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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?

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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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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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New to Strava - trying to figure it out. Central AZ high desert region, mountain biking using Samsung Galaxy watch 4

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I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this, I find the Strava challenges as a good motivation to get out and about. I have noticed that I am seeing less challenges and only ones recommended for me. Is there anyway if accessing more random challenges like there used to be? It may be that I am not a premium account holder.Hopefully someone can advise.Thanks 

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Hi, I'm evaluating the purchase of an annual subscription, I'm Italian, but I'm looking to move to Germany next year... I know that in Germany the cost of subscription is higher, and I'd like to know if my annual subscription purchased in Italy will be usable when (and if, I'm not 100% sure at the moment) I move to Germany... I've searched info regarding this matter (other country also) but I haven't found anything...Thank You

I've been using Strava for some time, but this is my first post to the Campfire Chat. I usually use my Coros watch and upload after training, however, in the near future I hope to do a multi month hiking trip. Depending on battery life I'll likely stick with using Strava to measure my hikes via the app on my phone. If my phones battery starts to die I'll likely use my Coros watch. My issue is that I won't be able to access the internet for days at a time. So I wonder, can the Strava app keep track of my hikes and upload them when i have wifi. If so how many can the app store?I could foresee myself needing to store 7 days of hikes, potentially with each day comprising about 12 hours of hiking. Many thanks in advance. 

A new user has appeared in my area in the last few weeks.  They have recorded quite a few activities, mostly as Mountain Bike Rides, and almost all have been flagged due to infeasible high speeds.  The speeds have been high enough to be dangerous to other road users - such as 60 mph on a street with a limit of 30 mph and today it was over 100 mph (for about a mile on a flat road) where the speed limit is 70 mph.  I worry that Strava might be used by people boasting about the high speeds they can achieve with motor bikes or cars.  Simply flagging such activities doesn't seem to be enough - can Strava do something to stop this reckless and dangerous behaviour ? I think I saw somewhere that Strava would remove accounts showing inappropriate behaviour, but I don't know how this works in practice.

My name is Nick, a long time Strava-er here to finally say hello!I remember a time before Strava, and I remember the period of time when I resisted using Strava, preferring to stick to manually writing down my daily ride statistics in a notebook and manually (well, with my TI-89 calculator, at least) calculating monthly and annual totals at the end of each respective time period. I remember when I finally gave in and made an Instagram account because, at the time, posting a picture to Instagram while actually in the middle of an activity was the only way to get a picture posted to your activity on Strava. After all this time and all of the iterations of Strava, I can truly say that I enjoy it. It has definitely had some hiccups, and I have had to personally take some mental health breaks from it, but for the most part, I believe Strava to be a great tool.After all these years, I have decided to stop thinking of all of the ideas I have that could improve my experience on the site and ap

Hello and Welcome back to Tuesday Chat with Team Strava.   Today we have a special guest joining us; Welcome Jimi!  Strava employee, and cycling enthusiast, he's here today to talk about his experience using the Zwift training platform. Jimi:   I remember back when I first experienced winter as a cyclist. I put my bike on the trainer, put on some music, and stared at a wall or watched old bike racing videos. A lot has changed since those early days of training solo in my basement waiting for the weather to get better. The world of indoor cycling and virtual training has witnessed a game-changer for indoor riding and racing, enter Zwift. Combining the power of technology, social connectivity, and immersive gaming elements, Zwift has revolutionized the way cyclists and fitness enthusiasts engage in indoor riding. Let's dive into what Zwift is, how it has helped me to become a better cyclist, save time, and why it has become such a popular platform. What is