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What's new

A week-by-week look at what's new in Tuin — newest first.

Was your watch running a different session?

  • A tempo or interval day now reaches your watch the way the app shows it — easy warm-up, the hard part, easy cool-down — not the whole run at tempo pace.
  • Every hard session and marathon-pace long run in your plan now comes with its full steps, on the card and on your watch — not just the next few weeks.
  • Built your first plan before Tuin could see your runs? Once your history arrives, the coach offers once to fit the plan to what you actually run.
  • Marked a sick day? Tuin goes quiet, with no run reminders or nudges, and once you clear it the coach eases you back in and asks if you'd rather return quicker.
  • Switch your goal to a different race — trail to road, or a new distance — and the coach rebuilds the whole plan for it, not just the last few weeks.
  • Pressed lap for a marathon-pace block in your long run? Tuin now reads that block on its own, not just the whole run's average.
  • Ask the coach to change one session and the rest of your week stays put: days you've run are kept, and it double-checks before emptying a day you didn't mention.
  • A session you send to your Apple Watch by hand now stays there until its day — opening the app no longer clears the ones more than a week away.
  • Tell the coach your watch shows a session wrong and it fixes the watch, not your plan — and Sunday's note no longer promises a run that isn't left.

How fast will you really run that race?

  • Ask about a race in the next four weeks and the coach now works out your finish range and race heart rate from your own threshold and the climb — no more guessing.
  • Using a Garmin? Your runs can now reach Tuin on their own: turn on Garmin Connect's link to Apple Health or Health Connect — the app shows you the two steps.
  • Name an ambitious goal time and the coach now builds your plan for it — if it has a worry, it says it once, with a number, and the call is yours.
  • An interval session that arrives without laps can take its watch file: the laps join the same run and the coach reads it again, rep by rep.
  • An easy run with your watch's kilometre splits is no longer written up as an interval session — a faster km is just a faster km.
  • The effort question now names its session ("Strength · Thursday 1"), and a Garmin file that already answered it is taken as your answer.
  • Rate a run the morning after and the coach's reply no longer mistakes the day you ran for today, so it stops calling today's session "tomorrow".
  • A session the coach moved into the next week now shows on its day, and each week's sessions, km and TSS count only what's on that week.
  • Tuin no longer emails you to rethink your plan while you're following it — a counting slip made a runner who hadn't skipped a session look off plan.
  • Catalan dates no longer close a sentence with two full stops, and the 1st and the 11th get the apostrophe Catalan asks for.

Remember what we promised you on 30 August?

  • Tuin is on the App Store: install it on your iPhone and your runs arrive on their own from Apple Health — same account, same plan, nothing to upload.
  • Activities now opens with your last 16 weeks at a glance: run and gym days, long runs darker, the days you usually train and your weekly streak.
  • Every strength day now comes with its exercises, sets and loads — legs, upper body or core — in every week of your plan, not just the next few.
  • Ask for a change and the coach now rewrites only the weeks it touches — edits land faster and never stop halfway through your plan.
  • Run your long run a day early and Tuin counts it as the long run — and never asks what went wrong on a day you were out running.
  • Opening Tuin no longer lands on a blank screen now and then — and if it ever can't load, it tells you within seconds and “Try again” really retries.
  • Upload several days of files at once and every run gets its read — a gym session no longer takes a run's place, so the coach knows you did your intervals.
  • A long run with a marathon-pace segment in the middle now shows it on the card and on the watch — easy in, the segment banded, easy out — not a flat run at that pace.
  • Answer “How did it feel?” under a strength session's read and it is saved on that session like a run's — and a pain you mention gets the injury question.
  • Session cards now say exactly what you'll run: interval cues follow your language, and the description and pace always match the session's steps.

