Athlea Running
Not an app.
A coaching
relationship.
Other apps stop at the run and give you a stats screen. Athlea wraps the entire experience in a conversation — one that starts before you leave, and picks back up the moment you finish.
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Talkto coaches
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Buildyour plan
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Runwith guidance
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Debriefand insights
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Talk againloop closes
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Other apps give you a stats screen after the run.
Athlea gives you a coaching conversation before, during, and after it.
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Talk to your coaches
Multiple coaches.
One conversation.
Your running coach doesn't operate in isolation. When you ask about a race plan coming back from injury, the Recovery and Nutrition coaches are pulled in automatically — and they coordinate with each other before they respond.
Coaches in this conversation
Running Coach
Training load · Pacing · Race strategy
Recovery Coach
Injury management · Readiness · Sleep
Nutrition Coach
Fueling strategy · Tissue repair · Daily targets
Just cleared from a calf strain — 8 weeks out. 10K race in 8 weeks. What's the plan?
Running Coach
Weeks 1–3: S1 only — rebuilding load, not chasing fitness. Tempo work starts week 4, peaks week 7, short taper into race day.
Recovery Coach
Adding calf mobilisation + eccentric loading in weeks 1–2. If your HRV drops below baseline, the Recovery coach proposes stepping the session back — one tap to accept.
Nutrition Coach
1.8g/kg protein for 3 weeks — tissue repair needs it. Pre-run collagen + Vit C window before sessions 1–2. Adjusts when load increases in week 4.
My friend invited me to join his 14K this weekend. Can I?
Running Coach
No. Week 1 long run is 6K. 14K after 8 weeks off puts you back in a boot. Go to brunch instead.
Personalized to your history
Post-injury, pre-race, coming back from a break — the context you provide shapes every prescription. The coaches know your profile, not a generic runner's profile.
Coaches coordinate with each other
Running, Recovery, and Nutrition coaches are pulled in when relevant and they consult each other before responding — not just you. The plan that emerges is coherent across all three.
Adjusts in real time
Ask a follow-up. Change a constraint. The coaches respond conversationally — not by regenerating a static plan from scratch, but by reasoning about what's already been said.
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Build your plan
A plan built from
the conversation.
The conversation with your coaches doesn't end with a message. It ends with a structured training plan — phased, week-by-week, adjusted for your injury history and race timeline. Every session in it has a reason.
Phased, not generic
Base → Build → Peak → Taper. Each phase has a purpose and the coaches explain it. You always know which phase you're in and why the sessions look the way they do.
Every week has a coaching note
Below the load chart, the Running coach translates that week's training in plain language — what adaptation it's targeting and what to watch for. Not a tooltip. An actual explanation.
Today's run is always surfaced
The plan view feeds today's prescribed session directly to the run hub. One tap on the today card in the plan takes you to the pre-roll. The plan and the run are the same object.
What sets this apart
A general AI chatbot writes you a plan and forgets it by tomorrow. Other running apps show you a calendar of sessions. Athlea gives you a plan with a coaching translation at every phase — one that remembers every run, and adjusts the rest of itself when you ask or when your data changes.
Today
Week
Plan
Foundation
W1–2 done
Build ←
W3–4 here
Performance
W5–7
Race
W8
FORM
+4
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Load
Consistency
Acute load on plan. You can take an extra rest day — long run is the priority.
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Run with guidance
The plan becomes
a live experience.
Pace is the hero number. Zone is always visible. Coaching cues arrive at each segment automatically. The watch is the primary surface — your phone is in your pocket.
6:42
/km pace
02:34
elapsed
0.38 km
NOW Z1 · TARGET Z1
ON TARGET
IN ZONE 1:47
CUE · 0:00–5:00
Keep it conversational. If you can't finish a sentence, you're going too fast.
WARM-UP · 2:34 / 5:00
MAIN IN 2:26
⏸ PAUSE
⏭ SKIP
■ END
Pace hero — target band from your plan
The target pace band is pulled directly from your plan and prescription — not a generic suggestion. The zone strip shows whether you're in the state the session is supposed to build.
