Adaptive running coach · iPhone

Run
smarter

Your plan is built from your own running. Your coach talks you through every session. And your hard days move to the mornings your body can take them.

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In private beta · iPhone, iOS 17 or later · 7 day free trial

Runvel's Today screen showing readiness, the next session, and this week's volume. Runvel's Plan screen showing the goal race, training phase, and weekly volume across the block. Runvel's week detail showing every session day by day with its distance and zone.
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01 · The plan

It starts where you actually are.

Runvel reads your last few months from Apple Health or Strava and builds forward from your real weekly volume, your real longest run, your real pace. It will not open a marathon block at a mileage you have never run, and it will not ask for a long run far past the longest one you have done this month.

  • 5K to marathon. Pick a goal and a date, and the block shapes itself around them.
  • Every fourth week eases off. Recovery is scheduled, not hoped for.
  • Miss a session and it reshuffles without stacking two hard days together.
The Plan screen showing an eight week 5K block, its phases, and weekly volume.

02 · The coach

A voice in your ear, not a chart to read later.

With a watch or a strap it coaches by heart rate zone. Without one it coaches by pace and effort. Either way it talks, in recorded human voices, with four personalities to pick from, and it keeps working when your signal does not.

Ease up, you're above your target zone.

Zone 4

Nice, back on target.

Zone 2

Your heart rate is very high. Consider stopping.

Safety
A training week in Runvel, session by session with distance and zone.

03 · Readiness

Hard days move to the days you can take them.

Every morning Runvel reads your heart rate variability, your resting heart rate and last night's sleep, and scores how recovered you are. On a bad morning today's quality session becomes an easy run of the same distance.

It only ever takes work away. Runvel will never look at your data and decide you should be running harder than your plan says.

Zone 1 to Zone 5 · the app's colourblind safe scale

The Today screen showing readiness, the next session, and the week so far.

The part nobody else publishes

We tell you which of our rules the research actually supports.

Every rule in Runvel's plan engine was checked against the sports science literature, then checked again by reviewers whose only job was to knock the findings down. Some of what the running world treats as gospel did not survive. We changed the app instead of the claim.

Read what held up

Train like someone is watching.

Something is. Your own data, read honestly, every single morning.

Coming soon to the App Store See the evidence