The run you did once, and Tuin counted twice

  • A run that reached Tuin from both Strava and your watch could be stored twice, doubling it in your journey and in your load. It can't any more.
  • Runs uploaded as files or synced from your watch now feed your VO2max estimate on Home, the way Strava runs always did.
  • Plan, brief and every coach reply are checked to be in your language — stray English, a quick question answered in Spanish — and rewritten first.
  • Your morning brief now waits for your watch to sync before it speaks — and if a run lands after it, the brief rewrites itself instead of blaming you for a run you did.
  • You can now remove a run: open its card in Activities and tap "Remove this run". Its read goes too, your load is recalculated, and it won't return from your watch.
  • "I'll do the quality session tomorrow", "I'll only do 10 km on Sunday, ok?" — say a change and the coach makes it; when it agrees, the plan changes too.
  • A note you type on a hand-logged session — "work hike, 10 kg pack, 200 m of climb" — now reaches the coach's read of it, instead of sitting unread on the entry.
  • Your threshold pace now comes from the runs you do — on every door, not just Strava — and a sign-up guess is replaced once your runs beat it.
  • Answer "How did it feel?" and the coach no longer repeats the read — and if you name a pain, it asks whether to log it as an injury and hold the plan around it.
  • A race is a race: Tuin congratulates you and never grades it against a training pace. And a run that missed its target reads "off target", never "off plan".

No more 5×1000 every Tuesday

  • Sessions now have names — Progressive run, Over/unders, Tempo ladder, Cruise intervals — on your calendar, your watch and your Strava title, not just "Tempo".
  • The coach can write sessions that alternate two paces — over/unders, on/offs, hike-run — and your watch runs both halves as work, each with its own band.
  • A new public page explains every session Tuin can give you — what it's for, how it feels, the classic mistake, and a worked example: tuin.run/workouts.
  • Every session says how long it will take — "about 40–50 min" — and the coach gives its distance the same in your brief, your read and the note after it.
  • Hard reps come as a band, not one number — 4:25–4:35/km — and the watch only buzzes outside it. A range the coach writes is now exactly what the watch holds you to.
  • Trail sessions — hill repeats, uphill tempo, downhill work, hike-run — are written by effort or heart rate, never by a pace on a climb.
  • Your daily brief is said once and once only, it no longer shows up on a day you've already trained, and what you say about a run — words and effort — stays on that run.
  • Change the app's language and your plan comes with it, numbers untouched — and the coach's reply after a run is checked to be in your language before you see it.
  • Ask to change a specific day and the change lands there — and a rewrite can never drop the week you're in. Every week starts on a Monday.
  • The coach knows your age once you've set your date of birth, so questions like "what's a good VO2 max for someone my age?" now get a real answer.

Your VO2 max was dividing by a guess

  • Every run now shows its own segments — warm-up, each rep, each recovery — with pace and heart rate. The session you ran, not just the sentence about it.
  • Your VO2 max now divides by the highest heart rate Tuin has really seen you hit, not a guess from your age — and with no heart-rate data, your 5K time alone gives one.
  • Your activities say what each session was — "Intervals · 6 × 600 m" instead of "Morning Run" — so you can scan a week and find the one you meant.
  • The coach reads your reps one by one, knows which were work and which recovery, and its note after a run now builds on that read instead of judging the run twice.
  • Pull down from the top of any tab to sync on the spot — your newest run lands right there, and Tuin says what it found. It also re-checks whenever you come back.
  • Heart-rate zones calibrate from your runs — watch, Health or Strava alike — and earlier runs re-score. Tell the coach your max HR or threshold and it sticks.
  • When Tuin asks "How did it feel?", whatever you type next is saved on that run — and the 1–10 chips stay up until you give it a number.
  • Upload a whole season of files in one go. Ski, strength and gym files now land as what they are, not as runs, and a re-upload corrects a session on record.
  • If your connection drops while the coach is thinking, Tuin now waits for the answer and shows it — no more "network error" hiding a reply that did arrive.
  • Fixed: your daily brief landing on top of a live conversation, Catalan briefs slipping into Spanish, a long read going missing, and a fastest last rep called a fade.

