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When achieving a PR, add 'You are up x places' -> Calculating: my current place on the leaderboard minus my place before the effort, if any ... View more

I think tracking running streaks (or any other form of exercise that is done every day) will be a great addition to Strava. This is important because: I have been running every day There are at least 4,142 runners who have also been running every day on runeveryday.com. This feature will show me which day of my running streak I am on without having to check it manually. I was inspired by runners like Hellah Sidibe who has been running every day for multiple years.  I want to inspire other runners to run or exercise every day.    An example of when I needed this feature was today. I wanted to check which day of the streak I am on (Day 576! 😊) to see how close I am to my next milestone.  Thank you Strava and Happy Holidays!  Shant ... View more

The events you can choose to add your personal records to your bio isn’t very extensive. I’d love to add 800m and 1000m, which are still in the realm of distance running. Additionally, it would be cool to be able to put cross country times on here (5k XC, 8k XC, 10k XC). 5k and 10k are already options but having an 8k one would be cool too. 3k steeple is another prominent event left out. The list of events seems more ultra-oriented than track-oriented. I just wish there were more options. ... View more

Since we already have All-Time PRs to reflect PRs that may not be recorded in Strava, I think Estimated Best Efforts should be renamed Strava PRs. Thanks for your consideration!  ... View more

We should be able to view all of the segments we completed in an activity when viewing from the mobile app.  Currently, we do not see any hidden segments and often some random others don't show up as well.  There is no way to "unhide" those in the mobile app either.  The only way to see all of the segments completed is to pull the activity up on a web browser which is cumbersome when not working from a desktop computer.  Please expand the mobile app such that we at least have the option to unhide and view the missing segments just like we can on the web browser version of the program.   ... View more

I run a lot of the same local segments repeatedly but I'm very rarely trying to beat my Personal Record - I'm also never going to trouble the KOM spots! But, I really enjoy segments as a feature and like to check how my efforts stack up against my past efforts. My idea to make segments more useful and fun for me and athletes like me is that Strava could track and display my average time over all my efforts on a segment. I could then see if I'm improving my general speed over the segment without having to go all out to break my PR. Would be great to filter it by "this year" vs. "all-time" or similar. It would also be good to see how my average has changed over time on a line chart somehow. ... View more

Badges and Camp Titles are cool, don't get me wrong! But some of the community ideas and contributions may actually make future Strava even more user-centric and awesome. Therefore, I think it would be sensible to reward Strava Community Hub members with Strava Premium features 🙂  ... View more

I think it is important for me and for other athletes that the data of the best marks / best results in the different distances (1km, 5km, 10km, half marathon and marathon) also appear for each year. Like most athletes, I am getting older and despite training the best results tend not to improve from one year to the next. But each year I can always have moments of better form and better results. For example, knowing my best result in the 10km in 2022 can motivate me to improve, even though I know that it will be very difficult to improve my result from 5 years ago in my peak form and that was my best result ever. ... View more

I recently picked up an injury preventing me from running or cycling so I took to the pool for regular swims. My idea here is twofold: 1) Having stats for fastest swim for different distances like 400m, 800m, 1km, 1mile, 1,2mile(half Ironman) and 2,4mile (full Ironman). This feature exists for running: Estimated Best Efforts. So I suggest the same for swimming, regardless if its open water or pool. 2) It's always great to see a trophy after a run or cycle or most other sports, but sadly none exist for pool swimming. My suggestion is to award trophies for pool swims, each time you break a personal record for a certain distance and those distances are mentioned in idea one. Would love to see some trophies/achievements for a pool swim. Note: I know that segments exist but that is for open water swimming. My suggestion on idea two in only for pool swim. Thanks! ... View more

I participate to a 10K in my city. Some advertisement were done on Strava before the race (you needed to be in the race club), and after (when the photos gallery and ending video were available). This was a very nice experience and in the aftermath, I was wondering how this could be improved. My suggestion would be to offer race's organiser a convenient way to  make a simple synthetic report of the race. (like the individual yearly Strava report, but focused on the race) The reason for this is that sharing kudo, thought about the race,  etc ...with people you run with during a race is part of the race  and sometime a more pleasant one  ! Some basic statistics, like the fastest km, the slowest km (on average), or colored GPS trace by average pace. Number of PR recorded could help follow up discussion between athletes in the comment... Being a pacer (40'), I was also curious to know if I helped some of my fellow runners to achieve their goal. I guess I did based on a simple histogram of the final time, plus the number of mention to PR in the title of the activity, but a list of athlete who did achieve their PR, would have helped me to give some kudo to them. Last but not the least, these insights could help next year runners to get prepared for the race and organiser to promote the race. ... View more

