By Meredith Dietz
Publication Date: 2026-10-29 18:30:00
This week, Strava announced a new integration with Google Gemini, giving subscribers another way to understand their progress and get more out of their training. It builds on the company’s recent launch with Claude, and it lets subscribers connect Strava directly to Gemini to get more contextual, personalized answers grounded in their own activity history.
Once connected, you can ask questions like:
“Am I getting faster at the same heart rate?”
“Can you give me a detailed analysis of how I performed in my last race?”
“How is my strength training impacting my running?”
Some important context here: Strava’s AI “insights” have sort of sucked, and annoyed me, in the past. Athlete Intelligence (conveniently abbreviated as AI) is the Strava feature that writes text responses to your workouts. Strava calls these “insights,” but as far as I can tell they mostly regurgitate the information from the workout description, sometimes with added errors. I’ve found AI fitness…
