I will preface this by saying that I am coming back to cycling after a long absence due to balancing running two full time businesses & family life with the ambitions of racing once again & being able to hold my own with friends around the Yorkshire dales.I have previously used traditional cycling coaches, TrainingPeaks, TrainerRoad in anger & before settling on stride also trialled other AI based coaching apps, but this is the app I wished I had ten years ago.One thing I always struggled with traditional coaches was if I missed a session getting the plan adjusted, whereas with Stride, it’s a two minute conversation with the AI & all sorted, meaning even as an autistic person, it really does help not feeling like I’ve ruined all of the progress made by life getting in the way once or twice. Previously I’d have ended up stopping training entirely until the coach eventually relented and reset the plan, meaning progress wasn’t as linear as it should have been.The app auto-adjusts metrics depending on how you’re doing so potentially you never have to do any metric testing (FTP etc) unless you really want to & the training sessions are built by both ex-pros and really highly regarded coaches so you know you’re getting set sessions that are both beneficial and maximising your availability. On top of all this, their technical support goes above and beyond - I had an issue out of hours where for some reason my account wasn’t working with the integration to Zwift/Wahoo not auto populating training sessions, I dropped them a message not expecting a fix until the next day and knowing I could manually export/import like you had to back in the day, but they got back to me and sorted within the hour!

An app like this has been a long time coming, actual digestible data and tailored plans around me and my schedule that are achievable. Nice to see the phone app finally on the same level as their desktop site. So good!

Concept is good, very unpolished at the time or reviewing. Despite all my data being imported from Garmin, the platform is advising I have had 6 months off which isn’t the case. On challenging the app, the AI is apologetic but still getting things wrong, seems like a typical AI integration that needs constant re-prompting until you get something you are happy with.Bigger red flag was after connecting Strava, a message was received stating that the app had exceeded its limit of connected athletes, which isn’t a great first impression, especially for an app that is built around data integration.Decent potential but other platform such as trainer road are miles ahead. I will revisit this due to the developer, was hoping for more but disappointed with the current release.

Super impressed by this app. I’ve been using it to plan my training weeks and I love how quick and easy it is so create sessions that fit around my time and also goals. It’s going to be a game changer for helping with my training this year.