How to connect your training data

Bring your recorded sessions into Lactate Training, so your coach has something useful to work with. Start with the service you already use.

Before you start

• A Garmin Connect or Strava account that already has your sessions in it.
• The email and password for that account (this is not your Lactate Training login).
• Lactate Training installed on your phone and signed in.

Step by step

1. Open the app. On the home screen, tap the gear icon to open Settings.
2. Tap Connect Strava / Garmin.
3. Pick the service your watch already uploads to. If your runs go to Garmin Connect, pick Garmin. If they go to Strava, pick Strava.
4. A sign-in page opens. Sign in with your Garmin or Strava email and password.
5. You will see a page asking if Lactate Training can see your activities. Tap to allow it.
6. You are taken back to Lactate Training. That is the link done. You only ever do this once.
7. From now on, each new session you record appears in the bell at the top of the home screen, waiting for you to confirm it.
8. Tap the bell, then tap the green Add pill next to the session. It is now in your history and your coach can see it.
9. Don't want to wait? Open All Activities and tap the round refresh button in the bottom corner. This checks for new sessions straight away.

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Where it goes wrong

• “My run is missing!” Nine times out of ten it is sitting unconfirmed in the bell, or Garmin has not sent it yet. Their servers can take a little while after you save a run. Tap refresh in All Activities, then check the bell.
• Never confirming anything. Sessions left in the bell are invisible to your stats and your coach. Make clearing the bell part of your routine, or turn on Settings → Add new activities for me and it happens by itself.
• Connecting both Garmin and Strava. If both send the same run, you can end up with doubles. Connect the one your watch actually syncs to.
• Still stuck? In All Activities, tap “Having trouble connecting? Report it”. It sends us a message directly, and you can speak it instead of typing.

Check it worked

• Your latest session shows in the bell or in All Activities.
• After you confirm it, the sport, date and duration are right.
• The session appears only once.