Plans built for the race you are actually running.
Pace Perfect creates marathon training plans around the thing most generic plans ignore: the course. Hills, weather, aid stations, pacing traps, late-race terrain, and your goal time all shape the plan before the first workout lands on your calendar.
Most marathon plans are built for an imaginary flat course.
Real marathons have personalities. Boston punishes early downhill greed. New York hides the race on bridges. CIM rewards patience through rolling descent. Miami can turn humidity into the real opponent. Pace Perfect starts with the course, then builds the training around the demands you will face on race day.
“A marathon plan should not treat Boston, Chicago, Sydney, and Austin like the same 26.2-mile problem.”
The goal is not just to hand you workouts. It is to make the training feel connected to the exact race, terrain, pacing decisions, and late-mile problems waiting for you.Training plans with race-day logic baked in.
Every Pace Perfect plan combines proven marathon training principles with course-specific execution. You still get the essentials: mileage progression, long runs, threshold work, marathon-pace sessions, recovery weeks, and taper. But those pieces are arranged around your race, not dropped into a generic calendar with a new label on top.
Course-specific workouts
Hill blocks, downhill durability, flat-course rhythm, bridge pacing, and late-race strength are matched to the course profile.
Goal-time pacing
Your plan is calibrated around your target finish, current fitness, training history, and the type of pacing the course rewards.
Weather-aware prep
Heat, humidity, wind, cold starts, and seasonal training conditions are built into the race strategy and training emphasis.
Fueling strategy
Plans include race-day fueling guidance, carb targets, hydration rhythm, and course-specific aid station considerations where available.
Progressive structure
The training block builds from durable aerobic work into race-specific marathon preparation, then tapers toward freshness.
Execution cues
Each plan gives runners a way to think through the hard parts of the course before those decisions arrive at mile 18.
Preview the plan before you pay.
Pace Perfect is built for runners who want to see the substance first. Choose your marathon, enter your goal and training background, then preview a sample of the course-specific plan before unlocking the full version.
Choose your race
Select from major marathons, regional races, fast BQ courses, hilly city courses, coastal races, and destination marathons.
Enter your goal
Add your target time, weekly mileage, current fitness, experience level, and race date so the plan can be shaped around you.
Review your preview
See the plan structure, course notes, workouts, paces, and race strategy before deciding whether to unlock the full plan.
Built by a runner who cares about the details.
Coach Neil Davis
Neil is a 2:29 marathoner with decades of running experience and a deep interest in the practical details that decide marathon outcomes: pacing discipline, course terrain, fueling, heat, hills, and training consistency.
Race-specific, not race-themed
A real course-specific plan does more than mention the race name. It should change how you train, where you place key workouts, how you pace, and what you rehearse.
Useful for first-timers and BQ hunters
The same course can demand different choices from a first-time marathoner, a sub-4 runner, a BQ chaser, or a PR-focused competitor. Pace Perfect adapts the plan to the runner, not just the event.
See your marathon plan before you buy it.
Choose your race and instantly preview a course-specific training plan with mileage, workouts, paces, fueling guidance, and race-day strategy. No card required.