RunMana

Help & Support

RunMana is an adaptive 5K training app for high school cross country and age-group runners. If you need help, you're in the right place.

Contact

Questions, bug reports, feature requests, or anything else:

We aim to reply within 1–2 business days. Every message reaches a real person on the team during the v1.0 beta.

Common questions

What is the Mana Mile?

Your Mana Mile is your one-mile pace anchor. Every other pace in your plan flows from it. We derive it from your fastest recent race-distance effort in Apple Health (1 mile / 5K / 10K / HM / Marathon in the last year) or you can enter it directly. As your fitness shifts, it recalibrates and every workout adjusts.

Why does the app only support 5K plans in v1.0?

The 5K plan is fully built out and validated. Plans for 10K, Half Marathon, and Marathon are coming in later releases. You can still add longer races to your calendar — you just won't get a generated plan for them yet.

I deleted the app and reinstalled. Did I lose my plan?

If you were signed into iCloud, no — your plan, history, and Mana Mile mirror to your own private iCloud database and restore automatically on reinstall. On first launch after reinstall, you'll see a brief "Checking your iCloud…" splash while it restores.

If iCloud sync isn't available, your data lived only on the device and is gone with the uninstall.

How do I delete all my RunMana data?

Profile tab → scroll to the Privacy card → tap "Delete all RunMana data" and confirm. This wipes your plan, history, Mana Mile, race calendar, and Apple Health backfill from your iPhone and your iCloud mirror. Apple Health itself is not touched — only what RunMana stored.

Does RunMana track me or share my data?

No. RunMana is on-device first. Your training data lives in your iPhone and (if you're signed in) mirrors to your own private iCloud. We never see it. There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising trackers.

The one exception is the optional Mana Course Database, which is off by default. If you opt in, race-day results upload anonymously (no name, age, or identity) to help the running community rate courses by difficulty.

Full details in the Privacy Policy.

Why does the workout always start with a 7-minute "Chill Shag"?

Every running workout in RunMana opens with a 7-minute Chill Shag (easy warm-up shuffle) and closes with a 5-minute Cool Walk. This bookend wakes up the legs before harder work and lets your heart rate settle after. It's not optional — it's the safest base for daily training and it's how good coaches structure every workout.

Apple Health is showing 0 runs in the last 30 days but I have runs there.

Profile → Apple Health card → tap "Refresh." If still 0, check Settings → Health → Data Access & Devices → RunMana — make sure read access is granted for Workouts and Heart Rate. If runs are older than 30 days, they won't show in the recent list, but they're still in the lifetime import.

My Mana Mile feels wrong — how do I fix it?

Profile → Mana Mile card → "Re-test Mana Mile" → enter the time you actually think reflects your current fitness. The plan recalibrates from tomorrow forward. You can do this as often as you want as your fitness changes.

About RunMana

RunMana is built by Mana Athletic LLC — a team of coaches, runners, and engineers focused on adaptive training methodology for distance runners. The framework draws from Haugen's intensity zones for elite middle-distance runners, Riegel race-time projection, Jack Daniels' VDOT model, and Arthur Lydiard's aerobic-foundation principles, translated into a plain-language pace system that hides the jargon.