AI coach for trail runners: study tests personalized training plans
NCT ID NCT07374016
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study aims to see if a personalized training recommendation strategy, powered by artificial intelligence, can help trail runners improve their performance and reduce injuries. About 1,200 competitive trail runners will be assigned to either a personalized adaptive plan, a standard personalized plan, or a general plan. The study will track their performance index and injury rates over time.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 1,209 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Mar 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
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18 to 65 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Have no contraindications to trail running (Fédération Française d'Athlétisme test procedures) * Have been trail running competitively for at least 1 year * In possession of an ITRA performance index * Intends to run at least one ITRA-indexed race in the second half of the follow-up period * Own a training watch, and intend to record all training sessions of more than 10 minutes in their shared database * Have freely given their written consent. Exclusion Criteria: * Any person with chronic joint pathologies (e.g. recurrent sprains, patellar or ligament problems) or cardiac pathologies. * Any person with chronic or central neurological pathologies. * Any person deprived of their liberty or under legal protection (guardianship, curatorship, safeguard of justice, family habilitation).
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Unités de Myologie et de Médecine du Sport
Saint-Etienne, France, 42055, France
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