Beyond Miles.
Build Your Grit.
Real training methodology, automatically personalized to you, from 5K to ultramarathon. Train solo, or add a coach: same system either way.
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Run for more than the miles.
Some runs make you faster.
Some make you stronger.
Some simply make you feel like yourself again.
Kstride helps you train seriously for the races you care about — without losing the reason you started running in the first place.
What are you running for?
Tell us what matters to you. We'll help you figure out how to train for it.
Take your training seriously. Leave your ego at the trailhead.
Kstride adapts your training around the runner you actually are, not the one on paper.
Free forever · No credit card required · Start with a real goal
See your week adapt as life changes
Miss a run, mark it sore, or swap a day — Kstride reshuffles the rest of your week automatically. This is a real week from a real plan, not a mockup.
Terrain changes everything
A flat road marathon and a mountain 50K aren't the same race. Your plan and pacing adjust to the course you're actually running.
Upload a GPX and Kstride reads every climb and descent, converting raw pace into a grade-adjusted effort so splits mean the same thing on flat miles and steep ones.
Trail and technical courses add up to +18% effort at the same pace. Splits, fueling, and race-morning plan adjust automatically.
Kstride detects every real climb and descent on a run and grades each one Cat 4 through HC, with vertical ascent speed and heart-rate zones per climb, no manual splitting required.
Someone always knows where you are
Long runs in the backcountry carry real risk. Kstride watches your run even on the miles where you can't check in yourself.
- Live tracking your crew can follow
Share a link and anyone can watch your dot move in real time on a map, no app or account required.
- Automatic check-in alerts
If you stop moving for 15 minutes or miss a waypoint's cutoff, Kstride notices before you have to ask for help.
- One-tap SOS
A single tap sends your exact coordinates and battery level straight to the emergency contacts you choose.
- Works when signal doesn’t
Telemetry queues on your phone in a dead zone and syncs the moment you're back in range, so nothing is lost.
No stock photos
These are from our own training runs.
Train solo. Train with a coach. Same playbook.
Start free with a plan built on real methodology, automatically adjusted to you. Add a coach anytime: same system, same dashboard.
Real methodology, personalized automatically. Coach optional.
- Built on proven training templates, adjusted to you automatically, free and ready in seconds
- Plans adjust to missed days, sleep, life stress, and the terrain of your race
- Heart-rate zones, structured intervals, race-day pacing, device sync
- Add a real coach later if you want one, and your plan and history come along
Three steps to your best race
Choose your race distance, target date, and experience level.
A real training methodology, personalized to you in seconds.
Log workouts. The plan adjusts to your life in real-time.
Every distance. One platform.
Pacing, mileage, and taper look different at every distance, and so does the plan.
Built around race day
Every interval, tempo, and threshold session comes with a built-in pace target and rep-by-rep structure, not just a mileage number.
Pacing, fueling, and a race-morning checklist built for your specific course.
- Heart Rate Zones
- Life Happens
- Device Sync
- Strength & Mobility
- Community
- Training Load Tracking
- .FIT / Garmin Export
Real runners. Real trails. Real reasons.
Not every run is training. Quiet miles, first ultras, comebacks, and the runs that never show up on a leaderboard — this is the trail-talk side of Kstride.
Built on the research, not guesswork
Every plan follows core endurance-research principles: progressive overload, polarized intensity, rest as part of the work.
Learn the methodologyBuilt for the coaches who do the work.
Stop formatting plans in spreadsheets. Spend your time coaching, not doing admin work.
Unlimited athletes, 100% free. Kstride only earns when the marketplace brings you a new client.
- Public coach profile
Show up in the directory runners search every day.
- Automated plans
Built on real training templates, adapted and personalized in seconds.
- Live athlete data
Sleep, mileage, RPE, soreness: see what actually happened.
- Direct messaging
Threaded conversations and gait video reviews per athlete.
- Weekly summaries
Auto-generated reports you tweak instead of write from scratch.
- Grow your practice
No roster caps, ever. Coach 1 athlete or 100, free.
It's rarely about the finish time
- Running clears your head.
- Consistency beats hero workouts.
- You have more left than it feels like.
- Slow days and walks still count.
The trail doesn't care about your PR.
You don't have to run every mile fast.
You don't have to race every weekend.
You don't have to prove anything.
Some days you run.
Some days you walk.
Some days you stop and look around.
It all counts.
Kstride helps you train for the goals that matter to you — while keeping running yours.
Free to start. Upgrade when you're ready.
One app for runners and the coaches who guide them.
Everything you need to train for your next race.
- Smart-personalized plans, 5K through ultramarathon
- Heart-rate zones and structured intervals
- Device sync (Garmin, Apple Watch, COROS)
- Community feed, leaderboards, shared plans
Unlocks advanced training features. 5 free every month; buy a top-up pack whenever you need more — no subscription, and credits never expire.
- Smart Shoe Matcher (vision-powered)
- Gait Lab video analysis
- Smart training insights & race intelligence
- Automated weekly recaps & workout explanations
100% free for your existing clients. Kstride only charges a platform fee when we connect you with new athletes through our directory (10% take rate, capped at $7/athlete/month).
- Marketplace fee capped at $7/athlete/month — no matter what you charge
- Unlimited athletes, no caps, no monthly software fee
- Assign plans and track completion
- Direct messaging & gait video review
- Automated athlete reports & weekly summaries, free
- In-app payment collection via Stripe Connect
- Public coach profile in the directory
See what you'd pay at your scale
Kstride's marketplace fee is capped at $7.00/athlete/month — this shows that ceiling against a typical subscription-based platform's published pricing.
Kstride's number is the maximum possible — you pay 10% of what you actually charge per athlete until it hits the $7.00 cap, so most coaches pay less than shown. Typical-platform figure reflects a published subscription pricing model with a base fee plus volume-discounted per-athlete add-ons; your actual quote from any platform may vary.
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