Should You Trust an AI Running Coach? | For Better or For Worse

We're two days out of our bachelor and bachelorette parties and Alex ran through his. Every morning. Hungover. Was that crazy, or completely reasonable? Alexis has strong thoughts, and you get to decide who's right in our new "His or Hers" segment.

This week on For Better or For Worse, Alex Cyr and Alexis D'Souza get into it about running on big life days, how to stay motivated when your next race is four months away, whether AI coaches are going to replace human ones and why Alex is convinced that distance runners physically cannot dance.

Chapters:
0:00 – Cold open: the AI coach question
0:48 – Welcome to For Better or For Worse
1:08 – First solo episode (no videographer)
2:17 – Bachelor & bachelorette party highlights
6:09 – The Goan Ros ceremony: coconut milk, blessings & a rogue beer
10:11 – His or Hers: should you run on your bachelor party?
15:04 – Alexis's case for designing your own celebration
18:06 – Alexis runs with a friend for the first time
19:00 – Motivation check-in: two runners, opposite problems
24:51 – Alex's mid-season motivation crisis (19 weeks to Valencia)
26:11 – The fix: sign up for more races & the Buffalo proposal
31:18 – AI running coaches: hot or not?
33:27 – Alexis would go AI first, human coach second
37:44 – What happens when your run goes wrong — human vs. AI
42:05 – Should we try an AI-assisted training plan?
44:45 – Homework review: Alexis's longest run & Alex's wedding planning grade
47:11 – New homework: Alex must learn to dance
48:18 – The slow-twitch theory: why runners can't dance
53:32 – Could Rory Linkletter do the worm? A serious discussion
55:36 – Alexis's big running milestone: out of clean kit
56:51 – Wedding 5K in PEI + what's coming next