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My running group is looking to create a challenge for 2025. Our city is turning 250 years old, so the challenge would be to have participants walk, run, bike, hike, etc. 250 miles during the year. We would then enter the individuals who completed into a drawing for prizes.I think we can use Strava Challenges to do this, but I’m not entirely sure on the mechanics or if Strava Challenges would be able to handle this. Some questions:Is there a way to generate a link for a challenge? Or, can people only join by being invited? Is there a limit to the total number of people who can participate in a challenge? I know I personally can invite up to 199 people. But are there other limits we should be aware of? Do challenges track individual efforts or only group efforts? The goal is for each individual person to complete 250 miles, not the whole group to complete 250 miles. Are free subscribers able to join the challenge? Or, are only paid subscri

I do not want this option on my feed.  It popped up a few months ago and went away.  It is now back.  I am hoping now that it is back- I can remove it. The widget itself seems to be primitive and only collects quantity rather than quality.  Then every week it challenges you to do more.  Rest is also very important and needed to prevent injuries.   Some might think it's great, and that's awesome for them.  I do not think it is good to see and why I have disabled things like the 'move' option on my garmin watch or removed the step counter option.

make more data available when importing from apple health such as stride and cadence when running

"Have you ever wanted to give extra recognition to that one activity that truly made your week memorable? Maybe it was your fastest run, a workout you thought you’d never finish, or even a day when you pushed past every limit and expectation. This is your chance to let your story shine!Pin that special activity to the top of your Strava profile and make it the symbol of your journey. Not only will it inspire others to chase their own goals, but it also becomes a personal milestone to remind you of how far you’ve come.Together, let’s turn our proudest moments into achievements that motivate the entire community.This is my idea for Strava to implement: a feature that allows you to pin your highlight activity to your profile, celebrating your achievements and inspiring others. Let’s make this vision a reality together!"

I have a problem with my Garmin heart rate monitor (HRM Dual) that connects to Strava but not showing heart rate. Started when changed to new phone: Google Pixel 8 Pro with Android 14, have allowed evertyhing, i think.. HRM Sensor works fine in my Garmin 530 unit     

Since we have to choose between kilometers or miles in Strava, why does the Best Efforts section display both kilometers and miles? The system could just show distances in the selected unit of measurement. As someone who lives in a country where kilometers are used, it seems strange to me that the longest distance is 180km and not 200km. Psycologically, I think that crossing 200kms mark is probably the goal of anyone who reaches 180km. Also, the jump from 100km to 180km seems rather odd. I think it would make more sense to have 100km, 150km and 200km. Maybe 120km as well.

Is there a way to select certain activities and group them into one to track the metrics of a goal? I couldn’t find anything on it and thought that it might be a fun way to see metrics of a goal.For instance, I recently completed the New Hampshire 4000 footers via trail running and was wondering if there was a way to group those workouts into one so that I could see the metrics of the achievement itself. Thought it would be a fun way to see how many miles/how much vert you’ve done over the course of an achievement or training cycle.

Hi, I tried Starva premium to join an event of my company. After the event ended, I forgot to cancel the subscription and was charged with an entire year subscription without any notice. I need to get a refund please help! I need that balance to do my social activity at my hometown. 

Hello all, I'd like to know if I can get the total mileage run between 2 certain days. The closest things I can get is the "weekly view" in You > Progress. Thanks 🙂

I have a NordicTrack (NT) studio bike that uses iFIT, and I have synched iFit with Strava.When I do a map-based workout on my NT bike, the workout is captured in Strava as a Virtual Run and the sport type box is greyed out (can’t modify to virtual ride).  How do I get this fixed so my rides are categorized correctly and not recoding as runs, which has wrecked all my running PRs. 😖😖😖

Hi. Why will Club Events now not save if I include a Strava route?  If I don't include the route, the event will save and the club members are notified by e-mail. I have been creating routes and including them in Club Events in Strava for the last 4 months without any problem. What's changed?

Your recent update to segments is a bold attempt to clean them up.  One of your changes is to have verified segments.  Your method in determining which segments to verify is through the use of staring?  My concern with staring is that stars are functionally used for LIVE STRAVA SEGMENT ATTEMPTS.  So if I am making an attempt for a segment KOM, i like to see live segments.  However, if i am not going to make a KOM attempt then i UNSTAR said segment because it clutters my screen when ridging/navigating.  Additionally, when i do get that KOM, i unstar.  In other words, staring is not a vote to LIKE or promote a segment.  If you do want to make VERIFIED segments, please create a LIKE button for it rather than counting stars. 