I suggest that Strava have a page/place where we can see all our efforts for those distances: 5km; 10km; 15km; 21km; 42km (running) 20km; 50km; 100km; 150km; 200km (cycling) When we run 15km in a good pace, for example, strava shows that is our best 15k mark, or 2nd or 3rd. But when we runk 15km in a slow pace we do not know whick position that mark is. ... View more

Please consider making hiking/walking/snowshoeing activities eligible for elevation-gain challenges. Right now, wheelchair is included along with run, and since hiking/walking/snowshoeing are activities done on foot, it stands to reason that they should qualify as well. I live in the mountains, and it’s a bummer not to qualify for any of these challenges. In general, I would also like to see snowshoeing included in more challenges to the same degree that hiking is. Anyone who has snowshoed can attest that this activity type is no less strenuous than hiking, on the contrary. ... View more

In the App at: You => segments Here you can now find the tab "Featured", "KOMs / CRs" and "Local Legends" Another tab "In the Top 10" (or something like that) would be nice here. I would like to see where I am not missing much for a KOM / QOM / CR. ... View more

I feel as though there should be a category and koms based on type of bike chosen in profile. EBike, Mtn Bike, Gravel, Road.  I am getting an ebike and the comments have already started about if my ride posts will be valid since it may take a KOM of another rider. Until fixed I will keep these rides private so I do not get any negative comments but adding the category would remove the issue.  ... View more

I previously posted similar in the leader boards forum: I would like opt out from including my activities on leader boards, by default, or ... make it an opt in feature for general users instead of opt out. One comment I got back previously was to change privacy settings. Also, coming into an individual activity after the fact an marking it 'virtual' will disable the data going into leader boards. But these not what I'm looking for here. I'm not concerned with privacy on this. I don't care who sees my times on anything. And I typically want activities to remain public: they sometimes are to show my own explorations on bicycle, with a few photos and some commentary of what I found there, for a given map track. This is one of my uses of Strava and what keeps me engaged in useful exercise. I don't want to manually edit everything as virtual. I do want mileage tracked and on which specific bike. I may look at my own times, or disregard if I can see they are not legitimate. Here is what I don't like about leader boards: if anything goes wrong, I potentially have to hear back from someone about stealing their KOM. 3 historical cases While new to Strava,  in an accident. Traveled to hospital and home in vehicles. Recording was running for several days. I saved it as showing where and when the accident occurred. Received a fake KOM. Erroneous empty recording of an 80+ mile activity by the android phone app. I reproduced it with gotoes.org. Next day I notice I have multiple KOMs Poor GPS signal in the woods puts me on a different trail (a tough climb on gravel and a few erosion control steps) from the one I actually rode that day (easy). I am currently 4th overall and best of the year for a segment I wasn't on. The opinion that has grown on me is that leader boards game is fun concept but doesn't actually work well. But I'm forced into a game I am not interested in playing. Please provide opt out.   ... View more

They idea is to have a Prince/Princess of a segment as a contender for the crown of KOM/QOM. This status can be achieved during the calendar year, and will be reset each year. TLDR The reasoning behind this is multiple Fresh year, fresh achievements KOM/QOM are unreachable for the 'normal human'.  KOM/QOM by pro cyclists for example On mountain bike segments, times can change during the year due to trail conditions maybe more use cases are possible Practically the period of achieving this is each year beginning at 1 jan 00:00 local time of the start of the segment and ends at 31/dec 23:59.  So yes this means each year the first rider on that segment receives this achievement, but on popular segments this will quickly go to the fastest rider of that year. ... View more

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. ... View more

I would like to see a new competition replace Local Legends. It would be the 'Mayor' of a segment. I hear little chatter about LL and I don't think many people are interested in it. Either popular routes are dominated by commuters who aren't even competing or it is possible to be LL on some segments with 2 rides. 90 days is far too short and this basically forces you to take the same routes, not exactly encouraging people to ride more and explore. The Mayor prize would be for consistant riding, a rolling yearly target of the lowest maybe three times on a segment. This would elimiate Q/KOM carpet baggers and car drivers. Email awards could be sent at the end of the year to avoid unwanted spam during the year. If you are Mayor on Dec 31st you get the award, but can challenge during the year. ... View more