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NOMNOMS defined:  1. the sounds one makes when eating something incredibly tasty  2. the unofficial dog mascot of Strava 3. A delicious taste of a food product or drink. Let's take a closer look at #2. Nomnoms became part of the Strava family in early 2021 when his human, Patrick joined Strava.   EARLY LIFE: Nomnoms was born in 2015 and was the runt of the litter. He found his forever home when he was 8 months old and was adopted into Patrick's home. From the beginning, Patrick would outfit Nomnoms with a band

I’d like the opportunity to communicate privately and directly with fellow Strava athletes (gear and route questions, co-training opportunities, etc.; things that are too detailed for the comments section). I understand that creating, integrating, and “policing” an internal personal messaging system is daunting, but what about Strava allowing an email sharing “opt in”.Any athlete could allow conversation through their Strava verified sign-in email but it would be hidden behind a “contact this athlete” button on Strava. The receiving athlete would see the sending athlete’s email and they could choose to reply or not reply and continue the communication off the Strava website within their personal email (gmail, yahoo, etc).  The general Strava audience would not see any personal email, just the “contact this athlete” button—unless it is grayed out because the athlete chose to not partake in this form of direct communication.  What are your thoughts and ideas pl

 Hi,Completely new to Strava; I've planned a route, now would like to install waypoints at particular km intervals, lets say every 30km - the route is a few hundred kms.  How do I do this? I am hovering over the KM marker flags and trying to add a waypoint by clicking, but it is not letting me. Thanks for any help

I'm not sure how important navigation is to many on here, but I recently upgraded from an Edge 520 to the Edge 1040, and the navigation capabilities are so much better... it even alerts to upcoming dangerous (tight) corners! If I can muster the energy, I may put a quick post together on here about my experiences so far with the 1040 (navigation: great, sync: bad).  

In the Android app the Weekly Intensity does not show all my activities. For example this week the Activities this week under Weekly Intensity only shows activities from Monday through Thursday. Activities done on Friday through Sunday are not shown. Last week, my activity from Sunday is not shown. 

I just moved to a new city and decided to open up heatmaps to look for local routes. While I was under my own personal heatmap, I noticed something very strange... 2 activities were recorded in places I have NEVER been, one in Sanfran CA and the other in Seattle WA. They are not just straight lines indicating a GPS error either, and I live in MI anyway, closest I've been to either of those places is Utah and Nevada. When I zoom in on the activity, they are not just in random places either, they both appear to correlate directly over a building. What is going on here exactly? If they had been straight lines in completely random places I'd chalk it up to GPS errors, but Seattle and San Francisco? Two places a lot of scam calls and junk mail comes out of? 

Hi everyone,Not sure if this interests anyone, but as a cyclist and follower of pro cycling it's well accepted that big mountains are among the most revered challenges.  The origin of KOM was from TdF as one example - when the award was ONLY for summiting a mountain.  For me personally, I have a list of about 30-40 of the most iconic mountain climbs that I want to accomplish.  Many of them appear in the major stage races, and/or offer the most stunning scenery.  I've done about half so far.  Each of these is an amazing experience, and I plan a few every year.  Is anyone interested in this topic, and want to discuss and share our experiences, as well as possibly having Strava acknowledge in some way those of us that have done this?  I bet there are many, many among us who have climbed these mountains and experienced the satisfaction and exhilaration of summiting.  Not to mention the thrilling descents.Richa

 I like the concept of fitness as a ratio of effort/intensity vs rest over time. But the calculation needs to be updated, because as it stands, it gives me peaks of around 110, and lows of about 11 in the past two years. I know it's relative, and it's accurate that my intensity and frequency changes seasonally, but it's misleading in that it looks like I'm 10x more fit in the summer than in the winter. I'd like the range to be more indicative of performance potential. Ex: in the winter when my score is 11, i can probably still run a 5k, bike a century, etc (whatever baseline metric) about 70-80% as fast as my peak. So I'd expect the fitness scores to reflect that. If my peak is 110, my low should be 70 or so. Not 11...

My lap times seem to include time when I have my ride on "pause".  I do not think it should do this. Maybe this is an artifact of the way my Garmin works and not Strava calculations. I do not know.