I used to live in Shanghai, where I created my account, about 10 years ago. Since then I moved to the US and I have updated my location to the city I live in (SF, CA) but the region still says “Asia, Shanghai”. I am able to edit the city but not the region. Would you have any suggestion on how to update my region?Thank you 

I have used the description section on activities to add links to race results and race videos on youtube, and these links have all been removed from my activities, some of them dating back a few years. This means that I can no longer find some of these results that I had linked for personal reference and followers can no longer see them either.Additionally, I had my professional triathlete profile website linked in my bio section, and this has also been removed. I understand that there have been a lot of issues related to spam bots on strava, but I would appreciate if my old activities and profile weren’t meddled with without my consent and if I could return these relevant links to my activities, which no longer seems to be a supported feature. 

When you are cycling for several days, like München-Venice or Way of St. James (Camino de Santiago), you consider every day a stage of one whole route experience.Also, you can be hiking 2 days climbing a mountain, sleeping in a shelter, making it to the top, but in the end is one whole route in a mountain, made in 2 days. It would be so cool to be able to group some individual strava activities in one route/experience/trip that in the end was just made in stages (but not merging them in one activity!). Or at least have one map displaying just selected activities.e.g.: 

Two issues. The first is that one of my most common activities (e-bike ride) is hidden many screens down the list of activities on the Android Wear app - it is 33rd on a list of 49 different activities. Very rare/niche activities (handcycle, ‘velomobile’) are on the first or second screen when I scroll down, but really common ones are down at the bottom? This makes no sense.It should be possible to a) rearrange activities by dragging them to the home screen; and b) hide activities (some of them, I don’t even know what they are!), or c) at the very least, have them in alphabetical order! Right now, they seem to be completely random - some alphabetical, some not.Second issue: The default activities when I open the Android Wear app are running, cycling and walking. You would think that tapping the ‘run’ icon would open running? No. Instead it just opens the list of activities! If I want to actually get to the running activity, I have to click ‘run’ again on the next scree

Currently, the maps in Strava do not provide detailed information about bridges on paths that cross rivers. In contrast, OpenStreetMap (OSM) includes these details, which are vital for users planning routes. Incorporating this information would greatly benefit cyclists, runners, and hikers, ensuring they are better prepared for their journeys and avoid potential dead ends.

If the creator of a segment is on the leaderboard, they should have a pencil/blueprint icon and you can see which activity they created the segment from 

This needs to be a feature. I simply don’t want to see 6 Ai generated fitness instructors on my feed

It’s the time of year where my feed gets polluted by a bunch of indoor activities that are of no interest to anyone other than the person doing them. I would love for there to be a way to hide all virtual activities from my feed. I’d also like for any of own virtual activities to be automatically hidden from the public feed, but the former feature would solve for the latter. Thanks for considering my suggestion!

Is there away to define other ride types for Virtual Rides such as those uploaded from Zwift?At the moment the iOS app only has the “commute” option that seems a little out place for a virtual ride.Online I can see similar tags for a Virtual Ride but no specific Ride Type Field.  Is it possible edit/add the tags available for virtual rides via the online portal and have the reflects in the app as ride types? 

Hello, I opened up a ticket regarding my half marathon race that is not showing up as a PR on my profile. (Request #3076831 was opened in October) My profile still shows an old race. I have tried refreshing stats and updating with no change.The link to the activity is: https://www.strava.com/activities/12637675990This is the athlinks verification of the run if that helps: https://www.athlinks.com/event/376246/results/Event/1093075/Course/2524335/Bib/975Please advise.

I really like “Best Efforts” as a feature, but every time I click into it, it defaults to showing best efforts for running, which would be fine if I had any runs on my account. I wish it would automatically just open the cycling section, given that’s where I have activities and best efforts. I get mildly annoyed every time this happens. This feels like a really easy fix.

I can completely understand why custom challenge authors should be a subscriber, but it seems cost-prohibitive to require invitees to also be subscribers. Our use-case is improving/monitoring cardio for our workplace. It just simply is not doable to get our members to all subscribe. Ideally, we would be creating club-based challenges. Right now, we must invite everyone to the club, then create the challenge and invite.This is a lot of steps and not user-friendly design.

I just started using Strava this week, had been a map my run user for last few years.  Everything seemed to be going ok, but during my last few runs when I go to look at my details ( heart rate, distance, pace, etc) my app just shows a black screen with a small x in the top left corner.  If I click on the x, it ends my run.  No matter how many times I turn my wrist, tap the screen, etc, the app is unresponsive even though it’s still recording and giving me audio splits.  This is driving me crazy.  Is there a setting I can change to get it where I can see my data while running?