Pick your race and get a course-specific training plan built around the terrain, pacing demands, weather, fueling, and race-day execution. Start with a free first look. Full personalized plans start at $9.
Choose your marathon and see the shape of your plan: weekly mileage, sample workouts, goal-based paces, and race-specific strategy. Then decide whether to unlock the full 18-week version for $9.
Boston punishes early downhill mistakes. Chicago rewards rhythm and patience. New York demands bridge strength and restraint. Pace Perfect builds your training around the course you'll actually face.
Plus Berlin, Marine Corps, Tokyo, CIM, Houston, Mesa, and 75+ more races
Pace Perfect turns your marathon, goal time, current fitness, and training history into a structured plan with workouts, paces, long runs, taper timing, and course-specific race strategy.
Select your marathon, goal time, current mileage, training background, and available training window. The course sets the demands. Your fitness sets the starting point.
Race + runner inputsYour plan is shaped around the race profile: hills, descents, flat rhythm, heat risk, wind exposure, fueling needs, and where runners usually fall apart.
12–18 week structureEvery full plan includes weekly workouts, long runs, pacing guidance, taper strategy, fueling notes, and a mile-by-mile execution plan for your marathon.
$9 one-timeGeneric marathon plans ignore the data that matters most. Pace Perfect builds training plans using real-world performance analytics, course-specific modeling, and peer-reviewed sports science.
Elevation profiles, temperature ranges, humidity patterns, and finish time distributions for 75+ marathons. Your Pace Perfect plan trains you for the exact conditions you'll face.
Age, fitness level, heart rate zones, and training history are processed through physiological models to determine your optimal training loads and recovery periods.
Statistical analysis of 50,000+ marathon performances helps Pace Perfect predict your optimal race strategy, including when to push, when to conserve, and how to pace key segments.
Training phases are calculated based on your race timeline, with automatic adjustments for taper timing, peak mileage, and intensity distribution.
A flat marathon, a downhill marathon, and a hilly marathon should not use the same training emphasis. Pace Perfect adjusts the build around the terrain, fatigue pattern, and race-day decisions that matter most.
"The course-specific hill training made all the difference at Boston. I ran the Newton Hills feeling strong instead of dreading them. Negative split the second half and PR'd by 4 minutes."
"For $9, the amount of detail you get is absurd. Heart rate zones, weekly schedule, race-day fueling plan, pacing splits — it would take me hours to piece this together from free resources."
"I used a generic Pfitz plan for my first two marathons and blew up both times in the second half. The Pace Perfect plan had me run Boston conservatively through mile 16, then I passed 200+ people in the final 10K."
The specificity of a personal coach at a fraction of the cost. Pace Perfect gives marathoners course-specific analysis and race-day strategy that generic plans can't match.
| Feature | Free Plans | Coaching ($150+/mo) | Pace Perfect ($9) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course-specific elevation analysis | ✗ | Varies | ✓ 75+ courses |
| Personalized HR & pace zones | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Weather-adjusted pacing | ✗ | Sometimes | ✓ |
| Mile-by-mile race strategy | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Race-day fueling plan | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Coach access for questions | ✗ | ✓ Unlimited | |
| Price | Free | $150–300/mo | $9 one-time |
Get a marathon plan built around your race, your goal, your current fitness, and the way your course actually runs.
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