Strava Features Chat

I had set up a couple default bike settings for 'Mountain bike ride' and for 'E-Mountain Bike Ride'. After getting a new bike and swapping that bike out for the previous one as the default bike for 'E-Mountain Bike Ride', many of my activities that had the previous default bike associated with them had the bike removed and the drop down to select a bike appeared on those rides. It seems there is a bug with loosing the associated bike on activities when you change your default bike for a given activity.

I’m just getting into running but today on the treadmill I did a 3.2 mile run/walk, but my watch does not count accurate miles when i’m running on the treadmill so i added a manual activity. I put in the time and distance but when I check my best efforts i don’t get credit for anything from the 400m all the way to the 5k. I was wondering if it was because it is a manual activity or something else.

I have a  Strava subscription but for the last 6 months my fitness score has not been updating?

Hi! I am joining my first 16-kilometer race this weekend, and would just like to know: what is 10 miles converted to kilometers exactly in Strava? A quick Google calculation says it's 16.0934 km, but there's also a Strava route page that associates 10 miles with 16.2 kilometers. Just want to make sure that my race this weekend will be logged under 10-mile personal best. Thanks!

This is my fitness in the last 3 months according to Strava as I am training for an upcoming 100 miler. In reality this couldn't be any further from truth. My aerobic fitness went up significantly. I handle heat much better than 3 months ago, and I recover quickly from long training runs.What Strava calls fitness is highly misleading. This should be called something like acute training load as this gives a lot of emphasis on time spent in high intensity. But that isn't fitness as people who end up training too hard (at too high intensity) all the time tend to plateau. This doesn't encourage to train smart and only works to reflect noob gains for people who have just started exercising. Also consider the fact that the biggest gains in "fitness" on this graph are from finishing races. But again that is false. Running a long distance race in fact suppresses fitness for a few weeks as the body needs to recover from a higher than usual stress. 

Dear Strava-Team.I recently had the issue of not noticing that i forgot to restart my paused roade bike ride, becase i obviously did not tap the "continue" button on my mobile app correctly. And since the small icon at the top edge of the cellphone screen (circle-icon notification) is the same when the app is paused as it is when it's recording i did not figure the status of the mobile app correctly. My fault in the firtst place. I think it could be helpful if the icon would point out the different status of the app by showing a differet icon. It already does when "auto pause" is applied. Maybe you could find a solution for this rare issue, even if i know most riders record with a different device, but mobile/cell phone, it would be a big help for app recordings. My best regards,Daniel aka Yung Ullrich 🌹

Can anyone advise how to Import a Garmin GPX Map to Strava. To save me having to redraw in Strava

Hello, I would like to discuss how I can set up a virtual 5K run for the Oklahoma Black alumni Association. This would occur in October during Oklahoma University, Texas football weekend. How would I go about informing the society, which shouldn’t be a problem. But how can I get everyone engaged in a virtual competition using your product

Hi guys, The problem is my training record title is in russian language even though the mobile-phone language is English.What I had tried that didn't help (new records still on russian) - Change language on phone and change back to English - Delete Strava and install again - Set English in web StravaPhone: iPhone xr, ios 16.6.1, but It reproduces on other ios also  

How about driving detection? I finished a hike and I'm tired, so forget to turn Strava off. To make matters worse I c can never figure out how to crop the route. My solution is to just delete the activity. Not optimal. 

There should be an option when viewing the map to not have to see other peoples pictures and the "see this location" option. Let us turn that feature off through filters.

Update from Strava July 2, 2024: Hello! Thanks to all who have commented and provided feedback. We're listening, and we recently made an update that will improve the accuracy of Challenge leaderboards that contain walk and hike activities. We know leaderboard integrity matters and we will continue to iterate on improvements. Could I also flag up a (possible) issue with the challenge leaderboards? Some of the challenges seem to have implausible achievements that do not tally with profile data. For example, in the February run climb challenge there are several athletes with tens of thousands of metres of climbing at the top of the leaderboard. These figures don't correlate at all with the activities recorded in open profiles and I thought I would flag it up.

