold to skip
    Warm-up
  2. Run interval on Apple Watch: 2:45 left
    Run
  3. Walk interval on Apple Watch: 1:59 left
    Walk
  4. Apple Watch stats during the run: 30:01 left, 175 bpm, 3.45 km, 9:40 average pace
    Your numbers
  5. Cool-down on Apple Watch: 4:59 left, hold to skip
    Cool-down
  6. Workout completed on Apple Watch
    Done
  7. Apple Watch asks: how exhausting was the workout? Rate
    How did it feel?
  8. Apple Watch: you earned a freeze
    Streak freezes
  9. Apple Watch: new badge, The first
    Badges

Questions

Does Run work on Apple Watch?

Yes. Run has an Apple Watch app for free runs and plan runs, with walk/run interval guidance, live heart rate and complications. It needs watchOS 8 or later and the Run app on your iPhone.

Can I do Couch to 5K–style intervals on Apple Watch?

Yes. The Run plan is made of walk/run intervals, and the watch guides each one with a tap on the wrist and a voice cue, so you never have to look at a timer.

Do runs recorded with the Apple Workout app count?

Yes. Run reads running workouts from Apple Health, so runs from the Workout app and other apps count in your stats, levels and badges.

Your first run starts here

A plan from zero to 5K or 10K that adapts every week to how you feel. Free on iPhone and Apple Watch.

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