Track Cross-Country Skiing with Apple Watch

Photo by Aaron Doucett

I built Watchletic to record distance and speed during cross-country skiing workouts on Apple Watch.

The native Apple Watch Workout app did not give me the distance and speed data I wanted for skiing, so I added a dedicated cross-country skiing workout to Watchletic.

During a workout, you can choose which values appear on the watch. That includes distance, speed, elevation, and heart rate.

You can also:

1. View live distance and speed while skiing.

2. Arrange the workout screen around the values you care about.

3. Export completed workouts to services including TrainingPeaks, Final Surge, and TrainAsONE.

4. Use the same app for running, cycling, swimming, and cross-country skiing.

I used Watchletic during the 90 km Vasaloppet to test the skiing mode over an 11-hour race. You can read how the app and Apple Watch battery held up.