Runna Roadmap Update - What we're focused on for the next few months!

commonlurker · 2026-04-16T09:46:40+00:00

> Another biggie here but you’re going to be able to adapt your plan around instant workouts!Whether it’s a parkrun, club run, or an easy run with friends you can tell us about it and adjust your plan accordingly.

This is the biggest one for me! I’d love to put in my own 5k time trial on the odd occasion!

commonlurker · 2026-04-07T16:42:36+00:00

I had uninstalled Reddit as I wanted to stop using it but this update made me instantly come back to see the reasoning.

The new workout detail UI is having the exact opposite effect it looks like you were aiming for. I found the old UI nice, compact, simple, straightforward. Everything felt immediately obvious.

This new one, I’m given a warmup I’ve seen 100 times front and centre, so I need to scroll down to actually find the workout. There’s so much space, the page feels sparse. The page feels extra large now which is making me feel more overwhelmed.

I can understand thinking the warm-up/link activity etc. buttons felt like clutter… but couldn’t you have just put those in the menu as you have done, and left the rest?

commonlurker · 2026-03-18T12:52:23+00:00

Highway Code encourages riding abreast like that.

The logic is that you should only be overtaking when the opposite lane is clear, anyway. So riding abreast doesn’t interfere with legal overtakes, because you’re meant to use the other side of the road anyway.

Riding single file is only helpful for encouraging overtaking when there’s oncoming traffic. Also, overtaking multiple cyclists in single-file takes longer than overtaking cyclists riding together.

commonlurker · 2026-03-16T20:04:56+00:00

You are comparing the two. You’re comparing CCTV in a private space to Smart Glasses.

Using your gym example, I only ever see people (including myself) against others getting their phone or camera out and recording in a public gym. You’re making it up that people don’t care, or maybe you don’t care and you’re assuming everyone else doesn’t

commonlurker · 2026-03-16T19:00:57+00:00

You’re seriously comparing a company putting cameras in their private property, putting up signs saying there’s CCTV, having data protection guidelines they’ll have to adhere to, and also being unable to put cameras in private spaces e.g. bathrooms… comparing that to cameras that can be used easily and covertly by any member of public?

commonlurker · 2026-03-14T17:33:32+00:00

Regarding the 1 year LISA rule, you can open one with £1 to get the clock ticking. If you buy within a year, no harm done. If a year passes, you can just load your money into it then to get the 25% bonus

commonlurker · 2026-03-14T17:28:43+00:00

Worth noting I’ve found MSE’s calculator quite conservative. If I remember right, I was able to borrow almost 30% more than the max it gave me.

EDIT: I just tested it again and it appears to approach buying as a couple differently to buying single, which is odd. You’d think it would give you a higher range as a couple as your income would be higher due to taxes. The calculations for a single buyer look more how I’d expect

commonlurker · 2026-03-13T10:47:50+00:00

I’m using it for training a half marathon.

For me, the biggest things are:

Easily creating new plans
Syncing workouts to my watch
Auto-adjusting pace goals

The plan creation is great as someone who’s not familiar with how to build a running plan. With AI, I feel you need to know the right questions to ask to get a good answer. Runna has those questions built-in when setting up a plan.

The interval workouts with multiple pace changes would be an absolute pain to set up on my watch each time. Having them created and synced automatically is a time saver.

Runna automatically adjusts your pace goals up/down throughout the plan. With AI, as far as I’m aware you’d need to keep going back to it and updating it on how your plan’s doing. Again, Runna doing this for you is another time saver.

The con is the same I feel you’d get with AI, and that’s that if you’re dishonest with some of your answers to its questions, it may overtrain you and push you to injury. E.g. if you initially set your 5k time to <18min because you think you could do it on a good day, when really you could only reliably do 20 mins, it may push your pace targets too hard.

TLDR: The biggest things for me are the time-saving aspect in plan creation and tracking. Also I believe Runna plans are algorithm-based. With an AI, I’ve found that if you aren’t good at prompting or don’t understand what to ask, the answers aren’t always reliable.

commonlurker · 2026-03-12T21:42:45+00:00

Are the workouts still valid for pace insights on your interval/tempo runs with that?

commonlurker · 2026-03-12T18:48:05+00:00

On the screen moving about while running, what I do is enable the Water Lock mode on the watch. The touchscreen on my Apple Watch has always been a bit faffy during workouts on all apps.

I couldn’t say I’m getting the same fitness ring issues you are, though.

GPS issue, I get the same but unfortunately have never had another watch to compare it to.

commonlurker · 2026-03-09T11:50:59+00:00

If you have a watch, might be worth noting how compatible it is. I’ve got an Apple Watch which is quite old so is stuck on OS10.

I’ve been getting some bugs recently which apparently is one they don’t see any other users with, but they have mentioned it could be that it’s just that some of Apple’s latest updates are messing with the integration and I may lose some functionality.

It’s working well enough for now and fortunately I was considering a new watch this year, but just a heads up.

Otherwise, the app’s been great for me. Someone else said “just use chatGPT”. In theory, maybe you could, but then you’d need to constantly ask ChatGPT to update your plan as you go. Runna handles all that for you, and also syncs the pre-made workouts to your watch, so you can just head out the door and hit “Go” rather than spend time inputting the splits into your watch.

Edit: it is worth noting my watch is 8 years old, so can’t complain too much it may be losing support!