Hello folks, I recently had an activity, where, according to the timing, I scored a KOM on a hiking segment. When I uploaded the activity to Suunto, as always it got transferred automatically to Strava, but Strava showed all the segments completely wrong, so I deleted the activity from Strava not knowing that I can still re-load some features of the activity to have it fixed (I know, stupid me...).I still have the activity in Suunto app though, having the .fit file available. My question is, when I import the .fit file with the activity to Strava, will it count achievements towards the overall leader board or manual loads will include only stats without any achievements?I already tried to contact Strava support if they can recover my deleted activity (activity was deleted after it was saved to Strava, so should be possible...) but so far no response, so looking for alternatives.Many thanks to all for any advise or comments. 

I have a current bike set for all ride types for MTB.  Retired bike has ZERO ride types set.  Retired bike gets set on every ride!  What am I missing?

I would like to see "Mountain Bike Ride" listed in the Sport drop-down box on the My Activities page. You have Mountain Bike Ride listed in the Manual Entry page. Basically these two should align. Thank you.

Hi, My strava has stopped showing calories burned after a workout. My account is synced with a polar watch and has always displayed calories burned up to last week when it suddenly stopped? I can see the calories burned through my polar account but am not sure why it is not transferring over?

Hi there! I'm sure everyone received the email today with the subject line: You’re fast! Want to know how fast? Apparently, you can now see where you rank by percentage on segments. BUT when I clicked the button in this email that says "SEE YOUR RANK" there are no percentages anywhere that I can see for the segment I was shown for me or anyone else. Where do you find this percentages feature?P.S. I have seen a low % next to my name on leaderboards in the past so it's got to be somewhere but since this is being announced as a new feature and I don't see a percentage for the segment the button took me to, I'm confused about how it works/where it is. Does anyone know? 

I use my apple watch to record my whole ride but the distance that is only posted was half of what I did. It seems that the time spent was correct but the total distance was inaccurate. When I hit save on my apple watch after my ride, it did not record on strava app. I restarted my phone, apple watch and force close strava to see if it will reboot and record the data, but it still did not work. I tried to record and save a new one (just like this community suggested) By doing that, it did post the data from the previous ride that was not recorded. However, the distance that was recorded was wrong. is there a way that this ride can be adjusted to the full distance that I did? 

Since today none of my routes will load in Chrome. I've cleared the cache and logged out, but still no change. Thoughts?James

HelloI am trying to upload routes for an event I am doing next month. I have uploaded the gps files for 5 of the 7 routes but I am now getting a message "sorry there was a problem processing this request. Please try importing your file again or try another file". I have tried a number of times and tried different files but no look. Can someone help?Daithi

Hi,I'm using Strava for cyling, feeding Strava from my Wahoo Roam 2.When I add up my yearly KMs from the activity feed vs what I see in my yearly goal total KMs, the KMs show in goals are higher by 75 to 100 KMs, it changes everytime do a ride, as I am now checking everytime.Any reason these don't match and Is there something I can do to fix this issue ?Thanks,Fred 

Copied this from previous post where no solution was given. I am having same problem and DO NOT want to get emails every time someone else comments on the same activity I have commented on. Strava: please fix your problem with this!!!Every time I comment on a notable activity (such as a race) of another Strava user, my email inbox get flooded with comments from other users on the same activity, most of whom I don't know and completely uninterested in their comments. Most of these comments are simple congratulations.Is there any way to stop that? I have already unchecked a corresponding option for a push notification, but I still get emails. For example, after yesterday's race, in which I also participated, I received at least 20 such emails about someone who I don't know commenting on another person's race.   0 Kudos Reply  

Hi there,  I just realised that I turned 65 last October, but none of my efforts show up when I filter by the 65 - 74 age group.  On a ride I did at the weekend, all segments that I am shown as having completed show me as placing "-/123" (for example) in the 65-69 age group and I do not appear in the full filtered listing.  I have double checked that the correct d.o.b is entered on my settings.The same is true for other rides I have completed since my birthday, well those I have checked.

Strava has me following people I didn't follow / request. When I delete them it deletes someone I actually do follow. It's like it's mixed up names or something. I deleted everyone I follow and then added back those I want to follow but it followed people I didn't add again and not all those i did add. Been on Strava for 7 years, never happened before