What we fixed before opening the doors

  • Settings → Install app now gets you the real phone app — TestFlight on iPhone, or ask for a place in the Android test — and it's what syncs your runs from your watch.
  • "How did it feel?" now lives in chat: rate the effort 1–10 in one tap, and add as much or as little as you like in your own words.
  • Fixed a rare 'network error' that could appear even though your message had actually gone through — the chat now keeps checking before giving up.
  • Fixed lap analysis for uploaded Garmin .fit files — and when a workout has no splits, the coach now says so instead of judging your reps by the whole-run average.
  • A run that reaches Tuin from your phone and then from Strava is one run — the coach reads it once now, instead of commenting on it a second time minutes later.
  • Fixed the coach naming the wrong day in Spanish and Catalan — it reads your weekdays off your plan in your own language now, so Wednesday's tempo isn't called Thursday's.
  • Your plan now builds toward races you entered along the way, not just your main goal — a 20 km in five weeks changes the next five weeks.
  • Tuin credits the run you actually did, not the one that was planned — run 10.7 km of a planned 9, and 10.7 is the number it congratulates you on.
  • An easy run that came out much harder is called out — but tell Tuin a run felt good and you ran roughly what was planned, and it takes your word for it.
  • Fixed the coach mixing up which day it is — it no longer calls a session days away 'tomorrow', nor moves your week if you name a different day.

Your first plan was starting ahead of you

  • Your first plan can no longer start further along than you are — coming back from a layoff now gets a build that begins where your recent running actually is.
  • When Tuin eases a heavy week it now protects the hard session and takes the volume out of your easy runs instead — the quality work is what your goal is made of.
  • A B-race is now built toward, not just tapered into — and a trail goal can record its climb, so the plan trains the vert as well as the distance.
  • If Tuin hasn't seen any of your runs, it now says so on your home screen and shows you how to send them — instead of quietly assuming you skipped everything.
  • The chat holds together better — a dropped connection no longer loses your coach's reply, and the effort chips clear however you answer.
  • Your acute:chronic load ratio now waits until there's enough history to mean anything — everyone's first two weeks used to read as overtraining.
  • Logging a run by hand now catches an impossible distance-and-time pair — a mistyped duration used to sail through and quietly wreck your training load.
  • Catalan and Spanish read properly now — no stray Spanish, the right weekday in your language, and Tuin no longer guesses your gender when it writes to you.
  • Your runs on Strava carry the planned session again — the title and what was prescribed, written the moment the run lands rather than after the coach's read.
  • Connecting Strava is paused for now — Strava limits how many runners we can connect at once. Everything else works as normal; we'll reopen it as soon as we can.
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Your morning message blamed you for a run it couldn't see

  • If Tuin can't see your runs yet — no Strava, no watch synced — your morning message stops asking why you skipped one. It talks about the plan instead.
  • Your morning message no longer counts a bike ride as a run — 'longest run' and 'biggest week' are running only, and a fitness high is named once.
  • The coach names the right day for a session — it reads the weekday off your calendar instead of working it out, so the plan and what it tells you agree.
  • Ask the same thing twice while Tuin is still writing your plan and it says so, instead of starting the whole plan over — even if you reloaded the app in between.

