About StrideIQ
A better question became a living system.
What could one person understand about their body if every run, meal, night of sleep, recovery signal, lab, choice, and result remained part of one continuous record?
Built from the inside
The athlete came first.
Michael Shaffer is a lifelong self-coached runner and systems builder. Before StrideIQ, he built medical testing and laboratory systems around a familiar truth: information becomes more useful when it can be seen together and understood in context.
StrideIQ began when he brought that same discipline to the athlete's record. The result is the system he wanted beside him: exacting enough to build a world-class season, curious enough to keep learning, and clear enough to return every decision to the person living it.
The Record
One athlete. One timeline.
A year of Michael Shaffer's running, as StrideIQ holds it.
01 The year
344 runs. 2,414 miles. One record.
Every run StrideIQ's founder recorded in the twelve months to September 26, 2026. Height is distance, color is the kind of run, the marks are his races, and his bests since his return to running are named at their official chip times.
- Recovery
- Easy
- Long
- Steady
- Threshold
- Intervals
- Race
02 The block
Eleven weeks, two bests since his return to running.
Eleven weeks of his own training before the December 10K, one circle for each day he ran: long runs of up to 22 miles, a half marathon in 1:27:14 on November 29, then a 10K in 39:14 two weeks later.
03 The race
December 13: a 39:14 10K, his best since returning to running.
Miles of 6:09, 6:22, 6:33, 6:14, 6:20 and 6:17 on a 34°F morning, his heart rate between 157 and 162 from the second mile on.
What it became
One place for the whole athlete.
Plan the season
Deterministic training built around the athlete's history, constraints, and destination.
Study the work
Maps, splits, intervals, synchronized streams, and the detail runners use to understand a run.
Read the whole record
Nutrition, sleep, recovery, health, training, and daily life held together across time.
Act with agency
Evidence made legible, choices remembered, and the final decision kept with the athlete.
The system earns the interpretation. The athlete keeps the agency.