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strava forces me too choose another activity

  • April 27, 2025
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I am a wheelchair user, but can run using a running frame. Strava does not give Framerunning as an activity to choose from, even though there are more and more people practicing this sport. 
Today all of a sudden Strava is telling me there is a problem with my activity and I have too choose another sport. I could choose cycling, the frame has wheels, however the frame allows me to run. And there are still runners that run faster than I do. 
I don’t want to get this error with each activity.,,, how do I resolve this when Strava doesn’t want to recognize the actual sport I practice?

Best answer by Jana_S

​@Yone probably the best you can do now (meaning… it's the lesser evil, not an optimal solution) is to change the privacy level of the activities (set them to only you). The disadvantage is obvious - can't share them, can't compare against others on segments. Advantages - unlike with “Workout”, you’ll keep all the running metrics (pace, running power, cadence, ...), your PRs on various distances, and it can be changed in bulk: in the app, go to the tab You > settings - gear wheel in top right > Preferences > Privacy controls; and here:

  • Activities - set to Only You
  • Edit past activities - Activity visibility - Only You

This way, you shouldn't be getting those messages forcing you to change the activity type.

I personally agree that it would totally make sense to have this as a new activity type (nothing complicated, simply a “clone” of running, just without regular running segments… like Strava did with bikes & e-bikes), but as far as I know, Strava isn't planning to add new sports types in the foreseeable future. I wish they would. 

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    • April 27, 2025

    You know, I wonder if you could benefit by uploading your activities as "workout" activity type instead of wheelchair or handcycle.  With workout, you don't get segments, and my guess is it won't compare times over the standard distances you see under best efforts.  You will get a map on your activity page if you used a GPS device, and it does show moving time, distance and average speed, but they don’t fall into any yearly or lifetime buckets. 


    You might want to experiment with that and see if that will work for you.

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    • April 29, 2025

    That might be the case, but than I would have to change all of my past sessions as well, to be able to  keep a complete overview and also, I want to be able to see my PR on the same distances as runners do, 5k, 10k, half a marathon, etc. So I either want to be able to log it as a run (and yes, I run fast with the frame, but there are faster runners out there or be able to choose Framerunning, which does not exist. 
    This frame is not a wheelchair nor a hand cycle by the way! It is like a tricycle, but without pedals, I sit and run with my feet on the ground. 

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    • April 29, 2025

    ​@Yone probably the best you can do now (meaning… it's the lesser evil, not an optimal solution) is to change the privacy level of the activities (set them to only you). The disadvantage is obvious - can't share them, can't compare against others on segments. Advantages - unlike with “Workout”, you’ll keep all the running metrics (pace, running power, cadence, ...), your PRs on various distances, and it can be changed in bulk: in the app, go to the tab You > settings - gear wheel in top right > Preferences > Privacy controls; and here:

    • Activities - set to Only You
    • Edit past activities - Activity visibility - Only You

    This way, you shouldn't be getting those messages forcing you to change the activity type.

    I personally agree that it would totally make sense to have this as a new activity type (nothing complicated, simply a “clone” of running, just without regular running segments… like Strava did with bikes & e-bikes), but as far as I know, Strava isn't planning to add new sports types in the foreseeable future. I wish they would. 


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