When Does Coachline Text You?
Why does the timing of a coaching message matter?
A plan you have to go and find is a plan you stop following.
That's the quiet failure of most training tools. The information is all there, correct and well organised, sitting behind an icon you stopped tapping in week three. Being right is not the same as being read.
Coaching that arrives at the moment it's useful — the night you need to plan tomorrow, the minute after a hard session while you still remember how it felt — gets acted on. The same words a day early or a day late are just noise.
| When | What arrives | Why then |
|---|---|---|
| 8pm the night before | Tomorrow's session | You can still plan your morning around it |
| Just after your run | What you actually did, and a question about it | You still remember how it felt |
| In between | Check-ins on effort and recovery | Small corrections beat big ones |
What does Coachline send the night before a run?
At 8pm your local time, you get tomorrow's session. Not a notification telling you to go and look at tomorrow's session — the session itself, in the message.
If something on today's plan didn't happen, that's in the same message rather than saved up as a scolding. You get the missed session named and three ways forward: move it, replace it, or let it go and run tomorrow's plan as written. Missing a run is a scheduling problem, not a character flaw, and it gets handled like one.
What happens right after you finish a run?
Your run lands, and Coachline texts you about it — not a badge, not a weekly digest. A receipt of what you actually did, and usually a question.
The question is the part that matters. It comes from what you've told your coach before, so it's the specific thing worth asking rather than "how was your run?" If you mentioned a tight calf last week, that's what gets asked about.
What are the check-ins in between?
Training isn't only the runs. Between sessions Coachline checks in on the things that decide whether the next one goes well — how hard the last block has felt, how you're sleeping, whether the week is going the way you expected.
On Sunday afternoon you get the week itself: what you ran, how it compares to what was planned, and what next week is shaped like. It's the conversation a coach has with you at the end of a week, at the time you'd actually have it.
Does that mean constant notifications?
No. Every one of those moments is tied to something real in your training — a session tomorrow, a run that just finished, a week that just ended. There is no daily engagement message and nothing designed to pull you back into an app, because there is no app to pull you back into.
It's also all in your local time. 8pm means 8pm where you are, not 8pm at a server somewhere.