Route Planning
The coach plans the route for a run or a ride the way it plans the session itself: from where you start, over the distance or duration the session calls for, on the kind of roads and paths you asked for. You get up to three routes to choose from, each on a map, and the one you pick goes onto the session and to your watch or bike computer.
How to Ask
Ask in the chat as you would ask a coach: "Plan me a route for Saturday's long run", "a flat 60-minute loop from home with little traffic", "a 40 km ride from the hotel in Lienz with one climb". The route is planned for the session you name, otherwise for your next planned run or ride in the coming week. You can ask for changes ("hillier", "not through the town centre") or have the coach explain a route.
What the Coach Considers
- Start and shape. Your training location, a place you usually start from, the venue of one of your races, or any place you name: a town, a square, a street. A loop by default; you can ask for an out-and-back or a route from A to B, name places it must pass and areas to avoid.
- Length. A distance in kilometres or a duration in minutes; a duration is converted with your own easy pace for running and your typical ride speed for cycling.
- Terrain. Flat, rolling or hilly, or a target elevation gain; trail or road; little traffic; nature or water; lit paths when you will be out in the dark.
- Familiarity. From your recorded activities the coach knows the roads and paths you already use. Ask for familiar streets or for somewhere new.
- The session. Intervals get a long calm, flat stretch; hill repeats get a climb you can repeat.
Many candidate routes are generated and scored before the coach shows you the best ones. Each route carries its numbers: distance, elevation gain, the shares that are car-free, quiet, busy, unpaved, familiar or covered twice, crossings and the longest calm stretch. The coach names each route and says in one line what makes it good and where its weak spot is. When a request cannot be met where you are, the coach says which part the area cannot deliver.
On the Session and on Your Device
Every route appears as a card with a map in the chat. Open it for the full map and the elevation profile, then choose Use for the session it was planned for, or Use for another session: any planned run or ride of the next two weeks. The session shows the route with its distance; from the session you can open or remove it. One route can be used on several sessions.
A route on a session is sent to your connected devices under the route's name: as a course to Garmin (in the Courses menu of your watch or Edge), as a route to the Hammerhead Karoo, and into the Suunto app's route library for navigation on the watch. When you remove the route from its last session, it is removed from the device again.
GPX and Renaming
Every route can be shared as a GPX file from the route screen, named after the route. Tap the route's title to rename it; the new name is used in the app and in the GPX file. Devices the route was already sent to keep the old name.
Limits
The coach plans routes for running and cycling, and only where map data is available; when a start lies outside that area, the coach says so. The coach cannot read GPX files you send it.