Something is waiting on your phone every morning now

  • Tuin's good morning — on your phone if notifications are on — names your session or what's next, counts your week right, and credits a run you've already done.
  • Add Google or Apple as a second way to sign in, in Settings → App — so Strava isn't the only key to your account. Same account, another door.
  • Did your strength session? Tick it off — or let a gym workout from your watch do it. It's counted on its own, never against your running.
  • Tuin now names your run on Strava after the session you had planned — and leaves your own title alone when what you ran didn't match the plan.
  • Paste a route's distance and climbing into chat and Tuin now takes it as a session to plan around, instead of just talking it over with you.
  • Intervals and tempos are now read by their reps, not the whole-run average — hit every rep and Tuin no longer tells you that you came up slow.
  • A long run with a fast finish now comes as real steps — easy kilometres, the push, then a jog down — in the app, on your watch and in the .fit file.
  • Change a training setting and the coach proposes how to re-map your weeks — now with a chip to say yes in one tap, so the change reaches your plan.
  • The read of each session now knows what day it is — a workout you finished this morning is never called yesterday's.
  • Every week of a trail plan now carries a climbing target, base weeks included, so you can watch the vert build from the very start.

The coach speaks first now — and founder pricing

  • Tuin now talks in chat: a short hello each morning, and after every run it says what it saw and asks how it felt — one tap to answer.
  • Ran a day late? The calendar now moves the session onto the day you actually ran it, so your week reads back the way you lived it.
  • Tuin builds strength into your plan — pick the days in Settings, every exercise with its guide — and strength days no longer count against your Journey adherence.
  • Every session now gets Tuin's read — watch, Strava, a file or logged by hand — and Tuin says so in chat when it's done.
  • Founder pricing: lock €4.99/month for life at tuin.run/pricing before it rises — and refer a friend for a free month each, your link's in Settings → App.
  • Hurt? Tap “I'm hurt” to tell Tuin — it trains around the niggle and keeps it out of your strength work, then eases you back when you mark it healed.
  • Take any session to your Garmin watch: Download for Garmin (.fit) on every workout — copy it over USB and the watch guides your intervals itself.
  • New here? One short questionnaire shapes your whole plan — a rough 5K turns effort cues into real paces — and your plan starts building on the very first tap.
  • Race week now sharpens instead of only resting: a short session at goal pace a few days out, and strides the day before.
  • Gym, yoga or bike sessions now show on your home screen and in the calendar the day you did them, planned or not.

What your gym session does for your running

  • New Journey tab: finished races kept for good, plus a live read on your current block — weeks banked, distance against plan, and your streak.
  • A short email every Sunday evening: five bullets on what changed, and a nudge for the week ahead. Toggle it in Settings → App.
  • Tuin now reads your cross-training: a gym session, ride, hike or yoga each get a short coach's read on what it does for your running.
  • New training-intensity modes — Cruise, Push or Beast. Pick how hard Tuin builds you toward your goal in Settings → Training.
  • Pre-run reminders can now buzz your phone's lock screen — no email needed.
  • Plans for far-off races now arrive in 12-week blocks, and Tuin tells you what it's building while it works.
  • Workouts now show real splits — tempo, interval reps and long-run fast finishes — and the calendar shows each week's planned kilometres.
  • Skipping a run? Mark it skipped in the calendar: no reminder, no black mark, and Tuin keeps it that way when it replans.
  • The coach is steadier: it stays in your app's language, groups runs uploaded together into one note, and never invents splits it can't see.
  • Fixed: a workout arriving from both Apple Health and Strava now counts once, instead of quietly inflating your training load.

How fast could you run a marathon today?

  • Tuin now speaks Catalan — the whole app, your plan and reminders included.
  • Your estimated VO2 max now sits on the dashboard, with race-time equivalents from 5K to marathon.
  • Subscribe your plan to Google or Apple Calendar, with reminders the evening before and the morning of each session.
  • New runners pick a goal on day one, and the coach follows real training doctrine — periodization, spacing, taper.
  • A public About page, an installable home-screen icon, and friends can join with a short access code.

Tuin is born

  • The big rebuild: Home, Calendar and Activities tabs, with the coach chat always at hand.
  • Fitness, fatigue and form charts — with a plain-language guide to every number.
  • Tuin learned Spanish, miles, and step-by-step structured workouts.
  • After every run, Tuin reads it and writes its take onto the Strava activity.
  • Your plan bends around life: B-races, vacations and sick days.
What's new in Tuin