Plans
Personalised 14-day blocks across running, strength, endurance and sport-specific work.
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TELOS VS RUNNA
Telos Fitness vs Runna
Runna is a strong running-first app with polished plans, device sync and runner support. Telos is worth trying if running is only one part of your training life and you want strength, endurance, mobility, challenges and other sports planned together.
WHY TELOS IS WORTH TRYING
An end-to-end hybrid training app, not just another plan generator.
Progress
Training logs, PR tracking, benchmark efforts and sport-by-sport progress signals.
Recovery
Wearable and Strava context can inform future planning around readiness, sleep and recent load.
Guidance
Warm-ups, main sets, cool-downs, RPE, fuelling prompts and advice with plan context.
Goals
Running distances, return plans, multiple races, PBs, HYROX, 75 Hard, 4x4x48 and custom goals.
Consistency
Accountability groups, coach visibility, streak tracking and rewards help the plan stick.
RUNNA EDGE
Where Runna may be the better specialist choice.
- Running-distance plan polish for 5K, 10K, half marathon, marathon, ultra and return-to-running use cases.
- Smartwatch/device workout sync and pace guidance.
- Running-specific pace guidance, race-distance plan polish and treadmill-friendly run programming.
- Run-specific onboarding, progress feedback and safety controls such as easier plan adjustment when users are not feeling 100%.
TELOS ADVANTAGE
Where Telos adds more value for the full training week.
- Running distances, custom run plans and return/recovery plans plus 23 other sports and hybrid goals.
- Structured challenges such as 75 Hard, 4x4x48, mobility and PB improvement.
- Recovery-aware 14-day planning across running, strength, mobility, endurance, skill sports and real-life schedule changes.
- Training logs, PR tracking, fuelling guidance, wearable context, advice, groups, streaks and rewards around the same plan.
| Decision point | Telos Fitness | Runna |
|---|---|---|
| Core job | Hybrid plan across many sports | Personalised running plans |
| Best user | People training for running goals while also lifting, recovering, tracking PRs, fuelling properly and doing other sports | Runners focused on race distance or running progression |
| Strength support | Strength, conditioning, mobility and recovery can be central parts of the same plan | Strength and mobility are runner-support features inside a running-first product |
| Goal range | Running distances, custom run plans, return/recovery plans, races, PBs, HYROX, challenges and custom goals | Running-specialist plans and return-to-running flows |
| Price signal | $6/month entry for all features | $19.99/month |
HONEST TRADEOFF
Telos is new, but the value is practical.
Runna is more specialised for runners who want a dedicated running-only experience. Telos is the stronger end-to-end fit when running needs to coexist with strength, recovery, fuelling, accountability and other sports.
- Telos is newer than established endurance platforms, so some users may perceive less feature depth in mature analytics, marketplaces or community layers.
- Plans are genuinely useful and broad, but dense post-session analysis may be lighter than platforms built primarily for endurance data review.
- Social features exist through groups and coach visibility, but they are not yet as mature as apps where community is a central product pillar.
TELOS FEATURE BREADTH
- Personalised 14-day hybrid training blocks across running, strength, endurance and skill-based sports.
- Plans are built from coaching-specialist session design, product rules and contextual training intelligence, so the output is more structured than a generic chat prompt.
- Coaching specialists from London, Boston and Stockholm have contributed to the Telos session database.
- Strava and wearable integrations can bring activity, readiness, sleep, resting heart rate, recovery minutes and intensity balance into future planning.
- Users can train for running distances, custom run plans, return/recovery plans, multiple races, structured challenges, PB goals and custom goals without rebuilding spreadsheets.
- End-to-end support includes training logs, PR tracking, fuelling guidance, wearable integrations, contextual advice, accountability groups, streak tracking and rewards.
- Telos supports 24 sports, including running, cycling, swimming, strength, HIIT, football, tennis, padel, yoga, Pilates, CrossFit, rowing and more.