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title: "Introducing Runima: Coach-Grade Running Analytics"
description: "Explore Runima's first release: Garmin activity imports, training-load charts, recovery metrics and performance trends, with free core analysis."
canonical_url: "https://runima.fit/blog/introducing-runima"
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> Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://runima.fit/llms.txt)

Your smartwatch already records everything — every kilometre, every heartbeat,
every recovery day. The problem has never been data. It's that the data sits
in a feed, scrolling by one workout at a time, with no way to see the trend
underneath it.

Runima is built to fix exactly that. Import your activity history and Runima
runs the same training-load and performance analysis a good coach would do by
hand, then charts it so you can see where you actually stand. Today we're
launching the first public release, and the core analysis is **free**.

## Bring your own data

Right now Runima imports your activity history straight from a **Garmin
Connect** export — your runs, heart-rate streams and daily health metrics.
You don't enter anything by hand; the analysis is built entirely from what your
watch already measured.

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Import is timezone-aware and de-duplicates repeated activities, so re-importing
an updated export won't double-count your training.

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## What you get in this release

### Training load, the way coaches model it

Runima builds the full Performance Management picture from your history:

- **CTL, ATL and TSB** — fitness, fatigue and form on one timeline, so you can
see whether a hard block left you sharp or buried.
- **Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio** — the progression guard-rail that flags when
you're ramping faster than your body has adapted to.
- **Weekly distance and load summaries** — the consistency view that the
single-workout feed never gives you.

### Readiness and recovery at a glance

The overview surfaces **readiness**, **recovery** and **fatigue** cards so you
can answer the only question that matters before a quality session: is today
the day to push, or the day to back off?

### Performance trends

- **Pace progression** over time, so improvement shows up as a line, not a
feeling.
- **Cardiac efficiency** — pace relative to heart rate — to see fitness gains
that raw pace alone hides.
- **Stride and form** metrics from your runs.
- **Race predictions** and **training zones** derived from your own history,
not a generic table.

### Plain-language insights

Numbers are only useful if you know what to do with them. Alongside the charts,
Runima writes short, plain-language insights that point out what changed and
why it matters — built from your trends, not generic advice.

## Why we built it this way

Runima is for runners who take a scientific approach — people who'd rather see
the methodology than be told to trust a black-box score. Every metric here is
a recognised endurance-training model, computed transparently from your own
activities. No invented numbers, no vanity scores.

## What's next

This first release is focused and honest about its scope. On the roadmap:
broader analysis, more health signals, and tooling for coaches who want to work
with their athletes' data. We'll share those as they ship — and we'll keep
writing up the science behind each metric here on the blog.

Import your history, look at your trends, and stop guessing.

**Get started — it's free.**

## Sitemap

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