Personalized running training plan

Most training plans fail in the same week.

Not week one — around the point where the prescribed volume outruns what you have been absorbing. Get a running plan anchored to your real training, for a 5K, 10K, half, marathon, a pace goal, or just fitness.

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Peakora running plan week by week with distances, conversational pace targets, and per-session coaching notes

Any goal

Race, pace, or general fitness

Your baseline

Week one starts from real training

Stays connected

Completed runs feed back in

What makes a plan yours

A plan is a set of constraints, not a calendar.

Your available days, current volume, longest recent run, goal date, and recovery capacity narrow the sensible options considerably. A downloaded PDF knows none of them.

Pick a goal

Race distance, a pace target, or general fitness.

Anchor the baseline

Recent volume and long-run history set the floor.

Set your week

Choose your training days and preferred long-run day.

Connect your training

Completed workouts come back into the plan.

Goal to weekly action

The outcome becomes weeks with a purpose.

Each session should have a job, and you should be able to tell what it is.

01

Define

Choose the goal and the date.

02

Personalize

Add fitness, schedule, and preferences.

03

Train

Follow sessions with pace or effort guidance.

04

Review

Compare what you did and decide what comes next.

The whole week matters

Volume, intensity, and recovery are one conversation.

Change any of the three and the other two have to move.

Progressive volume starts from your current fitness, not an aspiration.

Easy, long, and quality sessions each do a different job.

Recovery weeks interrupt the climb before it interrupts you.

Pace and effort targets turn a distance into an actual workout.

Cross-training counts toward the load your body is carrying.

Connected training

A plan that cannot see your training drifts away from you.

Built once and never revisited, any plan slowly stops describing the runner following it. Connect Strava, Apple Health, or Health Connect on Android so completed distance, pace, and effort stay next to the sessions they were meant to fulfil. Oura is coming.

Strava

Available · read-only

Apple Health

Available · HealthKit

Health Connect

Available · Android

Oura

Coming soon

Running plans in depth

What makes a plan work for the person actually following it.

The reasoning matters more than the calendar

The useful part of a training plan is not the list of workouts. It is the logic deciding which workout belongs where. Available days, current volume, longest recent run, goal date, and recovery capacity together narrow the options to a fairly small set. That is why two runners chasing the same race can correctly receive very different weeks.

Plans break where the assumption breaks

Almost no one abandons a plan in week one. They abandon it around the point where prescribed volume outruns what they have actually been absorbing — usually because the plan assumed a starting fitness they never had. Anchoring week one to completed recent training removes the single most common failure mode before it has a chance to happen.

A missed session is information, not a debt

The instinct after missing a run is to make it up, which compresses recovery and produces a second missed run. What the miss tells you depends on the week around it — travel, illness, a heavy few days, ordinary life. The session gets read in that context rather than automatically pushed onto tomorrow.

Easy running is the part everyone skips

Across every distance, most of your training should be comfortable enough to hold a conversation. It is also the part runners most often speed up, which quietly turns easy days into moderate ones and eats the recovery the hard sessions depend on. Checking intended effort against what you actually ran is the simplest way to catch that early.

Frequently asked questions

What runners ask

What makes a running plan personalized?

It reflects your goal, recent training, available days, preferred long-run day, and timeline — instead of handing the same calendar to everyone chasing the same race.

Which running goals does Peakora support?

5K, 10K, half marathon, marathon, pace improvement, and general fitness.

Can the plan adapt after workouts?

Completed activities are compared against scheduled sessions, and that comparison informs what should change — or whether anything should.

Can I connect Apple Health or Health Connect?

Yes. Peakora supports HealthKit on iPhone and Health Connect on Android alongside Strava. Oura is coming.

Does Peakora replace a coach or a doctor?

No. It provides informational guidance. It cannot diagnose an injury and does not replace qualified professional advice.

Your plan, your baseline

Build a running week you will actually follow.

Set the goal, connect your training, and get a progression that starts where you are.

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