Foolish Runner

Garmin, Strava and Runna better get their shit together

Any engineer could build this, a highly competent Agentic Ai Coach

Its only just off the ground and it is able to take running plan context, deeply precise analysis and generate actionable advice, not just Strava AI fluff

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First long run on a flat ish road. Found a long stretch near my house to do a pace test for the Barcelona Marathon in 6 weeks

2mi easy
8mi @ 9min
6mi @ MP
2mi easy-ish

Run went well am on target for a 3:30 race pace

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Evidence

Focusing on getting the fundamental machine learning done to the highest standard

All the AI analysis stuff is built on these foundations.

Its about providing real actionable advice

My latest run and the advice: "start slower, less surging"

Then back it with evidence to build trust

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Great article and 100% on the mark. I got sick of Runna last week and have written my own agentic process and app that allows creation on plans and auto update into garmin as well as detailed analytics and dynamic plan adjustments. These will be a dime a dozen in 6 months

Yea this is a digital coach - it would be very easy to change the structure to act as analytics for your coach to use.

Trends over time coming next - these specific metrics allow you to see if those extra leg strength exercises your coach swears by actually do anything for example

AI assisted plan creation and can also take existing plan spread sheets and convert to Garmin ready uploads so you can have in your watch and account and track

Not about pretty charts but about answering questions

Detailed metrics analysis with actionable data

Been a busy bee.

Sick of useless eye candy of strava and garmin

Runna has lost me as well

None of the above have any fucking clue how to really use AI

So i built my own

Its not sell able - but I would open source it

Anyone interested in this level of analysis?

See 🧵

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Running in new places is really enjoyable

You know you are a runner when almost half your bag for a week long business trip is all running gear

Bad planning a work travel caused me to miss a big long run

Irritated with myself for that

Will get to make it up in the hills south of Barcelona in the evenings after work

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Steve Magness (@stevemagness) I nerded out on designing and creating workouts. Too often, we think that if we just find the “magic” workout, it’ll all workout. But the truth is much of the art of coaching is understanding how to...

Steve Magness really is the coaching GOAT.

This is such an informative video on how to understand and manipulate that variables in a workout to maximise stimulus and adaptation

substack.com/@stevemagnes...

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I ran 1,400 miles around Ireland On a running pilgrimage in the land of my forebears I was blown away by the scenery – and even more so by the warmth of the people

A brilliant runners perspective of Ireland. I am so lucky to be able to live and run here

www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...

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lol my garmin watch is a bully too.

Don’t get me started on what it thinks of my sleep

A PT with endurance athlete experience and a rehab plan that includes Cocodona - go buy a lottery ticket mate you are a lucky boy!!!

When you combine militarized masked men, zero accountability and “othering” rhetoric - why is anyone surprised by what just happened

This murder by the government may be the tipping point

Another tragedy in my homeland

If you and your physio can identify the mechanic that needs to be sorted - you would be surprised how fast you can remap your motion if you want it had enough.

That and a lot of low impact treadmill and swimming will keep you fit

Stay away from downhills and stairs

Wow that is a crazy amount of miles! Amazing

If it makes you feel any better - it was about 5 weeks to break free of the injury/recovery cycle for my IT band and was back upto 60+ mile weeks 3 months after starting PT

Make sure to keep running. IT bands won’t heal if not used. Tendons and ligaments need activity to heal - just below the threshold of injury.

When I was in a injury/recovery cycle one of the things the PT helped me to do was find that threshold and stay below it while fixing my mechanics

Ooof glutes sore today from speed work yesterday

Did an easy z2 run - there was a fair bit of z1 in there too, legs were pretty tired

Ran the numbers and feeling stoked - z2 pace down almost 30sec/mi from last year this time

Keeping focused on speed and durability this preseason

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Yep pretty much.

It’s a good workout to start building comfort at higher paces since it’s longer at speed with the 1/2 mi

You know your workout is going to be difficult when you start bargaining with yourself after only the 1st of 6 intervals

“Just get halfway”

“just 1 more”

“Sure only 2 more you can do another”

“Last one cant quit now”

Workout
6x
1/2mi @ 6:35 - 60s rest - 1/4mi @ 6:15

Brutal

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Look what Santy brought 🎅

I have drunk the SWAP podcast koolaid

adding vert dreadmill workouts to hard days

It has a range of -8 to +40 degree inclines. The -8 will be key as well to build quad strength for long downhills - one of my big weaknesses

swaprunning.com/podcast

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Why You Should Not Strength Train in 2026 A deep dive into the research on strength training, performance, and injury risk - and why added gym work may distract from what actually improves race results.

Another amazing deeply researched article by Niki Micallef for all you running data geeks…

open.substack.com/pub/bornonth...

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Last run of the year.

Happy New Year everyone it’s been a great ride so far.

Thanks for everything

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