How It Works

Your training plan, built in under two minutes.

Answer a few questions about your race, your schedule, and your running — and RunSmart builds a PT-designed plan around your actual life. See exactly how it works before you sign up.

Runner racing through desert landscape
Find your race

Search thousands of races by name, location, and date — or add one manually if it's not listed. Your race is the anchor point for everything that follows. No race on the calendar? That's fine. Skip ahead and choose a distance goal instead.

Why this matters: Your plan is built backward from your race date, not forward from today. That's how you arrive at the start line prepared — not scrambling to catch up in the final weeks.
RunSmart app — race search screen
RunSmart app — event detail
Choose your distance

5K, 8K, 10K, Half Marathon, Full Marathon — or a Maintenance plan if you're not racing. The distance you choose shapes the physiological demands your plan is built around. Every run type, every intensity level, every weekly structure is calibrated to it.

Why this matters: A 5K and a marathon are not the same training problem with a longer long run. Each distance makes different demands on the body — and the plan is designed for exactly the one you chose.
Set your start date

The system calculates your plan length based on your race date and where you're starting from. You see exactly how many weeks you have — not a guess, not a generic "12-week plan," a real number built from your actual timeline.

Why this matters: Too little prep time and you push harder than your body can handle. Too much and you peak weeks before race day. The system finds the fit for your specific window.
RunSmart app — start date
RunSmart app — training intensity
Choose your training intensity

Three options: Simple (consistency focus, minimal speed work), Focused (occasional speed sessions added), or Advanced (structured speed work — 400s, 800s). The system recommends a level based on your running history. You make the final call.

Why this matters: Most runners are handed the same plan regardless of their speed-work tolerance. That mismatch is where overuse injuries begin. Intensity is a clinical decision — not a marketing tier.
This is where most coaching plans get it wrong. A plan written for an intermediate runner assumes intermediate recovery. RunSmart asks what you're actually coming from — and builds from there.
Tell us about your running

Your average weekly mileage and your current long run distance. These two numbers tell the system where you actually are — not where a generic template assumes you'll start, and not where you think you should be. Honest inputs build an honest plan.

Why this matters: The most common cause of running injury is a mileage jump the body wasn't ready for. Your starting load is set from your real numbers — which is why this plan won't do what every other plan has done.
RunSmart app — weekly mileage
RunSmart app — runs per week
Choose your runs per week

3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 days. Your plan is built around the days you can actually run — not the days a theoretical training week would prefer you ran. A four-day runner gets a four-day plan. Not a six-day plan with two days marked optional.

Why this matters: Runners don't abandon plans because they lack motivation. They abandon them because the plan was designed for someone with a different life. This one isn't.
Your running days

Pick your long run day and preferred running days. The plan structures the entire week around your schedule — not the other way around.

Why this matters: A plan you can follow beats a perfect plan you can't. Schedule fit is one of the most consistent reasons runners stay with RunSmart.
RunSmart app — running days
RunSmart app — cross training
Add cross training

Add PT-designed strength workouts and yoga to your plan. These are integrated into your weekly schedule alongside runs — not a separate thing you figure out on your own. Designed by Steve Gonser, PT DPT, to address what runners specifically need.

Why this matters: Missing strength work is one of the three most consistent causes of running injury Steve identified in 15 years of clinical practice. Built into the week from day one.
Add targeted stretching

Select your problem areas: low back, hip flexors, quads, hamstrings, calves. PT-designed stretching routines for each are added to your plan. Not a generic stretch sequence — a routine built around where you specifically hold tension.

Why this matters: A runner's hip flexors and a runner's calves are not the same problem, and the PT behind this product knows the difference. Generic flexibility routines are built for nobody in particular. This one isn't.
RunSmart app — targeted stretching
RunSmart app — goal finish time
Set your goal finish time

Enter your goal time for race day. The system builds your complete pacing schedule around it — base runs, easy runs, progression runs, tempo runs, intervals. Each run type gets the right target pace for the race you're actually trying to run.

Why this matters: Training at the wrong pace — too fast or too slow — limits what you're actually training. Pace is a physiological prescription, not a preference. Your goal time is what makes every workout specific to you.
Your plan is built

A progress indicator shows your plan being assembled. Then it's ready — your full training schedule, every run, every week, with pacing targets built in from day one. What you're looking at reflects eleven inputs specific to you.

Why this matters: This is not a generic template with your name at the top. Every structural decision — load, intensity, recovery, pacing — was shaped by what you told the system about your actual life and your actual goals.
RunSmart app — plan built
See It In Action

Every step of the plan builder on your phone.

Walk through all eleven steps of the plan builder before you sign up. No account required.

Find your race
Choose your distance
Set your start date
Choose your training intensity
Tell us about your running
Choose your runs per week
Your running days
RunSmart app — add cross training strength and yoga
Add targeted stretching
Set your goal finish time
RunSmart — goal finish time and plan built
Phase 1 — Your Race
Find your race

Search thousands of races by name, location, and date — or add one manually. Your race is the anchor. No race on the calendar? Skip ahead and choose a distance goal instead.

Inside Your Plan

Your plan is ready. Here's what it comes with.

Every RunSmart plan includes these features from day one. Pro unlocks the full layer of intelligence.

Full training schedule

Every run laid out week by week. See the entire training block at a glance — not just this week, the whole thing. Know exactly what's coming and why the structure is built the way it is.

Run-specific pacing Pro

Every run has a pace range — base, easy, progression, tempo, interval. Not one pace for everything. The right effort for each workout, calibrated to your goal finish time.

Weather-adjusted pacing Pro

The plan checks local weather and adjusts your target paces accordingly. Heat and humidity affect what your body can produce. Your pacing targets account for that — so your effort stays calibrated even when conditions don't cooperate.

Drag and reschedule Pro

Move runs without starting over. Drag to reschedule, view your full training block, adjust without guilt or guesswork. Miss a run, shift it, keep going. No plan has to end because one day didn't work.

Send to watch Pro

Push workouts to Apple Watch, Garmin, or COROS. Pace targets on your wrist, not your phone. Glance down at your target, not your screen, while you run.

Cross training built in

PT-designed strength and mobility sessions integrated into your weekly schedule. Not an optional add-on — part of the plan from day one, built around what runners specifically need to stay healthy and keep training.

Run notes

Log how every run felt. Build a training record that means something — not just pace and distance, but the context behind the numbers. Patterns in how you feel are patterns worth tracking.

Results tracking

Sync Garmin, Apple Watch, or COROS. See your actual data alongside your plan — what you were supposed to run and what you actually ran, side by side.

Weekly coaching insights Pro

Not sure if you're pushing too hard — or not hard enough? Each week you get a read on your training load, how your body is responding, and what to focus on as your race gets closer. Less second-guessing. More confidence in the work you're putting in.

Long run fueling guidance Pro

Hitting the wall isn't a fitness problem — it's a fueling problem. Get PT-guided fueling windows for your long runs: when to eat, what to target, and how to practice your race-day nutrition in training before it counts.

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Pacing by run type, weather-adjusted targets, watch sync, drag-and-drop rescheduling, full program library, results tracking, weekly coaching insights, and long run fueling guidance. Everything that makes the plan work harder for you.

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