Copy Activity from Friend - Re-post an activity from a group ride/run you did not personally record

[afix42]

Inverse of "Add Friends to Activity": Allow users to *request* to re-post an activity that they completed with a friend. This would be for occasions when a user forgets to record their activity, but a friend did. User would go to a friend's activity and click a new button: "Request to Join Activity"

EXAMPLE: I'm often doing a group run where I don't bring my GPS watch. However, my friends who did record usually forget to add me via "Add Friends to Activity" when they post to Strava. If I could "re-post" or "join the activity" that a friend had posted, they would get a notification to add me and I would get more accurate records of these activities.

NOTES: Not all stats would be transferred from your friend's activity to the one posted on your page... I imagine only the map, duration/pace, splits would. Performance on a segment wouldn't transfer, and personal stats like heartbeat, etc. wouldn't transfer. The friend could also choose to reject the request (e.g., maybe you didn't actually run the whole activity at the same pace as your friend).

[LandonE]

I agree, this would be helpful.

[Soren]

Thanks for submitting your idea. It has been reviewed by our moderation team and is now open to voting.

[KevinD]

This would be exceptionally helpful- I was looking for that functionality just now!

[bh1]

me too

[bh1]

oh wait my friend can currently add me. that's good enough

[Jane]

Hello. We wanted to let you know that your idea submission from April of 2023 will be archived. While this idea is interesting, we don’t have any immediate plans to implement this and currently aren’t able to prioritize this idea.

Please note that your feedback is valuable to Strava. As stated in our Community Idea Guidelines, we receive many idea submissions each week, and realistically, there may be various reasons that prevent us from including an idea on our Product Roadmap.  

We want to thank you for taking the time to submit your idea and we look forward to your continued contributions to the Strava Community.  

[weimkitty]

Well dang, I just did the longest ride since an injury and dang if my Garmin navigated the whole way then didn't even freaking record the ride.  How does that even happen?!
So yes, this feature would be so great - of course as long as the person gave permission to copy the ride.  I don't care about the achievements as much as just getting the metrics to track my improvements. 
This has me so sad! 😢

[Jan_Mantau]

@weimkitty You don't need a special Strava feature to relay your request to your friend. You sure have many other ways to reach them and ask them to add you to their ride.

And for the Garmin you need to remember that navigating and recording are different functions, usually you have to press some start button to begin recording.

[anchskier]

@weimkitty - All you need to do is post a comment to your friends ride and ask them to add you.  They already have the functionality to let them share their ride with you.  

[weimkitty]

ok admitted newbie here! Thanks very much!