Six days across the Sahara.
Marathon des Sables. Sahara Race. MIUT. The desert demands heat tolerance, self-sufficiency, and consecutive-day fatigue management. A generic plan won't get you there.
Explore MoreThese races cost thousands to enter. A generic plan is not a risk worth taking.
Entry fees. Travel. Kit. Hotels. Time off work. By the time you reach the start line of a serious endurance race, you have spent anywhere between £2,000 and £10,000 — and committed months of your life.
Most people prepare with a plan that was never written for their race. It was written for a generic ultra, or a generic marathon, or for someone with twice the weekly training hours you actually have.
The result is arriving underprepared for the specific demands of the race you entered — not because you didn't work hard, but because the plan didn't fit the race, or didn't fit your life.
You can do the training. The plan has to be worth following.
Race-specific. And life-aware. Both.
"Ultra plan" is not a category. A desert stage race and a mountain 100-miler are completely different events. And even a perfectly race-specific plan fails if it's built for someone with a different schedule, terrain access, and set of constraints than yours.
What race-specific means
- ✓Built around the exact demands of your chosen race
- ✓Heat, altitude, terrain, pack weight — accounted for specifically
- ✓Taper and race-week structure matched to your event format
- ✓Back-to-back days if your race is multi-stage
- ✓Written by someone who has actually done your race
What life-aware means
- ✓Built around the hours you actually have — not an ideal week
- ✓Accounts for work, family, and travel from day one
- ✓Adapts when life changes, not just when it's convenient
- ✓Terrain and equipment access factored in from the start
- ✓Doesn't assume you have access to things you don't
The goal isn't to reach the start line fitter. It's to reach it ready — for the specific race you entered, in the real life you're actually living.
Every plan is written by someone who has finished your race.
Not a certified coach who has studied your race. Not someone who has coached athletes through it. Someone who has stood on the start line, covered the distance, and crossed the finish.
They know what the race actually demands
Race guides describe events. Finishing them teaches you what they cost. The difference shows up in every training block they write.
They know what preparation is actually worth doing
And what isn't. What looks important from the outside and what actually matters on day three. That judgement only comes from experience.
They've made the mistakes, so you don't have to
Every coach on our network trained for and completed their race. They know what goes wrong, what they wish they'd done differently, and what they'd tell themselves before the start.
How our network works: We only onboard coaches who have completed the specific race they coach for. Before writing a single session, they have lived the experience they are preparing you for.
What type of race are you training for?
Select your race type and we'll match you with coaches who have finished it.
