By Mathias Eichler
Electric Cable Car is part of Trail Tracks Network.
Just a month until the new Skyrunner USA National Series kicks off. Four incredible races invite you to touch the sky: Whiteface Skyrace, Beast of Big Creek, Skeetawk Skyline Scramble, Kismet Cliff Run.
From their press announcement from a couple of days ago:
Strava, the app for active people with more than 195 million users in more than 185 countries, today announced the launch of a Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector that lets subscribers query their own Strava data through Claude and get in-depth insights about their training.
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Once a subscriber connects their Strava account to Claude, they can ask a series of natural-language questions relating to their own data.
Building tools to increase user engagement during a time when social media engagement in general is falling rapidly is probably a smart thing for Strava (the number of kudos I give and receive has fallen sharply in recent months). And the effectiveness can be measured in “engagement”, not necessarily delivering actual usefulness, so letting folks ask AI within the app if their training is going well seems reasonable – no matter if the reply is actually true.
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