Run With Hal | Training Plans That Adapt to You
Hal Higdon provides the perfect plan for you based upon your goals and experience, then Higdon crafts your personalized schedule. Your plan will incorporate the most important workouts on the days you’re able to run. Plus, the plan is always adapting to changes in your schedule, fitness, and goals. Run With Hal can even adapt your plan around times when you can’t run (vacation) and incorporate additional events that you’ve signed up for. Once you finish your first plan, you can choose your next goal and Hal will create a brand new plan for you. All of your workouts will give you specific details of how fast and long to run, and you will get daily helpful tips from Hal Higdon to help you reach your goals and learn about running.
**Run with Hal Features**
- Choose your key event and Hal Higdon will build your plan to get you ready for race day.
- Smart and Adaptive Plans
- Hal adapts your plan based upon YOUR LIFE’S SCHEDULE!
- Days you can and can’t run each week
- Day you would like to do your Long Run
- Days you can’t run for special circumstances (vacation or work trip)
- Hal personalizes pace based upon your current fitness, whether you can run a 20 min or 50 min 5K.
- Add additional events and Hal will adjust your plan.
- If life changes, Hal will update your plan based upon changes in your schedule, fitness, goals, and even how much training you have been able to complete.
- Hal gives you detailed daily workouts with distance, duration, and paces.
- Hal will also give you daily training guidance and insights on how to become a better runner.
- Record your runs using your phone’s GPS.
- Log your runs and how you felt. Hal might even suggest an update to your plan.
- Track your progress, see how closely you’ve stuck to your plan, and see what’s next.
- Keep track of your training plan stats. Average pace, total distance, and more.
- Record your Personal Records.
- If you need an extra nudge, Hal is happy to send you daily push notifications reminding you of your workouts, or to log your miles from today’s run. He wants you to reach your goal and will be there to coach you to the finish line.
- Hal’s team is here to help, if you have questions about how to personalize your plan, we will make sure you get the right answer.
**Run with Hal will find the perfect plan for you, including more than 30 of Hal Higdon’s training plans**
- Marathon Novice, Intermediate, Advanced
- Half Marathon Novice, Intermediate, Advanced
- 15K (10 mile) Novice, Intermediate, Advanced
- 10K Novice, Intermediate, Advanced
- 8K Novice, Intermediate, Advanced
- 5K Novice, Intermediate, Advanced
- 50K Ultramarathon
- Marathon Recovery
- Base Training
- And more.
**A little bit about your coach, Hal Higdon**
Hal Higdon has been called “the internet’s best-known running training plan guru”.
From novice to advanced, Hal offers plans for every distance, skill level, and pace. Incorporating wisdom from Hal’s bestseller Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide, he has you covered with more than 50 years of training and coaching experience.
Hal is a Contributing Editor for Runner’s World and is the magazine’s longest lasting writer, having contributed an article to RW’s second issue in 1966. He also is the author of over 3 dozen books, including Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide and Hal Higdon’s Half Marathon Training. In 2003, the American Society of Journalists and Authors awarded Hal its Career Achievement Award, the highest honor given to writer members.
Higdon’s unique narrative style connects with millions of visitors on his website, Facebook, and Twitter.
Higdon lives on Lake Michigan in Long Beach, Indiana. He has 3 children and 9 grandchildren.
Category : Health & Fitness
Reviews (30)
Realised I've been using this for a while and not reviewed. Fantastic way to make organisation of training around your day to day easy. Good plans, well explained and useful additional info about fuelling, cross training and other topics. Additionally, Bryan on customer support is fantastic, emailed him a couple of times with questions and queries and he's been very clear and helpful, and responded very quickly. Highly recommended.
Not user friendly. If you want something that has a basic calendar to schedule out runs w/ suggested distances & rigidly stick to that, then you'll be happy. I upgraded to Hal+ to get more functionality & the app is not recognizing the upgrade. Submitted a trouble ticket & will update review based on that experience.
This app is going to kill me!! I was loving it until I'm running ridiculous distances Wednesday-sunday with a cross training day and one rest day. Every week. I'm only doing a half! It's completely demotivated and fatigued me. I definitely won't be using this app to train for my actual marathon. The actual interface is brilliant but you can't log cross training days properly and you can't skip days properly either.
Overall, I love that it creates a training plan tailored to my needs, tracks my runs, and adjusts mileage based on my performance. The only thing that's annoying is that it tracks only by GPS and doesn't pick up on treadmill mileage so I have to log it manually
Love this app! It's like having a coach guide you, assess you, and plans what's best for you, all in one place and better still, for free!! Started using this app after spending most of 2021 injured and needed base to keep fitness and maintain running injury free. So far so good, absolutely love this!
This app doesn't work on my Huawei P20 Pro. I use to have it on an iPhone. I installed it, then after putting in username and password it just loads forever. I close it and reopen, then it's just stuck on the running woman picture and doesn't even tak me to login page.
Just started using this app. Overall seems ok. The only complaint I've got is that on a cross training day, when I'm not running, it won't sync with any activities other than runs on my Garmin so unable to log my progress on my plan.
