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Please figure out a way to profitability. I can’t imagine a world without Strava and I don’t want to. If you need to charge more, do it. I think we all appreciate what this means to millions of people. In my opinion this is the last, and best, well-lit corner of the social web — it is open, honest, fun, positive, and builds community through sport. 

Hello Community Hub 👋                                   Middle of the December is here - and with that, we have entered the third and final week of our Countdown to 2023! Last week in Community Hub we had a guest blogger @kartoone writing about his Tour Divide Adventure, we got introduced to Strava employee Jesse in our Tuesday Chat with Team Strava and we saw some amazing ideas coming our way! 💡   With this being our final week to play the Countdown game, we would love to see more faces joining the game! 👁️‍🗨️ Welcome to Community - @cocis_alex , @jmaiora , @Withalimetwist , @tjcafferkey , @Julen , @froden , @MBHUNTER , @mpajak , @Omrilevy , @Lucien11 , @BillD , @villis , @Eyeguy ,&n

👋 Hello and welcome to Strava Community Hub! We love getting to know all of our new members every month, so if that happens to be you, we are excited to hear a little bit more about you. If you're comfortable, here are some points to share:  Your name Which country/state you're from Your favorite Sport Types Your 2023 intentions   My name is Soren and I am from Switzerland but live in Denver, Colorado. I am a passionate cyclist, but I enjoy many other kinds of movement such as weight lifting, walking, stretching, water sports and badminton. Last year, I set a big distance goal, which I achieved a few days before the year ended, but it left me feeling quite depleted. This year I've decided that I would much rather prefer to have experience-based goals, such as go bikepacking with co-workers, discover more dirt trails, ride under the moonlight, run a marathon (with the goal to simply complete it), focus on fostering a community of cyclists that's interested in having

Hi, I’ve just started to take running seriously this year and I’m June I ran my first 10km in 1 hour 15 mins. That’s the longest I’ve ever run but I have now signed up for a half marathon for December. Does anyone have any tips at all for a beginner? 

Happy New Year and welcome back to Tuesday Chat with Team Strava. As we roll into 2023, the New Year is a time when many of us start to think ahead about what we want to accomplish this year, and how we’re going to get there.  Setting goals can be a powerful tool to motivate us and keep us moving. If you’re not familiar with Strava’s goal setting features, now is a great time to give them a try!   On the Strava Mobile App, Subscribers can set goals for all sport types.  We support time, elevation and distance goals, and they can be weekly, monthly or annual.  If you’re not sure of all the sport types we support, check them out here.  We added some new ones in 2022. If you’re looking to set a power or segment goal, that can be done from the Strava Website.   For me personally, I’ve been using Strava’s goal feature to motivate myself for years.  Last year, I set an annual distance goal for running and another one for cycling.  How d

Growing up Canadian, I was not tuned into the world of professional soccer (football). By “not tuned in”, I mean I didn’t know it existed.  Like most Canadians, I lived and breathed the sport of ice hockey, or as we called it, hockey. In a land where winter can be 8 months long, and every small town has at least one hockey rink, inserting the word “ice” was simply not necessary. Not long after I started dating my now Partner, (he hails from the United Kingdom)  I heard him utter the words “World Cup” in regards to an upcoming event.  When I enquired what that was, he fixed me with a puzzled and somewhat pained stare of disbelief, before informing me that it was ”the most popular sporting event in the world”.  Who knew?  Apparently a lot of people, but I wasn’t one of them.   In the intervening years, I’ve learned a lot about the World Cup and come to appreciate why soccer/football is known as “the beautiful game”.  Today, I’m happy to share with

I ride a Computrainer which requires calibration.  Every time that I ride the CT and upload to STRAVA the warm up and Calibration is not included in the total kilometers because the actual event has not started until 15 minutes of Calibration is completed.I estimate that on every event or ride 20% of the total does not register to STRAVA.This adds up at the end of the year.Solutions??

