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Most running apps show you data.
baseline tells you what it means.

Understand what's actually happening in your training — and what to change next. For runners who want clarity instead of more numbers.

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Works withStrava
TODAY'S CALL
Today is your long run.
Conversational pace throughout. Settle in and hold steady.
Why this: Time on feet anchors your week — pace it, hold form, finish strong.
DURATION
75–85 min
EFFORT
conversational
GOAL · MARATHON BASE
CURRENT STATE
Compounding
Recent weeks are stacking cleanly — your easy-run efficiency is climbing.
KEY INSIGHT
● Improving
Your training is sticking again.
You're unwinding the absorbing-less pattern.
The real problem

You already have the data.
That's not the problem.

Strava captures every kilometre. The questions that actually matter live somewhere else.

"Is my easy run actually easy?"
Your watch shows a zone. It can't see your heart rate creeping up at the same pace, run after run — the sign an easy day quietly stopped doing easy-day work.
"Am I absorbing the work, or just tiring?"
More volume only counts if your body takes it on. A readiness score hands you a number; it won't tell you whether your last few weeks are landing or piling up.
"What do I actually change?"
Two flat weeks. Drop volume, add intensity, or hold? Most apps go quiet — or hand you the same template as everyone else.
What baseline does

Three things, in order.

Not a training plan. Not another dashboard. A coaching layer that watches the signals across weeks, understands the pattern, and tells you — plainly — what to do next.

01 · Detects

Patterns in your runs

Drift, effort creep, recovery gaps, weekly balance. Watches capture these — they rarely connect them.

02 · Explains

What they actually mean

In plain language. No heart-rate zones with cryptic colours. No compliance score. What's happening, why it matters, what it's costing you.

03 · Guides

What to change next

One call for today. A clear reason behind it. No generic 'rest day' or 'hard workout' — a specific decision for the runner you actually are.

Real insights · the actual voice

Things you've probably never been told about your own running.

The reads a sharp coach would give you — if one watched every run. A problem you can't feel, a gain you can't see, a strength worth keeping. Three baseline has actually written.

● Drift

Your easy runs are drifting

HR climbs ~5% after 30 min while pace holds steady

HRPACE

At your usual easy HR (135–145 bpm), your pace held — but heart rate climbed steadily through the back half of the run.

Drift on easy days means the run isn't doing easy-day work anymore. The aerobic stimulus is paid for; the recovery savings aren't being banked.

→ What to do
Watch the next two easy runs. If HR climbs again at the same pace, the run is too long or you're under-recovered.
Insight · drift

The drift you can't feel.

Easy runs are supposed to leave the body recovered, not just untired. When HR climbs while pace holds, the effort is creeping up — invisibly.

baseline reads HR drift across runs and only flags it when the pattern holds for a stretch — never on a single noisy run.

● Aerobic efficiency

You're faster at the same effort

Same paces, lower heart rate, across your recent easy runs

At your usual easy effort, your pace has been climbing — the same heart rate is buying more speed than it did a few weeks ago.

That's real aerobic fitness arriving — the kind that shows up weeks before a PR does. The base work is paying off.

→ What to do
Hold the pattern. Keep volume steady and let the gain settle in — this isn't the week to chase it harder.
Insight · aerobic efficiency

Fitness, before it shows as a PR.

Fitness rarely arrives as a personal best. It shows up first as the same pace at a lower heart rate — over weeks, not days.

baseline tracks the trend behind the trend, so you know it's working before a race day ever proves it.

● Aerobic engine

Your easy engine runs deep

HR holds in the easy zone past 30 min, across your long runs

30 MINHR · EASY ZONE

On your longer easy runs, heart rate settles and stays there — no climb through the back half, run after run. The aerobic base is doing its job.

This is the engine everything else is built on. A base this steady is what lets harder work land later without breaking you down.

→ What to do
Nothing to fix — this is a strength. Keep the easy days genuinely easy and the foundation keeps compounding.
Insight · aerobic engine

Strengths get named, too.

Most coaching apps only flag what's broken. baseline names what you're doing right — those patterns are the foundation the harder work gets built on.

When something is working, the call is simple: keep it. We'll tell you that, too.

How it works

Connect once. baseline does the rest.

01

Connect your data

One tap. Whatever you already use — your runs come across with their history intact, not starting from zero.

Strava
02

baseline learns you

Your imported history means baseline reads your patterns from the start — no waiting. Each new run sharpens the picture, always read against your recent weeks. Patterns matter more than any single run.

03

You get one call a day

Read it in the app, or as a morning email if you want it. Plus the occasional key insight when something genuinely matters. No daily readiness score to decode.

TODAY'S CALL
Today is an easy day.
What's different

The gap everyone else leaves empty.

The question you're asking
Typical running app
baseline
Should I run today?
A training-plan tile scheduled two weeks ago.
A call that fits your routine — and pulls back the moment your signals say to.
Why isn't this working?
A wall of charts. You interpret them.
A plain-language read of the pattern, with what to change.
What does "easy" mean for me?
A heart-rate zone from a formula.
A live read on your actual aerobic response, run by run.
Am I overtraining?
A readiness score. Unexplained.
The specific signals that moved, and for how long.
What should I change next?
Silence. Or a template.
One decision. The reason behind it. Revisited weekly.

Stop guessing.
Start understanding your training.

baseline is in closed beta. We're adding runners weekly, reading their data, and writing back. If you take running seriously and want clarity, tell us.

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