Become a Plan Creator
You do not need to be a professional coach
We are looking for normal people who have completed these races and understand what it takes to train for them around real life. You use a proven template, the athlete's intake, and your lived experience to create a plan for someone just like you were.
What is a Plan Creator?
A Plan Creator is someone who has personally completed a specific target race and can apply that experience to help someone with similar real-life constraints prepare properly.
You review an athlete's intake, personalise a proven race-specific template, explain the important choices, and submit the finished plan. The athlete gets a short clarification window after delivery, then the work is complete.
What Plan Creators Actually Do
You will:
- +Start from a proven race-specific training template
- +Review the athlete intake and customisation details
- +Personalise the plan based on their situation
- +Recognise constraints you have trained around yourself, such as work, family, travel, limited terrain, or limited weekly hours
- +Change the parts that genuinely need changing
- +Add clear rationale for important choices
- +Answer genuine clarification questions for one week after delivery
- +Use normal lived experience, not professional coaching credentials, to make better judgments
You are not expected to:
- xWrite every plan from scratch
- xBe a professional coach
- xHave previous plan-writing experience
- xProvide monthly coaching
- xRun ongoing check-ins
- xAmend the plan for holidays, illness, or life changes after delivery
- xChat with the athlete beyond the first-week clarification window
- xManage general fitness coaching
- xHandle races you have not completed
- xProvide sports medicine or physio advice
Why This Role Exists
Generic plans miss race-specific judgment
Races like Marathon des Sables, Sahara Race, and Grand to Grand Ultra demand more than mileage. A plan creator who has done the race understands the fatigue, heat adaptation, kit choices, terrain, and preparation mistakes that are easy to miss from the outside.
Normal experience is the point
We want people who can say, "I was in a similar position, and this is what actually helped." That might mean training around childcare, a demanding job, city streets instead of mountains, limited weekly hours, or not feeling like a natural athlete.
You understand people like them
The athlete is not just buying race knowledge. They are getting a plan shaped by someone who understands what training looks like when life is full: jobs, families, travel, fatigue, limited terrain, and weeks where the perfect schedule is not possible.
Most of the plan does not need reinventing
The template provides the core structure. Often, only the important 20 percent needs changing: volume, sequencing, key sessions, substitutions, and race-specific emphasis. That is where your judgment matters.
The work has a clear endpoint
You create the plan, it is delivered to the athlete, and there is a one-week clarification period for genuine questions. After that, there is no obligation to provide coaching, chat, or future amendments.
How This Is Different
Professional Coach
Needs coaching credentials
Frequent calls or check-ins
Ongoing plan changes
Daily or weekly support
Lived race experience required
Plan Creator Role
Needs coaching credentials
Frequent calls or check-ins
Ongoing plan changes
Daily or weekly support
Lived race experience required
Generic Plan
Needs coaching credentials
Frequent calls or check-ins
Ongoing plan changes
Daily or weekly support
Lived race experience required
Why Your Lived Race Experience Matters
You have completed the race. You know what it was actually like, and that helps you make better plan decisions.
These insights are what athletes need when their plan is being personalised:
- -What the race actually demands
- -How life constraints affect what training is realistic
- -What mattered in your preparation
- -What turned out to be unnecessary
- -What you would now prioritise differently
- -What surprised you
- -What gear and skills actually mattered
Ready to learn more?
See the exact one-off plan creation workflow and where the role starts and ends.
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