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Analyse your running using AI

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Strava Athlete Intelligence About a year ago Strava announced Athlete Intelligence. Every tool out there had an AI feature, so Strava needed one too. The launch promised 'personalised feedback' and 'performance insight'.  https://stories.strava.com/articles/meet-athlete-intelligence-personalized-ai-insights-that-help-you-reach-your I didn't love it and turned it off. It stated the obvious, it was overly complimentary and didn't recognise the difference between recovery easy runs and runs where you'd obviously put the effort in. And this was even though I tagged training sessions as 'workouts' and races as 'races'. I noticed negative feedback on forums - and an unscientific search of forums as shown below seems to lean towards a 'not very good'/'how do you switch it off' type of vibe. Do it yourself with Google Meanwhile, the out of the box AI tools were getting better and better. Google Gemini side bar 'Ask Gemini' wi...