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When planning a route on mobile, need the ability to filter the heat map by active activity type.  Currently, when planning a route on mobile, the heat map does not filter by type. For example: If planning a run, the heatmap reflects common cycling paths, mountain biking, walking, hiking, and running paths. This makes it extremely difficult to plan an activity in a new location, and be confident it is actually a commonly traveled path.  I find when planning a run on the mobile app, using the heat map, I'm often mislead and lead down dangerous high traffic roads with no running path or sidewalk, because the road is commonly traveled by road cyclists.  Currently, the heat map can only be filtered by activity on the desktop/web application,    ... View more

We want to raise the visibility of our female athletes in our club by highlighting the top women performers on our club leaderboard. Currently the club leaderboard shows stats for all members. We seek the ability to display the club leaderboard with stats for the female members of the club. This might be achieved by adding filtering to the club leaderboard, similar to what has been implemented on the segment leaderboard (see screenshot). Here is a mockup of what a filter could look like   This aligns with your #striveformore initiative and would help clubs highlight and promote a broader range of athletes. ... View more

Please add a water temperature field to open-water swim activities. Garmin watches and other devices do record this in the FIT file and it's displayed in Garmin Connect so it should be fairly easy to add. When I'm traveling and planning to swim somewhere that I've never been before I'd like to be able to check temperatures on recent swim activities from other users in that area. That way I'll know whether the water is cold enough to require a wetsuit. 🥶 ... View more

When I'm planning a gravel bike ride, I want to know where all the gravel / dirt / unpaved roads are - not just the ones along my planned route. In the route planning map, it shows me which sections of my current route are paved vs dirt -vs unknown - so it's clear that Strava has this data about many roads - but in order to know whether other roads are dirt, I have to drag a waypoint over to them, which is slow and awkward. In the routing preferences, I can choose between "prefer dirt surfaces", "prefer paved surfaces", and "any surface", which is useful, but isn't the same as being able to see where everything is. Often, I am willing to go out of the way to ride a new gravel/dirt road, but I might not ever discover it by relying on the "prefer dirt surfaces" routing option. I'd like to see the surface type of all roads on the map - perhaps as a layer that I can turn on or off like the heatmap layers. ... View more

When I do cross-country skiing, I can see my speed in min/km, but I would prefer to see it in km/h in the activity. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to swap from to the other? Also, the top speed leaderboard for cross country ski segments is already in km/h. Thanks! ... View more

Overview: I propose adding the ability for users to "star" or bookmark specific locations within the app. This would allow athletes to easily mark and save their favorite spots, trailheads, or any key points of interest. These starred locations could then be utilized for more efficient and personalized route planning. Benefits: 1. Quick Access: Users can easily access their favorite starting points or mid-route locations without having to search for them each time. 2. Personalization: Athletes can curate a list of their preferred locations, making it easier to plan new routes that start, end, or pass through these points. 3. Efficiency: This feature would save time and streamline the process of creating new routes, especially for those who frequently run, cycle, or hike in various areas. 4. Community Engagement: Users can share their starred locations with friends or the Strava community, promoting popular spots and enhancing social interaction within the app. Example Use Case: An athlete who enjoys running in different parts of the city could "star" several key parks, trailheads, or viewpoints. When planning a new route, they can quickly select from these starred locations to create a route that connects them, ensuring a run that covers their favorite spots. I believe this feature would add great value to the Strava experience, making route planning more intuitive and personalized for all users. ... View more

It would be great to have a poll option in the club context to make decisions for routes of a club event, dates and/or time of a ride etc. ... View more

However Strava is a social app, i’d like the app to open up on the “You”-tab. Maybe an idea to add this as a settings option for paying members? Using Strava as a logbook is the reason why I started using it in the first place. It has great analysis features and overview. In my opinion it should be to able choose the way you want to use it.      ... View more

Importance: Integrating Concept2 devices with Strava would make the platform an essential tool (including the advanced analytics features in the Strava premium subscription) for rowers, skiers, cyclists, and other athletes who rely on these devices for their daily training. The PM5 (Performance Monitor 5), the standard computer unit across all three Concept2 devices, offers wireless connectivity that could be leveraged to enable seamless workout syncing with Strava. This integration would provide a more comprehensive and convenient training experience for Concept2 users, allowing them to track progress, analyze performance, and engage with the Strava community. Details: The proposed integration would include: Automatic syncing of workouts from Concept2 devices to Strava via the PM5's wireless connectivity feature Detailed workout data, including distance, time, pace, calories burned, and Concept2-specific metrics like average pace and split times Accurate categorization of Concept2 workouts (SkiErg, RowErg, or BikeErg) for easy filtering and analysis Seamless integration with Strava's existing features, such as kudos, comments, and performance analytics By implementing this integration, Strava would demonstrate its commitment to supporting a diverse range of athletes and their preferred training methods. The Concept2 community would benefit from having a centralized platform to track and share their workouts, leading to increased motivation and engagement. Moreover, Strava could attract new users who prioritize Concept2 devices in their training, strengthening its position as a leading fitness platform in the market. ... View more

