Run easy, the secret every fast runner knows.
Do you know if you are
training right,
right now?
Most runners go too hard on their easy days. Treni reads every run you do, shows whether the week was easy enough, and recommends what to change next week. A real coach reviews the advice you get. Every week.
Treni is a coach-led training guide for runners on road and mountain trails. The system reads every run from Strava, Garmin or your watch: heart rate, intervals, elevation and how it felt. You need a heart-rate watch that connects to Intervals.icu: Garmin, Polar, Suunto, Coros or Wahoo. A coach stands behind every piece of advice you get. One goal: lasting progress without injury or losing the joy of it. It starts with the easy runs actually being easy.
It is great to have such a good tool and the coach's expertise guiding me, so I get in shape the right way!
Sound familiar?
Most runners train harder than they think
- "Easy" is rarely easy
The secret is simple, but hard to follow. Generic programs don't know what your body has actually done in recent weeks. They don't see that your "easy" is actually fairly fast, that last week turned hard, or that the long run grew too fast.
Treni helps you see whether you hit the mark on each run.
- The injury comes first
The most common reason progress stops is not too little training. It is too much, too soon. Overuse injuries announce themselves in the training data before you feel them in your legs. But someone has to read it, and tell you what to change next week.
Treni helps you catch the signs early, and speaks up before they become an injury.
- Alone between runs
A coach who sees you every week is reserved for the few. The rest are left with the watch, the Strava graphs and gut feeling, guessing whether they are running easy enough.
Treni helps you keep a coach in the loop every week, without having to afford one of your own.
The difference
Static plans work, until life happens
Then you caught a cold in week 2. Work took a week. Your body said no on a Thursday.
π Static app plan
The plan rolls on as if nothing happened, and you get the blame for the gap.
π± The Treni plan
Every run is read from Strava or Intervals.icu. The plan builds on from reality, and a real coach reviews it.
A plan that lives, for runners who live , not just the well-trained runner static apps were built for.
The race calendar
π Do you know which race is next?
Road, trail and mountain races across Norway, with a filter for Northern Norway. Date, place and registration link, fetched automatically from the timing system and updated every day. The calendar itself is in Norwegian. Find your next race, sign up, and train right towards it.
Road or mountain
Two worlds, one guide fluent in both
π£οΈ For road runners
Pace and kilometres rule here: intervals with second-level precision, threshold sessions measured against your own pace, and week-by-week build-up towards your race, whether it is 5K, 10K, half or full.
β°οΈ For mountain and trail runners
On trails, pace per km means little. Here time, heart rate and elevation take over. Uphill as its own session, downhill running as its own skill, and total load that counts what the terrain actually cost you.
Common to both: the same safety rules, the same coach, and many runners do both. The guide sees what surface each run was on, and judges it accordingly.
A guard on every run
2025 landmark study (5,205 runners): it's the single
session that injures. The guide watches your week and every run.
All training counts
Strength, skiing, cycling and football count towards
your total load.
Weather-aware
Key sessions land on the driest days where you
actually live.
Races shape the plan
Build-up and taper around your races, road and mountain alike.
How it works
Simple on both sides
π For the runner
- Connect Strava or your watch, answer a few questions
Goal, age and max heart rate. That is all we need to ask. The guide fetches your history, sets your heart-rate zones on the Norwegian Olympic Federation scale, and learns what a normal week is for you, not for an average runner.
- Get a Monday report and weekly plan
What last week actually was: easy and hard, zones, load. And what the coming week should hold, session by session, shaped around your races.
- Train, and be followed up
The plan comes to you. If something does not fit, you say so and it is adjusted. The guide watches through the week, and you can ask about anything, any time, in your own group with the coach on the team.
π€ For the partner
- Running groups: your sessions in the plans
If the club has intervals Tuesday at 5:15 pm, the guide recommends members do the week's interval session there with time and place, instead of running alone. The group sessions become the hub, not the competitor.
- Organizers: runners ready for the start line
Participants training toward your race get race-specific preparation: course profile, elevation and tapering in the last weeks. Injury-free, prepared runners come back next year.
- We build it together
The pilot is running now and the forms of partnership are open: club sessions in the plans, offers for participants ahead of races, shared content. Get in touch and we'll find the shape.
Ready to try? Signing up takes two minutes. A partnership starts with a short message.
It is not how much you run that injures you. It is how much more than your body is used to.
The principle behind every single review. Feeling fit is not injury protection.
Concretely, on two levels: your week is measured against the average of the last four and kept inside the safe band (80 til 130 %), a precautionary frame for steady progression (Gabbett 2016; Hulin 2016). And every single run is measured against your longest run in the past 30 days, because a 2025 study (5,205 runners) showed that is where the injury risk actually sits. Both guards, together with the coach's eye.
