Personalised Online Running Coaching
Online Running Coach UK
More Than Just a Training Plan
Personalised online running coaching for runners across the UK. Your training is built around your current running, goals, experience and the time you realistically have available, with ongoing coaching, feedback and progression along the way.
Coaching for Real-World Runners
Who Is Online Running Coaching For?
You don't need to be an elite runner to work with a running coach. Online coaching is for runners who want greater structure, accountability and individual guidance rather than simply following a generic plan.
You might be chasing a 5K or 10K PB, preparing for a half marathon or marathon, trying to become more consistent, or wanting to understand how to train more effectively.
We start with where you are now and build progressively from there.
Individual Running Coaching
Personalised Running Coaching Built Around You
Your programme is built around your current running, goals, experience and available training time. I use your completed sessions, training data and feedback to understand how you're responding and help guide what comes next.
That might mean progressing your training, adapting a session when circumstances change, or recognising when the better decision is to stay patient and allow your body time to adapt.
The aim is not simply to tell you what to run. It's to give your training structure and purpose while helping you understand what you're doing and why you're doing it.
Online Running Coaching Packages
Choose Your Level of Online Running Coaching
Both options provide a personalised running programme through TrainingPeaks and direct coaching support. Choose the level of review, analysis and additional support that best matches what you're looking for.
Online Running Coaching
Personalised programming and ongoing coaching support with a structured monthly training review.
- Initial coaching consultation and onboarding
- Personalised running programme through TrainingPeaks
- TrainingPeaks Basic account for programme delivery
- Training built around your goals, experience and availability
- Monthly structured training review
- Programme adjustments between reviews where required
- WhatsApp coaching support
- General workout feedback
- Pace, heart-rate and perceived effort guidance
- Race preparation and taper guidance
Complete Online Running Coaching
More detailed coaching with weekly review, deeper training analysis, strength programming and additional support around your key goals and races.
- Everything included in Online Running Coaching
- TrainingPeaks Premium included (normally $19.95/month when purchased directly)
- Weekly structured check-in and training review
- Weekly and ongoing programme adjustments where required
- Detailed workout feedback and training analysis
- Detailed pace, heart-rate and perceived effort analysis
- Monthly video or telephone coaching consultation
- Runner-specific strength programme
- Video running technique review where appropriate
- Practical technique feedback, cues and drills where appropriate
- Individual race pacing and race-day strategy for key events
- General race fuelling and hydration guidance
- Pre-race strategy discussion and post-race review
The £79 option is still personalised coaching, not a generic training plan. If illness, injury, recovery or a meaningful change in circumstances means your training needs to change, the programme can still be adapted between scheduled reviews.
Not Sure Which Coaching Option Is Right for You?
Book a free 20-minute telephone consultation. We can talk about your current running, what you're working towards and which level of coaching would suit the support you're looking for.
The Coaching Process
How Online Running Coaching Works
From your initial consultation onwards, your training is planned, reviewed and developed around you.
Initial Consultation
We discuss your running background, current training, availability, goals and any events you're working towards.
Your Programme
I build your personalised running programme through TrainingPeaks around your goals and available training time.
Train & Feedback
Complete your training, record how sessions went and use WhatsApp when you need coaching support.
Review & Progress
Your training is reviewed according to your coaching option and developed as you progress towards your goals.
Online Coaching Through TrainingPeaks
Your running programme is delivered through TrainingPeaks, giving you a clear view of upcoming sessions while keeping your completed workouts, training data and feedback together in one place.
Your training data, comments and perceived effort provide useful information about how you're responding. I use that information alongside the wider context of your training, recovery and goals to help guide what comes next.
Runner Feedback
The Difference Personalised Coaching Can Make
Structure, understanding, accountability and having somebody looking at the bigger picture can make a real difference to the way runners approach their training.
More Than Just an App
One runner who had previously trained using an app described how coaching helped them realise there was much more to training than simply completing the runs. They particularly valued having Stuart take the time to understand where they were as a runner and get to know them as an individual, rather than relying on training data alone.
Training With Purpose
Runners have commented on the difference it can make to understand the purpose behind each session and how their training fits into the bigger picture.
Accountability & Support
Knowing that training is being reviewed can provide the extra accountability to stay consistent, while still having support when training genuinely needs to change.
Feedback reflects individual runner experiences. Training responses, progress and outcomes will naturally vary between runners.
Online Running Coach FAQs
Online Running Coaching FAQs
Common questions about working with an online running coach and how the coaching process works.
What does an online running coach do?
An online running coach plans your training around your current fitness, running history, goals and available training time. Your completed sessions, training data and feedback can then be reviewed to guide how your programme develops.
Is online running coaching worth it?
Online coaching may suit runners who want more than a generic programme. It provides individual planning, accountability, feedback and somebody looking at how your training fits together over time.
Training plans can prepare you for an event. Coaching should help develop you as a runner.
Read more in the Runner's Toolkit: Why Pay for a Running Coach?
Why use an online running coach instead of an app?
Running apps can provide useful structure and training suggestions. Coaching adds individual context. Your feedback, training history, recovery, goals and circumstances can all be considered alongside your training data when deciding what comes next.
An app can process your training data. A coach can put it into context.
Do I need to be a fast runner to have a running coach?
No. You might want to improve your 5K or 10K, prepare for a half marathon or marathon, become more consistent or simply bring more structure to your running. Coaching starts with where you are now.
Can I work with an online running coach anywhere in the UK?
Yes. Run Fit Coach provides online running coaching to runners across the UK. Your programme is delivered through TrainingPeaks, with direct coaching support provided remotely.
Do I need TrainingPeaks Premium?
No. The £79 Online Running Coaching option uses a TrainingPeaks Basic account, so you don't need to purchase a separate Premium subscription. TrainingPeaks Premium is included with the £119 Complete Online Running Coaching package for the duration of your coaching.
How much does online running coaching cost?
Online Running Coaching is £79 per month and Complete Online Running Coaching is £119 per month. Both options have a minimum three-month commitment.
How do I get started with online running coaching?
Start by booking a free 20-minute telephone consultation. We'll discuss your current running, goals and what you're looking for from coaching before deciding whether working together is a good fit.
Your Next Step
Looking for an Online Running Coach?
If you want personalised training with structure, guidance and ongoing coaching support, book a free 20-minute telephone consultation and let's talk about your running.
Book a Free 20-Minute Coaching Call