[Archived] Athlete Community

Picture the scene. Its a nice day, the sun is out, the sky is blue…. so you go for a run, ride, swim etc…  You are having such a great time, smashing PR’s you get distracted and end up being out much longer than expected, or hit a technical issue….  unfortunately, your colleague/boss  follows you, but you did this activity in work time, maybe when working from home? Or maybe you do GPS art and something was not suitable for your colleague/boss etc to see. I want to be able to hide an activity from a specific follower or followers. I cant see how to do this, so assume it is not possible yet. Its a really useful feature.

Sometimes we do a more than one day activity, like Camino de Santiago or the Deo Kato long run from Cape Town to London or similar.. It would be nice that a more then one day activity could be visualized as a “particular activity” always on top as soon as we decide to finish it, that merge, day by day, all the activity uploaded in a sort of single thread.Also would be perfect to include a single map with the continuous trace for all the activity. This would be only a “better view” but the statistic are always kept by the single activity uploaded. I also suggest to keep the possibility to view all the single activity expanding the principal aggregated view.Efrem

My apologies if this has been covered extensively, but it’s hard to search for the exact phrasing. It seems that with the major updates several months ago the heatmaps now only use data from a much shorter period of time (13 months?). It seems that the heatmap used to include data from a longer time period. I know others have proposed being able to alter the opacity for specific time periods. I specifically would find it very useful to be able to include an “all time” look back, or period of at least 10 years. I realize that for urban users the heat map can get quite crowded, but with recent updates the heatmap has become dramatically less useful in rural areas. There just isn’t enough data from a single year. It’s the only thing I pay for strava for and it’s no longer terribly useful.While we’re at it - layering multiple activities on the heatmap would be useful. It’s nice to be able to differentiate, but it would also be helpful sometimes to layer two different activ

In the global heatmap view it is currently possible to select some combinations such as “All Sports” or “All Foot Sports”.  In the route planner the heatmap (personal and global) is only displayed for the type of activity being created e.g. “Run” or “Trail Run”.  Can we please have a similar menu added to the route planner?  It’s helpful to be able to get a good view of all the places you have been before while plotting a new route. 

Could be fun to add a feature linking to spotify or apple music where you can see what your friends are listening to on their runs or let you share what you are listening to on the activities bit. 

Hi there - would he handy to be able to set arbitrary goals in terms of duration. At the moment we can set weekly, monthly and annual goals which are essentially fixed date durations. I’d like to be able to set arbitrary or custom dates for goals, for example January 1 to December 1, or August 5th to November 3rd. Many thanks!

Ciao, please add weather forecast on saved routes. Thanks

Custom challenges are quite cumbersome currently.  It is a PAID MEMBERSHIP only feature, yet it’s very challenging and frustrating to use since you can only find them by digging down several levels manually (too many clicks required!) from the HOME → GROUPS → ACTIVE tab and there is no way to share or post about the leaderboards within CLUBS or websites.If there was a way to actually VIEW and SHARE the ACTIVE custom challenges, then as a CLUB leader / influencer, I could better promote and refer many, many more athletes to STRAVA PREMIUM PAID MEMBERSHIPS so this would seem like a big no-brainer for STRAVA to invest some energy into developing further!SHARE LINK - Make the leaderboards share-able via a link to encourage non-premium members to become premium members!  Let us post about challenges within club POSTS sections and ideally other social media platforms more easily too!   EMBED - make the leade

The Strava route creation function is really useful but it doesn’t give you route guidance whilst running. Would it be possible to export the route map into Apple Maps new routes function which works really well when running?

Hi Strava team, The ability to attach songs to activities would be a fantastic feature, similiarly to how you can attach songs to Instagram stories/posts. I think this has been suggested before but it would be a great feature to personalize activities and enhance user engagement, as has been shown by its integration in other social media platforms. Music is an integral part of exercising to me and the ability to express that in my Strava activities would be amazing. As a free user, if a feature like this were added to premium, it would be a no-brainer for me to upgrade, and I am sure many others feel the same.  Thanks for considering!

To my knowledge it has been at least 2 months since this problem was first identified, and it’s definitely still a problem. I want to know if anyone has gotten any updates concerning this, or if that vague statement from months ago is all that we have on this still very relevant issue. If nothing else, I want to bring this back into the limelight so that Strava knows this is a still an issue people very much care about. Thank you for your time!

Just wondering why I can't find the January Run 200K & 300K Challenges? 

Hello, my progress is not updating, is there a way to fix this? It works on the website though Thank you  

so out of nowhere my Garmin watch dnd Strava not syncing anymore. Any ideas? 

