Peloton Nails It With the Pace Your Race Marathon Program
Peloton officially launched the Pace Your Race Marathon program on April 24, 2026, and it is the most comprehensive running program the platform has ever built.
Available now under Programs on both the Tread and the Peloton app, this 18-week structured plan is designed to take members from early base-building all the way through race-ready fitness. Pace Targets adapt the coaching to each member’s individual speed, meaning the program works whether you are chasing your first 26.2 or a personal record.
The Pace Your Race Marathon program was built with you in mind.
What Makes Pace Your Race Marathon Different
Peloton is not new to marathon content. Back in 2019, the platform released Road to Your 26.2, an outdoor running program split into three parts designed to guide members through marathon preparation. Then in 2022 and 2023, Peloton added 45 and 60-minute Marathon Race Prep classes to its library.
Those offerings gave members useful individual tools, but they stopped short of a fully structured, end-to-end training program.
If you have tackled the Road to Half Marathon program and are ready for the next challenge, the Pace Your Race Marathon program is the natural next step.
This is not just a running plan. The program is genuinely multi-disciplinary, weaving strength, mobility, meditation, and recovery work into the weekly schedule alongside the tread sessions.
According to Peloton, you simply cannot replicate the race-day feeling without endurance, strength, speed, meditation, mobility, and power built over time.
Built to Prepare You Mentally and Physically
Peloton describes the Pace Your Race Marathon program as designed to prepare you mentally and physically for marathon race day. With 4 to 6 workouts per week depending on where you are in the 18-week progression, the classes are built to complement each other, helping you build endurance and speed in a way that stacks week by week.
The tread work focuses on finding your race pace and learning how to sustain it when it matters most. But Peloton is clear that cardio alone will not get you to the finish line. As stated in Peloton’s official Instagram post.
The strength component is designed specifically to handle the wear and tear that marathon training puts on your muscles. The guided meditations woven into the schedule are there to help you set intentions, stay focused, and realize your best self on the journey to race day.
Whether it is your first marathon or you are chasing a personal best, Peloton’s message is straightforward: Pace Your Race Marathon gives you the structure and coaching you need. Together, you will move toward the starting line, building confidence day by day.
How the Pace Your Race Marathon Program Is Structured
Week 1 opens with three runs per week. Beginning in Week 2, the format expands to four runs per week, each with a specific purpose:
- Run 1: Tempo Run (with warm-up)
- Run 2: Marathon Race Prep Run (with warm-up)
- Run 3: Easy Run
- Run 4: Long Run
Long runs are completed outdoors. All other run sessions take place on the Tread.
Class types featured in the Pace Your Race Marathon program include Long Run Meditation, Easy Run, and Long Run formats, alongside the familiar Tempo Run and Marathon Race Prep Run sessions.
Strength for Runners joins the schedule in Week 4 as a third-day complement to the run work. Mobility for Runners is added in Week 5. Starting in Week 7, multiple instructors begin leading the Long Run sessions together.
One standout moment in the program: Week 8 features Selena Samuela’s first-ever 75-minute run class.
The Full Weekly Structure
Once members reach Week 5, the weekly schedule looks like this:
- Day 1: Recovery
- Day 2: Warm-up and Tempo Run
- Day 3: Strength for Runners
- Day 4: Warm-up and Marathon Race Prep Run
- Day 5: Mobility for Runners
- Day 6: Easy Run
- Day 7: Long Run
The structure is intentional. Harder sessions are paired with recovery days, and the variety of class types keeps the Pace Your Race Marathon training fresh across all 18 weeks.
A Roster Built for the Distance
The Pace Your Race Marathon program features one of the largest instructor rosters Peloton has assembled for a single program, drawing from a deep bench of the platform’s running community and pulling in many of its most recognizable tread instructors and fan favorites.
Many of the instructors featured in the program are experienced marathon runners themselves, bringing firsthand race knowledge directly into their coaching. Peloton has a long history of instructors showing up on race courses alongside their members, as this look at the 2024 NYC Marathon makes clear.
For a deeper look at how strength training fits into marathon preparation, Matt Wilpers’ research-backed take is worth a read. Matt himself is currently chasing his sixth Abbott World Marathon Major star at the London Marathon, so he is very much practicing what he preaches.
The Long Run sessions are led by a rotating cast of instructors across all 18 weeks:
- Week 1: Robin Arzón
- Week 2: Alex Karwoski
- Week 3: Becs Gentry
- Week 4: Susie Chan
- Week 5: Joslyn Thompson Rule
- Week 6: Marcel Dinkins
- Week 7: Becs Gentry and Logan Aldridge
- Week 8: Selena Samuela
- Week 9: Matt Wilpers and Mariana Fernández
- Week 10: Alex Karwoski and Rad Lopez
- Week 11: Becs Gentry and a conversation with Kirsten Ferguson and Jess Sims
- Week 12: Matt Wilpers and Tunde Oyeneyin
- Week 13: Susie Chan with a conversation featuring Ben Alldis and Leanne Hainsby-Alldis.
- Week 14: Camila Ramón and Mariana Fernández
- Week 15: Susie Chan and a conversatin with Jeffrey McEachern and Erik Jäger
- Week 16: Susie Chan and Becs Gentry
- Week 17: Matt Wilpers
- Week 18: Your marathon
Week 18 is not a class. It is race day, and that is exactly the point.
Additional instructors featured throughout the program’s full schedule include Matty Maggiacomo, Andy Speer, Hannah Frankson, Jess King, Jermaine Johnson, Rebecca Kennedy, Marcel Maurer, Jon Hosking, Adrian Williams, and Jess Sims.
Where to Find It
The Pace Your Race Marathon program is live now. To access it, open your Tread or the Peloton app, head to the Programs tab, and select Pace Your Race Marathon from the full listing.
The timing aligns well with the fall racing season, giving members an 18-week preparation window leading into major fall marathons.
If you are newer to structured marathon training, starting the Pace Your Race Marathon program at the beginning of the 18-week window gives you the full progression the plan is designed around.
If you have been waiting for a structured, coach-guided marathon plan that lives entirely within the Peloton ecosystem, this is it. Are you starting the Pace Your Race Marathon program this week, or do you already have a fall race on the calendar? And with a rotating roster of instructor pairings across the long runs, which duo are you most looking forward to hitting the road with?
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