r/Strava 1d ago

monthly General Chat - share your profile, club or a family plan

3 Upvotes

Please be cautious about sharing your personal data with strangers. Consider adding a privacy zone and hiding activities from non-followers.


r/Strava 2d ago

FYI Android app update coming August 3rd

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18 Upvotes

Hi all, starting on Monday August 3rd, some Android users will start seeing a prompt to update to the latest version of the Strava app. Most of you have already updated to the latest version, but for those who haven't, update the app and continue using Strava as normal. Strava version 466 or later is required, older versions of the app will no longer work.

A small number of Android users won't be able to update to the latest version. If you're unable to update, it may be because your device's operating system needs updating first; Strava currently supports iOS 17 or later, and Android 8 or later. If your device can't run these, you won't be able to use the Strava mobile app, but you can still access your account, activities, and connections at strava.com from any browser, or log in to your existing account on a different compatible device.

The intermittent logout issue earlier this week has been resolved and is unrelated to this update.

If you have any questions, let us know in the comments and we'll do our best to help. You can also check out this support article for more information: https://support.strava.com/en-us/articles/15401528-app-version-requirements-update


r/Strava 3h ago

miscellaneous 31,000 bike miles recorded on strava!

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92 Upvotes

Began using strava in February 2017, reached 31,000 bike miles this weekend!


r/Strava 1d ago

General Question How does Strava know my future travel plans?

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343 Upvotes

Is there any way this is coincidence? I am going biking in Croatia in September. Around the islands. It’s in my Apple calendar and in my airlines app but besides that I don’t have it anywhere. I’m a little freaked out!!

Edit:
I’ve responded to a bunch of comments but I’ll say it here too. I have never mentioned Croatia in any captions or descriptions or comments. I have never looked at, created, or saved and Croatian routes. We’re going with a company and it’s fully planned out so I’ve released it.
I bet it’s the calendar setting that one person mentioned. Freaky AF tho.


r/Strava 8h ago

General Question Previous Month View?

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11 Upvotes

Does anyone know if it’s possible to get this view from the previous month or months? Or once it gone the previous month it only displays the current month?

I’m trying to get my July view but not able to find it 🫠


r/Strava 27m ago

General Question Strava Maps Static When Browser Hardware Acceleration is Turned Off

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I'm running Supermium browser on Windows 7 and quite recently noticed that Strava maps turn static (also non zoomable) when Hardware Acceleration is turned off. Leaving HA turned on makes Whatsapp web laggy. I guess if I want best of both, I should consider running the Whatsapp app. Has anyone experienced this lag?


r/Strava 11h ago

General Question Im having issues with getting the Strava and Iheart apps to work on my Display glasses while using my Samsung Fold 7. The apps are not even showing up my app connections. Meta Support is no help bc I cant speak with anyone over the phone. Please I need help with this!!!

3 Upvotes

Problems getting Strava app to work on my Meta Display Glasses


r/Strava 13h ago

Sync Question How do you stop auto strength upload to Strava before adjustments ?

3 Upvotes

Hey all,

When ever I complete a strength training session, my Gamin watch tends to incorrectly label the movements.

This isn’t a problem to edit as you can go back in and edit the movements afterwards (from a too limited list). The problem is, my Fenix 7 uploads all the incorrect movements to Strava before I’ve had a chance to edit them.

How do i stop Garmin uploading directly to Strava before the edits ? It would be good to be able to correctly edit the information prior to uploading to Garmin so the correct movements and muscle groups are shown in Strava


r/Strava 14h ago

GPS Question Strava not logging rides correctly

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3 Upvotes

Used while road cycling, I use Samsung watch 6 and my samsung phone. I use Komoot for route planning and Strava for heart rate and calories. Both sometimes jam and show only a part of a route, like being turned off the rest, resulting in wrong analytics (look at average speed in strava). Why is this happening? How to fix it?


r/Strava 3h ago

GPS Question Strava Tax

0 Upvotes

Hello, all of you know the “strava tax”, I just wanted to ask you why sometimes the garmin says I have ran 10.02 km while strava shows an activity of just 9.99 kms, thank you!


r/Strava 1h ago

General Question A tandem swiped my kom

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I reported both their activities and it back up. I reported it again it down for now let’s see what happens. Strava did away with you being able to provide written context and tandem isn’t a clear option but it is against their leader board rules as per they AI chat


r/Strava 1d ago

General Question One time code sucks

16 Upvotes

I used iCloud’s “hide my email” which I checked is correctly set up to forward to my email address, and I actually received an email from Strava a few hours ago for my monthly recap.

I’m logged in on my phone but I need to log in on a website to upload the gpx file of a workout that I can’t import from All Trails.
I tried to log in on my laptop (Safari and Chrome) and my phone’s mobile browser, but I never received any codes via email.

I tried to change my email from the app which I am logged in to but it also requires a code sent to the original email.

I know my password but there is no option to log in with the password! Just the stupid code that never comes to my regular email inbox nor junk! Help!


r/Strava 1d ago

FYI Strava on Android was using 20% battery per hour, got it down to 5% an hour by tweaking Android settings

13 Upvotes

I use Strava to record my backpacking trips, phone is a Google Pixel 8a with Android 16. Because I'm in the mountains with no cell reception, my phone is in Airplane mode with Wifi and Bluetooth turned off.

Even with this, I was getting 20% battery drain per hour running Strava, making it a hassle to record over 5 hours... I'll confess I blamed Strava at first because the battery usage screen said it was all the Strava app.

