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Please bring back segments less than a .5 mile... there are so many segments for mountain biking that are .25 mile that can take 5 minutes to ride! Please bring back shorter segments.  ... View more

https://www.strava.com/athlete/training Is there a way to add "Bike" column? How about filter on a Bike? For example, I want to see all activities on a certain bike. I know not all activities have a bike, but, those activities could just have an empty string for bike. ... View more

I think it would be great if Strava gave users the option to opt-in to activity discoverability for races and workout sessions.  What is it? Activity discoverability is the ability to opt-in to a setting and find activties tagged as races/workouts with the most engagement in the Strava community (outside of the athlete's own circle of friends). Why do we need it? This opt-in will give athletes the ability to see races/workouts with high engagement from other athletes they may not already follow. This allows the world to celebrate the athletes who completed races or workout efforts and increases interest in the sport. This is also a learning opportunity for athletes that are also competing in that sport to get ideas for new workouts and racing strategy from other athletes across the world.  How does it work?  - Athlete will need to opt-in to be sent races/workouts from athletes outside of their own circle because everyone may not want this feature implemented - Athlete sees activities that are tagged as workouts or races on the home page or a new page specific to posts tagged as races/workouts. The highest engagement posts are on top.  - Athlete can choose don't show me this activity if they are not interested to see activities from specific athlete. If athlete says they don't want to see this, then can clarify why they did not want to see the specific workout or race  ... View more

Where I live we ride the same MTB trails in summer with our MTB and in winter with our fatbikes, the problem is that some people KOM segment during the winter on those trails where they are all smooth , hard and FAST! Any ways for Strava to switch to Winter KOM for these segment ? As an example, there are some segment here where the difference between a summer KOM vs a winter KOM is calculated in minutes. Some people KOM at 39 sec during the winter whereas the same segment during summer is a KOM around 1:45 so there is NO WAY to get any KOM in the summer and this ruins the experience.  ... View more

It would be good to have a function where a particular segment can be chosen (could be a favourite that an individual has, or perhaps one that someone is wanting to get a good time on), and then similar segments (length, average gradient etc) within a chosen radius from a starting point are suggest as similar segments. For instance, I'm going on holiday and there's a particular segment that I want to get a good time on. To help me train for it, it would be good if I could look at what segments within 10km/20km of where I live are the most similar. ... View more

I think it will be great if Strava adds Time Trial Challenges. What is it? The time trial challenges are a set of challenges based on time and not distance covered. The athlete has to cover as many miles as possible (AMMAP) in 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes, etc. depending on their sport.  Why add time trials? This challenge literally puts the athlete under the clock to test their lactate threshold (times may need to be adjusted based on sport).  How does it work?  Time trials can be an activity (run, ride, swim, row, walk, etc.?) that the athlete marks as a race. Another option is to allow the athlete to start a time trial from the challenge screen directly and see the clock counting down. Time trials allow athletes to select which activity they want to do a time trial for in that month. Then the athletes can try to beat their own time trial PRs month over month.      ... View more

I think that Strava should partner with running shoe companies to announce Shoe Drops with a link to purchase. This is important because: Strava will be the hub where all running shoe drops are announced, so athletes don't have to go to different websites Allow athletes to sign up for shoe launch notifications from certain companies Athletes already share which shoes they wear Athletes are able to purchase shoes through Strava and more can be done here to benefit all I am struggling with this right now. I am waiting to purchase the new Nike Next % 3. I wish I could get a notification when the new shoes drop so I can catch it before the LA Marathon. Nike website just says coming soon.  ... View more

It would be helpful one could edit or at least delete HR data when the HR did not work properly. ... View more

I think it will be great for Strava to add Heart of a Champion award for relative effort on segments.  Current Functionality:  Strava currently awards the fastest times and the number of efforts on segments. There are no awards for highest relative effort on segments.  Proposed Functionality:  The person who works the hardest based on relative effort wins the Heart of a Champion award on a leveled playing field. Reset the award every year on a rolling basis from when the highest relative effort is set. This will be great for all types of competitions - 100, 200, 400, 800, 5Ks, 10Ks, half marathons, marathons, ultras, and centuries. Who pushed themselves the hardest? Why is this important:  The award for the highest relative effort for the segment equalizes competition based on the maximum heart rate of each individual. Athletes should know that they can win a segment on effort and not only on fast times.  Potential Issues:  We would be pushing people to hit close to their max. Need to think about how to balance a new challenge with the safety of the athlete. Athletes shouldn't do max efforts all the time.    ... View more

