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Scout
Community Manager
ScoutCommunity Manager
posted in General Chat
Tuesday Chat with Team Strava-2023 FIFA Women's World Cup

Hello Everyone - Scout and Jane here; welcome to Tuesday Chat with Team Strava! We’re excited to chat about the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. This month-long event will begin on July 20 and will be jointly hosted by Australia & New Zealand.While putting this post together we noticed something interesting - the highest ranked women’s teams are in countries where the men’s teams don’t do well! Take a look below and you'll see what we mean.... The United States Women’s Team is ranked #1 in the world (and is the defending World Cup champions), while the men’s team generally isn’t in the top 10 (currently 11th, average 20th). The Swedish women’s team is currently ranked #3 in the world, while the  men are 23rd (with average ranking of 22nd). Canada sees their women’s team ranked #7 in the world (and are the defending Olympic champions),while the men are 45th (with an average ranking of 78th!).   There are other examples of teams (Japan, Australia, Ic

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Scout
Community Manager
1 year ago
Scout
Community Manager
ScoutCommunity Manager
posted in General Chat
Welcome to the Community Hub - August Edition!

Happy August! Thank you for visiting Strava’s Community Hub. To all of our members, whether you just joined or have been with us for a week, a month or from the beginning, we are happy to have you here! As we enter year two of the community hub, we want to send a THANK YOU to those who have posted their thoughts and ideas in this space. Some of your ideas have been delivered, discussions have been had and stories have been shared. I personally loved these stories from @ken and @1Danimal!For those who are new, or haven't yet posted, we welcome you to share your ideas or give a kudos to an existing idea, create or join a discussion about existing Strava features, or talk about devices or connections, We really do enjoy hearing from you. If you don't want to create or comment on a post, give kudos! When you kudos a post, it lets other members know you appreciate their posts and lets us know what content you would like to see more. Ready to go? Just hop

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Scout
Community Manager
1 year ago
Scout
Community Manager
ScoutCommunity Manager
posted in General Chat
World Athletics Championships - Budapest 2023

This weekend marks the start of the 19th edition of the World Athletics Championships. Also known as the World Track and Field Championships, this event showcases some of the best athletes in the world.  Held every 2 years at different venues around the world; this year’s event will take place in Budapest, Hungary at the newly built National Athletics Center. Over 2000 athletes from over 200 countries will be competing in the 49 events over 9 days (August 19-27). With a number of world records being broken this year, we’re sure to see a number of exciting events in Budapest. Here are a few of the athletes to check out: Ryan CrouserStanding 6 feet 7 inches and weighing 320 pounds (145kg) Ryan Crouser from the United States is a 2 time Olympic gold medallist and reigning world champion. Earlier this year he broke his own world shot put record with a mark of 23.56m - this was 19cm more than the previous record. Having 10 of the top 15 throws of all time (including the three bigg

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Scout
Community Manager
1 year ago
Bryant
Community Manager
BryantCommunity Manager
posted in General Chat
Tuesday Chat with Team Strava: The Rise of Pickleball

Now that summer is here, it's time to put the nets up & bring the paddles out! Pickleball has been one of the fastest growing sports in the last few years. If you’re unfamiliar with the sport, Pickleball is a racket sport that combines the elements of ping pong, tennis, and badminton. Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell, and Barney McCallum are credited with creating pickleball right from Joel’s backyard in 1965. Their intention was to create a game that the entire family could play. It's safe to say their idea has become a reality. By 1967, the first permanent pickleball court was constructed, and in 1972, the first corporation was formed to protect the creation of the sport.  During the spring of 1976, the first known pickleball tournament in the world was held at South Center Athletic Club in Tukwila, Washington. David Lester was crowned the first champion of the Men’s Singles tournament. So how does this sport name become Pickleball of all things? Joel Prichards wife, Joan, says th

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Bryant
Community Manager
1 year ago
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MalbanoHub Starter
asked in General Chat
download request - not receiving email

requested my data download through my profile, which I can retrieve once a week, and when you press the button, I normally receive an email to download within 30 minutes.I requested my data last week, but have received NO email. I download the data every week, and use it to track my followers.I have waited a week and requested the data again last night, and again no email has been received to download my data.I have emailed Strava twice about this, and not received a response. this happened a couple of months ago, and strava support emailed me the link.please can someone help.  

