Dean tracks your training and injury history, learns how your body responds, and texts you exactly what to do next — so you arrive at the start line healthy and ready for a new PR.
Every week, Dean lays out your complete training schedule with specific paces, distances, and purpose for each session. Life gets in the way? Just text Dean and he'll rearrange your week on the fly.
Dean tracks your pace trends, heart rate, and consistency across weeks — not just individual runs. As your fitness improves, your paces and volume adjust automatically. No manual spreadsheet updates.
Nutrition, injuries, race strategy, taper plans, cross-training — text Dean like you'd text a friend. He knows your full training history and gives specific advice, not generic tips.
Runna gives you a great static plan, but it doesn't know that you had a rough week, skipped two workouts, or ran your long run way too fast. Coach Dean lives in your text messages and adapts in real time — just reply with how a workout went and he'll adjust. ChatGPT can answer running questions, but it has no memory of your training history, no structured plan, and no one checking in on you. Dean combines the personalization of a real coach with the convenience of SMS — no app to open, no dashboard to check in on.
Coach Dean can build training plans for 5Ks all the way up to ultramarathons, including half marathons, full marathons, and trail races. If you're training for a triathlon, he can factor in your swimming and cycling alongside your run training. Not sure what distance is right for you? Tell Dean where you're at and he'll help you figure it out.
During onboarding, Dean asks for your recent race times or your comfortable conversational pace. From there he uses established training pace formulas to calculate your personal zones — easy, tempo, threshold, and interval — and builds every workout around those numbers. As you train and share feedback, Dean refines those paces over time. No guesswork, no one-size-fits-all pace charts.
Nope. All you need is a phone number. Coach Dean works entirely over SMS — no app to download, no account to create, no device required. If you do use Strava or a GPS watch, you can optionally connect it so Dean can pull your actual workout data automatically, but it's never required.
Coach Dean is currently free during beta. We're focused on building something genuinely useful before charging for it. When pricing is introduced, early beta users will be the first to know — and we plan to take care of the people who believed in Dean early.
Just tell Dean. Seriously — text him like you'd text a coach. Whether you missed a run, got sick, or needed a mental break, Dean will adjust your upcoming week to account for it and keep you on track toward your goal. Life happens, and a good coach works around it rather than ignoring it.
Your training data, pace information, and conversations with Dean are used solely to power your coaching experience — nothing else. We don't sell your data or share it with third parties. If you connect Strava, that access is read-only and only used to pull your workout history into Dean. You can request deletion of your data at any time by texting Dean or emailing jake.c.tennant@gmail.com.
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