I think it will be great if Strava adds Multiplayer Team Challenges. Here is why it's important: Current Functionality: Challenges are currently single-player leaderboards. It is missing multiplayer challenges.  Proposed Functionality: Strava Squads can form with 2 to 4 players to win badges. Challenges that are multiplayer mode are even more fun and engaging. Teammates must work together in order to be able to cover the distance of the group challenge. For example, group monthly running challenges can be 300km, 600km, etc. Strava Squads can challenge each other in Versus Mode (Red team vs. Blue team vs. Green team vs. Yellow Team) to see which squad covers the most miles in a month, climbs the highest, or takes the least amount of time to cover a set distance.  It takes a team to raise an athlete. ... View more

Years ago, when the Strava app appeared, you could sort segments by age AND weight. Then that option disappeared. Why? Would be great to have it back on the app and website. ... View more

It would be great on the main leader board for a ride and segments to be able to filter by both age group and weight class.  ... View more

I've been a paid subscriber since 2016, and unlike all the people who complain about a lack of features in the free account, I see a real value in Strava that I'm perfectly happy to pay for. That being said, I believe that premium users should have more control over their Strava experience than free users. One of the benefits of a premium membership should be the ability to filter the feed to see only the kinds of activities that I want to see and to ignore all the junk that I don't care about. I want to be able to see real outdoor bike rides and runs along with very little else. I don't want to see everytime someone walks their dog around the block or mows the grass, and I especially don't want to see pretend video game bike rides. Looking back through the list of feature requests in this forum, feed filtering is at or near the top of the list of things Strava users want most. Make this a feature of the premium subscription and you will probably have more people willing to pay for it.   ... View more

Use case: I am doing my run and I see a friend running in the opposite direction. After uploading my run, I can virtually say “hi” to him in the Strava app.  In the app you see who ran in your area at the same moment. They are listed in the app and you can pick who you actually saw.  It is similar to tagging people with whom you ran, but this is more for people who you saw during your run but did not join you.  Obviously, in your privacy settings you can configure if you strangers can say “hi” to you, only friends or no one at all.  ... View more

I think it would be great to allow users a Kudo Bomb to blast 50 kudos at once to all friends or a selected group of friends once they login into the app.  This is important because: We have so many Strava friends online and so little time to like every post individually The athlete can select which friends would receive a kudo bomb (favorited friends) The Kudo Bomb will be limited in supply each month. You can earn kudo bombs based on the number of challenges you complete I would use this on days when I just want to login and send out likes fast.  ... View more

Hi all, I love the connection between Strava and Concept2 Log website (i log my indoor rowing times). The generated PM5 from my splits is a nice feature. Can I make a suggestion ? The PM5 (monitor) displays only 8 splits (on the ergometer and on the generated image from my logs). But most of the time, I have more than 8 splits. Do you think if that's possible to update your script, to generate a custom PM5 screen which can display more lines, in case we have more than 8 splits ? Sorry for my english. Thank you 🙂 ... View more

I think it would be great to add a category within activities called Fuel for Activity to allow athletes to share what they used as fuel before or during their activities.  This is important because: Fueling is a key part of training Eating/Caffeine before or during an activity is part of the crucial training data Athletes already discuss what fuel they used during races and hard training sessions This feature allows athletes to type in what they used and a timestamp on the map of when they used it How I would use this: Most of my long runs are with fuel. Most of my easy, morning runs are fasted. I like to see what athletes used during their activity and when they used it for long runs.  ... View more

I use Strava on my Apple watch during CrossFit and other gym workouts. There have been a few times where I forgot to manually end the workout when done. I know this function is available for workouts such as running/cycling where GPS is used. It would be great if it could be enabled for non-GPS workouts as well. ... View more