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Hey Strava! If you're going restrict 3rd parties (using your API) from showing my data, then…

..what is the point of having you around. Let me be very specific using an example. I pay a coach to assist me using Training Peaks. That coach is authorised to see my data and provide coaching. So not an unauthorised, but a consented sharing of my data.


Let’s not kid each other… you get my data FOR FREE, so I can use you like a “Look at me” FOR FREE. 

As a training tool, it’s useless. You see yourself as the “leader of the peloton”, but you’ve become the over priced veteran that’s used to be a Grand Tour Winner.

Let me be clear, when you’ve exhausted your usefulness or value, it is a good time for us to part ways. No more FREE DATA for the FREE usage of your platform. 


 

I’d really love Strava to clarify their position here. 

The data they appear to be restricting access to for third party developers is my training data, in many cases my biometric data ingested into Strava from other sources. I’m not fond of the language used in the new terms of service that describes the data as Strava’s. 

I’ve gone ahead and requested a download of my Strava data archive (see the “bulk export” section in this guide) to ensure I can move the data elsewhere. 

Strava is a nice tool but far from the only way for me to analyze my training data or share it with other athletes.

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