Version 0.9 Founded Lille, FR EU GDPR compliant
AI race preparation

Race-first
training, engineered
like the elite get.

Pilot Pacer turns your training history into a science-backed plan for your next race. Pick a race. Connect your watch. Get a calendar that's actually yours — every session anchored to your VMA, your zones, and routes that start at your doorstep.

5× Cross-validated
physiological methods
11 Section race
debrief PDF
0 Generic plans
delivered, ever
See how it works → Request early access →
The signature flow

Race-First
Onboarding.

Most coaching apps ask you to import everything first, then guess what you want. Pilot Pacer starts where it should: the race you've signed up for. Three steps, one deliverable, zero generic templates.

01

Tell us the race.

Distance, date, target time, course profile. We digitize the official PDF/GPX if it exists — elevation, ravitos, surface, the lot. Phalempin, Berlin, your local 10K — it works the same.

Race profile · target pace · D+ · waypoints
02

Connect your watch.

One OAuth flow brings in your last 12+ months of training, automatically. Garmin, Polar, Suunto, Coros, Wahoo — direct from the source, no Strava layer required.

FIT / GPX / TCX · 1y backfill auto · live sync
03

Get the plan.

A complete weekly schedule from today to race-day. Every session lives on a real route from your home. Every pace cross-checked across five methods. An 11-section PDF debrief at the end.

Routes · zones · strength · debrief PDF
Methodology

Cross-validated, never guessed.

Numerical precision is non-negotiable. Every pace target gets triangulated across at least three independent methods before it lands on your plan. When they disagree, we surface it — and we correct it.

01
Daniels VDOT Primary engine for training paces and race equivalents.
Zones · race times
02
Mercier table VMA cross-check; French federation standard.
VMA validation
03
Riegel projection Race-time prediction from shorter-distance PBs, with first-marathon adjustment.
Time projection
04
Furman FIRST "Run Less, Run Faster" — three quality sessions, cross-training optional.
Plan structure
05
Lauersen 2018 Strength training reduces overuse injuries by 51% in runners. Built into every plan.
Injury prevention
What's in the box

Capabilities.

Six things every runner gets, calibrated to their training history, their physiology, and the race they've chosen. Not a feature list — a deliverable list.

Physiological profile

VMA, FCmax, lactate zones, VDOT — derived from 12+ months of activities and validated across methods.

Daniels · Mercier · Karvonen

Routes from your door

Real GPS traces from your own history, snapped to the right distance and elevation for each session.

Leaflet · Synthetic fill-in

Periodized calendar

From today to race-day. Transition → Build → Peak → Taper. Volume and intensity adapt weekly.

Furman FIRST · 3-day quality

Race-specific digitization

Official course PDF → calibrated polyline → elevation, surface, refueling stations, pace strategy.

PDF · pixel detection · OCR

Strength & conditioning

Personalized routines by age, sex and history. No equipment, 25 minutes, twice a week.

Age-adapted · −51% injury risk

11-section race debrief

A production-quality PDF you can hand to a coach: physiology, course, pacing, fueling, contingencies.

PDF · mobile-first · branded
Data architecture

Direct from the watch. Not from a middleman.

Pilot Pacer connects to your training data through manufacturer-approved channels and aggregators that respect commercial AI use. We never reuse data scraped from social networks, and we never lock you in.

Intervals.icu Backbone · multi-vendor sync
OAuth in registration
Suunto Cloud API Direct OEM integration
Partner review
Polar Accesslink Direct OEM integration
Fallback ready
Apple HealthKit Native iOS companion app
v1.5 — Q4 2026
GDPR data dump User-requested portability (Art. 20)
Always available
What you receive

A dossier, not a dashboard.

Every athlete gets a mobile-first HTML deliverable they can read on race-day morning, plus a printable PDF. Real maps, real numbers, real decisions — all anchored to their own data.

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Mobile-first HTML Five tabs, interactive Leaflet maps, dark theme — readable on a phone in the start corral.
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Printable PDF dossier Same content, A4-print-optimized. The piece you'd hand to a coach for review.
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Live re-baseline Every new session feeds back into the plan. Miss a week? The next four are recomputed.
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Post-race debrief What worked, what didn't, what the splits and HR data say. Inputs the next race cycle.
Founder note
"Built by a CTO, for runners who think like engineers.
We refuse generic plans, and we cross-check every number."
Laurent Duval · Founder & CTO
LC2 SARL — Lille, France
Early access

Two cohorts running with v0.9 today.

Pilot Pacer is in private beta. We're shipping race dossiers for a small group of runners ahead of Phalempin (June 2026) and Marathon de Lille (October 2026). Drop us a line if you'd like to be next — or if you build something that connects to runners.