Forget luck. Regular sports fans are now using AI to make picks that used to be reserved for the pros.

Waking up at dawn to pay for an overblown entry fee, plus surprise licensing charges, mandatory coffee stops, and post-race burger-and-beer rituals—it’s all gotten out of hand. Worse yet, you’re likely to spend the next three hours hammered by the leading pack, riding at an intensity more suited to an Olympic track pursuit than the open gravel roads we once revered for their simplicity.