Keep podcast episodes on watch after having listened completely to it

Hi,

I'm subscribed to a couple of podcasts on my iPhone SE. I always keep the last 3 episodes of a podcast on my phone.

The podcasts are being automatically synced to my Apple Watch (series 3). This works perfectly.

However, I do have an annoying problem. Once I've listened completely to an episode, the episode gets automatically removed from my watch. That means that I can't listen to it when I go out for a run. The episode does remain on the iPhone itself - no issue over there.

I tried searching everywhere, trying to figure out if this is a setting or if can I change this behaviour, but I couldn't.

I did found this article: https://support.apple.com/lv-lv/HT204691. This one states the following:

Episodes are automatically removed from your Apple Watch after you listen to them.

But the article does not explain how I can disable this.

Any idea if I can keep the episodes on my watch after having listened completely to it?

Thanks!

Jochen