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A half-marathon plan that fits around your club.

Most running plans ignore your run club, swim squad or ironman training, then leave you behind when they get in the way. Coach builds your runs around the sessions you already do, and changes the plan when a hard one leaves you tired.

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Invite only while it's being tested.

What Coach is

Coach is a training app for people working towards a half marathon who also train with a club. You tell it your race and the sessions you never miss. It plans your runs around them, all the way to race day.

Each morning it asks how you're doing. When the signs say you're tired, it eases off instead of letting a hard club session and a hard run land back to back. It always tells you what it changed and why, and you can say no.

What you get

  • A plan built around your week

    Add your club sessions once, with their day, time and how hard they usually are. Your runs are planned around them.

  • A morning check-in that takes about 20 seconds

    How you feel, your resting heart rate, how you slept, and how last night's session went.

  • Push or protect, decided for you

    Four warning signs. With none or one, do the full session. With two or more, today gets easier so you don't dig a hole.

  • Changes you can see and undo

    Every change explains what happened and why. Tap Sounds good, or Keep original to train as planned.

  • Every session counts

    Club sessions and extras, like a surf or a social game, count towards your training load, with a weekly check on your easy and hard balance.

  • Your data stays yours

    Works offline and syncs between your devices. No ads and no tracking. Download or delete everything at any time.

How it works

  1. Set up

    Enter your race, its date, your target time and your club sessions. Coach builds your plan up to race day.

  2. Check in each morning

    Answer a few quick questions. If you skip one, Coach assumes the cautious answer.

  3. Coach adjusts

    It decides whether to push or protect, and moves or eases sessions so your week still works.

  4. You decide

    Keep the change or train as planned. If you don't answer, the safer plan stands.

Where it's at

  • Half marathons only, for now.
  • The plan is a general build fitted to your race date. A plan made for you is coming later.
  • It's an iPhone web app: open it in Safari and add it to your home screen. There's no App Store download.
  • Invite only. People Jamie adds get an email with how to sign in.