What Pacewright does

Tell Pacewright what you're training for: a race with a date, a race with no date yet, or general running (get farther, get faster, lose weight, or hold the fitness you have). Enter a known event or a custom distance. If you have a finish time in mind, add it and Pacewright turns it into a finish-time estimate and a progress bar, given as a range by how certain it is and always labelled an estimate, not a promise. That time is a reference for you; it never steers your training. Say how many days a week you can run, set "always run exactly N days" if you want a fixed number, or leave it on "Let Pacewright decide."

Pacewright builds your week from your own recent runs, not a template. It sets your paces from efforts you've run, picks the workout types you need right now (easy, long, tempo, threshold, intervals, recovery), and earns your long run up instead of jumping it. Into a dated race it builds, peaks, and tapers. Nothing is locked. Move the long run to Wednesday and the rest of the week re-derives around it. Every session comes with a short note on why it's there, in one steady coach voice.

Log a run by hand or sync it from Strava and Pacewright folds it in. Runs from more than one source are de-duplicated so nothing double-counts. After each run you can say how it went. The plan progresses when you're feeling strong, eases off after a grind, and backs you off. Change your goal or your available days in Settings and the plan re-derives from where your fitness is. You never fall behind a schedule, because the schedule follows you.

The guardrails never come off, at any setting, for any runner. No single run gets far ahead of your recent longest: a run more than about 10% beyond your longest run of the previous 30 days is where the injury research on runners flagged higher risk, so Pacewright holds your big days in check (Frandsen 2025). Weekly volume is capped the same way, and your own feedback pulls the brakes when something hurts. Pacewright doesn't use ACWR, the acute-to-chronic workload ratio a lot of apps lean on; it hasn't held up as a valid injury predictor in runners. The FAQ walks through the studies. And most of your week stays easy on purpose: the best endurance athletes have been observed to run the large majority of their miles easy (Seiler), so the hard days land when they can do the most good.

Open the app before you head out and the today card shows what the weather does to your run. Heat, cold, and altitude adjust your target paces automatically, at no extra cost, with a badge for the conditions. What-to-Wear tells you how to dress for it. Hydration and nutrition notes sit right there too, tucked away until you want them.

DIAL (Dose In Adaptive Limits) answers one question: are you training the right amount? It reads your dose on a single axis between the least that still improves you and the most you can safely absorb, shown in plain zones instead of a percentage. It's a readout, not a gate. Alongside it you get predicted race times from your current fitness, your Run Fitness Index trending up as you get fitter, and stats framed as the questions you ask: How's this week? Am I getting fitter? Am I training safely? What can I race? Your personal bests live on a PR board, and every chart comes with a plain-English line telling you what it shows.

Your runs are stored so the app works on its own. Your maps and history are right there without another service wired in just to see them. We never sell your data and never use it to train someone else's model. When you connect Strava, a run you delete there is deleted here too; disconnect entirely and everything from that source is purged. Runs you added by hand stay yours. Export all of it or delete all of it whenever you want.

Pacewright is invite-only for now. When the public beta opens, Pacewright will be $59 a year or $7.99 a month, with no auto-renewal. Request access and we'll be in touch.