Keeps me accountable. This is a doable plan for any level of runner ! When everything shut down (Covid)... local running groups were no more. So I kind of became a lone runner, and Hal Higdon keeps me consistent. Affordable when some plans are 100.00 + and more!
This app works great, but I do wish it would run in the background. It doesn't log my runs if I play my music in the foreground.
Love that this app syncs with my watch to log miles. Hal's tips each day are great and he keeps me motivated. Very easy to use!
Fantastic app! I have never felt as motivated to run as I feel now, and a big part of it is thanks to this app. Even the free version is great!
Nice app! But forced cross-training days? Not good. This app should ask whether you want cross training days built in. Not force it on you.
Incredible! The runs push you as much as you want to push yourself. If you do the workouts to the best of your ability, you WILL improve.
Doesn't allow me update things in paid version smoothly and crashes. Plan itself seems good enough though.
Not worth premium - the so-called 'training customizations' are arbitrary and sporadic. In the 3 months it only made two changes - which happened to be drastic modifications to the next day's workout that were impossible to plan for (e.g. changing a 5 mile run to 10 miles). It doesn't even explain why it makes the change and then has the audacity to say things like "Given the time it will take you to do this workout, consider taking a vacation day or half a day off." Infuriating.
I'm trying the app out for a half marathon training guide. So far, I love the daily reminder for training runs and logging training sessions. I like the target times and mile splits, helps me maintain proper pacing. I'm sure there are ads in the free version, but I haven't noticed any of them yet.
Superb app, features realistic advice, nicely configurable in terms of scheduling runs, great in app feedback on performance
Used this for my first marathon and am very happy. Will definitely be using it for other distances too and highly recommend it
Great app to use inconjunction with Garmin Connect and my Fenix 7x. Great training tool.
Stopped working. Other than that the free portion isn't bad
This is a good app for a general plan. It does not have any flexibility for if you skip a day or want to switch a day. It takes forever to open. It does NOT track your run well at all. I recommend wearing a watch to track your run and enter it manually every time. No one will get back to you about app issues. But, I like the running pictures and the advice from Hal. It also keeps me on track.
It's by far the best app out there with quite a few reasons it beats the competition hands down. Based on one's inputs they make a great plan aimed at achieving one's goal. The customer service is exceptional, to the extent that they make the effort of writing back an email responding to one's doubts and queries. The interface is very simple and it gives the confidence that it's backed by runners and not profit hungry corporations. In time I will definitely upgrade. This one is for keeps guys.
I have just downloaded this app and went on my first run using it. I love the interface and it is quite used friendly. However...it has absolutely no voice cues whilst you are running so you have to look at your phone every couple of minutes. This was a big thing for me as every other free running app has this feature. This app is expensive and it doesn't have it...
The plan available in the free app is perfect. Pick your long day, and include any other available days, and the rest is calculated automatically. I use a free pace monitor instead of the Hal+ sub to give me audio feedback during my run, and my watch tracks my distance, cadence, etc, anyway. If you're looking for a free app that does everything, this isn't it. But if you just need a graduated running plan, this one is excellent at no cost.
I think it will work... I would like the option to add in cross training and not leave distances blank. I think instructing to do cross training but calling everything a run is a drag. And, sometimes life gets in the way. It would be nice to be able to toggle cross training and runs when they don't fall on their respective days. Just an idea. Overall I like it! EDIT: the bonus with this app is the customer service support! While the app is a little limiting, the support folks are great!
I like that it syncs with my Garmin and it's easy to use. The plan is very organised and I can plan the rest of my life weeks in advance. For a beginner runner, other apps like c25k progress too fast for me, this has been perfect. It adjusts the plan based on my performance and it's all been achievable whilst seeing improvements in my running and recovery times. I'm going to keep using it.
Fantastic running app. It is ideal for organising a beginner/intermediate training schedule. It structures your week with a variety of workouts. I track my runs with a Garmin watch and it automatically syncs the data. I've been training for 15 years and this is something I've found great benefit from. Well done. Please do not alter this app. :)
Overrated. If you're looking for a basic solution to a manual training plan, it might be useful. Anything more, forget it. It has the potential to use all the data in the world with the Garmin integration. How much does it use? Time, and Pace. As a paying subscriber, I encountered an issue. The only solution I was given by the support team 6 weeks into my training plan was that I'd need to start an entirely new plan to fix the issue. No refund offered, so I had to pay for the inconvenience.
I like this app a lot for helping you train in a safe manner but I do think it leaves a lot on the table. You can connect it to Garmin but it doesn't use any HR, elevation, cadence, or temperature information which is a huge waste even if you think this information is overrated its still helpful and better than the arbitrary "how did the run feel" rating. You should also be able to edit existing plans instead of creating a new one. The distance field needs to go the nearest hundredths.
The thing that bothers me the most is the inability to select what kind of cross training you do. I did a 30 minute swim which for me only equated to .3 miles. When I tried to put .3 it wouldn't let me because for a run that doesn't mak sense. Another thing is I can't see what time goal I set for my marathon anywhere. Also don't care for how the mileage is arranged 1.5, 1.5, 3, 3 in my plan. The website has it as 1.5, 3, 1.5, 3 (for base training)