How on earth does this work? I have a Galaxy Fit 3 and Samsung Galaxy A55. I understand that you toggle on Strava as a synced service through Samsung Health. The watch and phone are synced fine. I’ve given Strava and Samsung Health all permissions, including physical activity and sensors. What shows in the Strava app when they are successfully synced? In the settings bit, I can click two different things. One - ‘Connect an app or device’ with a little watch icon. And two -Manage apps and devices’. The first opens a screen of different watches available, and I select Samsung. It then says ‘visit our support page to connect’ and has a orange ‘get started’ button at the bottom. When clicked, it’s a support post about connecting it - all of which I have done. When I press back, it briefly flashes up with ‘error connecting your device’. The wheel spins in the top right corner of the Strava app too. What do I need to do from within the Strava app to sync and connect? 

Why my Strava iPhone and my Apple Watch apps work independently is a mystery to me. Perhaps Strava could take a lesson from All Trails where the phone and watch apps sync nicely!

I just got back from a ride and feel very frustrated. I started the app when I started my ride and, for some unknown reason, the app only recorded about a third of my ride! ☹️ I did not knowingly pause the ride at any time. The ride shows that I started and ended in the same place, which makes sense, because that’s what I did, but if I had accidentally paused the app at some point, then I would’ve had to accidentally restart it too!I really don’t wanna pay the subscription fee if this keeps happening. This isn’t the first time that I wasn’t able to satisfactorily record my ride! I do take a lot of pictures when I’m riding, so perhaps I stopped it from recording accidentally, but I’m not opening the Strava app when I’m using my camera. If anyone can help me to make sense of this, I’d really appreciate it!Here is my ride: https://strava.app.link/hBxQTB5NYPb

On a specific segment my previous PR was 3:07min, dropped to 2:30min today and registered as my new PR on that segment however the leaderboard for the segment still shows my old PR.. Any ideas? Seems broken..  

A couple of feature requests:- Would love to be able to filter my activity feed to only show certain types of activities. Like maybe I'm interested in people's runs but I don't really care to see their daily walk/bike commutes?- Same on the post side: if I could automatically post certain types but keep others private (unless I decide to post later.)- The dream would be if I could choose to mute certain types of activities from particular people. Like maybe I like seeing when my dad takes a walk every few days. But that friend whose watch auto-posts their every step? No so much. But maybe I don't want to mute that person because I do actually want to see their runs. Just not their 30-second walk to the corner store.Thanks! 😄K p.s. I'm in Canada, not Indonesia. Not sure what's with my location. haha

Add a button to lap please

Hi,I am just updating my set-up between a Garmin Edge and Wahoo Elemnt.  I use a Wahoo head unit to record my activities (and sync it to strava) and use my garmin watch to broadcast my heart rate (I did not upload any garmin data to strava). Because I am having a problem with my Wahoo, I just allowed my Garmin to upload to Strava so I can use an old Garmin computer to record activities.  I thought this would only upload all new rides from today onwards.  Unfortunately, it is has doubled all my activities for more than a year (closer to two years).Is there a way of turning the time back on my Strava activities e.g. to yesterday to save me having to manually go and delete hundreds of duplicate activities?Thank you very much!Cameron 

Not sure if the option to tag elliptical activities as a workout existed in the past and was removed or if I’m mis-remembering, but either way would appreciate the option to tag these as workouts in the future for cross training purposes! Currently only have the option to tag elliptical activities as commute, but I find it makes things easier to organize at a glance when using the training log, and workout activities are striped. 

Differentiating MTB from gravel with regards to leaderboards. Just like you have done with e-MTB versus regular MTB. As I see it the split between MTB and gravel bikes can be done in 2 ways (or maybe more?):1. Make a "clean" split as it has been done with e-MTB and regular MTB so a segment either relates to the one or the other.2. Make the leaderboard for a given segment differentiated as it is with men and women today. Then an "overall" Leaderboard can be maintained and a MTB and a gravel leaderboard can be created as highlighting the difference between the two types of bikes.I really hope you will try to work on this in future releases.

Hi! I love Strava so much! I track ever activity with the app (gym, hiking, walks, etc.).But as an equestrian it would be so nice if Strava would make it possible to add “horse riding” as an activity as I can only track my horse-riding trainings with my apple watch, which later saves it in the Strava App as “training”.Since I really value the statistics of my activities, it would be great to have also an overview of my statistics when riding horses. Strava has soooo many different sports integrated as activities. It would be nice for all active horse people to add horse riding❤️

Have pinned activities in your home or profile page of your favorite or best runs...or worst!  Good for getting an idea of the athlete at a glance.