  Hello Community Hub 👋   This is it - 2022 is almost over and 2023 is rapidly knocking on our doors! From all of us in the Community Hub team: happy holidays!    The end of the year brings some exciting treats: 🎁 Right now you can save 25% on a subscription in your account (ends 12/31/2022. Only eligible to users not in subscription or trial. Discount applied at checkout) 🎁 Year in Sport is here, so check out your biggest moments of 2022 – like your fastest activity and total elevation!   .      And of course - our Countdown to 2023 is officially over! We wanted to thank you all for your amazing contributions to the Community Hub this year - our community learned together, laughed together, and surfaced some amazing product ideas! Every kudo, comment, or idea shared built our community from the ground, and we are so grateful to share this journey with our amazing athletes! 💛   With celebr

Hello Community Hub 👋 It's the 1st of December - aka that time of the year when we start the countdown to a New Year, we look back on the year behind us and all our achievements, and we start planning our next big moves in January! If you ask us, 2022 was a busy year in Strava books. We launched: Points of Interest Group Goals 3D Maps Clubs for any sport type Collective Challenges Student subscription Trail-specific features Video on Strava Comment reactions Strava Routes on Suunto Recover Athletics on Android New sport types ⚽️ ⛳️ ⛵️ 🛹 Live segments on Rouvy Strava Lens for Snapchat On top of that, we launched our Community Hub, which you all have been such a big part of, and which keeps thriving with amazing conversations, athletes helping athletes, and interesting content. Thank you for all your kudos, comments and minutes spent online in the Community Hub! To celebrate the coming of the new 2023 and re-discover all the great conversations happening in t

I may be missing some existing features but I'm curious to learn if there is a way to meet like-minded individual's that are nearby to me (i.e. in my city). I travel a lot (digital nomad) and have found great joy in being part of some running clubs for a few weeks.Unfortunately, a lot of places in the US don't have existing running clubs (that I can't find through a Google/Facebook/etc. search at least) but I'm sure there must be other runners out there that might be interested in showing a newbie around their town.Is there a way to already do this in Strava, or could this be a way this community hub is leveraged? Thanks! 

👋 Hello & Welcome in. If you're new here then it's a little Community ritual we like to keep going each month to have you come and introduce yourself here. Share whatever you're comfortable with, whether that's what activities you like to do, what you're interested in learning from other Strava athletes to help you go further or just a random fact about yourself. For December, let's talk about your favorite activity from this year. If you were writing a message to someone to share something memorable you did this year what would it be? For me, this year has been memorable for some of my bigger hiking adventures that I managed to record and share on Strava. Most memorably, I was able to visit Channel Islands National Park, California (just off the coast from north LA) and hike around the biggest island Santa Cruz for a few days. It was not as cold as I would have liked, quite dusty but extraordinarily peaceful and beautiful.

Hello Community Hub 👋     Wow, we are already in the second week of December and marching towards the half mark - what a busy week in the Community Hub with all the talks about comfort and discomfort, introductions of new members, and some chats around the Strava features.   Congratulations to the Community Hub members: ⭐ @CreakyCrank   ⭐@hugorenners  for completing all the tasks in the Week 1 of our Countdown to 2023 🎉 and earning some Strava swag - we will be reaching out to you soon! 😍   To remind you: 🏆 For the first 3 members who successfully finish all the activities in a week (from Thursday to Wed), there will be a small prize secured. If you stick with the Countdown for all 3 weeks and submit your activity completion each week, you will have a chance to win a top prize at the end of the countdown! 📬 You can submit your activity completion by navigating ba

I have a feeling that I'm not alone here, but maybe some of you all have ideas on how to improve in this area.  I have a hard time taking a day off, or even having a recovery day.  I know that I should do more recovery and rest days, I know that I should stretch more... but I just don't do it.  I keep seeing my Relative Effort numbers in Strava (and my Weekly Intensity), and pushing myself to constantly increase them... which (eventually) leads to some form of injury (pulled achilles, knee pain, etc.) - forcing a long break from the activities I love.  I just find it so hard to take a rest day (I end up feeling like I'm lazy if I do).Q: How do you motivate yourself to rest and recover? 

Hello, I currently have an indoor trainer, but it gets quite boring. I am looking to voice chat with people during rides to keep each other motivated. I have tried zwift and I really like the platform, but I found many of the voice chatrooms empty.  Is anyone interested in connecting and chatting during rides? 

Welcome back to Tuesday Chat with Team Strava! Today we’re happy to present a Question and Answer session with Strava Employee Sarah from our Community Management Team.Q: Hi Sarah - tell us a little bit about yourself.Hey, hi, hello! I’m a world citizen, passionate cyclist, mother, photographer, and avid adventurer. I have been employed at Strava for two years and love to be immersed in an environment where inspiration for movement is constantly trickling in from every corner.Q: I heard you had a pretty epic cycling adventure last winter. What did you do?I went on my first solo bikepacking trip and rode my bike 1600 miles (2575 kilometers) in 16 days, from my front door in Denver, CO to my friend’s front door in Knoxville, TN. I had some unexpected encounters with extreme cold temps, brutal (head)winds, delightful people and emerged from the journey with newfound self-love and compassion.Q: What motivated you to take on such a challenging ride and how long did you plan for it beforehan

