5 Tips to Get the Most of your Weekly Runs App

Or how to make planning your weekly runs easy and fun.

Welcome to the Weekly Runs App!

The app allows you to quickly create your running plan by cloning previous weeks and making distance adjustments, updating your plan after an injury, inserting no running and recovery weeks, and following a checklist to avoid missing any warm-ups.

Here are some tips to get the most out of it.

1. Building your Running Plan

Building your running plan. Image by Author.

In creating the Weekly Runs app, I wanted to make creating and updating your running schedule as easy and quick as possible. This is why your running plan is organized into weeks. They can be added, cloned, and updated.

Create your first week by tapping the ‘+’ button. Tap any empty day to add a run, or long tap any day with an existing run to edit it.

Clone that week after you’re satisfied with it by tapping on the ‘+’ button.

For that new week, to change the running distance for a day, long press on it. This will open the run menu, where you can adjust the distance by tapping the “+” to increase or “-” to decrease.

2. Injury Recovery

Inserting non running weeks. Image by Author.

Injuries are part of the running journey. Depending on how serious the injury is, it will require adjustments to the running plan from removing or reducing a few runs, to adding several non-running and recovery weeks. With the Weekly Runs app, I wanted to make this as simple as possible.

There are two ways to do it.

If your plan includes a race in the future, adjust the weeks after the current week by selecting the settings icon and choosing the “No Running” option. This action will clear all scheduled runs for those weeks. For the week immediately after, change its status to “recovery,” reduce the distances of your runs or remove certain running days altogether. To delete a specific running day, long press on it and then select the “Delete” option from the menu that appears.

If a race isn’t part of your current plan, just insert non-running and recovery weeks after the current week. Tap the ‘+’ on your current week to duplicate it, then hit the settings icon on this new week. Here, you can specify it as a “no running” or “recovery” week.

3. Customizing Warm-Up Checklist

Pre-run checklist. Image by Author.

When getting ready for my run, I always forget something. Be it a warm-up exercise, or a piece of equipment. To fix this, I included a pre-run checklist in the Weekly Runs app.

Customize the list by tapping the pencil icon to enter edit mode. Then you can add or remove checklist items. Finish by tapping the pencil icon again. To rename an item, just long press on it to open the renaming menu.

4. Changing Run Status

Setting the status of your runs. Image by Author.

The “Today” screen in the Weekly Runs app provides essential details for your current run, including a pre-run checklist to complete before starting and a post-run feedback. You can rate how you felt during the run, add notes, and mark the run as “Injury” or “Completed.”

If you forgot to update the run status, the “Planner” screen lets you easily adjust it by tapping on the run day to cycle through statuses: green for a successful run, red for injury, gray for a skipped run, and no background for unlogged runs.

5. Use Miles or Kilometers

Settings for distance unit. Image by Author.

To switch from kilometers to miles, just tap the profile icon in the app, then hit the “Settings” icon at the top. There, turn on the “Use Miles” option.

I hope these few tips will help you enjoy the Weekly Runs app even more! If you haven’t installed the app yet, it’s available for free here. Don’t hesitate to leave a comment if you have any questions or feedback. Or a feature you absolutely want.

If you just started running, make sure you don’t make some of my biggest running mistakes. And if the weather outside is not very inviting, consider giving a chance to the Treadmill.