AI Running Training Plan for Beginner 5K: What It Is, How It Works, and Whether to Trust It
An AI running training plan for beginner 5K adapts to your fitness weekly. Learn how it works, what to look for, and how to run your first 5K safely.
Building a fitness app from scratch. Stories, bugs, and lessons from the Pacenotes journey.
An AI running training plan for beginner 5K adapts to your fitness weekly. Learn how it works, what to look for, and how to run your first 5K safely.
Looking for the best running app for race training on iPhone? We break down what features matter and which apps deliver when a goal race is on the line.
Learn how to sync training plan with Strava using native tools, third-party apps, and workarounds that keep your schedule and activity data in one place.
Learn what easy pace running really means, how to calculate your correct easy pace, and why running too fast on recovery days is slowing your progress.
Learn how a VDOT running calculator works, what your number means, and how to use it to set accurate training paces. Includes formulas and real examples.
Running training load explained: what it measures, how to calculate it, and how to use it to train harder without breaking down. Data-driven guide.
Running pace zones explained: learn what each zone means, how to calculate yours, and why training at the right intensity makes you faster.
Learn how to calculate race pace using VDOT, time goals, and real training data—so you toe the line with a number you can trust.
Looking for a Strava training plan? Learn what Strava offers, where it falls short, and how to build a plan that actually adapts to your fitness.
A half marathon training plan for intermediate runners: weekly structure, pace zones, long run progression, and how to peak without burning out.
Looking for a running route planner for iOS? Learn what features actually matter, how route generation works, and which app gets the job done.
Learn how base building running training works, how long it takes, and the exact mileage and intensity rules that make aerobic fitness stick.
Learn how an 80/20 running training plan works, why the science supports it, and how to build one around your weekly mileage and race goals.
A few dozen users. 17,000 activities. 120,000 km. Nine versions shipped in five weeks. Here is where Pacenotes is today, what is coming next, and why I am telling you all of this.
Six blockers before I could even submit. A build stuck forever in processing. Push notifications that silently died. Here is everything nobody tells you about shipping an iOS app.
A server I locked myself out of. A lost run through Paris. A ghost process running stale code. Six bugs, six lessons, zero sugarcoating.
React, Node, SQLite, Capacitor, and a €4/month server in Helsinki. Here is every technical decision I made building Pacenotes, and more importantly, everything I chose not to use.
If you wanted the full picture of your training, you would need five apps and a spreadsheet. So I opened a terminal for the first time and built Pacenotes.