RunDoyen Digital Coach

Adaptive coaching from a top running coach.

Get a personalized training plan built around your goal, fitness and schedule, from a digital coach grounded in a real RunDoyen coach’s methods. It responds to your actual runs and feedback, adapts when that is warranted, holds steady when it is not, and explains why.

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Built from real RunDoyen coachesTJ Garlatz, Sean Henning, and Jacob Phillips

The RunDoyen Today screen: a rest day between the first run and the longer Sunday run, TJ's reply to yesterday's check-in (reviewed, no change needed), the week's briefing and the next seven days.

The RunDoyen Plan screen, Week view: this week's chart (Friday's 2 mile easy run partly done, a rest day, Sunday's 3 mile long run) and the coach TJ's note: your Friday and Tuesday runs stay short and easy, with Sunday set aside for a relaxed longer run; rest between runs lets you try a third running day without stacking the work.

Your plan, coached

Your personalized training plan is just the beginning.

You get structured training built for you, seven days at a time. Then your coach keeps guiding it: adapting when real life or your progress calls for it, and holding steady when that is the better call.

Personalized trainingWorkouts, distances and paces built around your goal, fitness and schedule.
Coaching that adaptsTo real life and to how your runs actually go, with the reasoning behind every change.
Real RunDoyen coachesThe distinct methods of accomplished coaches, in a digital coach you choose or are matched with.

Your training plan

Personalized and prescribed for your week.

Friday: easy run, 2 miles.
Saturday: rest.
Sunday: long run, 3 miles.

Your coaching

What actually happened, what it means, and what to do next.

What happened: 1.5 miles. It got dark, and the pace felt easy.
What it means: Darkness, not effort, ended the run.
What to do next: Plan kept. No half mile to make up, and Sunday’s long run stays relaxed, as planned.

Your coach is there for the moments that change a week:

A run is missed
A session feels too hard, or too easy
Your fitness moves forward
Work, family or travel get in the way
You question a pace or a workout
The right call is to hold steady

The same week, in the app.

1. Understand
Training that starts where you are.
Asked what the first week is for, TJ explains it: a steady running habit from three easy runs, rest between them, and a slightly longer Sunday run to start building endurance. A change your coach suggests in Chat waits for your OK.
2. Check in
Tell your coach what actually happened.
Planned 2 miles, ran 1.5 because it got dark. Your check-in keeps what you ran beside what was planned, with how it felt in your own words.
$The coach TJ's reply to the check-in, marked Plan kept: since darkness, not the effort, ended the run, the plan stays unchanged with no need to make up the remaining half mile; take today's rest, then keep Sunday's 3 mile long run relaxed as planned, because consistency matters more than every missed fraction of a mile.$
3. Decide
Your coach decides, and says why.
TJ keeps the plan: darkness, not effort, ended the run, so there is no half mile to make up. Sunday's long run stays relaxed, as planned. Sometimes the right call is to hold steady.

Your next 7 daysPersonalized, structured workouts at the distances and paces that fit you, prescribed on a rolling seven-day basis from your runs, your feedback and what you have told your coach.
The 14 days afterYour coach’s outlook: which days are long runs, quality days, easy days or rest. Subject to change.
Your race or goalThe weeks to go and your fitness against your goal. Your longer-term goal informs each week.

Plan changed

Leaving the plan alone is a coaching decision too. So is changing it.

Sometimes the right answer is no change. When your running shows you are ready, your training progresses, and when life changes the week, your coach proposes a new one, with its reasons.

Runner reports · Skipped

“Work ran late and I could not get out. Legs felt fine.”

TJ Digital Coach · Change proposed

Work running late is a real schedule constraint, not a reason to read anything into your fitness, and you reported that your legs felt fine. I’m proposing adding the 8 mi long run on Monday at easy pace (10:05 - 10:53 / mi) rather than losing this week’s main endurance session.

MonRestLong Run 8

TueEasy 4Recovery 3

WedFartlek 5

ThuRecovery 3Easy 4

The coach proposed it. The calendar changed after the runner confirmed.

You stay in control.

Adjust it yourself. Move or edit supported workouts whenever your week changes.

Or ask your coach. It proposes a change with its reasons, and nothing changes until you confirm it.

Shown: a sample runner in the current RunDoyen iPhone app. Replies are AI-generated, informed by the coach’s knowledge and philosophy. The coach is not personally messaging you. RunDoyen does not provide medical advice. Plan changed: A real exchange from RunDoyen testing with a test runner, September 2026. The words are unedited. Replies are AI-generated.

Choose your coach

Real coaches, extended by AI. Not replaced by it.

Each digital coach reflects a real coach’s distinct philosophy, not a generic AI persona. The coach you choose shapes how you are coached.

TJ GarlatzDIGITAL COACH

100+ All-Americans coached
8 National Champions coached
2:28 marathon PR

Consistency and event-specific training

Consistency over time and specificity to the target event, in plans that fit around the rest of your life.

Sean HenningDIGITAL COACH

9 National Champions coached
8x Cross Country Coach of the Year
Master’s degree in coaching

Know the runner first

Understand the why behind your goal and the stress in your life first, then build a reasonable path to it.

Jacob PhillipsDIGITAL COACH

Coached 2 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials qualifiers
21 Conference Championship teams coached
8 Top-10 U.S. Championship finishers coached

Practical, personal, progressive

Consistency through training that is practical for your life, personal to your fitness and progressive toward your goal.

Not sure who fits? Get matched.

