Most running apps show you data.
baseline tells you what it means.
Understand what's actually happening in your training — and what to change next. For runners who want clarity instead of more numbers.
You already have the data.
That's not the problem.
Strava captures every kilometre. The questions that actually matter live somewhere else.
Three things, in order.
Not a training plan. Not another dashboard. A coaching layer that watches the signals across weeks, understands the pattern, and tells you — plainly — what to do next.
Patterns in your runs
Drift, effort creep, recovery gaps, weekly balance. Watches capture these — they rarely connect them.
What they actually mean
In plain language. No heart-rate zones with cryptic colours. No compliance score. What's happening, why it matters, what it's costing you.
What to change next
One call for today. A clear reason behind it. No generic 'rest day' or 'hard workout' — a specific decision for the runner you actually are.
Things you've probably never been told about your own running.
Lifted from the live framings library. These are exactly the words baseline puts on a runner's screen — italic accent, plain-language verdict, factual data anchor.
Your easy run didn't stay easy
HR climbed ~5% while pace held steady
At your usual easy HR (135–145 bpm), your pace held — but heart rate climbed steadily through the back half of the run.
Drift on easy days means the run isn't doing easy-day work anymore. The aerobic stimulus is paid for; the recovery savings aren't being banked.
The drift you can't feel.
Easy runs are supposed to leave the body recovered, not just untired. When HR climbs while pace holds, the effort is creeping up — invisibly.
baseline reads HR drift across runs and only flags it when the pattern holds for a stretch — never on a single noisy run.
You're back on the curve
Your pace at the same effort is back at baseline
Over the last 10 days your easy-effort pace returned to where it was before the dip. The temporary slowdown has cleared.
Training is delivering again. The fatigue you'd been carrying is no longer eating into your numbers.
What recovery actually looks like.
Fitness rarely shows up as a PR. It shows up as the same pace at lower effort — over weeks, not days.
baseline tracks the trend behind the trend so a runner doesn't change something that was already working.
Your tempo pacing is a strength
Last 4 tempo sessions held within 3 sec/km
Across your recent tempo sessions, pace held within ±3 sec/km from start to finish. That's tighter execution than most runners manage.
This is why your tempo work lands — you're not losing it late in the session.
Strengths get named, too.
Most coaching apps only flag what's broken. baseline names what you're doing right — those patterns are the foundation the harder work gets built on.
When something is working, the call is straightforward: don't change it.
Three steps. One of them takes four seconds.
Connect your data
One tap. Whatever you already use — your runs come across with their history intact, not starting from zero.
baseline watches
About a week of runs is enough to learn you. From then on, every session is read alongside your recent weeks — patterns matter more than any single run.
You get one call a day
Plus the occasional key insight when something matters enough to tell you. No notification spam. No daily readiness score.
The gap everyone else leaves empty.
Stop guessing.
Start understanding your training.
baseline is in closed beta. We're adding runners weekly, reading their data, and writing back. If you take running seriously and want clarity, tell us.