[Archived] Athlete Community

Is the Wear OS Strava tile customizable? I think not for now. However, customizability would make our lives easier. We really want to see this improved.

Hello, I would like to propose a suggestion to add as a sport: horseback riding. This will avoid having to select a sport that has nothing to do with it, and will allow us to have GPS/duration tracking, and to plan our activities. It would be practical and therefore will favor to take the plane because all sports will be grouped (so those already present on STRAVA, plus riding), and will avoid paying a subscription to another app for the monitoring of our horseback activities Thank you 🤞🤞

Hi. Since Instant Workouts was launched, I’ve had the notification for them on my profile landing page. Frankly it’s annoying as I have a coach and amnot interested in this. The notification wastes “real estate” on the profile page so can you please have a toggle on or off button for it or a way for it to move off the profile banner once you’ve read it?! 

half the time when i try to resume a workout if im doing intervals i accidentally tap the finish button instead of resume because it takes up most of the screen

Hi,(Not sure this is the right space for suggestions/requests, but here goes).It would be nice if I could have Birding as an activity instead of grouping it under ‘Walking’, There are a lot of us birders out there, and you could have some pretty cool challenges too. As an aside, it would create interesting splits between elapsed and moving times. I found out today that about 1/3 of my birding time is standing around! Not sure if you partner or collab, but the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Audubon Society and any number of global/national/regional birding organizations/groups might be interested. Personally, I’d like to have it a separate ‘sport’ so that it doesn’t mix up my walking stats. Although on that note ‘Dog Walking’ would be nice too - my old doggo is only a little faster than my birding! Thanks,Alison W. 

Alpine ski being included in both yearly elevation goals without the option of being able to click more than one sport at once, with the exception of off-road sports, all ride, all run, is pretty frustrating. It feels like a different track because it’s not human powered. Is there a fix for this besides just stopping recording alpine skiing and deleting the old ones?  thank you!! 

Hello,I have a question regarding the display of multisport activities on Strava. Currently, when I complete a triathlon or a duathlon, the activities appear individually in my feed.I would like to point out that Garmin Connect already offers a unified view for these events, showing the entire course and global stats in one place.Is there a way to have a similar display on Strava? If not, are there plans to allow a unified map and summary for multisport events in the future? It would be much more convenient to see the global performance in one window, just like on Garmin.Thank you for your help

Can anyone help, I did a 5km run on the treadmill and it has recorded the correct distance but has only given me 3.7km splits. I’ve attached photos of my Strava screen, and of my watch. It has imported from my watch which has the correct number of splits.  

Please add elapsed (total) time to the cycling activity summary in the feed, e.g.:distance · time · elevation gainThis would let users understand their and others’ rides without opening every single activityThe feed stats currently only shows distance and elevation gain. There’s clearly space for it, other activities get three stats. Without time there’s hardly any context for a ride, two 20km rides can be totally different. It’s so hard to get to too, you have to open the activitiy, then scroll several screens down, it is absolutely painful.

to the developers of Strava: I have been using strava daily for 7 years. I have never been inspired to complain, but after the change to display heart rate data as a bar chart as “percentage time in zone” rather than a pie chart with actual time spent in zone, I need to speak up. It is not helpful to know I spent “20% of a given ride at Z2” --what would be helpful is the TIME spent in Zone 2. I often do work outs of different lengths, and for example, “10 minutes” is a lot easier to think about than “20%”.  Bar charts are not an intuitive way of summarizing data that relate to a “whole”, aka like a pie chart is. PLEASE PLEASE go back to displaying heart rate data as a pie chart with actual time spent in zone. I don’t use any other workout soft ware (not training peaks, etc) and I don’t want to have to start now. 

Group stats is great and I love the leaderboard by this week and last week. Would it be possible to show previous weeks and also by month and year?

I’d love the option to add music to my Strava post/activity! It’d be cool if Strava could connect with Spotify/Apple Music and you could select a song to your post similar to Instagram stories. Would definitely be a fun option!

There are new activities in strava, some of them not so familiar, but one of the sports more popular is not in strava... Judo, karate jiujitsu, and so on... Could be added as martial arts.

Hi, please add nordic ski to main stats table! As here in the nordic countries it is as important as the runing and cyceling is!!!The best would be if those main stats could be configurable eg as if I don't swim so I don't want to show and see it there as I care about skiing more ;)

As winter hibernation comes to an end it would be nice to see how my times are improving as my activity increases, to aid this it would be great if you could see your seasons best time alongside your PR for a segment over the course of the year from Jan to December (or another 12 month period in other regions).Can’t believe no one has suggested this before or perhaps they have and i cant find it - in which case apologies if it has already been discounted.

