NXT RUN vs Pacecraft

Train for your next PR with a plan built around you, and a human coach when you want one. This isn't an app built overnight. NXT RUN is years of work by runners who coach, and it has already coached several runners to Boston qualifiers. NXT RUN builds a personalized, adaptive training plan for your goal race: enter your race date, distance (800m to marathon), current fitness, weekly mileage, and the days you can run. Your plan adjusts every week based on how you actually train. 1:1 COACHING WITH A HUMAN COACH Work directly with a human coach, not software. Your coach adjusts your plan, reviews your workouts and races, and answers your messages in the app, with video calls when you want to talk it through. Coaching is led by NXT RUN's founder: a 14:40 5K and 30:59 10K runner who has spent 15 years building apps for serious runners and has personally coached several marathoners under 3 hours. 1:1 coaching is a separate plan. It is not included with Pro or Basic. MEET PACE, YOUR AI COACH Ask questions, move workouts, and make any run easier or harder with one tap. PACE updates your paces after every run based on how workouts felt, so you are always training at the right effort. WORKS WITH YOUR WATCH Your next 7 workouts sync automatically to Garmin, Apple Watch, and COROS. Completed runs sync back and match to your plan. Strava supported too. BUILT FOR RACING • Race time predictor that updates as you get fitter • Best efforts and trophies across distances: all time, this year, this plan • Grade-adjusted pace and detailed analysis on every run • Structured workouts: intervals, tempo, hills, long runs, strides TRAIN TO QUALIFY Chasing Boston? Annual Pro members who qualify while training with NXT RUN get $120 toward their Boston entry with the BQ Bonus (terms apply). BUILT BY RUNNERS NXT RUN is a family business run by a husband and wife team in Boulder, Colorado. Both are runners and coaches, including a 2:59 marathoner with 10+ marathons. Real coaching experience, built into software. PRICING Start with 10 days free. NXT RUN Pro: $39.99/month or $239.99/year. NXT RUN Basic: $9.99/month or $59.99/year. 1:1 coaching is a separate plan. Prices may vary by region. Questions? support+nxtrun@enduranceapps.com Train smarter. Race faster.

Pacecraft is a running coach that builds a training plan around your fitness and your race, then sends every session straight to your Apple Watch. It is free, there is no account to create, and your health data stays on your device. Most training plans treat every runner the same. Pacecraft starts from where you are today. It reads your recent runs and cardio fitness from Apple Health, works out your current fitness, and predicts your times from 5K to the marathon, with an honest range rather than a number designed to flatter you. BUILT AROUND YOUR RACE Choose your distance, date and goal, and Pacecraft builds a plan that fits the weeks you have left. Set a marathon, half marathon, 10K or 5K, and it structures the whole block for you, from easy running through threshold, intervals and long runs. STRAIGHT TO YOUR WATCH Every session arrives in the Workout app on your Apple Watch with its pace and heart rate targets already in place. Outside, it guides you on pace. On the treadmill, it switches to heart rate so the alerts stop fighting you. TRAINING THAT KNOWS THE COURSE Add the route for your race and Pacecraft reads its climbs, its descents and the short bridges that tend to arrive late on tired legs, then works the right preparation into your training so nothing on the day comes as a surprise. HONEST COACHING Pacecraft tracks your form, training load and recovery, and tells you plainly when to ease off. If your goal has drifted out of reach it will say so, rather than pretending everything is on track. As your fitness changes, it updates the paces for the sessions still to come, without touching the ones you have already run. FREE AND PRIVATE There is no account, no subscription and no adverts. Pacecraft runs on your device, and your health and training data never leaves it. Granting Apple Health access is optional. You can also enter a recent time by hand and use the plan without it. Pacecraft provides general training information and is not medical advice. Consult a qualified professional before starting or changing a training programme.