Coaching cues — personalized and automatic
The cue for each segment is generated from your coaching conversation. Post-injury cues in weeks 1–3 are more conservative than the cues in week 6. Audio plays automatically when the segment starts.
Six session types, each coached differently
Easy, Intervals, Tempo, Hills, Long, Race. Each has a distinct pacing model, zone target, and cue style. A warm-up for intervals is not the same as a warm-up for a long run.
Runs on the watch — phone in your pocket
Everything above is mirrored to your wrist. Pace, zone and cues where you can glance at them, with haptic alerts when you drift outside the target band. The screens below are the watch surface.
On the wrist
The watch carries
the whole session.
Pace, zone, state split and haptic alerts on your wrist — the entire run without touching a screen.
Illustrative
RUN · S1
6:42
/km
02:34
elapsed
0.38
km
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⏭
Live pace
Illustrative
THIS RUN
Easy 30 min
S1
21:36
S2
05:24
S3
01:48
S4
01:12
72% in target state
State distribution
Pace and zone at a glance
Current pace as the dominant number with a compact zone strip. You see your effort level without touching your phone.
In-band time on your wrist
The moment you stop, the watch shows what share of the run landed in the band you were given. The debrief starts before you get your phone out.
Haptic zone alerts
Drifting too fast? You feel it before you see it. A distinct haptic fires when pace moves outside the target band — a different pattern to bring you back in.
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Debrief and insights
The run ends.
The insights emerge.
Four swipeable cards take you from route to raw stats to what it actually means — in plain language, with the methodology cited. Not generic praise. Grounded interpretation tied to your longitudinal data.
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Route
Your GPS trace on a dark map. Distance, total time, and session context at the top. The moment of arrival — shareable as an image.
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Stats — execution vs. prescription
Your actual pace against the target band from your plan. Time in each zone. Segment breakdown. Not just what happened — whether it matched what was prescribed and why it mattered.
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Meaning — what it actually tells you
The differentiator. Athlea names the adaptation trained, ties it to your longitudinal trend, and cites the methodology. Here in week 4: 4 bpm lower at the same pace as week 1 — the aerobic base is building ahead of schedule, and HR-pace decoupling keeps improving.
HR-Pace decouple
San Millán
Tier 3
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Tomorrow — accept or adjust
The next session with a HOLD / ADJUST recommendation based on current recovery. Accept it or change it — and see exactly why the call was made, including HRV and calf load monitoring from the Recovery coach.
What makes this different
Every interpretation carries a methodology label. You always know whether an insight comes from HR-pace decoupling, the San Millán aerobic threshold model, or your own longitudinal trend. It's not a black box. And when it doesn't make sense, you can ask the coaches about it directly.
Athlea Pro · Run Lab
Live · interactive
Plan vs actual,
in three dimensions.
This is the coach's view — the same session you just read about, rebuilt as terrain. Pick a session, press play, and watch the planned line and the actual run diverge and reconverge over every climb. Drag to orbit. This is a live embed of the Run Lab from Athlea Pro, not a video.
Run Lab · 2D render
Hill Intervals 8K
Warm-up
Rep × 5
Float × 5
Cool-down
Plan
Actual
The 3D lab runs on desktop — this is the 2D render, the same flip the app makes.
Try: switch Plan / Actual / Both, scrub the elevation strip, or change the camera to Follow.
Sample sessions · synthetic athlete data
Sized for larger screens — on phones and small windows this section shows the 2D render instead, the same flip the app itself makes. The Run Lab is currently in testing and not yet fully rolled out; what you see here may change before general release.
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Talk again — the loop closes
The insight doesn't sit
on a stats screen.
It comes back into the coaching conversation — where it can be questioned, challenged, and used to shape what happens next. The debrief feeds the coaches. The coaches adjust the plan. The cycle repeats.
