Your running plan, on Apple Watch

Quality Days connects the parts of training that usually live in different places: the plan you mean to follow, the structured workout on your Apple Watch, and the run you actually completed.

Choose a plan, set your race day, and take the week’s workouts with you. After you run, Apple Health brings the result back and Quality Days shows how the plan is turning into real training.

Apple Watch Workout app listing today’s Quality Days workout, an outdoor run called Long and steady.
Apple Watch showing the Long and steady workout opened, with its pace target and a Start Workout button.

1. Choose the plan you want to run

Start with a plan and anchor it to race day. Quality Days puts every session on a date so you can see the whole block, the current week, and what tomorrow is asking you to do.

You can create your own too if you already know exactly how you want to train.

Quality Days plan overview: a 12-week half marathon build with weekly mileage bars, the October race date and the first week’s days.

2. Send the structured workouts to Apple Watch

Quality Days schedules the upcoming week into Apple’s Workout app. A workout can include a warm-up, intervals, recoveries and a cool-down, with the steps set around your own training paces.

You shouldn’t have to rebuild tomorrow’s session on your wrist before you head out the door.

3. Go run

Quality Days doesn’t need to become another place where you manually record the same workout. Your run can arrive through Apple Health after you finish.

That means the training plan can stay useful without turning into another log you have to maintain.

Quality Days plan day showing a 10-mile planned long run, its easy target pace, the On your Watch badge and the completed Apple Health run.

4. See planned vs. actual

When the run comes back, the planned day fills in with what actually happened. You can see the target beside the completed work instead of mentally stitching together a plan, Apple Fitness, and another training log.

Quality Days Week 8 recap: each day’s completed miles next to the planned miles, 38.5 of 38 miles for the week.

5. Understand the training, not just the last run

The point isn’t to collect another set of stats. It’s to make the block easier to read.

Quality Days keeps the plan and the accumulated work together, so you can understand what you were trying to do, what you actually did, and what’s coming next.

Quality Days fitness chart: fitness, fatigue and form over three months, with each run’s load underneath.

Already record your runs somewhere else?

That’s usually fine. Quality Days reads runs from Apple Health, so the important question is whether your existing setup writes the workout there.

Apple Watch works directly with Apple Health, and other running apps or devices can also work when their completed workouts are written into Apple Health. Quality Days does not need to become the recorder for every run.

Made for runners who want to stay in control

Quality Days isn’t trying to be a coach in your ear. It’s for runners who want structure without giving up ownership of how they train.

I built it because I wanted a better connection between the plan I chose, the workout on my Watch, and the training I actually completed.

It’s free for now. Apple Watch is the current watch experience. If that sounds like your setup, I’d love for you to try it.

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