Fitness+ iphone vs watch

I expected, falsely that the fitness app on my iPhone 14 pro running ios 17.4.1 would be the preferred method on setting up plans and workouts. Zi spent multiple days searching the community and web on how find, select and use the “hiking” workout. I see badges or awards for it but no where, and I searched high n low for hiking workout. I was beginning to think that apple decided to remove “hiking” as a workout choice and the numerous references were old data.

After weeks, I finally selected on the watch, Series 9 running ios 10.4, selected the little running man icon, snd scrolled down the list , only to find multiple workouts included on the watch that the IPhone fitness app excludes. How frustrating!

Going to have to try it possibly this weekend.

Why oh why does the IPhone fitness app exclude hiking?

mike