Periodized athletics training for solo runners, coaches and squads across sprint, middle distance, long distance, hurdles, jumps and throws: 100+ drills with track diagrams, Riegel predictor with personal pace zones, wall-clock rest timer, and live trackside rep timing with personal bests.
AURA Running Coach — Sprint, Middle & Long Distance, Hurdles, Jumps & Throws With Riegel Threshold & Live Timing
AURA Running & Athletics Coach is an AI-powered training, periodization and trackside timing system built for track and road athletics. One sport holds six groups — sprint, middle distance, long distance, hurdles, jumps and throws — on four surfaces: track, road, cross-country and treadmill. Solo runners, coaches with pupils and full squads share the same product: configure specialty group, technical level (fundamentals, intermediate, advanced, competitor), age band and owned gear (stopwatch, cones, mini-hurdles, hurdles, starting blocks, resistance sled, medicine ball), and AURA Coach designs a full-season periodized roadmap with metre-volume ceilings per session. A library of over one hundred drills covers warm-ups, running technique, easy and long runs, threshold and interval repeats, sprint starts and speed work, race-pace rehearsals and cool-downs — every drill mapped on normalized track, road, field and floor vector diagrams with coaching cues and variations. The signature instrument is the Riegel predictor: log one recent best at any distance and the app predicts equivalent times from 1500m to the marathon, then derives three personal pace zones (easy, threshold, fast) used by every later session. Trackside, a one-thumb rep logger times each effort with event, distance and time, folds live average and best paces per event, and banks personal bests by event and distance. Safety is structural: race distances are clamped by age band so kids always run short, threshold and sprint families are banned for child bands in the load tables and the validator, and every distance request passes server-side allow-lists.
Why use AURA Running & Athletics Coach
Sprint, middle and long distance, hurdles, jumps and throws share teams, staff, season pass and register; track, road, cross and treadmill steer drill selection, metre budgets and frozen race rules without forking the product.
Warm-ups, running technique, easy runs, long runs, threshold repeats, sprint starts, speed work and cool-downs with vector diagrams, metre budgets, coaching points and variations, from kids games to 10 km long runs.
One recent best predicts equivalent times from 1500m to the marathon with the 1.06 exponent; three training zones derive from it automatically, so every athlete trains at personal paces from a single result.
One-thumb rep logging of event, distance and time with live per-event pace, average pace tracking, and personal bests banked by event and distance across the season.
How to train athletics and time reps with AURA Coach
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Set up your runner, pupils or squad
Pick solo, coach or squad mode, choose specialty group, technical level, age band, home surface (track, road, cross or treadmill) and owned gear from stopwatch to hurdles.
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Schedule weekly track slots
Select practice days and session length; the periodization engine builds mesocycles with metre budgets matched to age and level.
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Predict paces and generate sessions
Enter one recent best to calibrate Riegel predictions and personal zones, then open any calendar slot for an AURA AI session with track diagrams.
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Time reps and collect personal bests
Log races and time trials trackside rep by rep, review per-event pace, and watch personal bests accumulate by event and distance.
Frequently asked questions
Which athletics events does AURA Running Coach cover?
Sprint, middle distance, long distance, hurdles, jumps and throws, on track, road, cross-country and treadmill. The specialty group and home surface are chosen once per team and steer which drills are selectable, which metre budgets apply, and which distances freeze onto a race.
What is the Riegel predictor and how do pace zones work?
The Riegel formula predicts an equivalent time at a new distance as reference time times (new distance divided by reference distance) to the 1.06 power. Enter one recent best and the dashboard shows predicted times from 1500m to the marathon plus three personal zones — easy, threshold, fast — each with pace ranges and example workouts. Retest every 6 to 8 weeks.
Is distance running safe for young athletes in the app?
Race distances are clamped by age band in the frozen race rules: child bands top out at short distances, preteens at middle distances, and road events stay teen and up. Threshold and sprint drill families are banned for child bands in the load tables and the session validator.
What does a timed test report contain?
Every logged rep with event, distance, time and pace per km, totals in metres and reps, average and best pace overall and per event, and personal bests by event and distance banked across finals. The finished report saves once to the team; live logging syncs between coach and assistant during the test.
How much does AURA Running Coach cost?
The first generated session for a new team is free. After that, sessions and timed tests cost AuraCoins at live spot price, or the existing EUR 12.99 one-time AURA Coach season pass covers unlimited generation and timing for that team for 365 days — the same pass every other coaching sport uses.
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