Runna: Running Club, Community +17

Love this app!! The creators definitely seem to care about what the users think.
It makes running or strength workout and I love both. Especially with how it’s set up to function during the runs, the app will tell you when to slow down/speed up and will tell you what you have coming up (speed/distance wise) and when to start it. I don’t have to pull out my phone at all when doing something like hill sprints to log that I finished a rep or a set distance and I love that! I don’t like having to check my watch or phone every couple of minutes to check my time/distance and I don’t have to with this because it tell me when I’m halfway as well as gives me my pace and lets me know when I’m finishing up!
You can make notes in the exercises for lifting and there’s a video and written out instructional video for each exercise. There are “notes from the coach” telling you what to focus on for both lifts and different runs. Love this app

I've tried several semi-tailored running plan apps and strategies. My favorite so far has been Runna, with Run with Hal as the runner up. I'm liking Runna better because I can actually use it in between races with its maintenance plans. I've never been able to justify a full-year subscription to RWH because there's not much to do with it between races, but with Runna it's useful every month of the year. Then the icing on the cake (and it's a LOT of icing) is that Runna auto-syncs my workouts to my Garmin. Then the Ice cream on the icing is the personal support from actual coaches. That alone makes the app worth it. Oh, almost forgot. The powdered sugar on the ice cream is that the plans get as ambitious as you want. I have a pipe dream of running a 100miler some day, and it's nice to know this app can take me there. I haven't used that feature yet, but I'm sure it'll be great to have some day. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to move a workout to a different day, but I figured it out. I do wish I could edit the workouts in Garmin, or at least make small tweaks in the Runna app. Finally, and this is not patently a pro or con, Runna has provided the most challenging training plans. Arguably not enough easy runs, but also arguably a great blend for people who are less injury prone.

First off, the idea behind the app is amazing. I would still suggest it to people to use. I love the personalization and the detailed metrics along with the syncing feature on my Apple Watch. What I find a great amount of issue is the bugs within the app itself. Primarily, the Watch app. You either have to chose your phone or your watch to record your run. You won’t get as good of metrics on your phone but it will sync to your headphones 100% of the time. I personally like the watch due to the interval training screen on my watch so I don’t have to pull out my phone constantly when running. HOWEVER! My big big big issue with the app, is that the app on my watch will pick and chose when it wants to connect the prompts on my headphones (AirPods). When I’m doing interval that gets super frustrating. I’d really like the regular prompts to notify me since they switch every .25 to .10 miles and I always have to check to see if I’m on pace or not. However I don’t want to sacrifice the details of my runs and it’s really frustrating. There is limited options in the settings on the watch to make this work and I have not seen anything to help the issue.

I generally think if I’m paying $20 a month for a service like this I shouldn’t have these many issues to be honest.