Strava has added Google's Gemini to the assistants its subscribers can link to their accounts, so the chatbot can answer questions from their own recorded workouts. Announced on 28 October, it follows an earlier link with Anthropic's Claude.
It works on any Gemini plan and is rolling out first in the US, with no date for other countries. Users pick Strava in Gemini's Personal Intelligence settings, sign in and authorise. The link is optional, read-only and can be removed at any time.
Strava suggests questions like how to get faster at the same heart rate, or how strength work affects running. Newer insights cover a fastest 10K this year, heat and wind effects, and streaks by sport.
About Strava
Strava is a San Francisco-based fitness app and social network where people record, share and analyse runs, rides and other activities. It was founded in 2009 by Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath, with other co-founders.
In May 2025 Strava bought the running app Runna and the cycling app Breakaway, a deal that lifted its valuation to about $2.2 billion including debt. On 1 June 2026 it launched an MCP connector that let subscribers query their data through Anthropic's Claude; its vice president of partnerships said athletes wanted more ways to analyse their own training data.
The Claude connector arrived on 1 June 2026, built on MCP. Before it, athletes pasted exported data into chatbots by hand.
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