Pushing a stroller makes every run and walk harder, but your watch only sees a slower pace. Stroller Run shows the effort you actually put in, on runs and walks. DURING YOUR RUN OR WALK (on the watch) - PUSH PACE: your pace adjusted for the stroller, live. Pushing 9:40/mi with 55 lb on flat pavement is about a 9:08/mi solo effort. Up a hill, 12:47/mi can be worth 9:10. - PUSH BONUS: how much extra work the stroller costs right now, as a percent and a green arc that grows on hills. With 55 lb on pavement: about 6% running on the flat, 19% up a 5% hill. Walking it's higher (8% and 25%). - Your real pace, grade and heart rate alongside. AFTER (Garmin Connect app, one scroll down your activity) - SAME EFFORT SOLO: the distance your effort would have covered without the stroller ("3.10 mi run = 3.38 mi solo"). - STROLLER TIME CREDIT: how much faster the same distance would have been solo, in minutes. - Avg Push Pace, Avg Push Bonus, Push Work (kJ and calories) and Stroller Load. - Push Pace, Push Bonus and Grade charts. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO - It can't change Garmin's own numbers. VO2 max, Training Status and race predictions still use your actual pace. Setup below keeps stroller runs from dragging them down. - Garmin shows app paces as decimals (11.65 min/mi = 11:39), and its reports and Strava don't include app data. Your results live on each activity, not in long-term trends. - It's made for steady exercise. Garmin stops reporting pace when you're barely moving, so slow strolling through a zoo or a store mostly shows --:--, and frequent stops to get kids in and out make the totals rough. Brisk, steady walks and runs work best. - It's an estimate from physics and published research, not a lab measurement of you. HOW IT WORKS It estimates the extra force to push your load (stroller plus child) against rolling resistance and hills, and compares it with the energy of running or walking at your body weight. Lab studies found strollers cost roughly 5-8% more energy on flat ground, and more on hills. The model matches that. IMPORTANT: USE SEPARATE STROLLER ACTIVITIES The field can't tell whether a stroller is attached, so don't add it to your everyday Run or Walk. Copy an activity just for the stroller. SET UP 1. Open Stroller Run's Settings in the Connect IQ app: stroller and child weight (add both kids for a double), lb or kg, surface (paved, gravel or grass/trail) and tires (air, all-terrain, foam/solid or small city-stroller wheels). Leave "Running or walking" on Auto. 2. On your watch, Activities & Apps, copy: - STROLLER RUN: copy Trail Run and turn VO2 max off (recommended), or copy Run to let stroller runs count toward VO2 max. - STROLLER WALK: copy Walk, for brisk exercise walks. Set Auto Pause to Off or When Stopped. 3. Add the Stroller Run field to a data screen in each. One field shows everything; it also fits 2, 3 and 4-field layouts. 4. Stroller along: start Stroller Run or Stroller Walk. No stroller: your normal Run or Walk. The Ready screen confirms run or walk, load, surface and tires. YOUR GARMIN STATS - Heart-rate stats (training load, recovery, Body Battery, calories) already reflect the extra effort. - Push Calories is the stroller's share of calories Garmin already counted. Don't add it to Garmin's total. GOOD TO KNOW - Body weight comes from your Garmin profile. - Wrist step counts run low with hands on the handle; a foot pod or chest strap helps. Research: Alcantara & Wall-Scheffler, PLOS ONE (2017); Sandbakk et al., Frontiers in Physiology (2020); Minetti et al., J Appl Physiol (2002). Photos, setup help and FAQ: alpinestartlabs.com/stroller-run Made by Alpine Start Labs.

First release. - Push Pace: your pace adjusted for the stroller, live on runs and walks - Push Bonus with a live green arc that grows on hills - After each activity in Garmin Connect: Same Effort Solo distance and Stroller Time Credit - Avg Push Pace, Push Work and calories, plus Push Pace, Push Bonus and Grade charts - Walking math for Walk activities, like a Stroller Walk (switches automatically) - Tire setting: air, all-terrain, foam/solid or small city-stroller wheels - Ready screen that confirms run or walk, your load, surface and tires - Works in 1, 2, 3 and 4-field layouts, on dark and light backgrounds, on 46 watches