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1 year ago
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rosanovfxHub Starter
asked in General Chat
Strava features

Hello everyone, newbie here.Question - is there a way on the Strava app to record how much of your run was walking? For example, you do a 5 km run but stopped a few times to walk, is there a way to see how much walking you did versus running? Thanks in advance!

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nicolasrouxHub Rookie
asked in The Club Hub
Feedback from a group admin 🙂

Hi everyone,First of all, thanks for this great initiative to listen to feedback from your users 🙂 I was taught in a previous company that "feedback is a gift" and I know its importance as a Product Manager myself 😉 😉 Some various feedback from our group experience: We are a cycling "club" in Paris. There's nothing formal about this club, the original members met during covid lockdown rides in Montmartre and it grew from there. We revolve around a Strava private group and a WhatsApp group chat.Even though we are a private group, we tend to accept most people trying to join.That's why we have 170+ members on Strava for only 50 people in the WhatsApp group (the active members). I'd guess a lot of people have never joined a group ride. As a group admin, I'd be curious to know, for each member, when did they join the club and how many club events they joined.I think this metric "club event participation" could be a good incentive to have a more a

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1 year ago
OpticsDan
OpticsDanHub Rookie
posted in General Chat
Taking photos while biking is dangerous

Anyone think taking photos while biking with your phone is dangerous? I’m a camera guru and passionate about most forms of biking. I love taking cool photos and posting them to my Strava activity log. But I find phone cameras and other sports cameras on the market to be either dangerous, not cool, or uncomfortable. Anyone have input on this topic?

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OpticsDan
1 year ago
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Gregscott31Hub Rookie
asked in General Chat
Etiquette of Flagging

I’m wondering if there is an etiquette surrounding the Flagging of rides.I’ve had to flag a heap of rides that took my prized KOM, over the past few months, which were clearly done when the bike was put in a car after an MTB ride with Strava still recording.last night there was another ride that looked legitimate till I saw there was no Power or Heart rate data on the last few segments…. (Road bike put in the car)I put a message on his ride to congratulate him on the ride and also ask him to crop out the bit in the car (that took my KOM)to my surprise, he came back very quickly and said he was trying to work out how to do this and finally sorted it…. KOM restored 🙌Is this the way I should be dealing with this? As opposed to just flagging the rides??

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Gregscott31Hub Rookie
asked in General Chat
Flagging a ride that is set to "Private"?

Earlier this year, I won the KOM on a segment that I've been working really hard at for over 4 years. I am constantly having to flag rides where the other athletes are using the MTB trails, up the road and putting their bike in the car, forgetting to turn Strava off, then diving home (Taking every KOM along the way).I now have a guy who has just uploaded a historical ride from 2015! where it looks like he has recorded a run but set the app to a bike ride, then driven quite a long way home, taking lots of course records. But! his account is set to "Private", and I cannot look at it on the PC to flag it. The strange thing is I can see it on my phone, but, I can't Flag it from there. What do I do now?

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1 year ago
Bryant
Community Manager
BryantCommunity Manager
posted in General Chat
Tuesday Chat with Team Strava: Welcome to Crossfit

With the Crossfit Games gearing up this week, what's a better time to dive into the sport than now? Crossfit is a strength and conditioning workout that is made up of functional movement performed at a high intensity level. Many workouts feature variations of squats, push-ups, and weight lifting that last for predetermined amounts of time to help build muscles. CrossFit Journal states that the workouts are so effective because of their emphasis on the elements of load, distance and speed, which help participants develop high levels of power.  Starting in the late 90s, Greg Glassman is credited with founding the sport. At the time, he was hired to train the local police department. Using his background of gymnastics and bodyweight exercises, Glassman used high intensity workouts that utilized a number of disciplines so officers were generally prepared, rather than excelling solely in one area.  Before you know it, Glassman took this idea and ran with it. He decided to open his

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Bryant
Community Manager
1 year ago
SkippyVasquez
Strava
SkippyVasquezStrava
posted in General Chat
Tuesday Chat with Team Strava: Getting the Most out of your Polar Device on Strava

