Pulsar features Plan. Run. Know why.

A plan built for your goal, a guide in your earbuds and on your wrist, and a coach who explains every run with your numbers.

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Free to download · iPhone and Apple Watch

Your goal.Your plan.

  • Any goal: your first 5K from run/walk, a 10K, a half or a marathon, a time to beat, running without stopping, or getting back to running after time off.
  • Built from where you are: how long you can run without stopping, the days you can train, your latest race.
  • Every week worked out: when to go long, when to go hard, when to rest, with a lighter week every fourth and an easier run-in to race day.
  • When your week changes, drag a run to another day in the calendar, or change your run days and long-run day in the plan settings.

Profile

How long can you run without stopping?

An honest answer sets the right starting point — there’s no wrong one.

  • I can’t run nonstop yetI take walk breaks to keep going
  • A few minutesUp to ~5 minutes before I walk
  • 10–20 minutesI can keep a steady jog going
  • 30 minutes or moreI can run continuously

Oct 26 – Nov 1

Week 5

Build

15.0 mithis week

  1. Mon

    Rest Day

  2. Tue

    Aerobic EasyEasy · 40–44 min

    3.7 mi
  3. Wed

    Rest Day

  4. Thu

    800 RepeatsIntervals · 39–43 min

    3.7 mi
  5. Fri

    Rest Day

  6. Sat

    Recovery EasyEasy · 23–26 min

    2.1 mi
  7. Sun

    Fast-Finish Long RunLong · 60–66 min

    5.6 mi

Every run.Explained.

  • Each run gives you the distance, the pace to hold, the heart-rate zone to stay in and why it’s in your week.
  • Step by step: warm-up, repeats, walks and cool-down, each with its own distance and pace.
  • Heart-rate zones in plain words. Zone 2 means you can still talk; tempo means short phrases, not full sentences.
  • Pace Check: after every tempo or interval session, see how you tracked against your paces. When a clear pattern shows, Pulsar suggests new ones, and nothing changes until you say yes.

Easy run

Aerobic Easy

Week 7 · Tuesday Upcoming

4.1 mi · ~45 min

Coach’s insightTap to ask

Keep your heart rate in Zone 1-2. You should be able to hold a conversation easily. If you’re breathing hard, slow down.

Target heart rate

Z1 RecoveryZ2 Aerobic123–148 bpm

Structure

Easymax 10:50 /mi

4.1 mi

Repeat ×4

Strides7:55 /mi

100 m

Walk recovery

1 min

Your zones

  • Zone 1: RecoveryEasy enough to talk in full sentences. Moves blood, builds nothing — that’s the job.

    ≤ 135

  • Zone 2: AerobicWhere most of your running lives. This is the engine that carries a long run.

    136–148

  • Zone 3: TempoComfortably hard. Steady and sustainable — short phrases, not full sentences.

    149–161

  • Zone 4: ThresholdHard but repeatable. Trains you to hold a faster pace before it starts to unravel.

    162–174

  • Zone 5: AnaerobicShort, near-maximal reps. Raises your ceiling. You can’t hold it long — you’re not meant to.

    175+

On the run.In your ear.

  • GPS tracking on iPhone: pace, distance and time, with the current segment and what’s left of it.
  • Voice cues in your earbuds: the next segment, when to walk, and when a tempo or an interval drifts off pace.
  • Apple Watch shows the whole workout on your wrist, your pace against the target and your heart rate.
  • Start on the watch and leave the phone at home. The run comes back to the app when you do.

“Slow down, 20 seconds fast.”

GPS Strong

21:51

mi
2.24
pace /mi
8:25
avg /mi
9:45

Target zone: 8:29 – 9:01 /mi

Tempo

2.2 miles at tempo pace

1.17remaining

Current
8:25
Target
8:45

Ask why.Get a straight answer.

  • After every run, a short note on what it meant, with your own numbers.
  • Ask anything between runs: why easy runs are so slow, what to eat before a long one, what to do after a missed week.
  • It knows your plan and your recent runs, so the answer is about you, not about runners in general.
  • It isn’t a doctor. For pain or a health worry, it tells you to see one.

Coach’s insight

3.4 mi easy, and you kept it easy.

Heart rate stayed in Zone 2 the whole way and your pace held steady — exactly what easy runs are for. Rest tomorrow; Thursday is the 400s.

PULSAR Coach

Why is my easy pace so slow?

Because easy runs do a different job. They build your engine — heart, lungs, legs — without leaving you tired for Thursday’s 400s. If you can talk in full sentences, you’re right where you should be.

AI-generated guidance, not medical advice. Talk to a doctor about health concerns.

And the restof the kit.

  • Race predictionRace-time prediction from your runs, updated as you train.
  • BadgesBadges for real milestones: your first 5K, your first 10-kilometer run, a week where you took the rest the plan gave you.
  • ShoesShoe mileage for every pair, so you know when one is worn out.
  • Apple HealthYour runs saved to Apple Health.

Questions?A person answers.

About the app, your plan or your subscription: write to us and a person replies within one business day.

support@pulsar.coach Support and account help

How it works

Four steps from here to the start line.

  1. Download Pulsar

    It’s free to download on iPhone. Your plan lives on the phone, and on Apple Watch if you wear one.

  2. Tell it your goal

    A race and its date, a distance, a time to beat, or running without stopping. Then how you run today.

  3. Run the plan

    Open today’s run and start it. Pulsar gives you the pace and the zone, and talks you through every segment.

  4. Reach the goal

    The plan builds week by week, then eases off before race day so you arrive fresh, not tired.

Dzhavid shouting in triumph on the running track of Amsterdam’s Olympic Stadium, a finisher’s medal round his neck.

I trained for three marathons alone. Pulsar is the coach I wish I’d had.

Dzhavid Kerimov · founder

Name the goal. Get the plan.

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Free to download · iPhone and Apple Watch