Building in beta: What Chiron's First Athletes Are Testing
Plan - Adapt - Perform.
That slogan isn’t aspirational. It describes the sequence we’re working to validate in beta right now, with a small group of competitive Australian runners putting Chiron through its paces.
This is an update on what we’ve shipped, what’s working, and where we’re headed.
Where We Are
Chiron is in beta. A small group of competitive runners — people who take their training seriously — have access via invitation and are testing the core athlete experience on iOS. No general launch has happened.
The athlete-facing product has to earn trust before coaches can rely on it. Coaches will assign this to their athletes — if the experience isn’t solid on the athlete side, it doesn’t matter how good the coaching interface is. That’s why we’re validating the core athlete loop first, and why we’re nearly ready to open to coaches.
What We’ve Been Building
The past several weeks have shipped more features than the preceding three months combined.
Onboarding new athletes move through a structured setup flow — personal details, profile photo, Strava connection, and a target event. The onboarding gate means every athlete starts with a properly configured account rather than a half-built one.
The home tab has been refreshed into something closer to a heads-up display: everything an athlete needs to know — upcoming event, recent training, current load — visible in a single iPhone viewport without scrolling. It’s the first thing you see when you open the app and it should earn that position.
Workout detail and event details both got a redesign — tapping a completed session now shows a structured summary with key metrics, a tabular breakdown, and a missed-workout banner when a scheduled run wasn’t completed. The planned vs. completed story is readable at a glance. Events got the same treatment.
Race results can be imported in bulk from a spreadsheet, which matters for athletes who have years of results sitting in Raceview, World Athletics, or their own tracking sheets. Add the columns, paste the data, and your result history is in Chiron. New race result records also capture gun time, chip time, finishing position, and result URL.
Performance insights added a Personal Best Progression card: a clean view of how your times at key distances are trending across your training history. Combined with training volume totals and activity breakdowns, it’s the first version of what progress tracking should look like in Chiron.
Notifications and workout comments are the most significant recent addition. Push notifications are live for coaching requests and coaching status changes. Athletes and coaches can now comment directly on completed workouts, with push and email notifications when a comment lands. A notification screen on the home tab collects all of it. These features exist because training at this level is a conversation, not just data collection.
What’s Next
When the current athlete cohort has tested the core athlete experience to a standard we’re satisfied with, Chiron opens to coaches. Coach-athlete workflow, training assignment, and athlete monitoring. Australian market initially.
If you’re a competitive runner or coach and want to be notified when access opens, the waitlist is below.
— Clive
Founder, Chiron