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How Should We Think About Training?
The science, the tradition, and the individual
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A coaching team that adapts to you.
Runaid combines sports science, training tradition, and your individual response to build training that works — and keeps working as you develop. Not a plan generator. A coaching relationship.
79 kr/month · 49 kr/month at launch.
What Runaid is
Most training apps give you a plan. Runaid gives you coaching. The difference is responsiveness — to how your training is going, to how your life is going, and to how your body responds to the work you're putting in.
The coaching team reviews your sessions, tracks patterns across weeks, and adjusts your training when the evidence warrants it. When you run a threshold session 15 seconds per kilometre too fast, they tell you why that matters and what to do differently next time. When a stretch of hard work starts to accumulate more fatigue than adaptation, they pull the load back before you break down.
Runaid is built on the understanding that good coaching requires three things: knowledge of the science, familiarity with what has worked across many athletes, and close attention to the individual in front of you. The science provides the foundation. The coaching tradition extends it. You complete it.
How the coaching works
Four principles that govern every training plan we produce.
Consistency is the master principle
Consistent, uninterrupted training over months and years is the primary driver of improvement. Every decision we make is evaluated against it.
Every session has a purpose
There are no junk sessions in a well-designed plan. Easy runs are not lesser training — they are the answer to a specific question about how to build fitness efficiently.
Train the limiter
Improvement comes from identifying which physiological variable is the current constraint and directing training toward it. A generic plan is structurally suboptimal.
Honesty over comfort
When you need to hear a hard truth about your goal or your training, we say so. Clearly, constructively, and with care for your long-term development.
What's included
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Personalised training plans that adapt
Your plan changes as you develop. Not a static schedule — a living structure that responds to how your training is going.
Workout assessment from your coaching team
Every session is reviewed. Your coaching team reads your data and tells you what it means for your training.
Strava integration
Your runs sync automatically. No manual logging, no friction between running and coaching.
Strength and conditioning programming
Gym work designed to improve running economy and reduce injury risk, integrated with your running load.
Conversational coaching
Ask questions, flag concerns, discuss your training. Your coaching team is accessible, not just present.
The thinking behind it
We've written in detail about the science and principles that underpin how Runaid coaches. These articles are the foundation.
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The Physiology of Running Performance
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The Lactate Curve and What It Means for Your Training
Two thresholds, three intensity domains, and why they matter for how you race and how you train
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How Your Body Fuels Running
Energy systems, substrate use, and what it means for training and racing
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Training that thinks like a coach.
Runaid is in development. Join the waitlist and we'll let you know when it's ready — and what you can expect when it is.
79 kr/month · 49 kr/month at launch.