Is my race goal realistic?
The question most training apps avoid, because the honest answer isn’t always “yes, you can do it!”
Setting a goal is easy. Knowing whether you’ll actually be ready for it on a specific date is the hard part, and it’s where most plans go quiet. TERUN does the opposite: it treats your goal as a hypothesis and checks it against the evidence, every week.
How the realism check works
- It measures where you are. Your current fitness comes from a predicted race time, fitted from your real pace and heart-rate data, not a number you typed in.
- It projects the curve. It extends your recent rate of improvement forward to race day, accounting for how improvement naturally slows as you get fitter.
- It compares to the target. If the projection reaches your goal time, great. If it falls short, it says so plainly and proposes a target the trajectory does support.
Why honesty is the feature. A plan that always says “yes” is useless: you find out the truth at kilometre 35. Knowing early that you’re a few weeks of fitness short lets you adjust the goal, the date, or the training while it still matters.
What you can do with the answer
If you’re ahead of schedule, you can reach for a bolder time. If you’re behind, you have real options: hold the goal but move the date, keep the date but ease the target, or change how you train. TERUN’s adaptive paces then follow whatever you choose.
Try it with your own numbers
Connect your running data, set a goal like a sub-90 half in October, and TERUN will tell you where today’s trajectory lands you.