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What strava has done for me. For me, strava has played a big role in my weight loss journey. And it all started a couple of years ago when a colleague pushed me to lose weight. And wanted me on strava. So he could keep an extra close eye on me and give me kudos when i was active. It was heavy, but I felt the little kudos I got and the little pressure to register something. It motivated me further. Unfortunately, I hurt my back, became unmotivated and deleted the account. Gained weight, and life became heavier again. But i never completely gave up. After treatment and physiotherapy. Then it was back to good old strava. Competing against myself. Set better times, get higher on segments. And bang, to this day I am 45 kilos lighter. And it just keeps getting better.

Question: What can sprint at speeds of up to 30 MPH, jump up to six times their height in a single jump and tackle the balance beam with grace and beauty? Nope, I’m not talking about Usain Bolt, Michael Jordan or Simone Biles … I’m describing a creature that can do all the above and more! Answer: The domestic cat Cats are supreme athletes and acrobats due to their muscles, bone structure and brains – their bodies are built for speed, jumping and flexibly.  It’s amazing to think that your healthy house cat that sleeps

Hello and Welcome to the Strava Community Hub.  We're so glad you're here. If you're new here, this is a Community ritual we like to keep going each month to have you come and introduce yourself - we would love to find out more about you and what brings you to the Community Hub. Now that spring has arrived (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere at least) I'm sure many of you are looking forward to outdoor activities in the coming months. Whether it's some kind of a race, or a leisurely trek at a favorite spot, drop us a reply below, introduce yourself, and let us know what you've got planned!  

The sign of a great conversation can be as simple as a nod of agreement or a smile that indicates a shared understanding. Moments like these help us understand we're on the same wavelength and each receiving value from our discussion.  Here in Community Hub the simple act of giving a post a kudo serves as our way to acknowledge we the reader have received value and appreciate the effort of the writer. Whether you like to give kudos or receive them the power of that 👍 speaks volumes.  For the month of March, let's celebrate and appreciate those members who have received the most kudos for their contributions during this time.  Here is the Top 20 Kudoed Authors leaderboard for March: 👍 Thank you for all your contributions that received kudos from other members:@marcb  

Hi all, I wrote a book called  "Reflections of a Runner:  365 Verses from the Heart"Strava helped me write this book because I use Strava like a journal for thoughts. I took my Strava posts that were reflections/poetry and combined them together into this book, then cut down until I had the 365 best verses in 8 chapters and 85 pages. The book is focused on the philosophy of running and explores thoughts on racing, time, courage, mindset, art, purpose, wisdom, and training.   The purpose of this book is to inspire you to create and turn the act of running into an art!If you are interested in philosophy and running, I think you will really enjoy the book. This is not a traditional book that is read from beginning to end. Read one verse or one page of verses, then stop. Put the book away or use the other half of the page as a place for reflection. Write your thoughts. I encourage you to wri

In February of this year, a powerful earthquake hit parts of Turkey & Syria killing more than 49,000 people and leaving millions of others in need of basic life necessities including shelter, food and clean water. Our community members and the folks at Strava wanted to show support to the people affected by this disaster. To raise awareness and help the people of Turkey & Syria, Strava hosted a global challenge. Strava also made a donation to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which provides direct relief to those affected and displaced. We want to thank each one of you that participated in the Earthquake Relief Challenge

Imagine how awesome Strava would be if you could also use it as a dating app hahaha 

Hi Strava members,I have a very strange problem going on and the people at Garmin have told me it is a Strava issue and I have yet to have Strava figure it out.IF you have 6 minutes to spare, can you please watch this screencast video of a 5 week problem and if you truly think you know what is going on, I'd love a solution.  I have tried everything imaginable but Garmin is telling me it is a Strava server malfunction of pushing 99 Strava Live segments to my Garmin Connect every time I such then to my 1040 thus not allowing me to use my device for live segments.click for this screencast video I made..  thanks! https://www.loom.com/share/a6ef342fea7b44429bbd8d231099d424Thanks!Barry

Witam. Czy jest możliwość zgłoszenia nie uczciwego zapisu segmentu, mam na myśli sytuacje gdy ktoś włącza strave zaznacza że jedzie rowerem a w rzeczywistości jechał motorem ,samochodem, e bike itp, niestety jest masa takich nie uczciwych zapisów o czym się przekonałem porównując wyniki

Hello to you all, I'm Dave, leisure cyclist and happy gym type person, not a fanatic but very keen to keep myself as fit as possible and firmly believe that even a little later in life we can improve and achieve great things. I'm here for a bit of advice if it's available and will happily share my limited knowledge of all things Strava with anybody if it helps. I'm a friendly, polite chap and look forward to chatting with you all 

Hello,my name is Daniele, 53 years old, from Italy (my apologize for my bad english).I'm a layout engineer in microeletctronic field. I've been using Strava for three years, since I started riding my bike regularly.

Hello and Welcome to the Strava Community Hub.  We're so glad you're here. If you're new here, this is a Community ritual we like to keep going each month to have you come and introduce yourself. 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. A few things about me: 1) I'll be celebrating my 10 year work anniversary with Strava next month 2) I'm super happy that spring time is almost here in the Northern Hemisphere 3) I was just gifted a book "At the Edge: Riding for My Life" by Danny MacAskill.  For anyone not familiar with Danny, he's a Scottish Street Trials cyclist acclaimed for daring stunts.

Race Report (made using Reddit's Race Report Generator by /u/herumph) Name: Los Angeles Marathon Date: March 19, 2023 Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/8742833440 Finish Time: 2:51:13 Goals Description Completed?

