Journal
The Racendo Blog
Field notes from building the planning hub for runners — product thinking, coaching philosophy and stories worth telling.
Our AI coaching philosophy: assist, don't replace
Racendo Coach won't yell at you for skipping a session. Here's how we think about software-as-coach in 2026.
What a marathon season actually costs
We pulled anonymised cost data from 1,200 Racendo users to answer the question runners hate asking out loud.
Strava BYO: why we don't ask for full OAuth
Most apps that touch Strava require deep OAuth access. We chose Bring-Your-Own — and here's the reasoning.
Closed-beta notes: what 400 runners taught us
Four months into closed beta, the surprises were never about the features we expected to matter.
The best spring marathons to enter for 2026
A practical shortlist for spring 2026 — including which to enter, which to skip, and which deserve a return.
Why we built Racendo
Race season is the most chaotic part of a runner's year — and almost no software treats it as a real operational problem.