First of all, Kevin, thank you for opening my eyes to this whole journey. Genuinely didn't expect to end up here.
I went a little off the grid since day 2. I did the days that made sense for me at this time and skipped the race specific ones because I'm nursing an injury.
I loved the coach persona rationale so I added recovery expert and nutritionist personas, grounded in books and research I admire. This became a whole system: real macro tracking, proposed daily nutrition based on projected expenditure from training plan.
Registered for a Withings dev account and automated a morning routine. Withings Body comp sync → Garmin sync → a gate that checks if I'm actually awake yet → recovery call → nutrition plan, all in one Desktop scheduled task at 5:05am.
And then the dashboard, went full 80s synthwave, obviously.