Week 11: Off to the Races

The community is at 977 members, 23 short of a thousand. Most Miles in a Month is off to a strong start, with Team Apollo out front at 247 and Team Poseidon at 173. Strength is now 46% of the community, second only to road running, so this is a week for the lifters.

What we built last week

• The ultimate health coach: Oura's design, WHOOP's recovery and healthspan, and Strava's intelligence in one screen, built on Garmin and Claude
• Custom Strava challenges: using ChatGPT to automate the tedious parts
• The jump height model: measuring vertical leap with your phone camera
• The squat form model: every rep graded on depth, knee track, bar path and spine angle
• Strava + Claude: my top 5 prompts, plus how to connect for anyone new
• How elite Ethiopian runners train: an AI read 22,605 GPS records from some of the best distance runners on earth, and we turned it into a plan grounded in your own data

Coming this week

• Connecting Claude to the WHOOP API: the full tutorial
• Hevy integration: getting your lifting data out of the app and next to everything else
• Balancing lifting with endurance training: the poll winner at 10 of 14 votes

Community notes

• Growth: 977 members, up from 930.
• Most Miles in a Month: Apollo 247, Poseidon 173. Tracking a multi-sport team challenge by hand is painful, and nobody has built a good app for it yet.
• Shelved: the aero model. It never got accurate enough to trust, so it waits until the tech catches up.
• Mindset: this week's poll asks whether members want a series on the mental side of training.

Kevin