Founder note
Hi, I’m Shoaib — a Singapore runner, just like you.
Between a demanding job and a full life at home, I’m still chasing new personal bests on race day — here and across Southeast Asia. I’ve trained under professional coaches who genuinely helped me get there. But I always had a nagging feeling I could build something better.
Good coaches are valuable. They also have limits. Yours might be juggling dozens of athletes, slow to reply, or relying more on habit than on the details of your life, your race calendar, and your latest training data. Even when the plan is good, you still have to translate it into something your watch understands.
Most online coaching is also not built around Singapore. Plans written for Europe, Australia, or the US often assume terrain and logistics we simply do not have. Our flat and dense urban terrain changes how routes, elevation, and workout execution actually work, and a coach who hasn’t lived it can easily miss that context.
My favourite example: a coach once prescribed 5 × 10-minute uphill repeats. My reply was one word — “Where?” There’s no hill in Singapore long enough for that. Not Bukit Timah. None. Runners here have to improvise for elevation entirely, and I lost weeks figuring that out alone — exactly what a coach should have known on day one.
So most evenings I was doing two jobs my coach should have done: translating a cold-climate, foreign plan into something that works in Singapore, then translating their wordy write-ups into something my watch could actually follow. Time I’d far rather have spent with the people I love. I just wanted the right workout to land on my wrist so I could lace up and go.
That’s why I built Ultropic — the coach I wish I’d had. It’s grounded in current sports science and established coaching methodology, real Singapore routes and terrain, and years of hard-won local running experience. Your plan adapts to your life and race schedule, gives you clear local route options, and lands on your watch ready to run.
Give it a try. I think you’ll wonder how you trained any other way.
— Shoaib
Train with a plan built for the place you actually run.