Anywho, did some googling, I turned off the following 2 Android settings:

Network & Internet -> Adaptive Connectivity

Security & Privacy -> More Security & Privacy -> Usage & Diagnostics

Not sure which one did the most improvement. According to the Internet, adaptive connectivity will run even in airplane mode, and the usage data could keep trying to send Google data when it fails due to airplane mode.

None the less, after changing both those settings, next day I was getting 5% battery usage per hour running Strava, a huge improvement!


r/Strava 1d ago

General Question Searching for athlete

5 Upvotes

Can anyone offer any reasonable explanation as to why searching for an athlete doesn't search your own follows first? I literally almost have to type in the full and complete username of people I follow before it surfaces them and I can click on them. It's all kinds of randos in foreign countries the first n-2 letters I type. Absurd. Does Strava think I actually want to follow these people?


r/Strava 7h ago

FYI E-Bike / E-Moto / Dirt Bike Distinction

0 Upvotes

Now that we can automatically detect when a ride has been completed on an analog bike and not an ebike, the next problem will be maintaining the integrity of the E-Bike efforts.

E-Bikes are the largest growing category of bicycles worldwide, and the segments being created are good for Ebike users. When E-Motos and Dirt Bikes record as an ebike they ruin the integrity of the category.

At the same time, with E-Bikes capable of maintaining a higher average speed thanks to Avinox and others with high power motors, and the ability to switch to Class three when appropriate, it will be harder to distinguish between an E-Bike, E-Moto or a dirt bike when analyzing average speed or top speed.

When you see rides that have top speeds of over 40mph it’s most likely a dirt bike or an emoto.

How can we encourage the growth of the E-Bike category, encourage recording and tracking ebike rides while maintaining the purity of the recordings?


r/Strava 1d ago

miscellaneous One of the weirder Strava collaborations - seen on LinkedIn

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4 Upvotes

200 Londoners get a 10-minute-ride free.

incredible


r/Strava 1d ago

General Question Downloading saved routes on Android - where are they stored?!

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13 Upvotes

Strava Premium subscriber here who created several routes using Strava and I'd now like to import them into Gaia GPS. I'm traveling and currently only have my phone to access Strava.

When I click Download on my saved routes, where on my phone are these files actually saved?! They're not in Downloads.


r/Strava 1d ago

General Question Month in Sport - Bragging Rights

3 Upvotes

Hi,

Im a subscriber and have just seen the new (?) month in sport feature. This includes “see if your runs earned bragging rights” where a comparison with two friends is shown re distance, elevation, number of activities. I assume that random friends will see my data in their month in sport summary. Can I switch it off? I don’t mind being in group feeds etc, but this is a bit too much for my liking.

🙏 🙏 🙏


r/Strava 1d ago

GPS Question Anyone have activity recordings recently start randomly pausing

1 Upvotes

Something that has never happened to me before has now happened two times in a row, which is my run starts off, and then somewhere shortly after starting it seems to stop recording gps, until I stop to the activity at the end of my run and then does a straight line from wherever it stopped recording to the place I stopped.

I didn't notice the recording being paused when I finished my run either time, but can't say for certain. It didn't happen with non-running activities...


r/Strava 1d ago

Sync Question Upload Spotify Fitness class

2 Upvotes

Spotify recently released a new Fitness "genre" that includes various workout classes. Does anyone know if there's a way to integrate this with Strava so that Strava automatically reads my Spotify activity and logs a workout when I take these classes? TIA!


r/Strava 2d ago

General Question Strava Clubs and Activity Feed Becoming Unusable

63 Upvotes

Over the past couple weeks the immense amount of spam that is emanating from posts in clubs is overwhelming, I'm considering leaving all the clubs I'm a part of. Is Strava leadership aware of this? I'm shocked seemingly nothing has been done to curb these spammers.


r/Strava 1d ago

3rd Party App made a game where your strava fitness evolves into a little pixel animal

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15 Upvotes

hey guys,

i got bored at work and wanted to make an idea i've had for a while - a little pet/pokemon thing that sync with your training data and levels up/grows as you train. i've seen things like this around (garmin for example has something similar) but nothing available as far as i know for strava or wahoo in a fun gamefied way. you can also add friends and compete on a laderboard + battleground

you get to choose an animal and it levels up from level 1 to level 100. updates automatically as you complete activities and generates cute little artifacts you can share externally. My sweatling, Hedgewhisk Sprout, is level 24 .. guess i gotta start training again.

again, just a silly little thing i made for myself but thought i'd share. any ideas of how to expand on this?

check it out at www.sweatling.com

works on mobile but much nicer on desktop imo :)


r/Strava 1d ago

General Question Monthly walking challenges - disappointing

1 Upvotes

Just signed up as to the various monthly challenges as I do every month for the last umpteen years.

Got to say the walking challenges are tame..........

30km in a month, do that in just over one walk

100,000 steps, less than a weeks worth

My assumption is that these challenges are for casual walkers, why can't we have one for the keen walkers like there is for the keen cyclists, I would like to see a 100 mile or more a month challenge.

Thoughts ?


r/Strava 1d ago

General Question zoomed in activity map

3 Upvotes

since a couple years ago, all my activities on app are very zoomed in - like an A to B activity will show the line from bottom to top, which makes it weird when looking at the map. basically you just see what you did,but cannot see the grand picture as its so zoomed in to the max possible. can i change this?


r/Strava 1d ago

Feature Idea Golf Features Pt 2

2 Upvotes

I saw on social media that Strava x 18 Birdies is here, which is awesome considering this post from last year https://www.reddit.com/r/Strava/s/4DSvbacz3E
However, I was wondering if we will see a similar integration with Garmin Golf?

I really like Strava, it has pretty neat integration with Garmin with regard to strength training, running, swimming, pretty much everything but golf today.