AI capabilities can be used for implementing calculation of adequate segment results for athletes shortcutting segments

I don’t think if this concern fits in here, but I’ll give it a try. I hope you guys can help me and I'm sure there are also a lot of other guys with this concern.I am a paying subscriber in Strava for a long time now since they implemented it during COVID times. Recently, this notification keeps on popping up on my RIDE activities. All of my activities have no fluctuations with speed or GPS error, my pace is not really suspicious at all because I'm not that fast.As a subscriber, this is VERY INCONVENIENT!I think the Strava's auto detect system has some kind of bug or mistake in its program for this to happen.For sure THERE ARE A LOT who experience this also whether from run or ride activities, please share your thoughts and let's hope some guys working with Strava sees this and have a solution for this.The notif message has this text: “The Activity may be in a vehicle, marked the wrong sport type, or had bad GPS

Currently, segment leaderboards on Strava award KOM/QOM only for the fastest overall effort. While this works well for top performers, many athletes—particularly older users—have little realistic chance of competing for the overall title.A useful improvement would be to introduce age-group KOM/QOM accolades alongside the existing overall KOM/QOM. For example: KOM/QOM (Overall) KOM/QOM – 30–39 KOM/QOM – 40–49 KOM/QOM – 50–59 etc. Strava already allows users to filter segment leaderboards by age group, so the necessary data appears to already exist. Adding visible age-group accolades would provide additional goals for athletes and recognise strong performances within comparable groups.To clearly distinguish these from the overall KOM/QOM, the age-group accolades could use a slightly different visual style. For example, they could use a

Strava is excellent for tracking activities such as running and cycling, but it lacks a simple social feature that many users enjoy on other platforms: a weekly step leaderboard.On Fitbit, friends can see each other’s total weekly steps in a leaderboard format. This creates a light competitive element that motivates people to stay active throughout the day, not just during recorded workouts. Even small things like walking to the store, taking the stairs, or going for a casual stroll contribute to the weekly total and keep the competition alive.Strava already excels at competition through segments and activity challenges, but those are limited to recorded activities. A weekly step leaderboard would expand engagement by rewarding all movement, including unrecorded daily activity.This could work by syncing step counts from integrations like Apple Health or Google Fit and displaying a simple weekly friends leaderboard showing total steps. Users could optionally enab

Feature suggestion – new activity: “Somatosensory Games”First of all, I’d like to say that I was really happy with the latest activity additions, such as dance and volleyball, as well as the ability to register the muscles worked during strength training. These improvements make a big difference in daily use and clearly show how the platform is evolving 👏That said, I’d like to suggest a new activity category: Somatosensory Games 🎮🏃‍♂️My smartwatch already has this type of activity, and I use it quite often. Many times I do my cardio in VR, such as Beat Saber or other audio-musical experiences, and I really miss having a specific activity on Strava to properly log this type of workout and evaluate performance.I also enjoy posting short VR gameplay clips when uploading these activities, as it helps better showcase

I have reconnected, connected, reconnecte, redownloaded the apps between Strava and Garmin. I removed my apple watch from my phone and I still can’t get my activity to show on Strava. 

Currently, the map style in the Strava Route Builder is very minimalistic, making it difficult to distinguish between different road types (e.g., major highways vs. quiet side roads) at a glance.My goal is to explore new areas and intentionally ride on roads where my Personal Heatmap is still empty. However, without a clear visual hierarchy of road sizes, similar to the styling found on Komoot or standard OpenStreetMap, it is hard to plan safe and enjoyable routes. I often find myself accidentally routing onto busy main roads because they look identical to small backroads on the map.I would love to see improved map contrasts or a "Street" layer that clearly differentiates road categories by line thickness or color. This would make the Route Builder much more powerful for explorers.

After uploading run results and selecting it in “My Activities”, selecting “Laps” from the “Overview” causes the web page to not respond, with options to wait or exit.It eventually works after returning to “My Activities” and revisiting the page (in Edge browser on PC). All other options work ok - just laps is the problem. This problem is a recent development (since your latest update - did you add flyover previews to free version and add arrows to route?).

Now when shuttling or going to the bike park for mountain biking, the downhill trails/segments are no longer included in the trail times.  Though you’re clearly going fast uphill, their coding has created a problem for the downhill trails.  Importantly, though I know of multiple people asking for a “Shuttle MTB” function, they have yet to add it.

My steps weren't recorded and i post it as a walk..