How Vici Creates Your Perfect Training Plan
From your Strava data to a fully personalized, science-based training plan in minutes. Here's how it works.
Getting Started
Connect Strava
Link your Strava account and Vici immediately begins analyzing your training history. We look at your recent runs, race results, personal bests, and training patterns to build a picture of your current fitness. The more history you have, the more precise your plan becomes.
Set Your Goal
Choose your race distance (5K to ultramarathon), target date, and goal time. Vici calculates your VDOT fitness level — a metric from Jack Daniels' Running Formula that elite coaches use worldwide — and determines whether your goal is realistic, ambitious, or needs adjustment. You set the destination; Vici maps the route.
Get Your Personalized Plan
Vici generates a fully personalized training plan with VDOT-calibrated paces for every workout type — easy runs, tempo runs, intervals, long runs, and recovery. The plan is periodized across your entire training cycle with appropriate build phases, peak weeks, and taper. Every pace is calculated from your actual fitness, not generic guidelines.
Train and Adapt
As you train, Vici tracks your performance through Strava and makes targeted adjustments. Overperform in a race? Your VDOT updates and training paces shift. Miss a workout because life got in the way? The plan adapts without starting over. Hit a plateau? Your coach recalibrates. The plan evolves with you.
Coach on Demand
Every morning, your AI coach delivers a briefing explaining today's workout and how it fits your training cycle. After runs, log journal entries and get coaching analysis. Ask any running question — about pacing, nutrition, injury concerns, or race strategy — and get answers grounded in your actual training data. Weekly summaries track your progress and highlight what's working.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Vici is completely free for every runner. No credit card, no hidden fees. We believe elite-level coaching should be accessible to everyone. Vici is currently available as a free beta on iOS via TestFlight.
Most running apps offer either tracking (Strava) or static plans (Runna, TrainingPeaks). Vici combines both with genuine AI coaching: it explains why each workout matters, makes targeted adjustments when life gets in the way, analyzes your training journals, and answers your questions 24/7. It's built on the same VDOT science elite coaches use, but accessible and free.
Yes. Vici requires an iPhone and a Strava account. Strava integration lets Vici automatically sync your runs and adapt your training based on real performance data. If you use an Apple Watch, Garmin, COROS, or other GPS watch that syncs to Strava, your data flows into Vici automatically.
VDOT is a fitness metric from Jack Daniels' Running Formula — one of the most respected training methodologies in distance running. It uses your race performances to calculate optimal training paces for easy runs, tempo runs, intervals, and repetitions. This means every workout in your Vici plan is calibrated to your actual fitness level, not arbitrary pace zones.
Vici's AI coaching works at multiple levels. You get daily briefings that explain today's workout and how it fits your training cycle. You can ask your coach any running question and get personalized answers based on your actual training data. After runs, you can log journal entries and receive coaching analysis. Weekly summaries help you track progress and adjust focus.
Absolutely. You can ask your AI coach for a different workout on any day — whether you need something lighter, harder, or completely different. You can also rearrange your entire week to fit your schedule. Vici makes adjustments while keeping the overall training progression intact.
Vici handles missed workouts intelligently. Rather than ignoring it or regenerating your entire plan, Vici makes targeted adjustments — shifting intensity, adjusting volume, or modifying upcoming sessions to keep you on track. Any workouts you've personally modified are treated as sacred and never overwritten.
Vici works with any device that syncs to Strava. This includes Apple Watch, Garmin, COROS, Polar, Suunto, and more. As long as your runs appear in Strava, Vici can analyze them. Direct hardware integrations are on the product roadmap.
Vici creates training plans for all standard race distances: 5K, 10K, half marathon, marathon, and ultramarathon. Each plan is tailored to the specific demands of the distance, with appropriate periodization, taper strategies, and workout types.
Vici is currently available on iOS only via TestFlight beta. Android support is on the roadmap but no release date has been set yet. Sign up at vici.run to be notified when Android becomes available.
Yes. Vici takes your privacy seriously. We only access the Strava data needed to provide coaching. We never share your personal data with third parties. You can revoke Strava access at any time. See our full privacy policy for details.
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