Training App · Blueprint v1
GRITWorking name — we'll rename it, like Chronicle
A coach in your pocket. You plug in the race and your goals — it builds the plan, adjusts it as life happens, and keeps you honest.
Built for ultra & trail races and triathlons. For someone who'd rather outwork everyone than hire a coach — but still wants a real system holding the line.
01
The idea: it's an engine, not a PDF
Most "training plans" are a static calendar you fall off by week three. This is a loop that reacts to you — your body, your weight, your week, the race on the horizon — and reshapes itself every time you report back.
Step 1
Plug inYour race, your weight & goal, your days, your time, your history.Step 2
It buildsA week-by-week plan across training, fuel, weight & rest — peaked for your race.Step 3
You do & logDid it / skipped it, how it felt, today's weight, how you slept.Step 4
It adjustsReshuffles the next days so you stay on track for race day — automatically.
Then it loops — every day, every week, all the way to the start line.
Set it once, update it whenever. Everything the engine needs to build a plan that's actually yours.
- The race (or races). Which one, the date, the distance. It counts backward and builds the whole runway.
- Where you are now. Current weekly mileage/hours, your longest recent effort, how fit you feel.
- Weight & weight goal. Today's weight and where you want it by race day — the plan pulls toward it.
- Your week. Which days you can train, which are locked off, and honestly how much time you've got.
- Days off. Non-negotiable rest days you protect — the engine works around them, not over them.
- Nutrition. How you eat, what you'll fuel with, any restrictions — for daily eating and race-day fueling.
- History & injuries. What's broken before, what flares up — so it trains around you, not into a wall.
03
The four things it builds & keeps adjusting
Pillar 01
Training
The work that gets you to the finish — periodized, not random.
- Hill repeats & vert progression
- Fartleks, tempo & speed
- Long runs & back-to-back weekends
- Bricks (bike→run) for tri
- Strength & durability
- Taper into race week
Pillar 02
Nutrition
Fuel for the training you're doing and the weight you're chasing.
- Daily fueling around your sessions
- Race-day fueling dialed in ahead of time
- Tied to your weight goal, not guessing
- Adjusts on heavy weeks vs. rest weeks
Pillar 03
Weight
A target and a trend line — not a crash diet.
- Log it; it watches the trend
- Set a goal weight by race day
- Nutrition & volume nudge to hit it
- Flags if you're cutting too fast to train well
Pillar 04
Recovery & days off
Where the fitness actually sticks. Protected, not optional.
- Rest days built in and defended
- Down weeks so you don't dig a hole
- Backs off when you're beat up
- Sleep & fatigue feed the plan
04
How it "constantly adjusts"
This is the part you asked for. Life happens — the plan bends so the goal doesn't break.
You miss Saturday's long run
It reshuffles next week instead of just marking you "behind."
Weight's trending off your goal
It tweaks fueling and volume to steer you back — gently.
A workout felt terrible / poor sleep
It eases the next day or two so you don't dig a hole.
You crushed the week
It earns you a little more — progression, not plateau.
Race date moves or you pick a new one
The whole runway re-plans around the new start line.
05
How it holds you accountable
Not a calendar you ignore — a coach that notices.
- Daily check-in. A quick "did you get it done?" — and it logs the streak.
- Nudges that escalate. Miss one, it reminds; miss two, it gets in your face (the way you'd want it to).
- Streaks & honesty. Consistency you can see — and it doesn't let you quietly lie to yourself.
- Weekly review. What you hit, what slipped, what's next — and why it matters for race day.
- Your "why," on hard days. The goal you set, front and center when you want to skip.
The countdown is the hook: every screen knows how many days to the start line — so nothing feels optional.
Pick a race and it builds the peak block for that race's demands — because a flat road marathon and a rocky Hill Country ultra are not the same animal.
- Bandera 25K / 50K / 100K → rocky, technical, relentless climbs, sotol & cactus, run in January — so vert, downhill legs, and cold-weather long runs through the holidays.
- A road marathon → different build: turnover, tempo, flat long runs.
- A triathlon → swim/bike/run balance, bricks, and pacing across three sports.
07
The edge: real coaching, synthesized
Not a generic template off one blog. I run a research scout that goes deep on the methods of top endurance coaches — and on the specific race you picked — then I mash it into one coherent plan and tailor it to you.
- Trail & ultra minds — the school of thinking behind modern trail training: hill work, vert, back-to-backs, fueling, taper.
- Triathlon methodology — periodization across three sports, brick work, race pacing.
- Your race, specifically — terrain, climate, timing, what breaks people on that course.
- Synthesized, not copy-pasted — one plan that agrees with itself, shaped to your body and your calendar.
Same way Chronicle got built — real and live fast, then layered. Each phase is usable on its own.
Phase 1 · the core
Race in, adaptive plan out
Plug in your race + your inputs → a week-by-week plan that logs your work, adjusts when you miss or crush, and nudges you to stay on it. This alone is a real coach.
Phase 2 · fuel & body
Nutrition & weight engine
Weight tracking + goal, daily fueling, race-day fueling — all wired into the plan so training, eating, and weight move together.
Phase 3 · the full athlete
Triathlon, multi-race & deeper adaptation
Swim/bike/run & bricks, a calendar of races back-to-back, trends and smarter auto-adjustment the longer you use it.
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What I need from you to start for real
Give me these and I'll build Phase 1 around a real race.
- Race #1 & date — the one you want to point at first (Bandera? which distance?).
- Where you are now — weekly miles/hours, longest recent run.
- Weight + goal weight — and roughly by when.
- Your week — training days, locked-off days, time per day.
- Injury history — anything I should train around.
- Nutrition style — how you eat now, what you'll fuel with.
This page is v1 — yours to mark up. Add to it, cross things out, tell me what I missed. It's your brain on paper, and it'll keep changing as you do.