How it works
A chat in. A route you can actually run, out.
Stricca pairs a conversational assistant with a real road-routing engine and a hand-checked map of places worth running. Here’s what’s happening under the hood.
1. Describe it, in plain English
No forms, no drawing on a map. Say “a flat, quiet 8 km by the river” or “10 km past the castle and back, a few hills.” Stricca reads your distance, how you feel about climbs, whether you want quiet streets or trails, and any place you want to pass.
2. Real routes, not AI guesses
The AI only interprets your brief — the actual line is drawn by a self-hosted routing engine on OpenStreetMap data, snapped to real footpaths and streets. So a route is always something you can genuinely run or walk, never an invented squiggle.
3. It reads the ground
Routes are gradient-aware (a “flat” request avoids the steepest pitches, not just total climb) and surface-aware (paved, trail, or a mix). Ask for quiet roads, a “challenging” off-road loop, or a “scenic” line, and Stricca biases the route — then tells you honestly how much is unpaved, how many bridges you cross, or where it had to use a main road.
4. Real places, real data
Ask to pass “the river,” “a viewpoint,” or “somewhere challenging” and Stricca routes you by genuinely notable local spots — from a curated set of 4,923 hand-checked places to run across 42 countries, every single coordinate verified against OpenStreetMap. Elevation and surface come from open map data too, with the source always cited.
5. A GPX you own
Every route downloads as a standard GPX that drops straight into Strava, Garmin, Komoot or your watch. No lock-in, no fragile third-party API — it’s your file.
6. Track your runs — and learn your pace
Mark a route “run” (or connect Strava and let it tick off the routes you actually run). Your routes build a personal map — dashed where they’re still planned, solid once run — and tapping one shows its climb profile and pace. Log a time or two and Stricca learns your pace and hill effort, then shows a personalised time estimate (“≈ 48 min for you”) on every route it builds. Your data is shown only to you.
7. Draw your run
For fun: ask Stricca to spell a word or trace a shape, and it routes the letters or outline along real streets — GPS art you can actually run, made for birthdays, proposals and milestones.
8. Runners and walkers alike
It’s a foot-routing engine, so it serves runs, walks, hikes and dog-walks equally. Stricca mirrors your words — ask for a walk and it talks about a walk.
9. Honest about what it can’t see
Stricca knows a road is walkable, but it can’t see live traffic, pavement width or a closed gate. It says so, and nudges you to glance at the satellite view and obey local signage before heading out.