Strava Features Chat

I've just started trying out Strava on my galaxy watch 5 pro, and this seems like such a no-brainer but I can't find it anywhere. How do I see my distance on the app while I'm running? On my watch I can see Heart Rate, Time, and Pace/Mile, but that's it? I want to look at my watch while running and see how far I've gone, without having to wait until I've finished the run and it's synced to my phone. All of the distance info is there on my phone post-run, but how do I see it during the run?In the Samsung Health watch app it's so simple: I see Duration, Distance, Pace and Heart Rate. I can even get an audio or vibration cue at each mile. Why would anyone use Strava for running if you can't see the distance while running? Thanks in advance - hopefully I'm missing a simple setting. 

My latest 36.4 mile ride will not sync to my phone and computer. I have tried everything and nothing worked

Many times my photos location is way off from place it was taken. This is because the GPS location can be very inaccurate if I take a picture with my phone quickly after turning it on.It would be nice to be able to put photos on a map at a location based on when they were taken, this can be much more accurate than GPS data. I know that there are some users that use some scripts that takes GPX and photos and then updates geolocation meta data looking for the nearest point in GPX to time when photo was taken.Could Strava perhaps also allow this option when uploading media? Place photos on GPX "when" it was taken, ignoring location data.

Can we add segments for walking as well?

I’d like the opportunity to communicate privately and directly with fellow Strava athletes (gear and route questions, co-training opportunities, etc.; things that are too detailed for the comments section). I understand that creating, integrating, and “policing” an internal personal messaging system is daunting, but what about Strava allowing an email sharing “opt in”.Any athlete could allow conversation through their Strava verified sign-in email but it would be hidden behind a “contact this athlete” button on Strava. The receiving athlete would see the sending athlete’s email and they could choose to reply or not reply and continue the communication off the Strava website within their personal email (gmail, yahoo, etc).  The general Strava audience would not see any personal email, just the “contact this athlete” button—unless it is grayed out because the athlete chose to not partake in this form of direct communication.  What are your thoughts and ideas pl

 Hi,Completely new to Strava; I've planned a route, now would like to install waypoints at particular km intervals, lets say every 30km - the route is a few hundred kms.  How do I do this? I am hovering over the KM marker flags and trying to add a waypoint by clicking, but it is not letting me. Thanks for any help

In the Android app the Weekly Intensity does not show all my activities. For example this week the Activities this week under Weekly Intensity only shows activities from Monday through Thursday. Activities done on Friday through Sunday are not shown. Last week, my activity from Sunday is not shown. 

I just moved to a new city and decided to open up heatmaps to look for local routes. While I was under my own personal heatmap, I noticed something very strange... 2 activities were recorded in places I have NEVER been, one in Sanfran CA and the other in Seattle WA. They are not just straight lines indicating a GPS error either, and I live in MI anyway, closest I've been to either of those places is Utah and Nevada. When I zoom in on the activity, they are not just in random places either, they both appear to correlate directly over a building. What is going on here exactly? If they had been straight lines in completely random places I'd chalk it up to GPS errors, but Seattle and San Francisco? Two places a lot of scam calls and junk mail comes out of? 

Hi everyone,Not sure if this interests anyone, but as a cyclist and follower of pro cycling it's well accepted that big mountains are among the most revered challenges.  The origin of KOM was from TdF as one example - when the award was ONLY for summiting a mountain.  For me personally, I have a list of about 30-40 of the most iconic mountain climbs that I want to accomplish.  Many of them appear in the major stage races, and/or offer the most stunning scenery.  I've done about half so far.  Each of these is an amazing experience, and I plan a few every year.  Is anyone interested in this topic, and want to discuss and share our experiences, as well as possibly having Strava acknowledge in some way those of us that have done this?  I bet there are many, many among us who have climbed these mountains and experienced the satisfaction and exhilaration of summiting.  Not to mention the thrilling descents.Richa

 I like the concept of fitness as a ratio of effort/intensity vs rest over time. But the calculation needs to be updated, because as it stands, it gives me peaks of around 110, and lows of about 11 in the past two years. I know it's relative, and it's accurate that my intensity and frequency changes seasonally, but it's misleading in that it looks like I'm 10x more fit in the summer than in the winter. I'd like the range to be more indicative of performance potential. Ex: in the winter when my score is 11, i can probably still run a 5k, bike a century, etc (whatever baseline metric) about 70-80% as fast as my peak. So I'd expect the fitness scores to reflect that. If my peak is 110, my low should be 70 or so. Not 11...

