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Do you prefer exercising in the heat or cold? I'd pick the heat any day. I'm simply not a fan of freezing my fingers, toes, nose and eyeballs off. How about you? Comment below if you prefer being 🌞 = hot or ❄️ = cold.      

So, my wife and I like to get out and run, but with the summer sun and humidity, it can be hard to get outside and not just feel like we are melting.  We try to run first thing in the am (before it gets too hot), but that is when the humidity here is the highest... later in the day, we have lower humidity, but a scorching hot sun.What do you do to 'beat the heat'?  Has anybody tried those "Arctic Cool" shirts?  Run at night?  Run indoors on a treadmill? (I don't like to do this, since we spend so much time indoors in the winter).  Cycling isn't as bad, since you at least generate more wind with the movement - any other activities you migrate to when it is hot outside?Who actually likes running in the heat (and why)?  We see a lot of people out in the peak heat of day - wondering how??

Hello Community Members, We’re excited to announce that starting next week, Tuesday October 4th, we’ll be starting a weekly series:  Tuesday Chat with Team Strava. Tune in every Tuesday for interesting and fun topics, some trivia questions, and a chance to share your own thoughts and experiences.  Take a break from your day and connect with others in the community, have some fun, and hopefully learn something along the way.    See you next week for the first installment and be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a post.  

Hello everyone 👋    Since the Community Hub started its journey, in the last two months we have seen: 1,412 posts 57,723 page views 1,758 kudos given   This Monday, we hit another milestone. Around 3.30 am PT, our Community Hub got its 1000th member - what amazing news! 🎉🌟   We are delighted to see how Community Hub is serving as a place of connection for all the athletes, a place where stories and tips are shared, and a place where everyone feels welcomed! Thank you for all your contributions and engagement.   Congratulations to @BruJuve10 for being our Community Hub 1000th member - we are so happy to have you here! 😎    

Hello! Thanks for visiting the Strava Community Hub.  I'm Jane and here's a few things about me: I'm originally from Canada (Alberta) but I've been a  U.S. resident for a while and have lived in California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. I've worked for Strava for nine years. My favorite activities tend to change throughout the seasons; right now I'm enjoying walking and strength training the most. I'm not currently training for any races or events, but I am looking forward to cheering on the runners in the NYC Marathon in November. It would be great to get to know you!  Please introduce yourself and let us know a bit more about you, what you like to do, and any events or races you're planning for.  Drop your introduction into the thread below and let's start talking.   

A friend of mine received a ticket from the town for riding a small section of trail that is apparently off limits to bikes. He rode very early in the morning and encountered no one. When he called the town to ask why he was ticketed they told him that they found his ride on social media. He does not use any social media and does not post his rides anywhere except Strava.  Has anyone else experienced this?  How does one easily even find segment activity of other riders without actually riding the segment? 

Tried (fill in the blank) sport! What's a sport you've always wanted to try? 🤔 🤔 Risk is my middle name, I'm a big adrenaline junkie and am constantly on the lookout for a greater challenge. Most people don't like trying new things because they hate being bad at something. I find it humbling and motivating when I'm a beginner. When someone tells me "that's crazy, that's not possible" I transmute that into fuel for motivation 💪 I watched a documentary on Netflix called The Alpinist a few months ago and was really intrigued by Marc-André Leclerc, who was a remarkable solo free climber. I've tried climbing previously, and my spaghetti cyclist arms struggle quite a bit with the challenges the sport presents. However, ice climbing ⛏️ seems a lot more appealing to me and I'd love to try that someday, barring I gain enough upper body strength. Something about the danger, mental challenges and the constantly changing variables seems very enticing

Are there boards on Strava to post if anyone is interested in renting out an enduro e-bike? I have 2, (medium frames) YTs available. Perhaps you've wanted to try one out before purchase of are traveling and want to get a ride in. 

That was a nail biter of a game between England and Germany yesterday, so exciting to watch!  Kudos to England for winning it!  I'm sure big parties continue today.   I did feel sorry for the German side - the look of disappointment, but somebody has to win, and England have waited so long.Watching the match got me wondering, how many people track Football (soccer) on Strava?  I know I do... and, I've tried it 2 waysRecord as a run: I do this because I like to know how far I've run at the end, but it creates a 'mess' of a map, and also skews my running totalsRecord as cardio: gives me a better 'relative effort' score, but doesn't track the distance.Anybody else record activities like this?  What methods do you do?  Maybe this is something I should put in as a feature request?

I live in NZ and will be in Brisbane/Gold Coast for a week. Do I have to do anything to my account so that my Fenix6X Pro and Strava will "talk" with each other! Or does it just stay the same?

Hello,updates for local lengend are not made automaticaly. by going to the segment page, the update is made, so it's better than at the start of the problem a few weeks ago.but the update is not made in one case : when nobody is local legend before i do the segment. for example : in this activity https://www.strava.com/activities/7659763885 i do the segment https://www.strava.com/segments/21560708 in the segment page, it's say nothing about local legend. same thing in https://www.strava.com/segments/21560708/local-legendsame probleme in this activity https://www.strava.com/activities/7649876080 for the segment https://www.strava.com/segments/4580916 after the activiity, it's say no local legend. i do again this segment in today activity https://www.strava.com/activities/7682580797 after today activity, the update has been made with the correct number : 2. so the system can say a user is the local legend when nobody was local legend, but that should happen after the first attempt, not t

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