Terms & conditions

1. Who we are

Marathon Courses is run by Eric Floberg Inc., an Illinois corporation, at 4001 N. Ravenswood Ave, Unit 602-B, Chicago, IL (“Marathon Courses”, “we”, “us”, “our”). We run this site, the shop, your account, our training courses and our tools. Contact us at hello@hey.marathoncourses.com.

2. This agreement

These terms are a binding agreement between you and us. They apply when you browse the site, use your account, buy from the shop, take one of our courses or use our tools. The privacy policy, the shipping page and the returns policy are part of them.

You accept them when you tick the box or press the button that says you agree, when you buy something from us, or when you use the site. Ticking that box is your electronic signature. If you don’t agree, please don’t buy from us or use the site. You can ask us for a copy of the version you agreed to at any time.

Our course pages show a short summary of these terms beside the checkbox. These are the full terms, and the two are one agreement. If they ever disagree, the one that’s better for you applies.

3. You and your account

You must be 18, or the age of majority where you live, to buy from us. Our courses are for adults: don’t follow one if you’re under 18.

Give us true, current details and keep them up to date. Your login is for you alone: don’t share it, or the links and files in your course, with anyone. Whoever can read your email can sign in as you, so keep your email account secure. You’re responsible for what’s done in your account.

We’ll email you about your purchases and your training, because those emails are part of the course. Anything else we send, such as news and offers, follows the privacy policy, and you can unsubscribe from it at any time.

4. Our courses

Each course (a “tier”) is a 12-week training block: videos, plans and downloads on the platform that hosts them, and an email each week once your block starts.

Buying a tier gives you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use it for your own training for as long as we host the course. It doesn’t sell you the course itself. You may not share your login, or copy, record, download (except the files we offer for download), resell, post or pass on the videos, plans or emails, or use them to coach anyone else.

We improve the courses over time: lessons may change, move or be replaced, and we’ll keep what you bought at least as useful as it was.

If you break these terms in a way that matters, such as sharing your login or copying the course, we may suspend or end your access. We’ll tell you why, and you won’t get a refund for access you lost that way.

5. Prices and payment

Prices are in US dollars. Taxes, and for shop orders shipping, are added at checkout where they apply. We won’t change the price of something after you’ve bought it. If a price is shown in clear error, we may cancel the order and refund you in full.

Courses are paid for at our course platform’s checkout, and shop orders at our shop’s checkout. Their payment providers take the payment; we never see or store your card details. By paying, you authorize the charge for the option you chose.

If you pay in installments, you authorize each payment on its date. If one fails, your access pauses until it’s paid. The checkout shows what you’ll pay in total for each option before you choose.

Offers and discount codes follow the rules shown with them. Unless the offer says otherwise, they can’t be combined, they have no cash value, and they can end at any time without affecting orders already placed.

If you think we’ve charged you wrongly, email us first: we can usually fix it faster than your bank can. Nothing here stops you disputing a charge with your bank or card issuer. If you do, we may pause your access while the dispute is open.

6. The Founder’s Edition

The first 250 course orders from launch (October 12, 2026), for any tier or the bundle, each get one Founder’s Edition: the companion training journal, pens and stickers. The count on our pages is live and may run a minute or two behind. Test and internal orders don’t count.

We mail it free to the mailing address you give us at checkout, in any country that can receive mail by USPS, UPS or FedEx. We can’t send it without an address. It has no cash value and can’t be swapped for anything else. If your course is refunded, the Founder’s Edition is yours to keep: we won’t ask for it back. Once all 250 are claimed, the offer ends.

7. Refunds and returns

Courses: you can cancel within 7 days of buying for a full refund. To cancel or ask for a refund, email hello@hey.marathoncourses.com from the address you bought with. We refund to the card or account you paid with, and your access to that course ends. If you’re paying in installments, we refund what you’ve paid and cancel the payments still to come.

Not sure a course is right for you? Email the same address before you buy, or any time after: we’d rather answer a question than refund an order.

Shop orders follow the returns policy.

Nothing in these terms takes away a refund or remedy the law gives you.

8. Your health: not medical advice

Everything we publish (the courses, plans, videos, emails, tools and this site) is general education about running. It is not medical advice, and it doesn’t replace a doctor, a physiotherapist or a coach who knows you. Check with your doctor before you start a training program, and stop and get help if something hurts or feels wrong.

Training for and running a marathon carries real risks, including muscle, bone and joint injuries, overtraining, heat illness, dehydration and low blood sodium, falls, being hit by traffic, heart problems and, rarely, death. You choose when, where, how far and how hard you run, and whether a plan suits your health.

You understand these risks and take them on yourself, knowingly and voluntarily.

9. Release

Please read this section carefully. It gives up legal rights.

To the fullest extent the law allows, you (for yourself, your heirs and anyone claiming through you) release Marathon Courses and its owners, shareholders, directors, officers, employees, coaches and contractors from every claim for injury, illness, death, or damage to property that arises from running, workouts, long runs, races, strength and mobility exercises, or anything else you do by following our courses, plans, videos, emails or tools, including the risks listed in section 8, and including claims based on our negligence. This release doesn’t cover willful and wanton misconduct (sometimes called gross negligence), or anything else the law doesn’t let us release. If any part of it can’t be enforced, the rest still applies.

10. No promised results

We can’t promise a finish time, a PB, a Boston qualifier or any other result, and nobody honest can. Results depend on you: your health, your history, the time you put in, the weather and the day. When we share another runner’s result, it’s real, but it’s theirs: yours depends on you, and may be different.

