Train your mind like
you train your legs.
Marathon State of Mind puts a mental skills coach in your pocket — and in your ear. Elzy learns your running, builds your confidence from your own evidence, and stands beside you all the way to the start line.
Running the TCS Sydney Marathon? Your access is included — sign up with the code from your race emails.
Sign up with your code →of program runners who started their marathon finished it
said the program enhanced their marathon experience
said it enhanced their wellbeing
average likelihood to recommend it
Participant surveys, TCS Sydney Marathon programs 2024–25.
A coach who's always there.
Before the long run, when the doubt starts talking. After the session that fell apart. The night before the race. Elzy is there — by voice or text — asking the questions a great coach asks, and remembering what you tell her.
She doesn't hand you generic mantras. She builds your race mind from your own runs — what actually worked, in your own words, turned into skills you can reach for at 32km.
Elzy speaks with an AI voice created with Eloise Wellings — built on the coaching method she and Dr Rory Darkins have refined over a decade together.
Not another meditation app. A training program.
Sixteen sessions with an Olympian
Short videos where Eloise hands over the mental skills that carried her to two Olympic Games — then Elzy turns each one into a plan for your actual week of running.
One intention, every run
Carry one thing into each run. Tell Elzy how it went in sixty seconds. Watch the evidence pile up that your mind is getting stronger — proof drawn from your runs, not affirmations.
Your plan, laid on the course
A Mental Game Plan built from everything you trained, placed kilometre by kilometre along your race — with Elzy in your ear on race morning if you want her there.
This is what it looks like.
Home opens with Elzy asking what you need for your run — your program and today’s intention right below.
Tap to talk. Elzy listens, remembers, and answers out loud — before, during, or after any run.
Guided sessions for race day, big sessions and everyday runs — including your own race visualisation.
Runners paid $997 for this program. Now it comes with a coach inside.
Unlock Your Marathon State of Mind began as a premium video course. It worked — but a course can't ask how your long run went, or remind you at 34km what you told it in week three.
So we rebuilt it around Elzy. The full program, every mental skill, plus a coach who trains it with you — for A$199 per three months instead of $997 up front. Your first week costs nothing.
See it from the inside — free“Everything you need is already within you. Our job — and Elzy's — is to help you find it, train it, and trust it when it counts.”
Dr Rory Darkins — mental skills coach, PhD in positive psychology
“Mentally, Sydney Marathon was by far my best experience out of the 51 marathons I’ve run.”
“I felt like a new runner mentally. I smiled when I saw the hills, remained calm when I was in discomfort, and soaked in all the views along the way to the finish.”
“The mental skills have also helped me so much in my personal life with other pursuits and challenges.”
Try the whole thing free for a week.
First 7 days free — approve your payment today, nothing is charged until day 8, cancel anytime before then and you won't pay a cent.
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- Coaching conversations with Elzy — voice and text, whenever you need her
- The full 16-session mental skills program with Eloise and Dr Rory
- Guided audio sessions, made to be run to
- Your Mental Game Plan, laid onto your race course
- Personalised race-day audio in Elzy’s voice
- Run intentions, reflections and your growing evidence bank
TCS Sydney Marathon runner? Your access is included — sign up with the code from your race emails.
Is it an app?
Yes — it runs on any phone, iPhone or Android, straight from your browser at app.marathonstateofmind.com. Add it to your home screen and it looks and feels like a native app, with Elzy one tap away.
Do I need to be a fast runner?
No. First marathon or fifteenth, four hours or six — the mental side of the marathon is the same race. Elzy meets you exactly where your running is.
How is this different from a meditation app?
Meditation apps give everyone the same audio. This is a training program: real mental skills taught by an Olympian, practised on your actual runs, with a coach who knows your history and builds your mental fitness plan from it.
Is Elzy a real person?
Elzy is an AI coach. Her voice was created with Eloise Wellings’ full participation, and her coaching follows the method Eloise and Rory built together. She’s honest about what she is — and she’s not a substitute for medical or psychological care.
What happens after the free week?
You approve your payment when you sign up, but nothing is charged for 7 days. Cancel anytime before day 8 and you pay nothing. Continue, and it’s A$199 every 3 months — cancel whenever you like and keep access until the end of your period.
I’m running the TCS Sydney Marathon — do I pay?
No — your access is included with your program. Join with your program code (or the link in your race emails) and you’re in free through race day and the month after.