Blog
News and ideas from Navara — training, data, and the tools between them.
July 16, 2026
The Navara beta is open — and it's free
The public beta is live on TestFlight — no waitlist, no invite codes, and everything free during the beta. Here's what's inside and how to join.
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July 16, 2026
How we built Navara
Five months, 505 commits, 161 pull requests: one runner and an AI pair-built a local-first fitness platform. The architecture, the war stories, and what building with Claude Code is actually like.
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July 15, 2026
Training for the SF Marathon with the app I'm building
Twenty-one weeks of marathon training inside Navara — adaptive targets, an AI coach that argued about the taper, and a race predictor I'm trying not to refresh. Race day: July 27.
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July 15, 2026
The week our AI coach taught our training engine
We connected Claude to a real training plan, watched it argue with our safety validator, and ended up changing both the guardrails and the training engine itself.
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July 15, 2026
Why Navara exists
Fourteen years of running data taught me something: the apps we trust with our fitness stories don't treat them like ours. Here's the thinking behind the local-first alternative.
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July 13, 2026
Leaving Strava? Take your entire history with you
A step-by-step guide to exporting your full Strava archive — every activity and GPS route — and importing it into Navara in minutes.
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July 13, 2026
Talk to your training plan
Connect Navara to Claude and have a real conversation with your training data — ask how you're tracking, debate your next block, and approve plan changes in the app.
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