On Apple Watch, the Workout app includes workout views and metrics designed specifically for outdoor runners. It’s a lot of data. The Outdoor Run workout views include metrics like current heart rate, rolling mile, average pace, and distance, plus running cadence, stride length, ground contact time, and vertical oscillation. You can learn about running form and running power, too.
Workout views and running metrics for Outdoor Run workouts
These metrics appear in the Outdoor Run workout views:
- Metrics: Current heart rate, rolling mile, average pace, distance
- Metrics 2: Running cadence, stride length, ground contact time, vertical oscillation
- Heart Rate Zones: Current heart rate, time in zone, heart rate average
- Segment: Segment number, segment pace, segment distance, current heart rate
- Split: Split number, split pace, split distance, current heart rate
- Elevation: Elevation profile over the last 30 minutes, elevation gained, current elevation
- Power: Power profile over the last 30 minutes, current power, running cadence
- Activity Rings: Move, exercise, stand
About running form and running power
Apple Watch can help measure elements of your running form and display them, including the following:
- Vertical oscillation: The amount your torso moves vertically with each step while running, measured in centimeters (cm).
- Ground contact time: The length of time your foot is in contact with the ground when running, measured in milliseconds (ms).
- Stride length: The distance covered per running step, measured in meters (m).
During an Outdoor Run workout, Apple Watch can also help measure your running power. This is a measure, in watts, of the output of the work you’re doing when you run.
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