The Running Thread --2025

[SarahDisney]

A little known secret, that I am even experimenting around with right now for triathlon training, is ChatGPT. You can feed all your time goals, training goals, time constraints, etc to ChatGPT and it will give you a detailed training plan. It is actually pretty cool. You can get as simple as you want or as detailed as you want. May be worth giving it a shot and see what training plan it gives you.

I will add the caveat here that what you get from ChatGPT could include bad advice.
ChatGPT (and other GenAI) are essentially collecting information, assessing patterns, and making those patterns sound human-friendly. There's definitely some bad running advice available on the internet and the LLMs/GenAI are training on/using that bad advice.

On the whole I do think there is value for using ChatGPT, etc for stuff like this but always trust your own common sense over the AI.
(I use AI pretty heavily at work and I have learned the hard way that if there's a conflict between my instincts and the AI, my instincts are usually right).

Also, never say please or thank you to ChatGPT, that destroys the environment (most GenAI is spectacularly bad for the environment but politeness essentially causes it to use massive energy for no payoff)