Heya, I'm planning on buying a new bike. My intention is to go for a CX one-by. I'm also planning to use the bike as a roadbike in summer. Hence my qustion is: Does anybody know or have experiences in changing the charinring? 40 or 46 teeth are maybe not sufficient to ride with lads on tarmac. I'm planning to switch the chainrings in summer and fall to convert from "crosser" to "roadbike" and vice versa. Is this technically possible? Please don't try to warn me about different geometries. I've tried the different frames and in the end it's always the legs not the reach nor the stack which is your limiter. I'm not planning to compete in the Giro oder the Vuelta. Thank you in advance. Keen on your input.

Hey Strava Family!We've finally reached Holiday Season, also known as "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year"!Personally this is a very exciting time for me. I have a winter birthday, I get a chance to fly home and spending quality time with my family, I get to pile huge amounts of food on my plates (my personal favorite), and I get a chance to mentally reset as I get ready for the next year. What about you?What you looking forward to the most the Holiday Season?Share your Holiday Experience!

Welcome to Strava Community Hub! Use this thread to introduce yourself and meet some new people. We'd love to hear more about who you are, what activities interest you and also importantly what your favorite cheese is 🧀?  Here's mine: Scotland born but now California based (the 😎 shines more here) I love hiking, running (sometimes) and also hoping to establish maze based walking/solving as an up and coming sport type, cause it's a real workout running round those things.  I love cheese. My favorites right now are anything from Wisconsin or California though especially enjoying Gouda recently and trying out some vegan cheeses like Cashew or Smoked Gouda.  Share your story, favorite cheese or favorite cheese based story.     

We recently hosted our first exclusive AMA (Ask Me Anything) session featuring one of Strava’s Senior Software Engineers. This was an unprecedented opportunity for a select group of Community Hub’s Top Contributors to chat with a tenured Strava engineer about all things Strava, ask product questions, and get a deeper understanding of Strava features. The conversation went so well, so we wanted to share a brief summary of the event: There were 15 questions for our Strava engineer to answer and some of the topics that were discussed included: Removing your own PRs and Best Efforts Points of Interest Implement age-adjusted stats/pace Runs being falsely uploaded as Virtual Rides Parity across platforms (web, app) Will Strava Labs projects be revived? Segment matching algorithm accuracy Speed, Pace and Distance calculations and discrepancies How Relative Effort is calculated Distance discrepancy between Strava and other platforms Adding a category for Single speed bikes Sinc

why is the create a route feature on desktop and app rubbish at the moment.dont like paying for something that does not work properly

  “Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate, and though I oft have passed them by, a day will come at last when I shall take the hidden paths that run west of the moon, east of the sun”Frodo Curiosity. This, right here, is why we venture into the world. To see what is behind the secret gate. To take the hidden path and discover what’s out there. If you are, like me, a Tolkien fan, the above quote and its owner should sound familiar. If not, somehow those words still hit the same - a sense of curiosity, discovery and perseverance is part of being human every time we leave our home, but especially when exercising in nature, discovering new landscapes on our adventures and sharing our experiences with the world.There is no better feeling than discovering a new hidden segment or an off-road path that might not be widely known - not to mention grabbing that KOM/QOM!For me, one of those segments is hidden above my hometown of Omis (Croatia) in the mountain of B

I'd like to say hello - as suggested when I first read about this hub. My name is Dustin, I'm located in western Europe and am sort of addicted to all kind of sporty activities. I mostly cycle, though. Three weeks ago I started running for the first time in my life and sort of like it. So I added swimming to my weekly routine and started to prepare training to compete in a triathlon next year. Gladly looking forward to discussions with you guys and gals. 

Hi Everybody, it's a pleasure to be here in this new community hub. I see it's based on Khoros, which is really a cool community platform, well done on the choice!My name is Christian and I post from Italy... every morning I do CrossFit and I love Strava since it can help me keep track of my sessions at the box.I'll explore the community right now hoping to get new extra badges here and there...CIAO!Christian

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Hi there!I am excited about this new awesome community feature!I am an avid long distance runner and just completed my latest half marathon race at 1h44. I mainly run in the foothills of The Rocky Mountains in Alberta. I love Strava. It’s amazing. I am a software dev manager and appreciate high quality software and Strava is top of class!🏃‍♂❤️🏃‍♂