A race date is a deadline, not a structure
between entry and start line
how it runs
Three tasks in the morning, one report at night
before you sign up
Reasonable questions
Will this get me round the 5k?
No programme can promise a finish and we do not. What this gives you is a hundred days that actually happened, with the training you chose inside them.
Do you write my training plan?
No. Bring the plan you trust — free ones are plentiful. We hold the daily structure and the group.
Is running required every day?
No. The day's task is yours, and rest days written as the task count. Most plans for a first 5k have more rest days than run days.
My race is in eleven weeks, not a hundred days. Does that matter?
No. The hundred days do not have to end on race day — plenty of people keep counting past it.
Is there a coach reviewing my sessions?
No. There is no coaching here, personal or otherwise. The group reads your reports, and you own the training decisions.
Three tasks in the morning, one report at night
how it runs
- 01 Three tasks, one of them usually from your plan The session, plus whatever else the day needs. Written in the morning so the evening cannot redraft it.
- 02 The evening report is the training log What you did, what you skipped, how it felt. By race week you can read the whole build, including the weeks you improvised.
- 03 Count alongside people with their own dates Different races, same hundred days. Reading someone's day 60 when you are on day 60 is what keeps a distant date present.
the shape of it
A hundred days to the start line
Turning a plan into daily tasks. This is also where you learn what a genuinely easy day looks like.
Turning a plan into daily tasks. This is also where you learn what a genuinely easy day looks like.
The middle stretch, where the race is neither exciting nor close. The report is the only thing that makes the week visible.
Race day, with a hundred logged days behind it — including the ones that went badly and got written down anyway.
the shape of it
A hundred days to the start line
Three tasks each morning. One report each night. A hundred days of running.
what we can point at
Race calendars cluster. Your hundred days should aim at that.
- 26%
- RunSignup's 2025 race report — more than 97,000 events and 12.2 million registrations — found 26% of the year's races held in September or October, with a similar spring cluster and a very slow winter. source
- Free
- The NHS Couch to 5K plan is free — nine weeks, three runs a week. Many people here run it as their training content while the hundred days carry the consistency. source
Both figures are quoted from the linked reports. We publish no number we cannot source.
A hundred days between the entry and the start line
Leave an email and we will tell you when the next group opens.
- Your plan, turned into three tasks a day
- A written log you can read back in race week
- A group counting the same hundred days towards their own dates
We write once, when the next group starts.
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