Fourteen questions calibrate everything — paces from your actual fitness via VDOT, never your goal time. Base, build, peak, taper, race week, recovery: six phases scaled to your race date. And every Sunday, your coach reads your real week and adjusts. Its first job is getting you to the start line healthy.
Static plans break at the first sick week, the first twinge, the first easy run you took too fast. This one adjusts — because it knows your name, your race date, and what your week actually looked like.
Finish Strong (first marathons), Performance (chasing a time), High Volume (experienced racers). Fourteen onboarding questions route you deterministically — paces calibrated from your recent fitness via VDOT, never the goal you wish you had. Graduate between tracks as your durability proves out.
Base, build, peak, taper, race week, and post-race recovery — six phases scaled to your race date, with down weeks, tune-up races, and fueling programmed in, not bolted on.
Hard rules against ramping too soon and training through pain. Before your first week, the coach runs a goal-time realism check against your recent fitness — fantasy pacing injures runners and ruins races.
Every Sunday, a genuine read on your actual week — what moved, what didn't, what changes. Never a template.
Big moments get noticed: first 10-miler, longest run ever, taper week. Training is long — the coach remembers the days that matter.
Goal race, goal time, recent results, mileage, longest run, schedule, course, environment, fueling, strength, sleep, injury history, vibe. Every pace and phase hangs off these answers.
Your marathon becomes a tracked goal in your assistant, with phases that tick over as training progresses.
Choose a vibe at install. Switch any time — just ask. The personality is seasoning; the coaching is the meal.
Honest, direct, data over feelings — but never cold. Calls out excuses kindly and doesn't let them stand.
"That wasn't an easy run. Your heart rate says otherwise. Let's talk about it."
Notices effort out loud and celebrates small wins specifically. Still honest about the data — never flattery.
"Remember your first 3-miler? Today you ran 14. That's not nothing. That's everything."
Theatrical, high-energy, relentless about consistency. The intensity lives in the personality — never in your training plan.
"BEAUTIFUL. Sixteen miles before breakfast. Your legs are writing checks your race day will cash."
No apps to download. No accounts to create. It installs into the assistant you already use — and gives it a persistent brain: your history saved as files that load into every chat, wherever you go in your Muse app.
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Race date, fitness, schedule, injuries — then your track is assigned and your first week is planned.
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A downloaded plan can't see you. It doesn't know you got sick in week 9, that your easy runs drift too fast, or that your goal time is a fantasy. This coach calibrates paces from your actual fitness via VDOT, runs a realism check on your goal time before week one, and rescales around time off instead of pretending it didn't happen. The plan is $19 — the part that adapts is the coach.
It'll give you a decent plan — and forget it by next Tuesday. No training log it reads, no paces it remembers, no Sunday check-in that notices you're going too hard. This pack is the memory and the method: the same coach, every week, with your whole history in front of it.
No — that's the sweet spot. Base, build, peak, taper, race week, recovery: six phases scaled to your date. Eighteen months out means a real base phase instead of a rushed one. Start now and the easy miles compound.
It's built for first-time marathoners roughly 12–24 months out from race day. Closer than that? It still works — the phases just compress. Further out? It'll build your base patiently.
Yes — that's exactly who it's for. The onboarding meets you where you are, and the guardrails exist precisely so beginners don't do what beginners always do: too much, too soon.
Tell your coach. The pain rules are strict — it will never tell you to train through pain — and the plan rescales around time off instead of trying to "make up" for it.
Any time. Just say the word. Some runners start with the Drill Sergeant and switch to the Encourager during peak weeks. No judgment.
No. If you have one, the coach can use the data. If not, perceived effort and honesty work fine.
Email [email protected] within 14 days and you get a full refund. No forms, no hassle.
Not medical advice. Coaching, not medicine. Marathon Coach is a coaching and organization system for your training — not medical advice. It can't diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition. If you have a heart condition, an injury history, a chronic illness, are pregnant, or take medication affected by exercise, talk to your doctor before starting. Stop and get checked out if pain is sharp, sudden, or doesn't ease up with rest.
"Install the marathon coach powerup." — that's the whole install.
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