It’s a new year, a new decade, and a chance to put your running front and center. 2020 is also a leap year, and that means that it’s a chance to pick up one of the most rare and coveted badge on Smashrun – the Leap Year Sweep. To get it you’ll need to run… Read more »
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Plan your goals
You can now setup your goals for months in future. It’s simple. Just select the date, and add your goal. 🙂 * Note that the dates will be greyed out because there’s no data yet. Virtual RunsWe’ve also added another small improvement. If you run on a a treadmill that does virtual runs (like a… Read more »
New integrations are live
You can now import from 5 new sources: Polar, Suunto, Strava, Fitbit and MapMyRun! This means that Smashrun now supports every single app and watch with an open API. There’s still a lot of closed ecosystems out there (we’re looking at you Nike), but this should still give you a lot of flexibility to run… Read more »
Revising your Run Report
Do you ever get your Weekly Run Report on Monday, and then immediately get a sinking feeling because you forgot to upload your long run on Sunday, but now it’s too late? Starting this Monday, there’s a solution for that. If you add old runs after the run report goes out we’ll automatically send you… Read more »
New ways to highlight your best runs
When a friend asks you, “How was your run?” there’s usually a lot more to share than just how far and how fast you ran. Maybe it was a slog along a muddy trail by a river, or maybe it was hilly race on country roads in the rain. Now you can share those details… Read more »
HealthFit integration
If you run with an Apple Watch, you’ll be happy to know that you can now use HealthFit to send your runs directly to Smashrun in FIT format. To set it up, launch HealthFit and give the app permission to read data from the Health app. This will enable HealthFit to import your activities. The… Read more »
Nike import issues
The Nike sync is currently down. As of Sept 28th, new runs are no longer flowing through the pathways we use to retrieve your data. We’re not an official partner of Nike, and so we don’t have any recourse, but to wait and hope that they fix something. This turn of events is all the… Read more »
Nike import changes
UPDATE July 11th, 2017 Nike seems to have made further changes, and as a result their API now returns an error rather than the GPS details for many (but not all) Nike users. We’re going to keep investigating, but since Nike is officially a closed platform, we have limited options at this point. I know… Read more »
RunPlan Integration
Running a couple of races this year? Need a little help staying on top of your training plan? Check out RunPlan! It’s a user-developed web app built on top of the Smashrun API. It’s sleek, extremely functional, and easy to use. Paul designed RunPlan to make custom training plans more manageable. It’s quite common for… Read more »
A new app for a new year
Sportractive is a popular and highly rated free app for Android phones. It’s got a super clean interface, accurate recording, and a ton of features. And best of all, it now has a direct integration with Smashrun. If you’ve got an Android phone, and you’re looking for an easy way to get your runs on… Read more »