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Endurance coaching

A training plan that tells you the truth about the time you actually have.

Most plans assume a life you don’t lead. Naru asks what your week really looks like, builds to your race from there, and says plainly when the goal and the calendar don’t agree.

You answer eight questions

Your race and its date. The days you can train and the hours in them. What you’ve run before, and anything currently sore. No wearable required to start.

It builds the whole plan

Every week to race day — prepare, base, build, peak, taper — with the long run, the quality session, strength and mobility placed where they belong and nowhere they’d clash.

Then it keeps up with you

A missed week, a new niggle, a race moved. The plan is spliced from today forward. What you’ve already trained is history and is never rewritten.

What it won’t do

A plan that flatters you is just a worse plan with better manners.

It won’t build a plan that can’t workAsk for a marathon in nine weeks off three hours each and it says so, names the constraint that’s binding, and tells you what would change it. That answer is the most useful thing the engine produces.

It won’t show you a number it can’t stand behindTraining load is real and it runs the maths, but you’ll see bands and shape rather than a score. A precise-looking figure resting on unvalidated ground is a lie with decimals.

It won’t guess at your foodFuel targets come from published equations — Mifflin-St Jeor, the Compendium of Physical Activities — and every session’s cost is computed, not assumed. Where a method isn’t signed off by a coach, the screen says so.

It won’t rewrite your pastPlans are append-only. A change makes a new plan and splices it from tomorrow. The weeks you trained stay exactly as you trained them.

Under it

Not a template with your name on it.

A periodisation engine with versioned calibration, a strength and mobility catalogue written movement by movement, and fuel targets derived from your own body and your own week.

strength & mobility sessions, each with its purpose, its cues and what finishing well looks like

120

movements with a target RPE, reps in reserve, rest, and illustrations of the start and key positions

training blocks shaped to your race, with deloads where your body needs them rather than where a calendar does

48 h

the gap the engine keeps between heavy legs and your long run, because that’s when soreness peaks

What it does

Everything the week asks of you, in one place.

Training, the gym, the kitchen and the calendar are one decision, not four. Naru treats them that way.

Training

A periodised plan to your race — prepare, base, build, peak, taper — with the long run, the quality session and the easy days placed against the week you actually have.

A season, not one race

Several races in a year, each given its weight. The A race is protected and the rest are planned around it, so a June 10k sharpens the autumn marathon instead of quietly costing you two weeks of it.

Off-season base

The months with nothing in the diary are the ones that decide next season. Build aerobically, without a date to taper into and without drifting.

Strength & conditioning

Sessions written movement by movement — sets, target RPE, reps in reserve, rest, the cue to hold onto, and illustrations of the start and key positions. Placed where they help and never the day before your long run.

Mobility & yoga

Fifteen minutes that you will actually do. Hips and hamstrings, spine and shoulders, calves and feet, and a wind-down for the evening of a hard day.

Calendar

Your season at a glance and your week in detail, on the calendar you already keep. Move a session and the plan moves with it.

Nutrition & recipes

Energy and macronutrient targets from your own body and the sessions you are actually doing that day — a rest day and a long run do not cost the same. A recipe library, a meal plan, and a shopping list that adds itself up.

Your watch, both ways

Garmin, Apple Watch, Strava and COROS. The session arrives on your wrist with its intervals and targets intact, and what you ran comes back to the plan.

Your watch

Bring what you already wear.

Connect an account and your runs arrive on their own, land against the session they were meant to be, and tell the plan what actually happened.

GarminApple WatchStravaCOROS

Both directions. Tuesday’s threshold session is on your watch as six efforts with their targets and recoveries, not as a name and a duration you have to remember — and what you actually ran comes back to the plan on its own.

Your coach

Someone to ask, who has read every session you have done.

Why is this week easier than the last one. Should I run the race on Sunday or train through it. My calf has been tight for ten days — what do I change. Ask, and get an answer grounded in your own training rather than in general advice.

It reads your plan, what you actually recorded against it, and what you have reported about how you feel. It will tell you when it does not know, and it will not invent a number to sound certain — which is the same standard the rest of the product is held to.

Progress

It reads what you did, not what you meant to do.

Every recorded run is matched to the session it was meant to be — same day, same discipline, closest duration — so the plan is measured against reality rather than against intentions. Adherence, load over the weeks, where you are drifting faster or slower than the plan expects, and what that means for the race.

When the gap matters, the plan changes. A missed fortnight, a niggle you reported, a race moved: the rest of the plan is rebuilt from today forward and the compromise is named out loud. If the new plan would be worse than the one you are on, it is refused rather than shown to you.

Early access

Naru is being tested with a small group of runners.

If you’d like to be one of them, say hello. We’d rather have a few people using it properly than a waiting list.

Ask for early access

No card, no commitment. You can delete your account and everything in it at any time.