Runs land, Vertical reads them
As soon as a run syncs from your COROS, Vertical takes in the pace, heart rate, climbing and effort and folds it into what comes next. Nothing to export.
COROS gives you a watch that lasts and data most runners never use. Vertical reads every run automatically, builds a plan around your real fitness, and pushes each workout to your COROS. Then it talks you through it, by chat or voice.
The gap
COROS earned a devoted following among marathoners, trail and ultra runners: long battery, clean data, base fitness and training load sitting in the Training Hub. A number on a dashboard cannot tell you what you are building toward, or what to do with a rough week.
So translating EvoLab scores into decisions comes back to you. Is your load too high for this block? Should today be hard or easy? COROS will not say, because it does not know your goal race, your history, or how the last session actually felt.
How Vertical works with COROS
As soon as a run syncs from your COROS, Vertical takes in the pace, heart rate, climbing and effort and folds it into what comes next. Nothing to export.
Vertical derives your paces and zones from your COROS history, then builds a periodized plan toward your goal. The periodization draws on more than 500 sports-science papers, not a fixed template.
Each planned session lands on your COROS as a structured workout with pace and heart-rate targets. Run it from your wrist and the completed activity syncs straight back to your coach.
Ask anything in plain language and get an answer built on your own COROS data. Onboard by voice, then chat whenever a session, a niggle or your schedule needs a rethink.
The short version
Your COROS logged this morning’s long run: 28k, 640m of climb, effort held steady into the last hour. Your durability is coming along for the ultra. I’ve queued a hill session to your watch for Thursday.
In practice
Your COROS captures 800m of vert on a trail long run. Vertical reads the effort behind the slow pace and credits the work properly, instead of flagging you for missing a flat-ground pace target.
Your Training Hub load spikes before a big block. Ask your coach what it means and get a straight answer weighed against your goal race and how recovery has gone, not just a colour on a chart.
Travel or a bad cold wipes out three days. Tell your coach and it rebuilds those days into a lighter week, so the goal stays where it was.
Setup
Talk through your running background and goals out loud in a short voice onboarding, or by chat. No forms.
Authorize COROS once. Your recent history flows in and every future run syncs automatically.
Vertical reads your COROS history against the research, tells you honestly where your fitness sits, then builds a plan around the things slowing you down.
Workouts go to your COROS, runs come back, and your coach checks in and adapts as you progress.
Yes. Connect COROS once and Vertical reads every run automatically, with no manual uploads, and pushes your planned workouts back to your COROS as structured sessions you can follow on your wrist.
Any COROS that syncs your runs works, since Vertical connects at the account level rather than to a specific model. If your PACE, APEX or VERTIX already logs runs, it will work with Vertical.
Yes. Planned sessions are pushed to your COROS as structured workouts with pace and heart-rate targets, and the completed run flows back to your coach afterwards.
It is a strong fit. Vertical reads your climbing and effort, not just flat pace, and pairs with our grade-adjusted race-pacing pages and GPX fuel planner to help you pace and fuel long days on real course profiles.
No. Vertical derives your paces and zones from your real COROS history, or from a recent race you talk through during voice onboarding if you are just getting started.
Take the free assessment: connect COROS, or answer a few questions, and see where your running stands in about two minutes. No card required.
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