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Welcome to our August new members who are powering up those peaks on our rank ladder with some great contributions throughout the community. If you received a great answer from them or enjoyed participating in a discussion they started please remember to give them kudos or even a thank you.  Huge Strava Community Hub welcome to: @Aitor @dsm1891  @Jhow62  @Maria-P  @trcooke  @BryanC  @dwozn  @Jstdwlf @Padge  @usr  @cmmata  @Ian11 @k1zmt  @Ronald11  @velocipederider  @dk93_2  @Ill_Jimador  @Kapelusz  @SiAdams  @Vincent11  @drewu  @Jalpine  @larsakerson  @Simon11  @weisswurst  We see and appreciate all of your community interactions this month. Collectively you’ve contributed: 110 New Posts & Replies22 Ideas111 Kudos Given120 Kudos Received7 Accepted SolutionsYour next peak on the rank ladder is almost in sight!

Hey August Community Members!Thank you for joining the community this month. We can see you are already having great conversations, voting on ideas and exchanging kudos with other members. Thanks for getting involved. This means you’re already making your way up our rank ladder and we’d love to help you get even higher on that ladder. Let us know how you're getting on by joining us in our group Community Feedback where you can talk with our Strava Community Hub team to help make your experience even better as well as get answers to any questions you have. Looking forward to getting to know you all better in the coming months! @A6spot  @elliott_holt  @Norisknofun11 @airegin  @FelTTie  @PaavoN  @AM11  @Fill_Freakin  @paulsim1810  @Amritt  @Fivefecta  @pdolmsted  @Beard-on-fixie  @Forza  @peacay  @Bennus  @Gaz  @PhilippHoll  @bhaemers  @ingo007  @PTWithy  @Bill_K&

The Strava Community Hub is a collaborative space where we can all come together as athletes to share what motivates us to reach our goals. We are all about building connection and understanding each other better as well as how Strava is helping us with our goals.  We'd love to get to know you, here's a few icebreakers to get you started What's your name? Where are you from? What's the activity that you are enjoying the most this season? Drop your introduction into the thread below and let's start talking. 

Hello Team Strava, I am in Melbourne, Australia and have often thought we live in one of the best bike riding locations imaginable, especially for road bikes. Apart from our Beach Rd and the Yarra Boulevard which are favoured by road bikes, there are also about 2000km of dedicated bike paths, hills to climb at the edge of our city in the Dandenongs for both gravel and MTB and even single track around the Yarra River and other parks, and a dedicated MTB course at Lysterfield. I also rate Adelaide as a brilliant place to ride, especially with the Adelaide Hills only 15 or 20 minutes away from the CBD but I was wondering where else in the world people think are fabulous for riding? Where is the all 'round cycling capital of the world you think? 

I have completed quite a lot of bike Segments in my local area (over 5,000) and I'm quite familiar with the Segment leaderboards.  If I attempt a new Segment I often look at the leaderboard and see familiar names of keen local cyclists.  If I see a name I don't know or a big performance gap between the top 2 on the leaderboard I may look at the Activity of the KOM-holder in case of anomalies - if I see obvious use of a vehicle (such an Activity mostly at 10 mph followed by stationary for 5 mins followed by the last mile at 50 mph) then I may comment on the Activity to request the athlete trim their data.  If there's no response I may flag the Activity as "in a vehicle" in an effort to maintain integrity of the leaderboards.     Today I saw something strange - I tried a few new Segments and saw a new name who had the KOM for about 4 of them.  Their profile was "open" and I could see they had only done 2 Activities (on consecutive days in 2019).  F

Hello Strava Community,I am a long time Strava member (2009) with almost 269,000 miles on Strava. I love seeing other people's rides, adventures, and races. And I also love sharing my stories with everyone on Strava.My most recent adventure was successfully completing the 2,700 mile Tour Divide bikepacking race in 11th place and then attempting to ride home another 1,800 miles to Alabama - spoiler alert - I made it 1000 miles across Texas and then another 300 miles across the Mississippi River in Louisiana, but I ran out of time and had to take the train the final 500 miles home from New Orleans.Both the race and my ride home were amazing. The snow covered Rocky Mountains in Canada (see pic above I took about 40 miles into the first day of the race) and Montana were like nothing I had ever had to ride through before ... so much snow that an SUV had been abandoned and left buried in the snow up to its hood on our course. This meant there were a lot of hike-a-bike through the snow,

I did the Haleakala climb back in April. After reaching the summit and returning to the visitor center parking lot I realized a few things fell out of my jersey. I hopped in the SAG car my girlfriend was driving to go back up (twice) and forgot to stop my Garmin. Those 2 trips have segments showing up on the leaderbord that i've been trying to remove with zero luck. Someone flagged the entire activity instead of just those segments, Ive now been able to unflag the activity but not the segments......please help

The weekend is nearly here. I've been pretty active this week, so I'm hoping to take it easy with a leisurely bike ride.  What are your plans?  Some hard training?  Rest and recovery?  Something in between? Let us know what the weekend has in store for you!

