03/18/2026
Garmin Connect doesn’t make it easy to analyze long-term running trends. I had 19 screenshots of my running data from the past year and wanted a simple way to actually use it.
I uploaded them into Google AI Studio and prompted it to:
– Convert the data into a structured spreadsheet
– Include metrics like distance, pace, heart rate, cadence, etc.
– Calculate averages across the dataset
– Provide a summary of performance trends
Within minutes, I had a clean dataset and insights that would have taken hours to build manually.
Biggest takeaway: AI is incredibly useful for turning messy, unstructured data into something actionable. This data report visualized my improvements over the past year, confirming that my running efficiency has increased.
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