Connect Claude to Gravel Coach
Prefer coaching from Claude? Add Gravel Coach as a connector and Claude can work directly with your training data — using the Claude models your own subscription gives you.
Add the connector
- Sign in to Gravel Coach at least once so your athlete account exists (you are reading this, so you probably have).
- In Claude, open Customize → Connectors and choose Add custom connector — or use the button below, which pre-fills the form.
- Paste the connector URL and click Add. Claude will send you through the Gravel Coach sign-in and consent screen.
- Start a conversation. Try the gravel_coach prompt from the connector to have Claude coach you the way Gravel Coach does.
Connector URL
https://coach.gravelhub.io/api/mcpCustom connectors work on every Claude plan; the Free plan allows one connector.
What Claude can do
- Read your profile, bikes, imported rides, training plans, nutrition plans, and event-day plans
- Calculate training zones, ride fueling targets, and event pacing
- Search upcoming events and analyze RideWithGPS routes
- Ground advice in the Gravel Coach knowledge base
- Create and adjust training plans, nutrition plans, and event-day plans, update your profile, and log rides — each of these asks you to confirm first
Everything Claude creates or changes shows up here in Gravel Coach — plans on the plans page, rides under activities, and the strategy you work out for an event in its Event-Day Plan section on the event's page and in the Coach tile on your dashboard. Conversations you have in Claude stay in Claude; they do not appear in the in-app chat history.
Privacy and control
- Claude only ever acts as you. Your identity is bound to the sign-in you complete when connecting; nothing in a conversation can point Claude at another athlete's data.
- Reads happen silently. Anything that changes your data prompts Claude to ask you first, and creating a new training plan archives your previous active plan.
- Disconnect any time from Claude's Connectors settings. Access is revoked immediately.
Want the built-in coach instead? Open the chat.