It’s everyone’s favorite time of the year again. Yes, I’m talking about March Madness! If you’re not familiar with the term March Madness is a time when Men’s & Women’s Collegiate Basketball Teams across the United States compete in a 64-Team Tournament. The Stories & Emotions create the madness through this tournament. You'll see classic David vs Goliath battles where a lower division ranked school will take down a powerhouse school. Players go from unknown prospects to national stars in a matter of days! Tears of joy & defeat will flow from the players eyes as they play their hearts out in the most competitive tournament known. The emotions from the players, coaches, and fans will be all over the place! I can feel my juices going just as I type about it! If you’ve never experienced excitement from basketball thi

Received an email from Strava today telling me to sign in to my account as I’d not used it for some time or it would be closed. I’m in the app almost daily. It also said that it might be for a different account. I’m confused.

  The end of the year is often a time to reflect on our work, achievements, and accomplishments. We weigh our efforts and plan our future goals.   With that in mind, we wanted to do a little retrospective of the most popular ideas proposed in Community Hub in 2022 to date and give you some insight into the amount of raised ideas, ideas that went into realization etc.   Without further ado, enjoy the below data sneak peek into the Community Hub Ideas to date:   🔢 Numbers&

Although not everyone in the world writes dates in the MM-DD-YYYY format, March 14 or 3/14 gives everyone the opportunity to celebrate Pi Day and most importantly Pie. We love Pi Day at Strava, celebrating every year with our own home made pies shared with our team.  When participating in any type of activity I am often extra motivated by knowing what snacks I have packed in my bag or what places I can stop off along the way to buy and enjoy good food. Refueling with delicious foods can be the difference between a memorable activity vs a miserable one for me if I reach that hangry moment.  There can be no better thing on a walk or a bike ride than stopping off along the route to enjoy some form of pie. Or coming home after a l

Make your steps count extra this month! To celebrate and honor International Women's Day on March 8 (and all month long), Strava has partnered with the Hot Girl Walk™ creator, Mia Lind, to raise funds to benefit global initiatives. Hot Girl Walk United – is a global challenge to commit more time to movement. The Hot Girl Walk is a 4-mile, outdoor walk that builds confidence through movement, serving as a dedicated time for self-reflection. For every completed challenge, Strava will donate $4 (up to $250,000) to GRLS and the ONSIDE Fund.  Why is this important? Studies show that the vast majority of active women aged 25-39 say working out is as important for their mental health as

🤠 First of all, I'd like to welcome all of our new March members. Drop a line below introducing yourself and share where you're from and what brings you to the Community! I'm a big fan of 'would you rather questions' and use way too many brain cells thinking up new ones.  Here are a few that have been on my mind lately, you can pick whichever one piques your interest and answer why:  🤔 🤔 I'm curious to hear from you!

Bike rider for 40 years+; used to race. Today I ride to keep fit. Winter training is inddor using Kinomap and XERT.Started using Strava to aggregate my inddor sessions and a better overview. Strava also allows XERT to pull my Kinomap sessions in for a full picture of my current training state.Pleasantly surprised by the small challenges available in Strava, great motivators, and I thus wanted to join the Le Col Season Pass challenge as I felt it was both achievable and worthwhile the effort.But how do I reach the 1000 meters of elevation when only cycling indoors?For XERT sessions, these probably will only record elevtion when running in slope mode something I have not yet tried.In Kinomap, elevation gain is recorded when riding challenge mode, but it appears not to sync this data to Strava? How do I get Kinomap and Strava to sync the elevation gain?/Ulf

What makes a great Community? The size of the Community? The Community location? The Community Members? If you said #3, we couldn't agree more!  We rely on the members in the Strava Community Hub to contribute ideas, share their experiences, and help other members.   We want to extend a big shout out and thank you to our top contributors for February. @Shant Thank you so much for sharing your creative ideas with us!  We encourage everyone to visit our Ideas Board where you can vote (add kudos) and comment on Shant's idea submissions.  Shant was our top contributor for the month of February and we look forward to his

Hi Strava Community, Is there anyone else out there like me who does a lot of self care and training recovery and wants to log it on strava?I’d like to make it where more of us are:1. Doing preventative activities together as a group2. Sharing what we are doing as training recovery and self care to inspire others on our feed so we stay healthy and get stronger3. Providing accountability to do the training recovery work outside of the actual workouts by posting, giving kudos, tagging, and sharing what we are doing for self care.Does this appeal to anyone and how could we make this happen Strava? 

   There are two things this Community Hub thrives on - kudos and accepted solutions. If you are using Strava, you are probably familiar with that amazing feeling of receiving a kudo for your hard work or giving a kudo to recognize someone's amazing achievements. There is no better feeling than seeing all your efforts supported by your community of friends and other athletes! In our Community Hub, we like to say that kudos are forever - and they are often given as a thumbs-up for good content and a pat on the back to its author. Your kudos help to boost the value of certain messages and enhance the reputation of their authors. 

   I have come across too many challenges on Strava that make it impossible to claim any prizes though deceptive practices for those who make the challenges. Has anyone delt with this issue before? I currently am dealing with "The Feed" for the second time with unmet rewards. They now owe me twice. Other challenges flat out offer 'money' in the description but will turn around and re-word the deals when anyone gets to the rewards pages to include Subsciptions, purchase, Expiring rewards. I'm getting tired of no help with this.Anyone else?

HI everyone , i realise this has been discussed before but I've just done a segment in singapore and it seems like the first 20 ppl in the segment could be flagged as most have a running pace of 2:12 ish. it seems flagging is an activity on its own. can i do multiple flags ? maybe if you don't have enough data you shouldn't be aloud on leader boards, i.e HR and cadence being the main data sources for runners  and if the  times are faster than world records they  should be flagged automatically.