Online running coaching

Real coaching. Real results.

SimplyRunFaster pairs every athlete with a real coach, not an AI. Your coach reviews your plan, watches your training, and thinks about you specifically. Starting at $39/month.

The problem

Training apps aren’t coaching.

You’ve tried the apps, maybe even an AI coach. You follow the plan on Monday, miss Thursday, and by Saturday you’re improvising. The app doesn’t notice. Nobody notices.

Real coaching is different. A real coach sees when you’re struggling before you do. They adjust your plan not because a rule fired, but because they made a judgment call about your training. They remember that you mentioned your left knee felt tight last week. They write you a note at the end of the month that tells you what all those runs actually meant.

SimplyRunFaster is real coaching, made accessible by technology that handles the structure so your coach can focus on the parts that actually require a human.

How it works

Here’s how it works.

01

Tell us about your goals.

You complete a short onboarding form: your goal race, your current training, your schedule. Then you have a 20-minute call with your coach to make sure we get it right.

02

Your coach builds your plan.

Our engine generates a training plan built around your goals, your fitness, and your life. Your coach reviews every workout before you see a single one. Nothing goes to you without a human sign-off.

03

Train. We watch.

Your plan lives on your phone and your watch. Every session is tracked. Every week your coach reviews your training: what you did, how it went, what it means. When something needs to change, it changes.

04

Your coach checks in.

Every month you get a letter from your coach. Not a stats dashboard. A letter, specific to your training, your month, your progress. Written in plain English by someone who actually looked at your data and thought about you.

The track record

The numbers are simple.

1
athlete in 15+ years of coaching who didn’t run a personal best
1
major overuse injury across an entire coaching career, and it was the coach himself
15+
years coaching runners at high school, collegiate, and adult levels

We don’t have a flashy percentage to sell you. We have a record. In fifteen years of coaching runners of all abilities, from high school athletes to adult marathoners, only one athlete failed to set a personal best. And in all that time, only one athlete sustained a major overuse injury across an entire career. That was the coach himself.

We tell you this not to brag. We tell you this because you deserve to know who is looking at your training.

Your coach

A real person. A real record.

I’ve coached runners for over fifteen years, from middle schoolers to collegiate national champions to adult marathoners. Across five seasons at the high school level, I’ve sent multiple athletes to the state meet every single time. I’m proud of that record.

I didn’t set out to make coaching my thing. After a summer working a running camp in college, I figured it probably wasn’t my path. Then a year later a high school called looking for a cross country coach, I had the time, and I said I’d fill in for a season. It stuck. The thing I’d been wary of, how much I cared about my athletes’ outcomes, turned out to be the whole job.

The hard part of coaching isn’t the X’s and O’s. It’s getting an athlete to believe in the work, and in themselves. An AI can build you a training plan. It can’t make you believe you’re fitter than you’ve ever been.

That’s why I built SimplyRunFaster. The software handles the structure so the coaching can stay human. Every plan gets reviewed by a real coach before an athlete ever sees it.

Pricing

Simple pricing. No surprises.

Premium
$79/month
Everything in Standard, plus:
  • Guaranteed 48-hour coach response time
  • Monthly 20-minute video check-in with your coach
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Fine print (that isn’t fine print): No contracts. Cancel any time. Founding member pricing is locked as long as your account remains active; if you close your account and return, standard pricing applies. Watch integration (Garmin, Polar) is available but not required. The platform works fully without a smartwatch.
Who this is for

This isn’t for everyone.
It might be for you.

SimplyRunFaster is built for runners who are already serious about the sport and want to get meaningfully better. If you’ve finished a race and immediately wondered how to go faster next time, you’re our athlete.

We’re not the right fit if you’re just getting started (there are great apps for that). We’re not the right fit if you want an app that tells you you’re doing great no matter what. We’re the right fit if you want a coach who will tell you the truth, build you a real plan, and be genuinely invested in your result.

Start with a free onboarding call →
From our athletes

Results, in their words.

Testimonials are being collected from founding athletes and will appear here.

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“[Specific result: time, distance, PR margin]. [One sentence about the experience of being coached.]”
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“[Specific result: time, distance, PR margin]. [One sentence about the experience of being coached.]”
[First name, last initial] · [City] · [Goal race]
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“[Specific result: time, distance, PR margin]. [One sentence about the experience of being coached.]”
[First name, last initial] · [City] · [Goal race]