GPS watch gives insights into training, recovery, consistency, and progress over time. By connecting watch data, athletes and coaches can review mileage, pace, heart rate, elevation, workout intensity, long runs, race preparation, and patterns that help guide smarter training decisions.
This is especially helpful for athletes who want to build endurance safely, prepare for cross country or track races, avoid sudden mileage jumps, and get more individualized feedback from coaches.
Start by creating a free account on the RSLTS website.
After creating an account, athletes should request to join the correct team. This allows coaches to view training data, organize athletes by team, and provide better feedback. Choose the team that fits your school or club.
Club Teams
Athletes can record training with a GPS watch such as Garmin, COROS, Polar, Apple Watch, or Suunto. Watch data helps coaches and athletes see the full picture of training rather than only individual workouts.
Athletes can sync data directly (Garmin, Polar, Suunto) or use intervals.icu to sync (COROS, Apple Watch, Amazfit, and others).
Watch data can help identify:
Weekly mileage and gradual buildup
Long run progression
Easy run pacing
Workout intensity and recovery
Heart rate trends
Elevation and terrain effects
Training consistency
Signs of fatigue or overload
Progress toward race goals
The purpose is not to overanalyze every run, but to use data as another tool to support healthy, consistent development. Improvement comes from consistent training, gradual adaptation, proper recovery, and smart progression. Watch data gives athletes and coaches a better way to understand what is actually happening in training.
Chris Kuchin manages the RSLTS performance app and helps athletes, parents, and coaches turn training data into useful insights. He is an Adjunct Faculty member at BYU and has professional experience with Qualtrics, AI consulting, and Route. Chris is a data engineering specialist with a focus on athletic data, helping connect watch files, training logs, and performance trends so coaches can better understand athlete development, consistency, workload, and recovery.