An Imperfect Journey

I’d just flown from Florence back home to Mexico City the previous day. I was laying in bed in the morning, jet lagged, sleep deprived and feeling like I was coming down with a cold. I opened an app I was using to help me train for a 50k trail race a few months away in Marin, California, and the app told me to get out there and run nearly two hours.

I get it. I needed to maintain my training level, but come on! Life happens sometimes. We get sick, injured, jet lagged, hung over or just stay up too late at a friend’s wedding. We’re all imperfect. But, we want to set ambitious goals, despite our imperfections. If anything, our imperfections make us who we are. Our training shouldn’t try to make us “fully optimized” or make plans through “maximum suffering!”

The training recommendation on that jet lagged, sleep deprived, coming down with a cold morning felt similar to trying to follow MapQuest directions when you miss a highway exit. What I really wanted was a training plan more akin to Waze. Oops! I missed a turn. Let’s take another. There’s something unexpected like staying up later than you should (even if it was just for a vicious doom scrolling cycle of death). It’s much better to get some yoga for an active recovery day and knock out the two hour run the following morning.

We are all so beautifully unique. I like running in mountains, climbing, coding, and I have scoliosis. One person may be training for their first 10k while another is preparing to run from Tijuana to Las Vegas in the objectively mad The Speed Project. Maybe you don’t want to drop a fortune on a bike for triathlons and want to compete in your first swimrun event where you have to alternate between running and swimming without any change of clothes. Or, you love flying down trails and are training  for a downhill mountain biking race. Our uniqueness isn’t an imperfection.

Enter Imperfect

I found myself and others dumping training and health data into an eternal AI chat session. It was messy, but I couldn’t find a better way. So… let’s build one!

Imperfect adapts to you and your goals. It pulls data from your wearables, weather, air quality and remembers you like sleeping in on Sundays and going on long hikes with your dogs. It recommends what you should eat before and after a workout, and when it recommends 30g of protein, you can ask questions like, “How many barbacoa tacos is that?”

You’ll love it or your money back.

Well… Imperfect is free right now, and there’ll always be a free plan.

The Imperfect team and I have been building Imperfect for the last couple of months. We built it for ourselves and love it. We’re sure you’ll love it as well.

You can download Imperfect at imperfect.co/app