Runna builds structured, personalized running plans - 5K to marathon - and pushes workouts to your watch. Kipp is a coach that reads your recovery and connects running, strength and nutrition into a daily decision. For a pure race build, Runna’s plans are more specialized; for the whole athlete, that’s Kipp.
Go with Kipp if you train across running, strength and nutrition and want daily, recovery-aware coaching.
Go with Runna if you want a specialist, race-specific running plan pushed to your watch.
No. Runna sends structured, paced workouts to Garmin and Apple Watch; Kipp coaches the session in conversation and reads your watch's recovery and activity data back. For watch-native structured running workouts, Runna is purpose-built.
Yes, especially hybrid runners who also lift or do HYROX. Kipp coaches pace, easy-easy discipline, and carb fueling, and adapts to your recovery - but it isn't a dedicated race-plan generator.
Yes - run Runna's plan and use Kipp as the recovery-and-nutrition coach that adjusts your week and fuels your training.
Adding swimming to your running week? Build towards a continuous 1,000m - an eight-stage pool example for runners and lifters who can already swim short lengths, with repeat-stage guidance.
A 12-week half-marathon plan with room to lift - three runs, two example gym sessions, a four-day alternative and adjustments for the taper.
Why does the same run have two different paces? - how moving and elapsed time turn one 5 km run into 5:00/km or 6:00/km.
Two runs in one day, one chart entry - a reproduced limitation in our daily grouping rule, and how to distinguish it from a missing sync.
Why does Apple Health show your Garmin run twice? - every app that can write to Apple Health writes its own copy of a workout, and the copies disagree on calories. What we measured across 776 wearable activities, and the one setting that stops it.
Strava is connected but your app sees no activities - the activity:read scope cannot see private activities, so eleven real sessions read as zero. Why a zero from a connected source is suspect, and how to check your grant.
Strava's kilojoules are not calories - Energy Output is work from power, measured or estimated, and it lands on runs with running power even though the API says rides only. On eight real runs it sat 6% to 82% above the calorie figure the watch reported. Which field to trust, and how our own importer got it wrong.
Why your squat stalls when you add running - the pooled evidence puts the cost of running on explosive strength, not your one-rep max. Three things to rule out before blaming the miles, with the gates our software uses.
Strava says you burned zero calories - Strava only calculates calories for rides, runs, walks and hikes, and its summary endpoint omits them entirely. Why your strength session arrives with no burn.
Runna plans your runs. Kipp coaches the recovery, strength and fuel around them.