Achievements: since injury or for the season

[Kevin]

When I joined Strava, it was very motivating to get achievements as I improved.  Due to an injury and age, I'll probably never run as fast as I did a few years ago, so I never get see those achievements as I slowly get better.  While getting an achievement for beating a lifetime record is still great, it would also be great if there were also achievements based on activity over a user specified period.  For me that would be since I returned to running in November after my injury.  For someone else, it might be when they shift their focus from short runs to long runs or for runners that take the winter off an annual thing.

Ideally, you'd be able to pick a date in past to compare to rather than a hard reset - a hard reset will make every run achievement for a while which makes them meaningless.

[Antgsmith]

Good afternoon- are there any plans to introduce annual PB medals / records as well as all time PB’s for segments? Just think it’s a good way to recognise efforts through the year, plus I am becoming more aware that a) I’m not getting younger and b) not getting faster 😂 so PB’s a few and far between.

[puzzleducks]

Hello, 

I started recording activities on Strava in 2015 before stopping in 2017. I came back last year and have a long way to go until I match achievements made years ago. I think it would be motivating to have achievements such as 'longest run this month/year', 'fastest 1k this month/year'. 

Thanks

[EmilHogedal]

Perhaps it could be linked to this suggestion?
https://communityhub.strava.com/t5/ideas/filter-best-results-by-year/idc-p/7489#M3269

[tpoz]

wrong thread

[goodingn]

Yes please.  Exactly like it was in 2015 please:-

https://blog.strava.com/new-year-new-achievements-9125/

I thought it the best new feature Strava ever added, so was gutted when it was removed.  For one year, I had faith that Strava was doing meaningful things for me.

Having had a multi-year injury and a historic decade or more of cycling, Strava is a personal ghost town to me.  Impossible to be at my previous best, impossible even when at my previous best to beat PBs assisted by stormy windy conditions.

A season's best is a normal achievement in all sports, so why should Strava not have it?

I suspect the people that complained about the feature, now nearly 10 years older, are maybe regretting complaining about it as they get old and their performance is naturally dropping off too!  I read supposedly lots of people complained about the feature, but for people like me, happily pedalling along, enjoying the new functionality, was oblivious to the supposed list of complaints.  Had I known of it's planned demise, I would have happily Kudos'd to saving it at the time.  Happy people don't swamp the support desk with happiness, so the complaints could easily have been taken well out of proportion.

I wonder if a 'rolling season's best' could reduce the overall number of trophies, while still giving recovering athletes something to achieve?  Best in last 365 days?

[zecanard]

A few years ago I suffered knee injuries that made running painful for 2½ years. In-between, I moved out of state with a blank slate of segments to start my recovery on. And since I had crossed the dreaded 40, I decided to archive my race PRs as well.

I can say beyond the shadow of a doubt that seeing new segment and race PRs week after week has been a huge motivator. In just 8 months I made as much progress as in my first 2–3 years of running.

Having the ability to reset or archive our Strava PRs would be massive in motivating people who may be on the wrong side of their peak. It could be restricted to a certain frequency (eg. once a year) to keep people from resetting every day, but I think it would be fantastic for your users.

[Novedevon]

I would love to see a rolling yearly PR for segments that I hit many times a year. I know that my PRs from a few years ago are much harder to beat now, however it would be great to see/track improvement in the last 365 days

[Phil_Mott]

I logged on to raise the very same thing as Kevin, about 5 yrs ago, due to personal circumstances, I had a lot of free time and was able to get out on the bike almost every day. Obviously, I got fitter and faster and it's unlikely I will ever beat a lot of my PB's. While it's nice to dream, having PB's or PR's per year, would be great additional incentive and motivation for my training and I'm sure for many others in similar situations. Although perhaps a personal setting as part of your profile that you can toggle on / toggle off, if it's not of interest to those still at their peak!

[Antgsmith]

Good afternoon - there seems to be quite a few of us with the same opinion - is Strava listening?

if so when is this going to go live? 

[JeanClaude]

For those of us who have lost the ability to beat our Strava PRs because of injury or because we joined a long time ago (2011) when we were oh-so-much faster or because we're just getting older, it would be fun, useful, and inspiring to learn that we just set a PR Top 3 of our past 3 years or so.  I joined in 2011... I am turning 66, have an ankle replacement and two knee replacements (etc.), still ride enthusiastically, but I constantly have to sort My Results and scan the dates of recent results for useful information.  Just because I didn't earn a Top 3 these days does not indicate a lack of progress or relevant achievement.  I frequently sort and check My Results for segments I use to self-evaluate my progress and fitness during rehabs and recovery.  Good idea?  Thanks for offering this suggestion system.  Vive le Strava!

[beardybloke]

Totally I get this.   As I get older the chances of me beating PBs diminish, but maybe a fixed 2 year window or even preferably a programmable window of 1-X years would be awesome. 

At the moment I am totally unable to beat my PBs made 6 or more years ago.  And now I'm restarting after injury I have nowhere to go for a summary of my "current" PBs.

[GregorG]

As I'm getting older, like most people do I guess, it's getting harder and harder to beat my "older" personal best efforts. 

With the option of Season Best, I'm able to monitor my progress for that season and still have the idea that progress is being made :>)

[BRogers]

Yes please. I have a bike, running shoes and a indoor concept 2 rower. Sometimes I am more motivated on cycling or running and sometimes I follow training plans and sometimes I am just lazy.

When I am in my motivated training phase it will be much better to compete against my season personal best or best in the last x months / last 5 attempts.

I did some good runs a few year ago. right now I cannot compete against this time. Never ever. So I have no motivation for these segments. If I had the season personal best / last defined period personal best it would be much more motivation to squeeze out the last heartbeat to challange the time.

[robmck]

I think that it's unlikely Strava is ever going to get around to implementing this, which is sad. I've canceled my subscription because I'm not getting benefit from it anymore. 😥

[Sammmmywh]

Strava shows your personal bests for a range of distances, but it would be amazing if we could have a season/year best record for those distances also. Thanks, Sam