Stride Five: Beginner 5K Plan

Dolphin Studio 101

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About this app

Day 1: run for one minute, walk for two. Week 9: run for thirty minutes without stopping. Stride Five takes you from one to the other, right on your Wear OS watch, with no phone in your pocket.

▸ Weeks 1–4: short runs with generous walks between them.
▸ Weeks 5–7: longer runs, fewer walks, your first 20 minutes non-stop.
▸ Weeks 8–9: 25, 28 and finally 30 minutes. Then Beyond 5K: four more weeks up to 60 minutes.

Start, put your arm down and go. A brisk 5-minute warm-up walk, then your wrist tells you everything: four quick pulses mean run, two long swells mean walk, a light tap warns you ten seconds before each change, and two taps mark halfway. The cues keep coming with the screen off, and the watch face shows your session as an ongoing activity.

• Your session as a paper race bib: its number is your place in the plan
• Run and walk countdown, pause and resume, an honest end screen
• A tile with your next session and one-tap Start, and a watch face complication
• Medals for your first run, week one, 5 and 20 minutes non-stop
• Repeat any week, any time; strong or light vibrations; 5 or 3 minute warm-up

When you finish week 9, you earn the finisher medal card: the day you started, the run you could do on day 1 next to the 30 minutes you just ran, every session you finished and your total running time. A small thing to keep from nine weeks of showing up.

Week 1 is free and complete: three full sessions with every cue, the tile and the complication. One optional purchase unlocks weeks 2–9, Beyond 5K and the finisher medal card, yours for good. No subscription, no ads.

Go at an easy pace you can talk at, and ask your doctor first if you have a health condition. Your runs stay on your watch: no account, no tracking.

What’s new

Initial release.