Sweat dripping down your forehead, your feet dragging on your doorstep as you reach for the knob, a big exhale, ahhh. Endorphins are high and you congratulate yourself on yet another excellent workout. You tap to stop recording and anxiously wait for your activity to upload to Strava. All of a sudden, you're stumped. "What on earth do I title my run?", you wonder... 🤔
A quick glance through your home feed displays your friends' activities, all sorts of activity titles pop up: from the generic "Afternoon Ride" to the auto-generated activity titles that reference obscure pop culture quotes, and everything in between.
Some people spend their entire workout mulling over the most suitable title to distinguish their effort. But if you're anything like me, you either leave it to the default, write something silly and edit it moments later, or spend unjustifiable amounts of energy pondering what you could have, should have and would have titled it. 💭
For a period of time, I shared jokes with the answer in the description. This proved to generate quite a lot of eye-roll emojis in the comments. A coworker of mine titles all his runs after quirky vanity plates he comes across, and some friends appear to write an entire journal entry in every title and description -- down to the nitty gritty details of what they ate that day, how they felt and sometimes things I consider to be a bit too personal 😅
How do you decide what to name your activity?
Do you just leave it as “morning/afternoon activity” or include details about the weather, food you ate, something you saw along the route?
