Did you know you can use your Garmin for a running shoe / form analysis?
Hello again!
A few months ago we posted here about our new Run-It platform.
The first version was basically: upload a run, get shoe recommendations and a short run analysis, but the feedback we got made it clear that was too narrow.
People wanted an easier way to get their data in, more context than one isolated run, clearer explanations behind the recommendations, and a way to understand which shoes they already own seem to work best.
So the newer version is built around synced run history instead of only a single upload:
• Garmin Sync sync is now supported. Using the official Garmin Connect API, you can now sync Garmin data (or upload) as many Garmin runs as you’d like into our platform. (note: Garmin sync only allows for max one month retroactive retrival)
• Strava shoe sync is now added. If your shoes are tracked in Strava, Run-It can use that gear data to automatically match shoes to the corresponding Garmin runs.
• Recommendations are split by daily, tempo, and race use, and race recommendations can also be viewed by distance like 5K, 10K, half marathon, or marathon. Fatigue is now also taken into account in the recommendations, based on how your running form holds up under different kinds of load for different purposes.
• The "Biomechanical Signature" is now core part of the product. For every uploaded run, we identify the most ideal part of that run, your “fresh window,” to capture your purest running form comparison across paces and shoes. This is then aggregated over all the uploaded runs, letting you track how your biomechanics evolve over time while seeing how specific running shoes influence your key form metrics.
• The "Fatigue Resilience Profile" adds another layer: it shows how well your form holds up as runs get harder. By comparing fresh-window mechanics against later-run fatigue signals, it highlights where ground contact time and heart-rate drift stay controlled, and where they start to rise across different paces, distances, efforts, and shoes.
• The "Drift Inspector" is the per-run diagnostic behind that. It lets you inspect the fresh and fatigue windows inside an individual run and lets you adjust them yourself when needed. We also added most of the Garmin metrics here (i.e. Stride length, VO, ...), so if you want to go deeper, you can check how those metrics drift within each individual run too. Once adjusted and saved, those windows feed back into your Biomechanical Signature, Fatigue Resilience Profile, and shoe comparisons.
• Owned-shoe comparison is also a new feature, you can now see which shoes in your current rotation appear to work best for your mechanics and run purpose. Different metrics get weighted differently depending on the purpose.
Most of the main flow is still free: Garmin sync, the core running profile, Biomechanical Signature, fatigue/drift context, and daily/tempo/race shoe recommendations. The paid layer is for deeper controls, custom checks, and more detailed comparisons.
We are very curious what you think! useful, too much, missing something obvious, or not the right direction? Let us know!
Posted May 29, 2026, 7:51 PM UTC