Stride Marathon Training Plans vs Marafit

You signed up for a marathon. Now the real work starts. Stride is a MARATHON ONLY training app that is built with one goal in mind - getting you ready for race day. A PLAN THAT FITS YOU Tell Stride about your race, recent running, experience, available days, and goal. You will be matched to one of 14 marathon plans built on proven training methods. Training for your first 26.2? Balancing three run days with cross-training? Chasing a faster time with more mileage and race-pace work? There is a custom plan built specifically for how you want to train. KNOW WHAT TO RUN TODAY Your complete build is mapped from today to your start line, including base, build, peak, recovery, and taper weeks. Open Stride and your next workout is ready. No searching through a PDF. No rebuilding a spreadsheet. No wondering whether today should be easy, long, or fast. EVERY WORKOUT HAS A JOB Tap any run to see the complete workout: warmup, intervals, distance, pace, and heart-rate targets. Your Today screen keeps the next run simple. Your Plan screen shows how every workout fits into the bigger build. You always know what you are doing and why it matters. TRAIN WITH YOUR RACE CLUB Marathon training is long. It is easier when you are not doing it alone. Choose from more than 200 supported marathons and Stride puts you in a Race Club with runners headed to the same start line. See their workouts, follow their training, and cheer each other through the long runs. First-timers, PR chasers, and Boston hopefuls all show up on race day together. YOUR PLAN, ON YOUR WATCH Connect Garmin or Apple Health to bring completed workouts into Stride automatically. Push structured workouts directly to Garmin so your pace and targets are ready on your wrist when it is time to run. BUILT ONLY FOR MARATHONS No 5K plans. No half-marathon plans. Stride is focused entirely on helping you prepare for 26.2. That means your plan, calendar, workouts, race countdown, and community all point toward the same start line. PRICING Try Stride free for 7 days. U.S. pricing after your trial: • Monthly: $19.99 per month • Annual: $99.99 per year Subscriptions renew automatically through your Apple account unless canceled before renewal. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store settings. Pick your race. Find your plan. Start training for the day that matters. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.downloadstride.com/privacy

Marafit turns your own Apple Health running data into a full 16-week marathon plan — and keeps adjusting it to what you actually run. Most training apps hand you a template and ask you to fit into it. Marafit reads your last 90 days of runs, works out your heart-rate zones, your easy pace, your threshold pace and your current fitness, and builds the plan around those. WHAT YOU GET FOR FREE • A complete 16-week periodised plan — 3:1 build/down weeks, a 3-week taper, every session placed on a real date • Pick your own training days: long run day, quality day, and as many support runs as you want (3 to 6 sessions a week) • Personal heart-rate zones for every session, derived from your maximum and resting heart rate via the Karvonen method • Daily readiness score from HRV, resting heart rate and sleep, with the full breakdown of how it was calculated • Today's fitness, fatigue and form (CTL / ATL / TSB) • Weekly score: planned versus actual, session by session • Long-run comparison: heart-rate curve and time in each zone • A realism check on your goal time, so you find out before week one rather than on race day MARAFIT PRO • Paces tuned to you — easy and threshold paces come from your own measured efforts and VDOT, instead of being derived from your goal time • A plan that follows you — miss a week or overshoot one, and the remaining weeks are re-anchored to what you actually ran • Fitness and fatigue trends over 90 days, not just today's numbers • Deep run analysis — aerobic efficiency, heart-rate drift with warm-up removed, heat stress from the temperature and humidity recorded during the run, plus running dynamics and elevation HOW IT WORKS Marafit reads runs, heart rate, HRV, resting heart rate, VO2 max, sleep and body metrics from Apple Health. It never writes anything back. Every calculation runs on your iPhone. The training model follows established methods: Karvonen heart-rate reserve for zones, Daniels VDOT for equivalent performances and threshold pace, Banister TRIMP for training load, and the CTL / ATL / TSB fitness-fatigue model. BEFORE YOU START Marafit needs running history in Apple Health to build anything — record runs with Apple Watch or the iPhone Workout app. If you have none yet, tap "Or explore with demo data" on the first screen to load 13 weeks of sample runs and see the whole app, then clear them in one tap. Currently supports the full marathon (42.195 km). Half marathon is not included: the periodisation, long-run progression and race-pace work are all calibrated for the full distance, and offering a rescaled version would produce a plan that looks usable but isn't. iPhone only. There is no iCloud sync, so your data stays on the device you use. PRIVACY No account. No servers. No analytics, advertising or tracking SDKs. Your health data never leaves your device — we have no way to receive it even if we wanted to. Deleting the app deletes everything. SUBSCRIPTION Marafit Pro is available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, or a one-time lifetime unlock. Eligible Apple IDs get a 7-day free trial on the yearly plan. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. The lifetime option does not renew. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://jakepyth.github.io/marafit-support/privacy.html Marafit gives training guidance, not medical advice. It does not diagnose or treat any condition. Consult a physician before starting a new training programme, and stop if you feel unwell.