How it works
Four steps. The first two happen once; the last two repeat every week for as long as you are coached.
Tell the coach where you are
A questionnaire to start: what you are running now, what you have run before, what you are training for and when it is. Anything that shapes your week: shift work, a long commute, the days you genuinely cannot run.
Connect Strava, if you use it
Optional, and you can revoke it whenever you like. Connected, your runs are read back against what was prescribed, so the coach sees what you actually did rather than what you meant to do. Not connected, you tell the coach yourself and it works the same way with a little more typing.
Your week arrives on Sunday
Sessions, distances and paces for the next seven days, with a note explaining what the week is for and what changed since last time. An email tells you it is ready; the week itself lives in your portal.
Tell the coach how it went
Mark what you did, flag anything that hurt, say if the week was too much or not enough. That is what the next week is built from. This is the loop. It is what you are paying for, and it only works if you use it.
How the plans are written
Plans are drafted with software support and reviewed and approved by a qualified coach before they are sent. The software does the arithmetic, your training load, your paces, how much the week should rise, and it does it consistently. The coach reads every week before it goes out, changes what needs changing, and is the one who approves it.
No week reaches you automatically. If that distinction matters to you, it should: it is the difference between a coached plan and a generated one.