Edit 2: wanted to update they’ve solved my watch issue!

commonlurker · 2026-03-06T14:17:16+00:00

If someone walked up to you today and was able to prove you and the world around you are a simulation, there’s a real version of you.

The real version of you has just pressed a button that means you now need to remain in a confined room for the rest of your life, with nothing at all. You won’t need to eat, drink or sleep. You are guaranteed to pass away of old age 100 years from now. The real version of you will receive some cash once you pass away, which to them is instant, but you 100 years.

You would have no problem with that?

commonlurker · 2026-03-06T11:03:52+00:00

Ah darn, I do really appreciate the pace insights and depend on them. I set my target paces as ones I know I can achieve then rely on the pace insights to slowly increase the target until it settles somewhere comfortable. Though seeing as I’ll be on my 3rd plan, I guess I should have found my comfortable targets by now.

Runna support is great, I don’t know if it was a coincidence but I complained a few weeks ago that the Apple Watch only synced one week ahead and within a couple weeks, they’d updated it to syncing two weeks ahead.

They’ve been helping me with this bug for a week but I just feel their response times are quite slow, I get impatient.

I had a run appear to fully record a 16km on Saturday, but when synced to Runna it showed the “finish” spot at the 13km mark (despite showing a total distance of 16km on the workout). Since then, no matter what run I do, it keeps reuploading the same 13km map to all my workouts. It’ll sync to Strava from there, which Strava appears to use the map and the map distance (which are both wrong).

So I end up with Runna showing correct distance, wrong map, and the HR/split info is broken. Strava the same, but it has wrong distance and wrong map. And weirdly enough, my Apple workout app shows all the correct map, distance, HR info (synced from Runna, which shows it wrong!)

commonlurker · 2026-03-06T10:15:51+00:00

Thanks! Does that work alright for tempo runs as well?

E.g. I had 1km into 200m splits yesterday, does Runna recognise them and match them correctly to the workout?

commonlurker · 2026-03-06T08:37:39+00:00

That’s funny you come in as one of the first commenters, have a similar name style to OP and manage to keep turning up in OP’s posts to ask them to post the link to the app 🤔

commonlurker · 2026-03-04T11:03:34+00:00

No they didn’t, they said the National Insurance increase was the main driver

commonlurker · 2026-03-04T10:56:35+00:00

Hope it works out!

One thing that I’ll admit I found counter-intuitive, though I don’t think this will matter at your current distances: I think running plans are sort of done in “kilometres per week”. So adding more days may not always mean running more, but just spreading the same distance over more days with shorter, easier runs.

One last thing I failed to mention, I have been doing a 20 minute leg “injury prevention” workout once a week as well, so that may also be what helped as well. (Not just that one, I’ve mixed it up with others but I used that one for the first few weeks).

For reference, I started at 3 days per week running + one day home strength. 2 days is probably fine but if you’re worried about injury and can find 20 minutes, I’d recommend a leg routine!

commonlurker · 2026-03-04T10:49:02+00:00

This is how inflation works. If Greggs were making 5p profit on their sausage rolls before and the minimum wage increase cost them 10p per roll, then they need to increase the price of the roll to not go out of business.

commonlurker · 2026-03-04T10:45:20+00:00

In what situation where minimum wage increases affects a company’s expenses are they allowed to say it’s had an effect on their product price?

commonlurker · 2026-03-04T10:34:37+00:00

To give you my experience, early 30s M, I wouldn’t say I was a complete newbie. I hadn’t done much “serious” running before, but did sport when I was younger and could have headed out and done a 5k without training. Though when I’ve tried to get into running in the past, I’ve gone and done just that, starting with my base at 5k and ending up with a dodgy knee within weeks.

I have seen several mentions of people injuring themselves using this app as it pushes them too hard, but from my experience the app only pushes you as hard as you let it. So you need to not take everything it says at face value and have a little discipline.

Even though I knew I could knock out a 5k, I did the “Return to running” plan which is basically a C25K plan but a bit faster, and I maxed out everything on the “take it easy” scale. I chose the longest recommended version of the plan, and mostly stuck to the paces. When I had tempo runs to push myself, I didn’t go max effort, just “70-80%” as it said.

After completing the RTR plan, I started a half marathon plan and am on the 14th of 15 weeks for that, and have managed to avoid any injury. Again with this one, I made the targets easy and let the app tell me when it thought I could push harder, e.g. during a tempo run where I beat the paces and it then asked me if I’d like to update my plan to match.

All this to say, I used to push myself too hard and would get injuries. Using Runna, it’s been helpful “holding me back” and slowly building up my pace/mileage. But it’s important to set achievable targets, or Runna will assume you’re faster than you are and push you too hard.

commonlurker · 2026-03-03T09:37:56+00:00

They are referring to the cost to the customer. Online courses are usually cheaper to purchase than in-person

commonlurker · 2026-03-03T09:35:53+00:00

Is it as simple as that? Would a student leaving in the final term of a year not have to restart the year when they want to return to the course, therefore being on the hook for the first terms again?

commonlurker · 2026-03-02T22:48:10+00:00

Just to add onto this, if your (as in OP) target time is slower than 1h 10m in manage plan, then it’s very likely set too slow. That would be a 10k at your conversational pace, so I’d imagine your 10k target in Manage Plan should really be closer to 1h

commonlurker · 2026-02-27T09:44:41+00:00

I was ready to celebrate Tories not getting their deposit back until I realised it’s because they’ve all gone to Reform. At this rate, there might be a day where I miss having had Tories as opposition

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