Hello and welcome back to Tuesday Chat with Team Strava.  Strava integrates with a wide range of devices and platforms.  Today we're going to talk about the Polar/Strava integration, explain how it works, and share the answers to some commonly asked questions.   Polar makes a number of GPS watches and cycling computers, and you can also record activities with the Polar Flow App which is available on Android and iOS. To sync your Polar recorded activities to Strava, you’ll need to do a one time set up to connect your accounts: To Connect Polar Flow to Strava: Open Polar Flow on your mobile device. Click the three lines aka the hamburger button to open the menu.     Scroll down and click on General Settings.     Click on the big red Connect button.     Under Connected Services, find Strava, and click on Connect.     A confirmation box will appear, it’s a little long so be sure to scroll down and click Okay. Next

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SkippyVasquez
Strava
1 year ago
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Minerva42Hub Rookie
asked in General Chat
Auto hide certain activities - new feature request

I just got a walking treadmill and I use strava on my Apple watch to track my activities, choosing Indoor Run. I like it because I feel it's more accurate than the regular watch exercise app native to the watch. However, I don't need my followers seeing every time I walk on my treadmill for an hour, sometimes twice a day. Right now I have to go in and manually change the setting to Show: Only Me. It would be nice to we could set certain activities to default to Only Me. I think others that track their daily walking commute would probably like the same functionality.

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1 year ago
Jane
Community Manager
JaneCommunity Manager
posted in General Chat
Congratulations to our Top Community Contributors for July!

Quick shout out to our top Community Contributors for July!   @zecanard Sincere thanks for all your comments and replies to posts.  We appreciate you taking the time to provide helpful information to other Community members, and add insightful comments to idea submissions.   Next up is @Jan_Mantau Thanks for your continued contributions and helpful advice for other Community Members.  We appreciate you helping out with this live segment question, and providing a helpful workaround here.   @anchskier Huge kudos for helping a Community member understand our flagging system and we enjoyed chatting with your about photography while biking.   To ALL our members.  Thanks for posting, commenting, helping others and submitting ideas.  All of us here at Strava see you and appreciate you.  Let's keep the conversation going!

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Jane
Community Manager
1 year ago
Jane
Community Manager
JaneCommunity Manager
posted in General Chat
The Strava Community Hub is 1! Come celebrate and enter for a chance to win some Strava swag!

Today the Strava Community Hub marks a big milestone as we turn 1! From all of us here at Strava, we want to give a huge thank you to each and every one of you, for being here and for your contributions. A Community without members is nothing, so today we’re celebrating you! Like most new Communities, we started  with only a handful of members and watched excitedly as more and more of you joined us.  One of the great things about Community is that it matches up people who need help, with people who can help.  You did not disappoint.  This past year we’ve seen so many instances of members helping members.   We can’t list them all but check out a couple below: Relative Effort question  Fitness Score Question  Thank you to all of you who have asked questions, answered questions, commented or engaged in any way.  We see you and we appreciate you.     We found out pretty quickly that this Community has ideas - lots of them!  Idea

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Jane
Community Manager
1 year ago
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Auredu31Hub Rookie
asked in General Chat
Adresse mail / Mail address

Bonjour Je rencontre un soucis sur mon compte j'ai oublié mon adresse mail. Donc impossible de me connecter à mon ancien profil Strava. J'ai ouvert un ticket mais pas de réponse....  Merci d avance  TRANSLATION: Good morning; I'm having a problem with my account, I forgot my email address. So I can't connect to my old Strava profile. I opened a ticket but no response.... Thanks in advance

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1 year ago
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BenomondiHub Starter
asked in General Chat
Kind request for inclusion of inline skating as a major sport

Hae im Ben an inline speed skater from Kenya, Kindly could you include inline skate as one of the major sport in strava like run and Bike?I noticed that  when you open strava on your Phone then tap on maps then routes there is no inline skate as one of the sports, this hinders you from exploring inline skating around new places.Kindly include inline skate as one of the major sports on strava.

