I originally created Pufferized as a simple tool to track my training leading up to Strathpuffer 2025.
I'd been injured for a few months and needed to follow a pretty strict plan. As someone that loves software almost as much as they love bikes, I decided to build a simple app to check off all the sessions I needed to do each week.
A couple of years later... Pufferized has grown into a pretty advanced, and very community-driven AI coaching platform that helps people prepare for various challenging events, beyond just the 'Puffer.
'The Coach'
The focus of Pufferized very much remains on simply tracking your training plan: checking off sessions each week. Keeping an eye on the long term goal. Nice and simple.
Having said that, what makes Pufferized special (in my opinion at least) is our ridiculously deep knowledge of the events we help people train for and how that enables our AI coaching tools ('The Coach') to give people extremely personalised advice.
This AI component has grown to be the core of the platform in many ways, partly because Large Language Models have evolved to become so good at analysing large sets of data.
Today, even one person's training process has become an incredibly rich set of data. From basics like logging how many hours we train or the sessions we're doing, to complex data sets like heart rate and power patterns on long rides. Not to mention sleep, HRV, and nutrition. And what happens when we then understand the actual event you are training for?
Gathering things like historic race results, and getting permission to use different participants data from any event: power, heart-rate and physiological profiles for different performance categories.
This data alone allows us to predict an athlete's performance for their specific event. To tell them how to train in order to perform better, and based on their own personal goals. This was just the start of a very deep rabbit hole...
I also gathered qualitative insights from athletes: detailed breakdowns on how they train, what kind of bike set-up they use for different events, and very specific insider knowledge about where to park your car, or where to find food when you're having an existential crisis at 3am.
Alongside the technical training advice, these insights mean our coach can share very human guidance from real athletes. A lovely loop of re-distributing wisdom.
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