No Perfect Week
Personal running coaching for trail, marathon and ultra,
with an eye on the goal and the life your training needs to fit into.
Personal running coaching · Trail · Marathon · Ultra
Running that fits your life.
No Perfect Week is personal running coaching for those with a goal that requires more than a standard plan. You get direction, ongoing feedback and a plan that can be adjusted when training meets the rest of your life.
If you would like to talk about your goal and whether coaching makes sense, you can get in touch below. If you would first like an insight into what personal running coaching involves, read on under ‘See how running coaching works’.
What is your goal?
A goal does not have to be the biggest possible to be big enough. Perhaps you want to run your first marathon, get faster, move from road running to trail running, or take on something even more demanding, such as ultra running?
What they have in common is that you do not simply need more training sessions, but direction that fits your specific goal. Personal running coaching can give you a clear plan, ongoing guidance and purposeful training, even when everyday life gets in the way. Here are some of the goals a tailored coaching programme can be built around.
Complete
a marathon
You want to complete 42.2 kilometres, improve your time or give the distance the training it actually requires.
If you are curious about the average pace a specific finish time requires, you can use the pace calculator.
Move from road
to trail running
You want to get out on the trails, feel more confident on hills and varied terrain, or train towards a specific trail race. Trail running is about more than swapping tarmac for dirt, and your body notices the difference quite quickly.
When the goal
is an ultra
You want to complete an ultra, progress over a longer distance or take your training more seriously than last time. Here, terrain, recovery, energy and equipment matter just as much as the kilometres on your watch.
A personal
challenge
You have a particular goal that matters to you, for example an Ironman, a stage race, a backyard ultra or another physical challenge. It needs to be brought together into one direction, so training, recovery, everyday life and the rest of the task do not each become a separate project.
The plan needs to fit the runner. Not the other way around.
One of the easiest things is to find or make a plan while sitting on the sofa with a warm cup of coffee, dreaming about completing your goal. This is often when motivation and enthusiasm are at their highest, and you have not yet felt the consequences of your choices.
And just as surely as night follows day, once the plan is under way, the challenges arrive too: bad weather, too little time, fluctuating motivation, injuries, chafing, soreness and everything else that can make you question whether the goal is worth it. This is exactly where a flexible plan and a coach start to show their value. Not because everything needs to change all the time, but because sometimes the right thing is to stay the course and other times to adjust.
It is not a sign that the goal was wrong or that you lack willpower. It is the part of training that cannot be planned from the sofa. A training programme can look excellent and still be wrong for the week it lands in. Work, sleep, illness and recovery rarely follow a spreadsheet out of sheer politeness.
No Perfect Week is built on a simple idea: Training can be ambitious, but it must also be adaptable. The goal stays the same when that makes sense. The path there is rarely a straight upward line.
But the plan is only the beginning
A plan is good to have. But it cannot account for everything.
The value lies in seeing what is happening, making decisions and adjusting what makes sense for you and your training journey. Nothing is changed simply to look busy.
Some of the things included in coaching are:
A plan that points forward
Clear direction towards your goal and specific training weeks, planned one to two weeks at a time, so you know what matters most right now.
Adjustment that makes sense
Training is adapted to your response, calendar, recovery, illness and what we learn along the way. I help keep the goal clear and make the choices that make sense on the way there.
Ongoing feedback
Feedback on completed training, ongoing dialogue and a regular online call. This is where we bring together what cannot be seen in a training chart.
You run yourself. Not alone.
There comes a time when the plan meets race day, and you need to feel, choose and carry on. Here, you have a coach who knows the path to this point and can be there when you need to talk things through along the way.
Strength that supports your running
A relevant strength programme that supports your running training without becoming another full time project.
Strategy before and on race day
Pacing, energy and hydration need to be part of training before the race. Not something to invent on the day.
A training plan is the easy part
An app or AI can suggest intervals, kilometres and rest days. That can be useful. But a suggestion is not the same as coaching.
Coaching becomes relevant when your body responds differently than expected, your calendar changes, the terrain or route is particularly challenging, or one bad session suddenly takes up far too much space. This is where someone with experience and an understanding of the bigger picture needs to ask the annoyingly good questions and help choose the next step.
Sometimes we change the plan. Other times we leave it alone. Both require more attention than blindly trusting a schedule.
It is not perfection that makes a plan good.
It is whether it holds up when everyday life hits.
About No Perfect Week
Coach, runner and advocate for flexible plans that fit into everyday life.
Behind No Perfect Week is a runner with more than 20 years of experience in marathon, trail, ultra and endurance.
My first marathon was in Copenhagen around 20 years ago. Since then, I have completed UTS 100M, Tjörnaparen 100K, Vietnam Laan Ultra Trail, Ironman Copenhagen and the Sub 10 Georg Fisher’s Tea Round, as well as winning GUUT 100K and running a wide range of races of varying distances and technicality.
Marathon, trail and ultra are therefore what I know best from my own training. But my own races are only one starting point. What matters is being curious about what works for the person who has to live with the training, not just complete it.
If you would like to know a little more about me, No Perfect Week and the vision behind it, you can read more here:
Where and how do we begin?
Get in touch
You get in touch and briefly explain what you want to work towards. It does not have to be a finished plan. It is enough to have a goal, an idea or a question you want to take seriously.
Free call
We have a free call and find out whether coaching makes sense for you. You tell me about your goal, your running background and the support you are looking for, and you get a sense of what coaching can include.
Agreement and getting started
If we both say yes to working together, we sort out the agreement and you get access to the Nolio training platform. From there, we begin with your goal, your current training and everything around it that also needs to work together.
Coaching journey
Clear direction towards your goal and specific training weeks, planned one to two weeks at a time, so you know what matters most right now. We follow up regularly and adjust when it makes sense, so your training continues to fit both the goal and the reality it needs to work within.
What if finances are currently standing in the way of your goal?
Previously, I have been a volunteer mentor at Følgeven, and it reminded me that ambitions do not disappear simply because the circumstances are more difficult. It matters deeply to me to help people who face greater barriers to getting out and participating in sport, whether the challenge is mental, social or physical.
For that reason, No Perfect Week always keeps two places reserved for pro bono coaching. They are primarily for people who want personal support with their training but face circumstances that make regular coaching more difficult to access right now.
