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Export your Strava data into a private AI brain
Strava’s bulk export is a complete record of where and how you train. The brain keeps the activities, the clubs and the athletes you follow — and reduces every route to its start point.
What a Strava export holds — and what the brain makes of it
The export is a zip of CSV plus one GPX file per activity. The brain builder reads activities as dated events with a sport type, clubs as organizations, follower and following athletes as people, and your profile city. For the map it takes only the first point of each GPX — the place you set off from — so your regular training spots show as pins without a single full track entering the vault.
Beside a Google Takeout the Strava places join the same map: the trail you ran on holiday sits next to the restaurant you rated there.
Get the export
How to export your Strava data
The exact clicks, as they are today. Platforms move menus; the engine’s source docs are updated when they do.
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strava.com → Settings → My Account → Download or Delete Your Account
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Download Request → ZIP arrives by email
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Drop the archive on Strava in Studio’s Sources — or tell Claude Code or Codex “build my brain from this”. The source is detected by itself, even inside a combined archive.
Then, next month
An export is a snapshot. Drop a newer one and press Update: your edits and _notes/ are kept, and the update report says what changed.
Then ask it
What you can ask a brain built from Strava
Examples, not promises: the answer is whatever your notes hold, and every answer cites the notes it came from. The more exports you add, the more these questions cross sources.
- Where do I train most often, and which sports in each place?
- Which clubs am I in, and who in my network is in the same club?
- How did my activity volume change over the last two years?
limitRoutes are deliberately reduced to start points; the brain cannot replay a run or show a track.
Good to know
The honest answers.
Is my home location exposed? Only the start point of each activity becomes a pin, and the build runs on your machine with zero network calls — nothing is uploaded. If you start most runs at home, consider which activities you include.
Does it import heart rate or pace? No. Activities become dated events with a type and a start place; performance data stays in the export.
Start
Your Strava export already exists. Turn it into a brain.
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