MONS: Endurance Coach

Adventures. Pick a distance you want to go and do — a 10 k, a half, a mile in open water, a hundred miles — and MONS draws you a real route for it and puts the day on your calendar. Every distance in your list opens a map now, including the swimrun, brick, triathlon and duathlon days, which are planned leg by leg. (They used to be called challenges. One name for one thing.) You no longer have to finish where you started. Set your start, then say how the day ends: back where you began, near parking, or near public transport. MONS goes looking for real car parks, trailheads, stations and stops at the right distance from you, and routes to the one that keeps your 20 km a 20 km. If there is nothing out there, it says so rather than quietly handing you a loop. Your routes go somewhere, and they know the ground. Adventures come back named — Helsinki Parks & Beach Loop, not "the planned route" — because MONS looks up the parks, forests, lakes, beaches and viewpoints within reach of your start. It also reads how green each direction is, and how much of the paths that way are trails rather than streets, and heads for the green. Swims get a course too, and can cross to the other side. Out from a bank and back, or across to the far bank — found by walking the map across the water, so the line is water the whole way. Ask for a crossing that is not there and you will be told, not stretched round the bay. A planned swim starts as open water on your Watch. No pool question. Tap the day on your calendar and the map opens. The route used to vanish the moment you accepted it. Now the day carries its distance, and tapping it shows the route, where it starts and where it finishes. The morning check-in can wait. Swipe it away and you are on the home screen with everything working. Today then says what is actually true — "Today is waiting for you" — instead of showing a workout nobody designed. Tap Today whenever you are ready. It asks in half hours now, and goes up to four. Eight stops on the dial instead of twelve, and the aerobic ride goes to four hours with it. Your coach can finally see what you have done. The furthest you have ever gone in each sport now reaches the coach, alongside the recent month it could already see. It changes how you are spoken to, not what you are given — how far you go today is still decided by what your body has absorbed lately. Recovery decides when less is stronger. Your morning time is still the target, but unused minutes no longer manufacture training. A shorter day, a restorative practice or full rest is a real coaching decision now, with the reasoning attached. Kettlebells and yoga are part of the day again. Rules meant to stop two hard sessions landing together had quietly taken body work off the table on short mornings. An hour holds a shorter ride and a full practice, and it always did. The coach's workout is the workout you get. We were trimming what the coach designed to fit your window — your ride length was the smaller of what the coach chose and what you typed. That is gone. The menu is filtered before the coach sees it; once it answers, the answer is what you get. Swims and rides get their own yoga. Five minutes on the pool deck after a swim, standing and barefoot. Eight minutes after a ride that never stays still. Those minutes are reserved before your day is designed. Phone and Watch stay on the same day. Your Watch asks the phone what today is instead of keeping this morning's list, and a session started on the wrist now shows on the phone. Fixed: after a swim or a ride, the Watch result screen said "Run Complete".