This is of course what every software engineer writes as a first program in any language and as I used to be one it seems appropriate here too.  I’m new to the Community so this is hello from a 60+ cycling MAMIL 🤣🚴🏻😎

Just attempted a rather difficult Tour des Stations Ultrafondo event (242KM/8848M). Missed the second time check by 7 minutes and got elimihated. Not alone, only 326 of 680 participants completed and only 7 of 21 in the 60+ age group.I trained and trained but still came up short. They really shouldn't label it a 'Fondo' event as it's really more a race. The time checks are the same for everyone, regardless of age. I wish there were age specific time checks.No more whining. I'm wondering if anyone knows good training material (video ideally) for long endurance events. If I ever hope to compete I will have to fight my age and up my game. 

Hey everyone, I'm Eric from Colorado. I've been using Strava since 2013 and it has been an integral part of my athletic life. These are the areas where I feel I've benefited the most...1) Motivation. This tool has been a huge motivator in my training. Keeping track of PRs, chasing KOMs, improving on previous attempts. Segments motivate me a whole lot more than doing "intervals".2) Inspiration. I've found great ideas of places to ride, run, and activities to try by seeing what other people are doing. I can go anywhere in the world and find cool places instantly, or find places in my own area that I didn't know about. 3) Creative outlet. In addition to being a training log where I can write and journal about my daily activities, I enjoy posting pictures from those activities. As an artist that doesn't do art for a living, I often don't find much time for art. Strava gives me a platform to find and share something beautiful every day (even though it's "just" a snap from my iphon

Happy to be the first Alex such that no one thought or had time to select Alex as their username! 

Hi community. It'll be interesting to see how this develops in the coming months.It does seem strange that we have to have a new username and avatar. Why can't we just log into the community using our Strava profile?Will we eventually be able to add custom avatars? They usually stand out more, and you get to pick out people by their avatar rather than a name. I see some people already have them. Do we have to earn the ability or something?Custom signatures? Will that be a thing eventually?Thanks, and good luck. 

We’d like to give a warm welcome to all our community hub members who joined in the month of July! If you haven't already, feel free to introduce yourself if you'd like to. We hope you will enjoy both asking questions and answering the questions others have. If you have tidbits of knowledge you want to share, suggestions about an existing feature, device or integrations, or brand new idea, we invite you to post your ideas in the Help & Ideas section of our Community Hub.   Thank you for being the first members of our Community Hub; we look forward to hearing from you! @alexx @Andrew11 @Anna11 @BeatingUpwind @belugabob @benrw9 @Bencze @benemery @benry @Bl4de @CaliforniaPoppy @Bripe @cy-linder @dantsai @CrazyAsian68 @conradolson @daverdave @davecatchpole @ChelseaStew @carlos11 @CreakyCrank @ChrisLegg @cpuguru07 @ClemensLucas @Chris_Anderson @DispersiveLogi

I was excited to see Marianne Vos take the yellow jersey at the end of Stage 2 and I can't wait to see what happens over the next six stages!   Who are you cheering for?  We would love to hear how you are enjoying this epic race.  Be sure to follow on the Tour Hub with the Strava mobile app installed to check results, see pro rider content, and more. 

The Strava Community Hub is a collaborative space where we can all come together as athletes to share what motivates us to strive towards our goals. First, let's take a step to get to know each other better and what brought you here. Here are a few icebreaker options to get you started! What's your name? Where are you from? What's your favorite activity? What about recovery and nutrition? Don't be shy, respond to other athlete introduction posts if you see something that catches your eye - maybe you'll make a new running or riding friend as a result! And lastly, keep in mind that this community is here to support you whether it be understanding Strava's features and functionality or looking for motivation to train for your next big goal. Whatever it may be, this is the place to ask questions, find answers, and build new connections!  

Welcome to the Strava Community Hub! If you haven't already, feel free to introduce yourself and get to know some of your fellow athletes here. With over 100 million athletes on Strava (and counting!), it's always so exciting to welcome people in all stages of their relationship with personal fitness. As we continue to get to know each other in Strava Community Hub, we would love to hear how you define your athlete journey and what being active means to you! Thinking back on your experiences - regardless of what your activity of choice may be - what are some of the things that influenced you in becoming the athlete you are today? What are some of the best parts of your journey that keep you striving for more? 

I am from Germany and I am very curious about what will happen here.

Maybe this is in some article somewhere, but I can't find it...Kudos/Upvote? So, I see a lot of interesting ideas in the Feature Suggestion (under Help & Ideas), and I assume that giving a kudo is upvoting an idea.... What is somewhat perplexing though is that some cannot get a kudo and some can.  I thought (at first) that it had to have a status of "Gathering Kudos" in order to allow a kudo, but there are some with this status that also will not allow me to kudo (while others in this status can be given a kudo). Q:  What is the 'flow' to be able to kudo, and is this how we vote on features suggested by fellow Strava Athletes?  Thanks!TL;DR The message I got for one that is in 'Gathering Kudos' said "This idea cannot receive kudos", and the one that was 'New Idea' said "You cannot give kudos to a completed message"

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Hi there!Mickey Pearson (43, he/him) here. I'm a runner/mountain biker from Duluth, MN.I'm excited to contribute to the Strava Community in this new forum! 

Glad to be here and hopefully now we can have a nice home to manage feature requests.