Get a recommendation based on your goals, experience and preferences, with the reasons it fits, or choose a coach yourself. If your needs change, you can change coaches.

Coaching for runners of all levels.

5K
10K
Half Marathon
Marathon
Trail
Ultra
Track
Cross Country

The RunDoyen coach-matching questions, Your ideal coach: what matters most to you in a coach, the coaching style you prefer and how important the coach's competitive background is, a few quick taps.

The RunDoyen coach recommendation, explaining why a coach fits a sample runner in the runner's own words.

The RunDoyen Choose a coach screen listing the coaches who can coach your goal.

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The complete training app

Everything your training needs, in one app.

The RunDoyen Guided Run screen for today's 5 mile easy run: its pace range, Audio Guidance on, and a Start Guided Run button.

Guided Runs on iPhone

Your coach can guide you during the run, too.

Start your prescribed workout directly in RunDoyen. Your iPhone records the run with GPS and speaks each step, interval change and target pace as you go.

Optional coaching cues, written ahead of time and spoken by your iPhone. Saves to Apple Health and informs your coach. Carry your iPhone. Headphones are optional. Not every workout supports Guided Runs yet. Cues are not live from a coach.

A Garmin running watch showing a data watch face.

An Apple Watch Ultra with a tan Alpine Loop strap showing a workout watch face.

Connected devices

The runs you record shape what comes next.

Every run you complete helps your coach understand your actual training, so each decision about what comes next is a better one.

Garmin
Apple Watch

Polar, COROS, and Suunto are not yet verified with RunDoyen.

Apple Watch runs arrive through Apple Health; Garmin runs through Garmin Connect and Apple Health, where supported. Workouts cannot be sent to a watch yet: record your run as usual.

No watch? Run with Guided Runs on your iPhone, or log a run yourself.

RunDoyen Progress, recent weeks: weekly mileage, actual against planned, for six completed weeks from Aug 31 to Oct 5, rising from 16.5 to 27.92 miles.

RunDoyen Fitness: Current Level 19 from a recent 10K in 49:00, and Goal Level 22 for a half marathon in 1:45:00, seven weeks away.

Track your progress

Today’s fitness sets your paces. Your goal sets the direction.

Week by week: planned miles against what you actually ran, and where your fitness stands against your goal.

Current Fitness Level: where you are today, from a recent race, a time trial or your own estimate. Every training pace is set from it. Goal Fitness Level: what your goal asks for. It guides where your training is heading, never today’s paces. Add a new race or time trial and your level and paces update. Levels are results and estimates. They are not points. Sample runner.

Three runners in RunDoyen singlets after an event.

About RunDoyen

Helping runners get faster and set new PRs since 2017.

Since 2017, RunDoyen has been a leader in online running coaching, helping thousands of runners get faster and set new PRs with expert coaches. Now we’re extending that coaching knowledge, training philosophy and real-world experience to more runners through adaptive digital coaching.

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RunDoyen and our coaches have been cited in leading running and lifestyle publications.

What runners say about RunDoyen.

Google reviews of RunDoyen’s human coaching.

It’s like having a personal coach in your pocket.

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Early access

Start training with your coach.

Leave your email for early access. Access opens in groups, and we will email your account setup instructions as soon as access is available, with everything you need to choose your coach and start your first week.

A digital coach built from a real RunDoyen coach, chosen by you or matched to you
Training prescribed seven days at a time, rebuilt from how your running actually goes
Coach Chat and check-ins your coach acts on, with its reasons
Guided Runs and progress tracking on iPhone
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Good to know

Frequently asked questions

A few answers before you get started.

Is RunDoyen for beginners and experienced runners?

Both. Your training is built from your current fitness and your goal: a 5K to a marathon, a custom distance, a timed fitness test, or no race at all. The workouts and paces follow from where you are. Ultra and trail goals are more limited: TJ does not coach them, and Sean and Jacob have limited direct experience with them.

How is this different from an AI training plan?

A plan is a schedule. Your coach prescribes real workouts, reads how each run went and what you said, and decides what comes next, with the reasons. Sometimes the right call is to change nothing. New weeks are built from your latest training. A change you ask for in Chat happens only when you confirm it.

Is a real coach messaging me?

No. Responses are AI-generated, informed by each coach's knowledge, coaching philosophy and experience. The coach is not personally messaging you. The human coaching business continues separately at rundoyen.com.

Will I get a full plan to race day?

You get detailed training seven days at a time, then your coach's outlook for the 14 days after: long runs, quality days, easy days and rest, subject to change. Your race date, the weeks to go and your Fitness Levels stay on your Plan. Your goal and your coach's longer-term direction shape each week, but the app does not show a calendar all the way to race day.

Which watches work with RunDoyen?

Apple Watch runs reach RunDoyen through Apple Health on your iPhone. Garmin runs can reach it through Garmin Connect and Apple Health, where supported. If a run does not come through, you can log it yourself. Polar, COROS and Suunto are not yet verified with RunDoyen: their apps can share finished runs to Apple Health, but we have not yet confirmed a run arriving from each of them. RunDoyen does not run on the watch, does not send structured workouts to a watch yet, and does not connect to Garmin directly.

What are Guided Runs?

Start a supported workout from your plan, and your iPhone records the run with GPS and speaks each step and target pace, with optional coaching cues written ahead of time. Carry your iPhone, headphones are optional, and not every workout supports Guided Runs yet.

How much does it cost?

Getting started costs nothing, and we do not ask for payment details. You will always see any price before you are asked to pay.

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