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Let’s admit it, we don’t always feel like getting up to exercise. Whether it’s cold outside or we’re tired from the previous day, it’s challenging to get moving when we don’t really want to. Yet we dig deep and find ourselves outside (or in the gym) sweating. For me personally, whenever I don’t feel like exercising I think about how there’s someone out there getting better while I’m not. That’s enough for me to get up and get moving!💪 What about you? What keeps you motivated to be active and exercise even on the days you don’t want to?

I was a free user for a couple years, and decided to upgrade when features were taken away from me, I am sure in an effort to convert users to pay, that makes good business sense.  After being Premium for two years, I would like to see my membership fees going to provide more and better services to members.  Instead it seems like the free users (like my GF) get more and more limits on the services provided.  I understand the push to get people to convert, but as a paying member, I would like to see that my money is going toward improve the service not just further limit free people. It is seriously getting me to consider another service. I am not a "power user" and I cannot tell you what would make it better, sorry.  One last thing: Local legend status for only three attempts seems pretty silly.  I am not sure of many legends that have only done something three times.  Maybe the limit should be something mor "legendary", like 10.   Please give

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of Tuesday Chat with Team Strava!   Let’s start by harkening back to 2009, the year Strava was founded.  At the very beginning, we supported one activity type, (cycling), and one device type (Garmin).  If you were a cyclist with a Garmin cycling computer, you could use Strava. Oh how things have changed!  Over the intervening years we’ve expanded to include a wide variety of activity types, including water sports, winter sports, indoor workouts, and many others.  Some of our most recent activity type additions include Football (soccer), golf, sailing and skateboarding.  In addition we’ve worked hard to integrate with a large number o

With the London marathon just finished at the beginning of October, I came across this article on the Runner’s World website which states that Strava Athletes who run the London Marathon in 2021 were faster on average than the rest of the runners participating in the marathon.   ‘’The average Strava uploader completed the 2021 London Marathon in 4:19:54, just under three minutes quicker than average time for the race as a whole – 4:22:50.’’   Seems like more than half of the total runners (80k) were on Strava, and the article goes into detail on the average time for men and women. I found this information quite interesting and I wonder if a similar logic is applied to other sports types - especially

Hi folks, I have completed the Lucy Charles/ Red bull challenge and received the emails for each part of the challenge to confirm this.   But you are also meant to get an email with a code in to complete the online form to enter the competition aspect (winner gets a free race fee).   Any ideas how long this should take or how I can contact Strava to ask?   thanka   ian

When I first discovered Strava around 2013 I was hugely impressed, the idea of competing GPS segments was new and exciting. Had a paid subscription since. My list of of followed and followers grew over 200.  But more and more it started to itch:I do not need a 100 kudos for a daily training. Nor do I need to see the commutes, warm-ups, hikes to the grocery store from every one I follow. It is not the Strava I once liked so much anymore.So I trimmed down my list of followers/followed from 200 to around 40. Now they all appear in 'suggestions to follow'. And all of sudden I appear in theirs! This is not privacy, this is Facebook. Please Strava, be Strava again and stop Facebooking.

Hey there, Has anyone else noticed that in their profile page, all of your KOM's are gone? But when you go to an activity with a segment that you hold the KOM on, it still shows you as the KOM holder? Activities are not reported or flagged in My Activities list. Is this a bug right now on the Strava backend?

I would like an achievement flag for EQUALLED and existing achievement and a way of seeing the delta time to your overall personal PB.At the weekend I went for a fast 5km run.  I achieved 2nd best time for 5km but I can’t see what my all time 5km run time is??Was I just a second or two off or was I minutes away?please please 🙏 

When I go in to flag an activity for being done in a car, there are always at least 3 or more segments that have automatically been excluded by some algorithm. That algorithm is an excellent feature! Isn't it usually the case though, that if it detects 4, 5, 10 impossible segments, the entire activity is probably impossible? Would save a lot of flagging hastle

This never used to be an issue but it started off with just the first photo being out of order. Now multiple photos are uploaded out of order and I have to go back and manually sort them. This is when adding media through the app.When selecting media, it literally numbers them which used to indicate the order they should be displayed in. It was also helpful because of another bug in the app where you can't upload more than 30 something photos at a time or it'll crash the app and you have to start all over again.The QC seems frustratingly bad these days as more and more little things that used to work, don't anymore.

Who invented Segments? 🤔 🤔 Long before Strava existed, cyclists were talking about their fastest times up iconic climbs. We all know “if it’s not on Strava, it didn’t happen”, so how did segments originate? They were invented by one of Strava’s co-founders, Davis Kitchel, inspired by a Wednesday night group ride in the late 90s. “There were notable, locally named climbs with well understood start and finish lines during which the ride turned into a race to the top with the prize being stature and bragging rights. Not everybody could make it to each Wednesday ride, which often led to comments with no proof like ‘Oh, I rode that climb last week and was at least 30 seconds faster than we rode today.’” With nothing to back these claims and verify them, Davis, a software engineer, set out to obtain better data and keep track of efforts.

I can see that there is a quite some different in the moving_time recorded by Coros Pace 2software compared to what is uploaded on Strava when Coros Pace 2 is in auto-pause mode.On my recent trip ca 53.7 Km the difference is  Coros Software App reports - 2.12.04 , Strava 2.14.47... The activity has ID : 7951184272Why this difference , seems to me that something with the detection on movement is wrong. 

