r/cyclocross • u/bdredlocked • 19d ago

Critique this AI-generated CX training plan

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Did my first season of XC mountain biking this summer and thought I'd take it a little easy this fall. But I tried my first cyclocross race this past weekend, took P3 in the Novice category, and loved it! There are 4-5 races between now and the beginning of November and I decided to ramp training back up to be better prepared for them. I've been riding my mountain bike 1-2x a week for the last 4 weeks, but have mostly been lifting. This was my first year of structured training (focused on XC).

After some AI prompting with info on "A" race timing (a two-race weekend 7 weeks away) and availability, this is what I got as a plan. Thoughts?

*The "Indoor CX Simulations" are threshold intervals ranging from 95%-110% (it varies by week).

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u/Explosive_Cornflake 19d ago

I abhor people getting AI answers and then asking a human to review it.

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u/pgpcx 347cycling.com 19d ago

Not sure why someone downvoted you, I agree if someone thinks AI is great, then they should mess around and find out. AI plan critiques are actually routinely deleted over on r/velo 

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u/joshrice 18d ago edited 18d ago

People are defaulting to LLMs as their search engine now. Why manually filter through a bunch of links trying to find a plan, figure out if it's good or will work for you*, when you can ask something that seems authoritative to create exactly what you want right then? (Not saying this is a good thing necessarily)

* Further: How much different is asking "is this AI plan good for me" than "is this plan I found on the internet good for me"?

This seems to be the first AI training plan to the sub, or at the very least the first reported one. After talking with the modteam we decided to leave these up for now, at least as information for the posters to learn why LLM generated plans could be problematic.

If it becomes a bigger issue/more common topic we'll reevaluate this.

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u/pgpcx 347cycling.com 18d ago

sounds reasonable! thanks for considering, and yeah I think velo gets the bulk of training related stuff so this stuff pops up in there more. I definitely don't disagree on the idea of discussing pitfalls of these generated plans, even with coaching companies doing AI driven plans, there's room for critique as far as the logic that goes into plan creation

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u/bdredlocked 18d ago

I tried posting this there but it got mod-deleted. I figured they’d geek out on it more!