A coach you can chat to
Ask anything — "should I add a tempo this week?", "why was my long run rough?". The coach pulls your actual data before answering.
Closed beta — Spring 2026The coach that
The coach that
actually remembers you.
Kip26 is an AI coach for endurance runners. It reads your Garmin and Strava history, knows your lactate thresholds, and shapes plans around the athlete you are — not a generic 16-week template lifted from a magazine.
Garmin Connect Strava Apple Health (soon)
Kip
Your coach · live
How's tomorrow's tempo looking?
You ran 62 km last week with two threshold sessions — fatigue is real. Let's swap the tempo for an aerobic 12 km at HR 142–148.
✓Read recent workouts· last 14 days · 11 runs
Your LT1 from the March test is 152 bpm, so 142–148 keeps you firmly aerobic. Good?
Sounds goodMake it 14 kmWhy aerobic?
Sounds good. Save it to the plan.
✓Update plan· Wed 17 — aerobic 12 km @ 142–148 bpm
Saved to your active plan.
Features
Built for the runner who already trains with data.
Kip26 isn't a beginner app. It assumes you have a watch, you know what tempo feels like, and you want a coach that can keep up.
Plans that adapt
Phased training plans you can shape in conversation. Cutback weeks, peak weeks, taper — adjusted around your life and your race calendar.
Threshold-driven zones
Log a lactate test and the coach prescribes intensities from your real LT1 and LT2 — not generic percent-of-max charts.
Long-term memory
Injuries, goals, life events, what worked, what didn't. The coach carries context forward instead of asking you the same questions every week.
Garmin & Strava sync
Connect once. Every workout flows in automatically with laps, heart rate, and pace. Manual entry for treadmill or off-grid runs.
Notes that compound
Athlete notes, coach notes, race reports — searchable, linked to the runs that produced them. Your training journal, kept honest.
Inside the app
Your training, rendered honestly.
No vanity dashboards. The coach surfaces the things you'd actually act on this week — and argues its case when you ask.
Week 14 · base phase
Volume is trending right
This week
64.2 km
Last week
58.1 km
4-wk avg
55.4 km
w8
w7
w6
w5
w4
w3
w2
w1
+10.5% — within the safe progression band.
Lactate threshold
LT2 · 172 bpm
Updated 6 weeks ago
Resting HR (7-day)
48 bpm
−2 vs. last month
Next planned
Long run · 22 km
Sat 21 · easy 5:45/km
Coaching philosophy
Opinionated on purpose.
The coach has a point of view. These are the six pillars that shape every plan and every answer it gives you.
01
Polarized training
Roughly 80% easy, 20% moderate-to-hard. Easy days have to actually be easy — and the coach will call you out when they're not.
02
Progressive overload
Volume rises ~10% week on week with a cutback every 3–4 weeks. Plans bend with your life, not the other way around.
03
Threshold over %HRmax
If you have lactate data, the coach uses LT1 and LT2 to set zones. No more guessing from a generic max-heart-rate table.
04
Data before advice
Recommendations come after the coach has looked at your actual recent training — not from a static plan template.
05
Memory-aware
Injuries, niggles, goals, big life events — all saved to long-term memory and consulted before plan or recovery advice.
06
Honest and concise
Flag risks, don't pad. Two to four sentences for greetings, longer only when teaching or analyzing.
Limited beta seats
Want to be one of the first runners on Kip26?
We're inviting a small group of athletes through spring 2026. Tell us about your running and we'll be in touch within a week.
Request beta accessFree during beta · no payment details required