---
title: "Running — Palaestral"
description: "For running coaches: a weekly place each runner keeps, paid for 72 hours ahead, small groups at a meeting point saved once, and call-offs for a closed trail."
canonical: "https://palaestral.com/for/running"
---

# Same time next week, already held.

Palaestral is booking, payments and client-record software for an independent instructor who sells their own time — surf, yoga, running, strength. Track intervals on Monday, the long run on Sunday: each can be a weekly place your runner keeps, held for them every week and paid for before they arrive. You save the meeting point once, the trailhead or the track, and every session there carries it.

1. Mon 06:15 Track intervals 2 of 3 booked
2. Wed 12:00 Lunch loop 1 of 3 booked
3. Wed 17:30 Tempo 2 of 3 booked
4. Thu 17:30 Track intervals 3 of 3 booked
5. Sun 07:00 Long run 1 of 2 booked

A weekly place, paid 72 hours ahead

Ada Example

Mondays at 6:15 AM

Track intervals · Park track

1. Fri 6:15 AM Paid for
2. Sun 6:15 AM Seat back if unpaid
3. Mon 6:15 AM The lesson

1. Mon, May 24 Paid with a membership visit
2. Mon, May 31 Paid with a lesson credit
3. Mon, Jun 7 Paid by card, $20.00
4. Mon, Jun 14 Due on Fri, Jun 11 at 6:15 AM

- **A weekly place**: The same lesson at the same hour, booked for your runner the night your schedule opens each week, until either of you ends it.
- **What pays**: Each week is paid for 72 hours ahead: by a membership visit, else lesson credits, else the card on file where the runner allowed it, never above the price they agreed to.
- **The week ahead**: Its seat is already held. If nothing can pay for it, the seat goes back 24 hours before the lesson at the latest, and the runner is told.

Sample data. Not a real instructor or client.

- 72 hours before the lesson a weekly place is paid for
- 24 hours before, an unpaid week gives its seat back
- 7 weekly places one runner can keep with you

## What suits running

- [Packs & memberships](https://palaestral.com/product/memberships)

  What pays for a weekly place: a membership's visits, lesson credits, or the card on file a runner allowed, never above the price they agreed to.
- [Booking](https://palaestral.com/product/booking)

  Sessions as small groups, each runner booking and paying for their own place. When a closed trail calls a session off, you can offer each booking another time.
- [Clients](https://palaestral.com/product/clients)

  A note after each session stays with the runner, so the pace they held last time is on their record when they book again.
- [Calendar feed](https://palaestral.com/product/calendar)

  Every session you teach, at every place, in your own calendar app. It goes one way: nothing in your calendar is read.

## Read further

- [Packs, memberships and weekly places](https://palaestral.com/learn/packs-memberships-weekly)

  Three ways to sell more than one lesson: a pack of lessons used as they are booked, a membership charged monthly, and a weekly place kept until it ends.
- [Cancellation terms](https://palaestral.com/learn/cancellation-terms)

  How much comes back when a client cancels, when you call a lesson off, or when conditions do: the terms you set, copied onto each booking when it is sold.
- [Your calendar](https://palaestral.com/learn/calendar-feed)

  Subscribe Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook to your teaching schedule: every booked lesson, at every place you teach, flowing one way, out.

Five steps from a link in your inbox to a page your clients book from.

- [Get started](https://palaestral.com/start)
- [How it works](https://palaestral.com/how-it-works)