Si and Dan are heading back to the UCI Gravel World Championships, but their paths to peak fitness couldn’t be more different. While Si is sticking with the legendary coaching of Simon Jones, Dan has decided to put his trust in the power of AI to see if data-driven insights can give him the edge. Follow along as the boys endure brutal critical power tests and reveal their final 10-week training blocks for the big race!
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Chapters: ⏱️
00:00 – Intro: Heading To The World Champs
02:26 – What We’ve Been Up To Since Australia
04:52 – Pro Coach vs AI Coach: The Plan
07:58 – Si’s Pro Training Schedule
11:48 – Dan’s AI Coaching Strategy
14:48 – The Fitness Test: Critical Power
19:51 – Fitness Test Results
21:01 – Recovery & Slumps
23:19 – Competition & Motivation
25:18 – Apply To Be Si’s Soigneur!
23:19 – Competition & Motivation
25:18 – Apply To Be Si’s Soigneur!
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Whose training approach would you trust more for a World Championship: the years of experience from a pro coach like Simon Jones, or the 24/7 data-crunching power of an AI like Anna? Let us know your thoughts in the comments! 👇
Skipped the AI stuff. It isn't "the most recent research" it's just a fancy thing that finds answers already available. So it won't be telling you to do anything better than you could find in a recent endurance training book with no overly personalised methods. And if it's telling you something novel, there's no reason to trust it
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Very disappointed in GCN….. NO AI!!!!
Dan, sounds like you have fallen back into like likeing if not loving cycling! Would be great to have a video on your feelings after the on a while back on how you fell out of love with it. What has made you stick with it? Not overdoing it? Not obsessing about stats? Being able to obsess about stats? What do you think this means for other things in life in general that may have fallen by the wayside?
Good luck to you both and hope you both enjoy the training!
Wishing you both the best of luck and courage for your training.
I will be fascinated to see how the AI assistant works out. I have caught out AI telling me a few porkies in the past, not for sporting endeavours though, so how will you keep her honest? But, I guess as a pre-calibrated expert system, an AI coach shouldn't suffer the more common brain-farts other generalist systems have. Best of luck
The FU on the ceiling of the pain cave thoooo hahaha
hell yeah! can't wait for it.
Get rid of AI – honestly this bit pissed me off on what would have been an otherwise good video :/
Not too sure why everyone is ripping on A.I. training? If you've followed Garmin's training and rest recommendations, you've used a very rudementary A.I. already.
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Now I understand Si's always wrinkled t-shirts and sweatshirts. There's no room in the pain cave for an ironing board.
Can't wait to see how well you guys do. Especially glad to see Dan on his bike properly again.
Nice and polite message on the pain cave ceiling….
AI isn't very popular in the states these days. Please reconsider.
Joining the chorus of anti-AI voices. The environmental impact of AI is horrific and growing steadily worse. Ride your values, GCN!! Keep cycling sustainable!
I'm not a fan of AI. However, all the best to both of you and I hope that your respective plans significantly improve your results in the race and that you really enjoy both the process and the race.
I would love to see you paying some attention on bike handling skills. Specially in gravel, it's sooo important. Fitness is not everything. And we could learn a lot from you.
Cheers and good luck!
Brilliant. "I'm genuinely … enthusiastic and very excited about this prospect", not as much as I am, Dan. This is what makes sport compelling; when you cannot predict how the story ends. Can having an AI coach end up funnier than comparing the size of your legs with a cast of Tom Boonen's ?
You guys have become so horrible
Couple of stooges
Yes boys! Looking forward to this race! Lloydie, does Lorraine know about Anna?🤣
Oh wow, come on Dan!!! 😮❤
Is that "F U" on Si's cellar roof from when he rage quit after a hard session…? ^^
Good luck guys
Hate AI.
Regarding AI doesn't Wahoo system X already do this ?
Can’t believe there are so many people crying about ai😂😂
Hope you rethink the AI coach based on the feedback you've got so far
Interesting to see how this AI coaching thing is going to work
Nice to see that Si and I share the same interior designer for our indoor training area…. Will there be a worlds haircut for Si ? … it would be good to see the “short back and battle of Hastings “ make a return 👊🏻 …. Love you , bye……
@27:17 I'm just wondering where Si was looking when he asked Anna?!?! 😮🥴🤭🤣
Love the AI exploration Dan, super cool to lean in and just play and explore. seeing others run from AI coaching is like watching a guy emerge from a cave, dragging a sledge, with the first carved stone wheel on the sledge…. Go Anna, show us what you’ve got. Adam and Angie T
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Are Anna's earrings any aero? Aerrings? And apologies at adding additional annoying alliteration.
Awesome!! I'm doing AI coaching with Ana exactly because of all the psycho hate for AI. 😂😂 Luv it!
never thought the Jetson's Rosey the robot would ever be a cycling couch 🤔😅
Nick Roach actually finished 3rd in the 2023 elite race. 😂😂
Its a no from me with AI
The least of places I was expecting to see slop, bullshit, crap AI "training" being promoted, even as a joke this is not funny… Imagine being friends with a Pro level coach and going for a stupid bot.
Looking forward to following this journey, and I am also really interested in any changes in equipment, setup, or race day approach based upon your seven gravel experiences
Dan's motivation is infectious, curious about the AI coach sounds great but I think we've all learned that it's better not to trust AI blindly. I'm confident, that Dan is able to tell if or when the AI is giving bad training advice and if it happens I'm hoping he'll tell us about it…
Ah man, thought it was going to be the return of GCN+
I've only ever used the power meter in my e-bike and I never got more than 250W. I feel like a noodle and I'm a good 15 years younger than Dan
stopped watching as soon as this ai bullshit came up.
Genuinely disappointed in the use of AI in a sport founded on connection and community.
No ai! Would never use AI
No, no, no. Grim AI stealing real human knowledge and hard work and sicking it back up via a cheesy avatar, gross 🤮
Very interesting to see how the AI coaching will go, I use Gemini to suggest sessions for the runners I coach, especially as a lot of the pro run sessions are in distance and you need to scale them down for average people. Sometimes it completely misses the mark though, curious to see the workout plans that come up.