11. Our tools

The pace calculator, taper planner and our other tools give estimates from the numbers you enter. They’re a guide, not a guarantee, and they can’t know about your health, the weather or the course on the day. What you enter in a tool inside your course may be saved to your record so it can show your results back to you (see the privacy policy).

12. Strava and other connected services

You can choose to connect your Strava account so your own running shows in your account and your course. Connecting is optional, and you can disconnect at any time from your account or from Strava’s own settings. What we read, how long we keep it and how it’s deleted is in the privacy policy. Your use of Strava is governed by Strava’s own terms of service and privacy policy, and nothing in these terms changes them. Your Strava data stays yours: these terms give us no rights to it beyond showing it to you. Marathon Courses is not made, endorsed or sponsored by Strava.

Third-party services we connect you to, including Strava, are provided by those third parties, not by us. To the fullest extent permitted by law, all warranties are disclaimed on behalf of third-party service providers, including Strava, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, and no third-party service provider, including Strava, is liable to you for any consequential, special, punitive or indirect damages arising from your use of our site, courses or tools.

13. Linking your course to your account

You can link your course to your account on a device, so your course can show your own training. Linking keeps a key in that device’s browser for up to 180 days; anyone using that browser can see what it shows, so don’t link on a shared or public device, and use “Unlink this device” when you’re done with one.

14. The shop

We describe products as accurately as we can. Colors vary between screens and between print runs, and a print won’t match a monitor exactly.

Your order is an offer to buy. A contract forms when we email you to confirm it has shipped. We may decline an order, for example if an item is unavailable, if we can’t take payment, or if we suspect fraud; if we’ve already charged you, we’ll refund you in full.

Delivery times on the shipping page are estimates. If we can’t ship an order within the time we gave you (or within 30 days, if we didn’t give one), we’ll tell you, and you can cancel it for a full refund. The risk of loss passes to you on delivery. Import duty and taxes on orders outside the US are yours to pay.

15. What you send us

Sometimes you’ll send us things: an email, feedback, a photo of your journal, your race story, a review. You keep ownership of what you send. You give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use it to run the courses and answer you. We’ll ask you first, and use it only as you agree, before we use your name, photo, voice or story in anything we publish or advertise.

Nothing in these terms stops you from writing an honest review of us, good or bad, anywhere.

Where you can post for other runners to see, keep it kind and lawful: no harassment, nothing that isn’t yours to share, nothing that puts anyone at risk, and no advertising your own coaching or products. We may remove anything that breaks these rules.

16. Our intellectual property

All artwork, route drawings, photography, courses, videos, plans, copy, and the Marathon Courses name and marks are owned by us or licensed to us. Buying a print buys you the print, not the right to reproduce, resell or license the artwork. Buying a course buys you the license in section 4, not the course itself. Nothing on the site gives you any right to use our name or marks.

17. Copyright complaints

If you think something on our site or in our courses infringes your copyright, send our designated agent: your name, address, phone and email; the work you say is infringed; where the material is; a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn’t authorized by you, your agent or the law; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you own the copyright or may act for its owner; and your physical or electronic signature. Our designated agent: Copyright Agent, Eric Floberg Inc., 4001 N. Ravenswood Ave, Unit 602-B, Chicago, IL, hello@hey.marathoncourses.com.

18. Disclaimers

The site, the courses and the tools are provided “as is” and “as available”. We work hard to keep them accurate and running, but we don’t promise they’ll be uninterrupted or error-free, and, as far as the law allows, we make no warranties beyond the ones these terms give and the law gives you.

19. Limits on our liability

As far as the law allows, we aren’t liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive losses, or for lost profits or data, and our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us for the product or course it concerns. These limits don’t apply to willful and wanton misconduct, fraud, or anything else the law doesn’t let us limit.

20. If you break these terms

If a claim is brought against us because you broke these terms, misused the site or a course, or posted something you had no right to post, you’ll cover our reasonable costs of dealing with it, including reasonable attorney’s fees, to the extent you caused it.

21. Things outside anyone’s control

Neither of us is responsible for a delay or failure caused by something beyond reasonable control, such as a natural disaster, a pandemic, a war, a strike, a government order, or an outage at a carrier or a platform we rely on. If it stops us delivering a course or an order for more than 30 days, you may cancel it and we’ll refund what you haven’t received.

22. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The version you agreed to when you bought something is the one that applies to that purchase; a later version never changes its price or what it includes. For using the site and your account, a new version applies from the date shown at the top of the page. A change never applies to a dispute that began before it. We’ll email you before a significant change takes effect.

23. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois and applicable federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If something goes wrong, email us first and give us 30 days to put it right; most things can be fixed that way. If we can’t resolve it, either of us may bring a claim in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, or, where it has jurisdiction, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and we both agree to those courts’ jurisdiction. Either of us may use small claims court instead where the claim qualifies. Nothing in this section takes away a right the law gives you to bring a claim where you live.

A claim about these terms, the site, a course or a shop order must be brought within one year after it arises, unless a law that can’t be changed by agreement gives you longer.

24. General

• These terms, with the pages they name, are the whole agreement between us about their subject, and replace anything said before.
• If a court finds part of them unenforceable, that part is changed as little as needed to make it enforceable, and the rest stays in force.
• If we don’t enforce a term straight away, we haven’t waived it.
• You can’t transfer this agreement to someone else. We may transfer it to a company that takes over our courses or shop, and your rights stay the same.
• Nothing in these terms makes either of us the other’s partner, employee or agent.
• We may send you notices by email, to the address on your account or order.
• Some laws, including consumer protection laws, give you rights that no agreement can waive or limit. Nothing in these terms affects them.

25. Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@hey.marathoncourses.com.