Visualise your runs using AI - Strava MCP Post 2 of 2

Create your own user interface

This is the second of two posts looking at Strava and AI. To read the introduction - see https://northeastrunning.blogspot.com/2026/10/analyse-your-running-using-ai.html

Why download an App? When you can create your own?

Claude has the ability to create 'Artefacts' which are basically clickable visualisations/presentations of data.

So for the second part of my Strava MCP Claude experiments I thought I'd build my own visualisation interface into my running history.

I decided I'd prioritise two views - (1) A world explorer and (2) a summary of my marathons.

The first view below summarises all of my runs since 2017. A mix of work trips and family holidays means I have been fortunate to explore the world a bit - and having a clickable map which groups runs into areas looks so cool.

World explorer view

Most of this is generated from me just typing into Strava - "Create an artefact - impress me with what you can do - and use the data from X". No coding. But them refining a bit like suggesting 'pick a stand out run', 'add flags' etc...

So the lower part of this tab allows me to click on a region of the world and get a summary of the major locations, and a highlighted stand out run in each. I asked it to prioritise (a) race first, but if no race, then (b) longest run.
Summary of a world region with highlighted race

Then I created a second tab with the prompt "Create a second tab to the artefact focusing on my five marathons. (all will be tagged as races and be about 42km in distance) - york, edinburgh, london, manchester, chester - impress me with how you present the new tab" - again, no software development - just me challenging Claude to impress me with it's 'AI power' ;)

It came up with the following...
A special focus on the marathons

Clicking on each race then did a race overview summary - not dissimilar to the Strava summary - but with some nice touches such as 5k splits and a first half/second half comparison.
Analysis of each marathon

...and finally, without me even suggesting it, it produced a nice comparison of the splits. I may get it to even out London which dips around the Canary Wharf area (famously impossible GPS) spoiling this graph a little.
Race comparison overlays

If you want to create something like this for yourself - see my into post https://northeastrunning.blogspot.com/2026/10/analyse-your-running-using-ai.html

I'll also do a third post soon with a full set of instructions you can enter into your own Claude if you want exactly what is above.

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