My lap times seem to include time when I have my ride on "pause".  I do not think it should do this. Maybe this is an artifact of the way my Garmin works and not Strava calculations. I do not know.

I've recently had minor problems when I have cropped a bike ride (something I usually do to get ride of "noise" at the start and end of a ride) and I see a spurious duplicate of the ride before it was cropped.  I've done about 900 bike rides and never had the problem until about 2 weeks ago and it's happened again today - I crop the ride as normal and then I notice a copy of the pre-cropped ride in my feed but with the Activity set to "indoor cycling" and showing no Segments (the copy has the same start time as the cropped version and is slightly longer).  It's almost as though the cropping process somehow failed and didn't delete the original version.  Is it safe to delete the copy ? It's obviously related to the cropped version and I don't want to risk losing that (and the associated performances).

From around March 2022, the place names on the map displayed in the activity will be in English.Before that, it was displayed in the language selected when displaying the Strava web page.Is it possible to restore the place name notation of the language selected on the web page as before?

I don't know if Strava is just trying to be really supportive, but I live in a relatively flat area (between the mountains anyway), and I have received numerous notifications from Strava congratulating me for climbing 2m on my commute to work. Perhaps the bar could be raised a little, I don't need kudos for that. 

Has anyone solution for this unwanted problem with the app on Android? Even if you force stop the app, it will resurrect itself not long after as a background process, always triggered by the opening of an unrelated app!!!??? Quite invasive and worrying actually.

Hello Strava Community,Kudos to Strava for showing us in our feed, reminders of previous rides, and other activities.  I love this feature, and hope it continues.  Really nice when these pop up in our personal feed, and I reminisce where or how I rode from a year or two year ago from the activity anniversary date.Thank you, Strava!  Richard Forzani

Hi, In previous Strava Web App versions there was always a 'star' symbol at the beginning of each segment line (in found segments list for given route) to easily add a segment to the list. But it is now missing even though this functionality was useful. See attached printscreen. 

There are many hundreds of great virtual rides, often shared across platforms, without any public segments. New segments can only be made private. Rides without segments remove the important element of competition.  Your guidance states that a search will usually reveal an existing segment, but tortuous searches have usually shown this isn't the case. Therefore, could virtual riders be allowed to create one public segment for the complete route length please

Hi Just got the Strava subsciption last month. I ride an ebike to work and back home about 50km all up. When i get to work or home i check Strava and find that there are 2 rides on it what ever direction i go . I get a notification E Bike ride and Bike Ride for the same trip. How do i delete Bicycle/ bike ride. At the begining of each trip I select E Bike on the Strava app. Many thanks

hi i want to merge 2 accounts which i have . One of them is already active and i upload there all my activities . I pay to activate my account from my mistake to an other with i make with my another mail. How i can merge these 2 accounts because i dont want to lose my money 

Starred segments Since yesterday my star segments are mixed up. I was used to seeing alle the new starred segments at the top of the line. Now it's randomly placed making it almost impossible to look up later. Can this be put back?

Usually use Strava for outdoor walks. Today, I started a walk inside a mall. I was not expecting to get distance/speed info and I did not see the app displaying such info during the walk. After I saved the walk though, it does show a distance. Using Strava app on iPhone 13. No Apple Watch.

My Strava Paid subscription which I have for over 5 years does not show up on my Iphone. The Iphone only shows FREE subscription. What that means is NONE of my rides will show up or most of my followers on the Iphone will not show up on my Iphone App. I have unistalled, Reinstalled, Changed passwords and make sure both the PC and phone match. When I unistall and then re-install the App it does not allow me to fill the user name and password fields which is strange. Apple support says it's an APP issue. I have sent in numerous support tickets and have never heard back. Any suggestions?

I was wondering when soccer/football was added as an activity type?  I've been asking for this since 2016!

On a smart trainer doing a zwift, RGT ride, it’s a virtual ride.  But how about doing an erg file workout on a smart trainer? Which sport type should I pick?