Three tiers.
One methodology.
The Five Disciplines do not change between tiers. What changes is how much human judgment sits next to you in the work. You can buy more contact later. You cannot buy more time before the race.
The tiers below show what is coming and what it will cost. Nothing is purchasable right now. Get on the waitlist and you will hear the moment intake opens.
For the athlete who has already chosen the race and the suffering. Wants the methodology on a calendar without paying for a human in the loop.
Personalized training plan validated by the Five Disciplines. Threat-modeling templates. AAR loop. Push notifications for body-scan checkpoints. No coach reviewing your week.
- · Personalized training plan
- · Calendar + ICS feed
- · AAR + body-scan tools
- · Strava activity sync
- · Email support
For the athlete building toward a serious A-race in the next 6 to 18 months who wants a Suffercraft coach reading the work and adjusting the plan, on an async cadence, without paying for live calls.
The full self-directed plan and tools, with a Suffercraft coach reading your week. Right now that coach is Ricky Roane himself. He reads your after-action reviews and body-scan trends, leaves per-workout notes on the sessions that matter, and revises the plan during the cycle when a long run says it needs revising. One written check-in a month, plus your race plan and pre-race threat model reviewed before the start. Async only: no scheduled call at this tier, which is why it sits here and why the queue stays real. Intake is held to a number Ricky can keep up with. When it is full there is a waitlist and he tells you where you stand before you commit.
- · Full self-directed plan and tools
- · A coach reads your AARs + trends
- · Per-workout coach notes
- · One written check-in a month
- · Plan revisions mid-cycle
For the athlete chasing a result that needs the head coach by name. Course-record attempts, podium hunters, and multi-year mountain-ultra athletes who want a full season of structured work on the dark hours with the person who set the records.
Everything in Coached, run one to one with Ricky Roane: UESCA Certified Ultramarathon Coach, 37 ultras finished, 10 of them 100 milers, 2 current course records, 5 overall wins, 16 podium finishes. A scheduled 45-minute call every two weeks. Your race plan and threat model built with him, not handed down. Race-week contact through a channel you agree on up front, with a stated response window, not round-the-clock availability. There are very few of these slots, because there is one of him. When they are full you go on the waitlist.
- · Everything in Coached
- · 1:1 with Ricky Roane
- · 45-min call every two weeks
- · Race plan + threat model built with him
- · Race-week contact, agreed channel
Intake opens in order.
Intake is held to a number the coaching can actually carry, so the list is the queue. Tell us which tier you are looking at and what race you are building toward, and we will email you the moment intake opens.
We do not negotiate.
Mountain ultras are an expensive sport regardless of who coaches you. Entry fees, travel, gear, lost vacation, the recovery week you can't bill. Most athletes who pull this off run two or three serious races a year. Coaching that adds even a 10% margin on race day pays for itself in entry fees alone.
We bill monthly with no annual commitment. Pause it during the off-season. Run Coached through the build, move up to Direct for the twelve weeks before the A-race, then step back to Coached once the race is done. The methodology stays continuous either way.