Strava Features Chat

What exactly is Strava's 'Training Impulse'? It is  ONLY shown when you hover over a particular ride in the 'Fitness and Freshness' curve, but the term is not defined in the Strava glossary (as far as I can find) and -of course- its not  'Training Load ' (known as TSS everywhere else)) or 'Intensity' (= IF) or 'Relative Effort' (TRIMP). Can't find anything on these boards or via Gogle.Anyone?Thx.

Wanted to see if I get help with an activity title issue.I'm trying to see if it's possible to not have my ride location automatically show up in the title of my ride. I will get something like "San Antonio, Texas morning ride", when all I used to get was just "morning ride." (I know this is something Strava implemented a while back and it drives me crazy.) I can completely replace the activity title, removing the location data, and it add it back in later on. Is there a way to turn this feature off? I have friends who never get the ride location in the their auto titles. I've looked at the preferences and haven't found a way so far.Thanks for any help.

I bike a specific route a lot. I encounter a stop light twice.I am not sure pausing is working right. Whether I am stopped at the light has an outsized effect on my ride time.I am tracking using a Fitbit Charge 5, and it syncs to Strava.Does Strava detect pauses in the synced Fitbit data? If so, how can I see where it is seeing pauses? I would like to validate my theory.If this is primarily a Fitbit deal, I can check there. I am not clear which part bears responsibility for this. It seems that the data available to Stava is sufficient for it to eliminate pauses, but not sure that it does.

Will there be more sports? for example; bouldering, korfball and volleyball? Greeting, Floris

Hi, I am a PhD student at the ECE department at Portland State University. I have been working on a Pace-Prediction problem for distance running. I recently came across this paper  Estimating the cost of training disruptions on marathon performancehttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspor.2022.1096124/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Sports_and_Active_Living&id=1096124 The authors have mentioned contact

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