I'm a Strava subscriber and I use my subscription to track multiple monthly distance goals (running, cycling, and swimming). I also have an Android phone. I would love to have a widget on my phone's home screen that shows me at a glance where I stand on all three of my goals - essentially, this section of the app:  The one existing widget available for Android only shows weekly progress, only shows one sport, and does not seem to be customizable.   ... View more

Strava, would you please require a click to expand the menus in the top-right corner of the main webapp? I’m talking about these 2 buttons: Right now, they expand immediately on hover, and I cannot tell you how many activity Descriptions I’ve lost, just because I quickly moved my mouse too far when trying to Save. As you can see in my second screenshot, the downward arrowhead ⌄ ironically offers a mouseover tooltip, but it’s completely useless since the menu expands before the tooltip. Here’s a screen recording to illustrate: What makes this especially bad is that the browser (Safari in my case) should normally detect that the page contains unsubmitted form data, and ask for confirmation before navigating away. However, Strava seems to use a nonstandard textarea on the activity Edit page, which disables this safeguard. In the screen recording, the hand turns into an arrow upon clicking, indicating that the browser is immediately navigating away, and that all fields on the page become disabled. Once that happens, you there is no way to salvage your Description. I’ve looked at a handful of social websites. Facebook requires a click, whereas AllTrails also expands the menu immediately. However, AllTrails uses the browser’s full width, which puts that menu well out of the way of any accidental clicks. They may also use standard textareas, which would allow the browser to ask for confirmation before navigating away, but I did not test that. Most notably, the Notifications menu (right next to the Profile menu) requires a click, which is highly inconsistent. Meanwhile, the Profile menu on the Strava Community Hub also requires a click to expand. ... View more

In the training log, when multiple activities are logged on the same day they are grouped in a grey activity bubble with an overlapping activity count indicator; to see which activities are included you have to click into the activity bubble. Please change this so the activity bubbles overlap and are coloured in alignment with the activity type. You already have a defined colour way for this (ie running = green, cycling = orange). This way, without having to click in to see multiple activities you can quickly remind yourself which multiple activities you completed on a given day. This would also improve the overall UI of the training log feature, the grey / black for multiple activities is pretty flat.  ... View more

For your profile and training log, it'd be nice to see totals for the different types of rides you can select; Commute, Race, Workout, Indoor. I'd say filterable/toggleable on the log because I'd want to differentiate between your regular rides and ones where you select a ride type. I was mainly thinking of being able to see your commute totals for the year, but your race/workout/indoor totals would provide insight for all the options. I think it'd be beneficial to see those types totaled here as separate rows on your profile, as well as under the All-Time section. As for here, currently you can show or not show commutes. An update with similar functionality for all the types so you can filter down would be perfect. Then you could find specific activities related to what you perhaps don't remember all the details of (date, etc) but you can search via the ride type. Thanks for your consideration or upvotes! Happy riding. ... View more

When I put a YouTube video in a ride the Link is rendered as plain text, but I think when I reference the same YouTube video in a post, it works fine. Just today, I had an incident where it was suitable to reference a YouTube video I made about a jog I did, but my video didn't not necessarily warrant a whole new Strava Post. ... View more

When viewing a route on a web browser, it would be beneficial to see a floating map and/or elevation profile while browsing the various segments on a route. On longer rides where the list of segments take up the whole page, viewers need to scroll past the map and elevation profile of the route to view all segments. This prevents a user from seeing the corresponding elevation profile and map section of that segment once they've scrolled past those maps.  Having a hover option or putting the segments into a scroll box would enable users to view all of the segments and their corresponding elevation profile and map section without needing to scrolling up and down or open a segment in a new tab. ... View more

When manually adding others to an activity, instead of having alphabetically ordered "athletes who follow you", it'd be convenient to have them ordered a little more intelligently by suggesting athletes who you frequently tag at the top. ... View more

I think it would be great to see how many segment efforts you've completed compared to the segment leader without having to click "View My Efforts" to see how close you are to overcoming the local legend. Attached is a mock up with an additional section showing personal efforts in the past 90 days. ... View more

7D and 1M graphs include data points (mileage) for every day. As such, a bar graph is more useful than a line graph for displaying the data, especially with rest days. Please consider changing this graph.  ... View more

Currently, if you have three activities on a particular day the web Training Calendar displays three lines: * Activity 1 * Activity 2 * + 1 more You then need to click "+ 1 more" to a pop-up shows all the activities for that day. I recognise there is limited space, and so there is only room for 3 lines. While it makes sense to have "+ N more" if there are 4 or more activities on the day, having "+1 more" in the case of 3 activities is inefficient and it would much simpler to just show the three activities. I quite often do three activities in one day, and use my activity names to summarises what the activity involved. It is very frustrating to have to click "+ 1 more" to find the activities I am interested in. ... View more