Everything lope reads, learns, and coaches on.
Twenty-plus capabilities under the hood, most invisible to Strava. The depth is the point — it's what turns your training history into coaching that actually fits how you train.
Request early accessReads your runs
Per-activity intelligence with route shape, terrain-adjusted drift, and stream-level analysis.
Knows you
Personalized zones, long-run thresholds that learn, and goal-weighted training scores.
Coaches you
Four coaching methodologies, dedicated knowledge bases, continuity across chats.
Catches patterns
Gray zone, mileage trends, intensity distribution, and zone-2 pace progression.
Reads what Strava can't compute
Strava records what happened. lope derives what it means. Every synced activity gets seven layers of analysis you don't see in Strava's chart view — terrain-adjusted cardiac drift, fade detection, route shape from the polyline, elevation by half. The coach reasons over those signals, not just the splits.
- Auto run classification — Easy, Long Run, Threshold, VO2max, Race, Recovery, Strides
- Smart stride detection — catches the 6×100m at the end of an easy run that you didn't tag
- Route shape — loop, out-and-back, or point-to-point, derived from your GPS polyline
- Elevation by half — surfaces front-loaded vs back-loaded climbing within a run
- Cardiac drift, raw and flat-only — separates fatigue from terrain on hilly routes
- Per-second zone distribution from raw HR streams, not lap averages
Adapts to your fitness, not a textbook
Generic apps use age-predicted zones and one-size-fits-all training plans. lope reads your race history, your observed max HR, your weekly mileage, and your manual overrides — and recalibrates as your fitness changes. The coaching is a function of you, not a function of the average athlete.
- Smart heart rate zones — race-based LTHR is the gold standard, observed max HR with cluster analysis is the fallback
- Long-run threshold scales with your weekly mileage and learns from your overrides
- Goal-weighted training scores — 5K weights are not marathon weights
- Athlete notes — injury, sleep, equipment context the coach factors into every reply
- Units preference — paced everywhere in miles or kilometers
An AI coach with a real coaching philosophy
The coach isn't a generic AI prompted to sound runner-ish. It's grounded in a synthesized coaching philosophy from four endurance methodologies, paired with knowledge bases for training science, injury prevention, race execution, and fueling. Your training context is injected into every conversation.
How the coach is built →Precise, purpose-driven workout prescription. Every run has a specific physiological target.
The aerobic engine is paramount. Easy running should be genuinely easy.
80/20 distribution. Most runners run too hard on easy days. Fixing this is the highest-leverage change.
Marathon training demands race-specific work under fatigue. Long runs with race-pace segments.
Sees what's happening across weeks, not just runs
A single run rarely tells you anything. Trends across four weeks tell you everything. lope flags the gray-zone drift that quietly stalls progress, the weekly mileage jumps that increase injury risk, and the zone-2 pace progression that signals real aerobic improvement.
- Gray zone detection — flags the percentage of easy-run time that drifted into Zone 3 across 4 weeks
- 80/20 intensity distribution check — are you hitting the right ratio of easy to quality?
- Weekly mileage trend — 10%+ jumps flagged before injury risk creeps in
- Zone-2 pace progression — same HR, faster pace = aerobic improvement
- Composite training-score trend — improving, stable, or declining, week over week
Built to be transparent.
Every feature here has a doc that explains the formula, the threshold, and the trade-off. We don't hide behind “the algorithm” — if a number on your dashboard surprises you, you can read exactly how it's calculated.
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