It would be interesting to be able to indicate on the map the points where we take the photos/videos that are placed in our activity.

When you upload GPS tagged media from the website it appears where it was taken as long as you use the website. Doing the same from the app doesn't work, would be nice if it did!

A cool feature might be to be able to share activities only with clubs or only with certain clubs. Up to now it has only been possible not to release activities, only to release them for followers or for all Strava users. Releasing activities only to certain clubs would have the benefit of being able to share your activities with your friends and coaches, but leaving your competition out of the loop. In this way, Strava would become a great tool for collaboration between athletes, coaches and training groups beyond its previous functions.

Last month I took part in the Virtual New Balance 5th Avenue Mile. Seemed simple. Run a mile [fast] and Strava would count that in the results. As I always do, I ran several time during the challenge window. I made sure to run one mile super fast. Unfortunately, Strava took a seemingly random mile from that period and uploaded that instead.I'm just trying to figure out if this was a bug or if I did something wrong.

The idea of Strava was first conceived of in the mid 1990s, by our co-founders Michael Horvath and Mark Gainey, but it wasn’t until 2009 that they officially founded Strava as a website for cyclists to map their rides. We’ve come a long way since then, and now support many activity types including running, walking, team sports and indoor workouts. It’s always fun to look back on our roots and reminisce about “way back when”. Here’s your Tuesday trivia question: Strava co-founders Michael Horvath and Mark Gainey met: On a cycling trip in Colorado On the Crew Team at Harvard University At the California High School they both attended

  Here is a feature I use often. On the use profile there is a histogram of weekly mileage shown below. Clicking on each week also shows the total time and the total elevation gain for that week. Until recently there was an option to switch between the "Weekly" stats and the "Monthly", but the "Monthly" option has been removed. Only the "Weekly" option remains. As far as I know there is no longer a way to get the monthly stats in any other parts of the Strava UI. Can someone from Strava comment on this? What was a reason for removing a useful feature. Speaking of this feature. It would also be great to see an up-to-date summary of stats and compare that to the previous years. Basically I want to know whether I am ahead of behind the previous year (and the years before) in my mileage and elevation gain. There used to be a feature in Stravistix plug-

If I go to the Strava Athlete Heatmaps page, I am seeing some strange behavior where some Rides are being shown when I filter for Runs only. It seems like this happens for 2016 and earlier years (and therefore also shows up for the "All-time" option)For example, here'a screenshot showing that I ran around Lake Tahoe. I have sadly not done something so epic..Anyone else seeing this bug? Can someone from Strava take a look? Thanks!

Hey guys , any idea when Strava will stop ruining mountaineering stats? A week ago I was hiking Kilimanjaro and I was surprised how badly Strava is working while hiking or walking slowly at high altitude. My Garmin data show the elevation gain of 1200 meters and 9 hours of hiking during the summit attack but then after the synch with Strava, my stats showing just 500 meters of the elevation gain and 2 hours of moving time in the app.

Hey! First, I want to thank you for visiting our Strava Community Hub. This is a space where athletes are able to meet and treat each other like Family. As your Family Member, I would like to say Welcome Home! My name is Bryant and here are a few things about myself. I'm originally from Memphis, Tennessee but coming up on my fourth year living in California. I'm approaching my 2 Year Anniversary working for Strava. My favorite sport is Basketball but I use Running on Strava to track my conditioning and stay in shape. My goal for this month is to run a total of 60 miles. At 2 miles per day, I believe this is very possible and would be a huge accomplishment! It would be great to get to know you! Please introduce yourself to your Strava Family and let us know a bit more about you, your favorite activity, and any goals that you have for October.  Drop your introduction into the thread below and we'll be here

Do you prefer exercising in the heat or cold? I'd pick the heat any day. I'm simply not a fan of freezing my fingers, toes, nose and eyeballs off. How about you? Comment below if you prefer being 🌞 = hot or ❄️ = cold.      

I am reporting a bug. It's cosmetic but annoying. If there is a better place to report this let me know. "Hey Google. Start run. Sorry, that shortcut will only work on an Android phone with that app installed" This Google Assistant command works fine without warning until you add in "Pixel Buds Pro". With Buds the command still works but with the added warning. https://store.google.com/product/pixel_buds_prohttps://assistant.google.com/services/a/uid/000018da566a3838?hl=en-US

So, my wife and I like to get out and run, but with the summer sun and humidity, it can be hard to get outside and not just feel like we are melting.  We try to run first thing in the am (before it gets too hot), but that is when the humidity here is the highest... later in the day, we have lower humidity, but a scorching hot sun.What do you do to 'beat the heat'?  Has anybody tried those "Arctic Cool" shirts?  Run at night?  Run indoors on a treadmill? (I don't like to do this, since we spend so much time indoors in the winter).  Cycling isn't as bad, since you at least generate more wind with the movement - any other activities you migrate to when it is hot outside?Who actually likes running in the heat (and why)?  We see a lot of people out in the peak heat of day - wondering how??

Could weather data be enlisted to create a new grouping of segment achievements (similar to the age / gender / weight groupings) based on wind direction? Wind assisted PR’s and KOM’s can be impossible to compete with.