- 76 til 85%
of your training time easy, the rest hard. That is how fitness is built
- 0 til 15%
maximum volume increase per week. The corridor follows your level, not one rule for everyone
- All day
your runs are read and My page updates, without you logging anything
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runners in Treni now, on road, track, trail and ultra. Everyone has their own page, and a plan built on their own runs
The science
Research at the base, coaching experience on top
The advice isn't guesswork. Every principle in the guide can be traced to published research or documented coaching practice, and we always say which one it is.
- The model corridor, counted in time
The world's best endurance athletes place 80 til 90% of their endurance training in easy zones. The guide measures your distribution every week, in time, not session count, and speaks up when the grey zone steals from the easy. Your room is 76 til 85% easy, 15 til 24% quality.
- No leaps, documented
A large study of 5,205 runners found roughly 60% higher injury risk when a single run leaps past the longest your body has done in the last 30 days. The guide catches the leaps before they happen, in the plan, not in hindsight.
- Terrain measured right
In the mountains, kilometers lie. Trail sessions are judged on time and elevation , up and down, the way coaches with mountain backgrounds do it. A "short" run with 1,600 meters of climbing is treated as the hard session it is.
- Heart rate + feel, not blind faith in the watch
The guide knows the blind spots of heart rate: slow response on tired days, drift on long runs. It teaches you to never chase heart rate. Your zones are calibrated against your own data and continuously re-checked.
Sources incl.: Sandbakk et al. 2025 (Sports Medicine. Open) Β· "How much running is too much?" BJSM 2025 Β· Seiler & Kjerland 2006 Β· the coaching team's book on mountain running
What you get
Like having a coach who sees every run
Everyone else requires you to open an app. Treni delivers on its own, when it matters. That is the difference between a tool and a service.
- π Your weekly plan, ready before the week starts Concrete sessions with pace, heart rate, intervals and rests, built on the week you actually ran. Finish your week by Sunday evening and next week's plan lands the same evening, otherwise Monday morning.
- πFollow-up without the noise The system reads your runs every day, but you hear from us when it matters: your weekly plan on Sunday evening or Monday morning, the day's session at 07:00 on training days (turn it off or move it yourself), and a status on Thursday, with praise when you nail it and a friendly nudge when the run got harder than planned. The rest of the week: quiet (and My page whenever you want a look).
- π€A named coach Not an app alone. The advice is reviewed by a human who knows you, and health questions always go to professionals, never to a machine.
- π¬In your language All guidance in English or Norwegian, your choice.
- πMy page, your own training overview Your load in plain words, the bars behind it, and every run with the advisor's note. Plus next week's plan, day by day. Personal link, updated through the day. Add it to your home screen and it opens as an app, with notifications on your phone when a new plan, a message from your coach or a new run is in. See what it looks like β
- π Calendar, your own sessions and strength Move sessions yourself with drag and drop, add strength, trail runs or cycling as your own sessions, and see it all in one plan. Strength comes with the coach's templates and an exercise bank with animations. Plus the race calendar: 400+ races in Norway, and your plan is built towards the one you pick.
- πYour shoes, tracked Tag your shoes on Strava activities and Treni counts the kilometres per pair, warning you when one nears retirement. Before every race you get shoe advice from your own rotation, matched to distance, surface, course profile and the weather forecast. Need a new pair? One tap registers it.
- πYour data stays yours Stored locally with the coach team, never sold. Disconnect any time. Read the privacy policy.
The e-book
π "Training for Mountain Running"
Written with one of Norway's most experienced mountain runners , a physiotherapist and skyrunning World Championship participant. Chapters 0 to 13 are published. Test runners get the chapters first, right on their own page, with a short quiz after each chapter.
- π§ Training philosophy
- π« Intensity and zones
- π§± The foundation
- β‘ Interval training
- π Distance training
- π After the finish line
- π₯Ύ Technique
- πͺ Strength
- πͺ Stair training
- 𦡠Muscle soreness
- π² Recovery and varied terrain
- π§© Training planning
- π A new mountain season
- π Race season and peaking
- π₯€ Race-day nutrition
Test runners read the chapters first, and everything else on this page is included.
Become a test runnerTest runners say
Real words from the runners testing now
βYes, professional setup! πβ
βGreat to get feedback so I don't get too eager and pick up an injury πβ
βAll good! Great to be testing this! ππͺπ₯β
Quotes are from the test runners' own messages, translated from Norwegian. We keep the names to ourselves.
The community
Built in and for the running community up north
Treni is developed close to the runners who use it, from recreational runners building up to athletes chasing podiums on road and in skyraces. Club sessions, local races and the terrain up here are not add-ons to the product. They are the starting point. A dedicated e-book on training for mountain running, written with the coaching team, is published chapter by chapter for the runners.
Status now
The pilot is running
19 runners are up and running: road, track, trail and ultra.
No waitlist. Sign up and you get your own page right away, and your plan as soon as your training history from your watch is in.
Free during the pilot The testers shape the product with us.
Join from the start.
Runners sign up directly. Partners get in touch. Both are non-binding.