Run it on Apple Watch
If you'd rather leave the phone at home, lope can hand today's plan to your Apple Watch. The run happens in Apple's own Workout app, with lope's targets built in, and comes back to lope through Apple Health.
What it is
On the Today screen, next to today's run, there's an option to run it on Apple Watch. lope turns the plan into a custom workout and sends it to the Workout app on your watch. You start it from the watch like any other workout. There's no lope app on the wrist; the Workout app does the recording, and it already knows how to show pace, heart rate and distance on your watch face.
What transfers
lope sends the parts of the plan the Workout app can act on:
- A distance goal, so the watch counts you down to the planned distance.
- A heart-rate range alert built from your zones. The watch tells you when you drift above the range, the same job the chimes do on a run recorded in lope.
- Structure for workouts: warm-up, repeats and cool-down as separate blocks, each with a pace alert for the effort the coach asked for.
The heart-rate range comes from the same zone calculation lope uses everywhere else, so an easy day on the watch and an easy day recorded on the phone are held to the same ceiling. How those zones are set is in heart rate zones.
How the run comes back
When you end the workout on the watch, it saves to Apple Health, and lope reads it from there, the same way it reads any run in Health. Once it lands, the coach reacts to it and it counts towards your week and your scores. You need Apple Health connected in lope for this; see Apple Health and recovery data.
A watch run arrives with the data Health holds for it: distance, time, heart rate and route. Because the watch recorded it rather than lope, it doesn't carry the plan the way a lope-recorded run does, so lope classifies it from the data and the name as described in run classification.
What it isn't
There is no lope watch app today. You won't find lope in the watch's app list, and the recorded coach voice and chimes belong to runs recorded on the iPhone. What the watch gives you is Apple's workout experience with lope's targets inside it.
If you record a run on your iPhone with lope and also wear an Apple Watch, you get something different: lope's live card in the Smart Stack, with distance, pace and heart rate from the phone recording. That's described in recording runs on iPhone.
Other watches
Garmin, Coros, Polar and Suunto reach lope through Strava. Connect Strava in the app and runs from those watches are imported as they land. Watches and apps that write to Apple Health come in through Health, without Strava. Either way, the coach reads them the same as every other run.
Sending a plan to one of those watches isn't something lope does today. The Apple Watch handoff relies on Apple's custom workouts, which don't exist on other platforms in the same form.