I've recently had minor problems when I have cropped a bike ride (something I usually do to get ride of "noise" at the start and end of a ride) and I see a spurious duplicate of the ride before it was cropped.  I've done about 900 bike rides and never had the problem until about 2 weeks ago and it's happened again today - I crop the ride as normal and then I notice a copy of the pre-cropped ride in my feed but with the Activity set to "indoor cycling" and showing no Segments (the copy has the same start time as the cropped version and is slightly longer).  It's almost as though the cropping process somehow failed and didn't delete the original version.  Is it safe to delete the copy ? It's obviously related to the cropped version and I don't want to risk losing that (and the associated performances).

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From around March 2022, the place names on the map displayed in the activity will be in English.Before that, it was displayed in the language selected when displaying the Strava web page.Is it possible to restore the place name notation of the language selected on the web page as before?

I don't know if Strava is just trying to be really supportive, but I live in a relatively flat area (between the mountains anyway), and I have received numerous notifications from Strava congratulating me for climbing 2m on my commute to work. Perhaps the bar could be raised a little, I don't need kudos for that. 

Has anyone solution for this unwanted problem with the app on Android? Even if you force stop the app, it will resurrect itself not long after as a background process, always triggered by the opening of an unrelated app!!!??? Quite invasive and worrying actually.

Please figure out a way to profitability. I can’t imagine a world without Strava and I don’t want to. If you need to charge more, do it. I think we all appreciate what this means to millions of people. In my opinion this is the last, and best, well-lit corner of the social web — it is open, honest, fun, positive, and builds community through sport. 

I feel I have to do loads of effort in Zwift. Also my w/kg is not matching the real power I am doing. For example, yesterday in a 23km race (E) had an average of 222W but finished last and 5 minutes behind guys with an average power lower than 100W. I would like to know what could I do to calibrate this issue. It started after I changed my bike on the trainer as before I could easily do 2W/kg.

Hello Strava Community,Kudos to Strava for showing us in our feed, reminders of previous rides, and other activities.  I love this feature, and hope it continues.  Really nice when these pop up in our personal feed, and I reminisce where or how I rode from a year or two year ago from the activity anniversary date.Thank you, Strava!  Richard Forzani

Hi there, I’ve tried the steps in the article here. Something weird I noticed is that I managed to get the 4 runs I did in Dec imported. However, I can’t seem to get my 1st Jan 2023 run sync to the the app. Is there a bug or is there something that I did wrongly? the only difference I noticed was that during the Dec runs, I’ve used the workout app to track, however on Jan’s 1st run, I used the strava record app to track during the run. Can help assist me?

Hi, In previous Strava Web App versions there was always a 'star' symbol at the beginning of each segment line (in found segments list for given route) to easily add a segment to the list. But it is now missing even though this functionality was useful. See attached printscreen. 

My new xiaomi revolve active smartwatch is not synchronised data with strava application any body have solution?  

Hello Community Hub 👋                                   Middle of the December is here - and with that, we have entered the third and final week of our Countdown to 2023! Last week in Community Hub we had a guest blogger @kartoone writing about his Tour Divide Adventure, we got introduced to Strava employee Jesse in our 

Help! I disabled my connected between my Whoop and Strava because whoop was creating a duplicate post from my strava activity. Even though disabled as a strava integration, whoop is still pushing to my strava activity timeline. Has anyone else had this problem or figured out how to trouble shoot it?Thanks! 

There are many hundreds of great virtual rides, often shared across platforms, without any public segments. New segments can only be made private. Rides without segments remove the important element of competition.  Your guidance states that a search will usually reveal an existing segment, but tortuous searches have usually shown this isn't the case. Therefore, could virtual riders be allowed to create one public segment for the complete route length please

Hi Just got the Strava subsciption last month. I ride an ebike to work and back home about 50km all up. When i get to work or home i check Strava and find that there are 2 rides on it what ever direction i go . I get a notification E Bike ride and Bike Ride for the same trip. How do i delete Bicycle/ bike ride. At the begining of each trip I select E Bike on the Strava app. Many thanks

hi i want to merge 2 accounts which i have . One of them is already active and i upload there all my activities . I pay to activate my account from my mistake to an other with i make with my another mail. How i can merge these 2 accounts because i dont want to lose my money