Same conversation — after the run
Running Coach
Tempo 5K done. 4 bpm lower at the same pace as week 1 — base block is ahead of schedule. Calf load clean throughout.
Recovery Coach
HRV 62 vs. 68 baseline. Already nudged Saturday to S1, 10 min shorter. You'll notice it in week 7, not on the day.
That felt easy. Can I add another tempo this week?
Running Coach
No. Week 5 doubles tempo volume. Adding one now front-loads the stimulus before the calf fully remodels. "Feels easy" is when most people get re-injured.
Nutrition Coach
+20g protein tonight for overnight repair. Dropping the collagen protocol from week 5 — calf is responding well.
The debrief feeds the conversation
The coaches see your run data the moment the session ends. They open the post-run thread with their interpretation — you don't have to ask. The conversation continues where it left off.
Plan adjustments happen automatically
Recovery coach nudging Saturday's session in response to HRV — without you asking. The coaches have permission to adjust the plan within defined boundaries and explain what they changed and why.
Every coach closes their loop
The Nutrition coach drops the collagen protocol because the injury recovery is on track. The coaches coordinate exit conditions as well as entry conditions — the plan evolves as you do.
Then the cycle repeats
The next session is already in the plan. When you open the app tomorrow, the coaches have already prepared it. The loop closes and opens again — indefinitely, with compounding context.
Six session types
Every kind of run,
coached with intent.
Each session type has a distinct pacing model, zone target, and coaching cue style — and every one is yours to shape. Make the intervals harder, the long run longer, the tempo shorter; or just tell your coach how it felt and let them tune the next one. You pick the session, or the plan picks today's for you.
RUNNING
✓ Saved
Progression Run — Strides
+ Aerobic Durability
+ Aerobic Durability
60 min · 5 segments · Zone 3 · Moderate
Z1
Z2
Z3
Describe a change — Athlea rebuilds this session in place.
SWIPE UP · START SESSION
GO
Build your run block
OR SCULPT IT
Interval · 1 min
Repeat
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×4
+
Z1Z2Z3Z4Z5
Recovery between
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2 min
+
Z1
4 × (1 min Z4 + 2 min Z1)
editing
Add to session
Easy
Quiet effort that builds durable weekly volume. The run that makes all the other runs possible. Pace guardrails stop you drifting too fast.
Intervals
Short maximal efforts with structured recovery. The small amount of very hard running that matters because it's prescribed with intent, not impulse.
Tempo
Comfortably hard, just below threshold. Improves race-specific durability. Zone strip tells you the moment you cross the line.
Hills
Elevation recorded and effort read against the climb, not just the clock. Builds the neuromuscular strength that carries over to flat-ground speed.
Long
Weekly long run with pace guardrails to stop the most common mistake: drifting too fast and turning aerobic into accidental threshold.
Race
Race-day pacing from your training history. A structured plan before the gun. A full debrief after the finish — and a coaching conversation immediately after that.
Quick start — or just pick a distance and go
3K~15 min
5K~25 min
10K~52 min
Half21.1 km
OpenGPS — decide as you go
Connects with
Apple Health
HealthKit integration
Apple Health
Workouts, routes + activity rings
Garmin
Watch data + Training status
How it compares
Three ways to get a plan.
Only one keeps coaching you.
A chatbot can talk. A running app can track. Athlea is the only one that does both — and stays with you, run after run.
What it actually does
Generic Chat
Other running apps
Running
Conversational — you can ask, push back, change your mind
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Connects to your watch, GPS & heart-rate data
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Guides you live, mid-run
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Remembers every past run and your long-term trend
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Explains what a session did — with cited methodology
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Shows the scientific sources behind each recommendation
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Adjusts tomorrow from today's data, on its own
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Coordinates running, recovery, nutrition & strength together
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Athlea Running
A coaching relationship.
A coaching relationship.
Not a stats screen.
Join the founding beta. Talk to your coaches, build a plan, run with guidance, and get the debrief that explains what actually happened.