Customize your training plan, with Goal Checkpoints on the way

You can now customize your training plan in Kotcha more than ever, and see more clearly whether you're on track. Recent iOS updates brought new Manage My Plan screens, chat suggestions to talk to your coach faster, and a Week Preview of your upcoming runs. This release adds more personalized Goal Checkpoints and clearer coach visuals, plus smoother watch pairing and data connections. Your plan follows your life, and you always know where you stand.

What's new

Manage My Plan, redesigned

Your plan is yours to shape. From the Plan Card on your Home, Manage My Plan lets you adjust the key settings of your training:

• Change your race date if your goal moves.
• Change your number of workouts per week when your schedule changes.
• Update your training paces when you know you've moved on.
• Cancel and set a new goal entirely if your season takes another direction.

The new screens make all of this easier to find and faster to change.

Chat suggestions

Not sure what to ask Coach K? Chat suggestions now appear in the coach chat to help you start the conversation in a tap. Since February, your coach can also act on your plan directly from the conversation: read how the AI coach can now change your plan.

Week Preview

See what's coming. Week Preview shows the details of every run in your week, except easy runs, so you can see your key sessions at a glance and organize your days around them.

More personalized Goal Checkpoints

Goal Checkpoints mark your progress toward your goal along the way. With this release, they're more personalized to you, and the coach visuals around them are clearer. Less guessing about whether you're on track, more confidence going into race day.

Why customization matters in a training plan

A plan is only as good as its fit with your real life. That's the second pillar behind Kotcha: daily adaptation to real life. Paces and workouts update every week based on actual performance, not on rigid templates.

Most training plans fail for a simple reason. They're written 12 weeks in advance for a runner who doesn't exist: no late meetings, no sick kids, no travel, no bad nights. Real coaches don't work like that. They keep a structure for the whole build, then plan the details week by week.

Kotcha works the same way. Every Sunday, Coach K asks how you feel, reviews what you completed and builds your next week. Customization is the other half of that loop: when something changes on your side, you tell the plan, and it adjusts. Unexpected day? One message and your plan updates.

Goal Checkpoints close the loop. Adapting is great, but you also want to know whether all those adjustments still lead you to the finish time you're chasing.

How to get it

Manage My Plan, chat suggestions, Week Preview and the new Goal Checkpoints are available on iOS. Update Kotcha from the App Store, then tap the Plan Card on your Home to customize your plan.

On Android, recent updates also brought new options in Manage My Plan, including updating your reference paces, choosing your training intensity and seeing your predicted race time.

Got a race to fit in before your main goal? Add it as a B-race.

FAQ

Can I customize my training plan in Kotcha?

Yes. Tap the Plan Card on your Home to change your race date, your number of workouts per week, your training paces, or to set a new goal. You can also ask Coach K in the chat.

Can I see my full plan in advance?

You see your current week in detail, and Week Preview shows the details of your runs except easy runs. Your next week is built every Sunday, based on how your week went and how you feel.

What are Goal Checkpoints?

Goal Checkpoints track your progress toward your goal along the way, so you can see whether you're on track. They are now more personalized to you.