Coaching that starts with you, not a race date.
Every training app begins by asking what you’re racing and when. Attuna begins with what you’re actually doing this for. Then it tells you what’s worth doing today, for as long as you want to keep going.
Apply for a placeTake the race date away and there’s nothing left.
The apps have got better. Most will now absorb a missed week, drop your volume, dial you back when you say you’re flat. Credit where it’s due: that part is largely solved.
What none of them do is start anywhere other than a race in your calendar. The plan is the thing that persists; you’re a set of inputs that adjust it. Which works fine for twelve weeks. Then you cross the line, or you never booked anything in the first place, and the whole apparatus has nothing left to say. That’s the bit nobody has fixed, and it’s the bit that decides whether you’re still doing this in five years.
A plan-first app needs a date and a distance before it will say anything at all. So you pick a race you don’t really want, or you stop paying.
Attuna starts from why you do this in the first place. It keeps giving you the session that’s worth doing, with or without something in the diary.
The hardest part isn’t stopping. It’s where you rejoin. Most plans drop you back exactly where you left, which is the hardest week you’d reached.
Attuna rebuilds from what actually suits you now, not what you were doing before. If you’ve been given rehab work, that goes in first.
No subscription wants to tell you your target is gone. So you get a softer plan and a quietly worse prediction, and you find out on race day.
Attuna will tell you early, with the reasoning shown, and tell you what the day is for instead. Sometimes slowing down now is how you go faster later.
The person persists. The plan is disposable.
Four things it does. None of them need you to keep up with anything.
Four reasons people don’t get a coach. None of them apply here.
A few quick questions. They’re how I work out whether this suits you.
The pilot is more hands-on than the finished thing will be. That’s deliberate, and it’s temporary.
I’m Tor, an age-group triathlete in Perth with two young kids and a full-time job in IT.
My goals don’t solely rely on big race days any more. I’ve watched what happens to people afterwards, myself included, when the whole thing was built around one date and the slump of motivation once that date passes. I’d rather build sustainable healthy habits so that I can still be doing this at sixty. So what I needed was something that builds those habits even if there’s nothing in the calendar, and every plan I bought was the opposite of that.
So, I built the thing instead. It even accommodated my physio’s loading recommendations when my Achilles was flaring up. It knew my training happens after the kids go to bed. When the tank was empty it offered something shorter rather than the session I’d have skipped entirely.
It got me to the finish line in that photo. That’s one person, which is why I’m not claiming much yet. Twenty places, eight weeks, and I’d rather find out properly from twenty people than badly from three hundred.