And your results speaks for itself: #27 th place in Ironman World Championships in Kona with incredibly strong run where you kept climbing up the results list km after km. 
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wow! Great result! Congratulazioni
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I’ve used Athletica and Tridot.
Workouts: Tridot has more varied workouts. Athletica workouts are almost always the same for me, with minor variations around the sets (3x5 instead of 2x9 30/30s, stuff like that) but rarely anything that truly mixes it up. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, since consistency is one of the most important parts of training, but it’s something to note. Athletica also seems to write generally easy workouts most of the time, and I find myself wondering if I’m actually capable of more than the AI “thinks” I am.
Testing: Tridot does monthly testing. That seemed like too much testing to me, but Athletica never retests once a plan has begun and that feels like too little. In a perfect word the AI or algorithm would monitor your progress and schedule a threshold test when you seem to have adapted to the current training.
Interface: Both have interfaces that I found to be pretty difficult to use. TrainingPeaks remains the king in user interface in my opinion. Tridot has mostly the same metrics as Athletica, but it gives them dumb proprietary names that obfuscate what the metric actually means.
Overall, I like Athletica more. It’s more flexible and feels more…serious. Tridot’s marketing copy, the way they present everything, just feels weird to me. Add in that they lay a turd on IRONMAN’s carpet recently and I don’t feel they are on the right track. Athletica’s “AI” drives me nuts, but I like the overall experience much better.
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Humango has an intuitive and attractive interface but lacks scientific support, a structured plan, it uses a BLOCK Periodization so in the BUILD phase you will have almost exclusively STRENGTH training on the bike or run and PEAK only TRESHOLD and VO2 MAX but it is very limited. I used it twice for about 1 year and 7 months, I was also an AMBASSADOR but I had to change my mind because I was not able to achieve my results, and even the athletes I recommended it to were disappointed.
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@Giuseppe85 Agreed for HumanGO. Though I would say that the attractiveness just hides the weird behavior and strange ways some things work in it. I’ve also given it a try a few times, and didn’t feel as though it really challenged me to improve. My go-to is JOIN, which has worked for me, though I keep my eye here on Athletica and try it every so often to see how it is evolving and improving.
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