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1 year ago
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funriderHub Rookie
asked in General Chat
Route Building using Heatmap

Hi allI have a issue when I'm creating a trail running route. I have built various routes in the past, so not an entire newbie. I have been struggling lately with trail running routes. I use the global heat maps, I know the area, I know its been used often, but as soon as I start building, the "builder" simply refuses to use the heat map route, and uses other routes instead, taking me on an entire different route. Besides going manual, is there another way of "forcing" the builder to use the heat map?

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1 year ago
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KrolBCHub Starter
asked in General Chat
Listen to new itinerary while running

Good morning,I am new to Strava (and to my neighborhood) and I am trying new itineraries. My issue is that I didn't find how to have "someone" dictate the itinerary (turn left, straight ahead...) while running, meaning that I have to constantly look at my phone which is not very practical! I'd prefer to launch the itinerary and have the instructions to follow in my headset 🙂Is it possible? With another app? Thanks for your help and support,Carole

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1 year ago
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creaseHub Rookie
asked in General Chat
Trouble with a segment across two identical activities

Hello! Yesterday I did a bike ride that I also did mile-for-mile the same way 3 years ago.Here is activity 1 from 2020, and here is activity 2 from yesterday. Both were uploads from my Garmin Edge 530, if that is relevant.I have this segment associated with the 2020 activity, but not the 2023 activity. I can't tell whether or not this segment has been deleted, but I doubt it because here is someone else with a segment result from 7 days ago.Does anyone know why my second activity wouldn't trigger a result on that segment? Thanks.

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1 year ago
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6CatsLoveHub Starter
asked in General Chat
Flagging

I started riding bikes back in 2017, I'm autistic and find it to be very soothing, as a hobby. After my husband started riding, in turned into a bit of a competition,  not much between us, but it was fun. It was like I had my own personal trainer. Last year I really kicked it into gear after purchasing my 2019 trek domane sl6. I love it. This year started out great. Riding in May. I never paid much attention to any of the strata leaderboards, but the other day, I realized I was number 2 on a segment. Normally I dont pay attention because I ride for myself, but I decided the next day when I go out, I would concentrate on that section and give it my all. My husband was right in front of me. I could not believe it. When I finished my ride  and checked my results, I had beat the leader by 2 seconds and I was the new Queen of the Mountain. Wow. I couldn't believe it. All my hard work over the years paid off. Fast forward a day and I see my ride was flagged by someone. I don't unde

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1 year ago
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DigHub Starter
posted in General Chat
Ride for longevity

Still pushing on at 80 years! Wow I keep telling my legs…. your doing me proud and still hanging on to some of my KOM’s

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1 year ago
Bryant
Community Manager
BryantCommunity Manager
posted in General Chat
Welcome Members & Summer Time! (July)

Hey! Thank you for joining the Community Hub! Please take a look around and join in on the discussions, ideas, and good vibes! If you need help on where to go you can head to our Starting Line or you can reach out and we'll be more than happy to help! As an Icebreaker, please introduce yourself and let us know what you're most excited about this summer! I'll go first! My name is Bryant and what I'm most excited about this Summer is this season's Food! I'm from the south, so nothing gets me going more than smelling good food coming from a BBQ Grill. What about you?

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Bryant
Community Manager
1 year ago
Soren
SorenStrava Alumni
posted in General Chat
If you see something, say something - How to Report a Post

Hello from the Community Hub Management team. We wanted to send out a friendly reminder regarding our Community Guidelines. If you come across a post you think is inappropriate you can click on the cog icon next to it or click ‘Reply’ and then ‘Report Inappropriate Content’ to immediately notify our Community Moderators. We greatly appreciate those of you who have been notifying us about spam and other posts that do not belong in our community and encourage you to continue doing so. Thank you 🙏

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1 year ago
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AndyMonstersHub Starter
asked in General Chat
From the PNW, enjoys long walks on short beaches

Hi all, I joined Strava in the past year and enjoying it so far. It's great to see inline skating on the list, though the way it calculates calories burned seems a bit of a under estimate.  That aside. I've been trying to best my PR on a local climb and I noticed the top times seem to either be counted by those going down hill or if they're going up it certainly isn't without using a EV bike.  Is there a way to tag the direction of person and separate them into their own category if they're defending vs ascending.  Also allowing users to potentially flag if they suspect the leader on the board is using a EV bike? Excited to join the community -Andy

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