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Those of us over 50 who have been using Strava for years will likely never be able to exceed the Personal bests we had 10 years ago.  Your App would benefit by comparing/ranking current segments within the last 365 days for the individual user and providing ribbons/awards for Personal Bests for 2024....  I want to be able to answer the question, "How am I personally doing on this segment compared to myself over the course of this year?"  The current system inevitably disapoints the aging rider by constantly reminding them that they are "no longer what they used to be."  It would be nice to see my personal improvements over the course of the cycling season. ... View more

Unfortunately the pace registered by my Garmin enduro is rather noisy probably due to bad GPS coverage. Apparently Strava imports the pace from Garmin in raw format. It would be nice to have the option of applying a smoothing filter, to show how pace develops over time. For now I have the numbers per kilometer and the noisy Garmin graph. If Strava could do some postprocessing....  ... View more

Unfortunately my results are no longer improving, rather the opposite. Instead of constantly being reminded of my personal best years ago, it would be more motivated of being told on the analysis page that this was my fastest 5K logged this quarter etc...  ... View more

The suggestion is to add an opportunity to customize split size/length. The use case is interval training, running, or cycling. For this type of training, 5min splits don't suit well, as the split times are not representative. It would be nice to be able to set a pattern of splits. The pattern can be based on time and/or distance. Whenever users start training, they can select a split pattern they want to apply. The simplest solution is adding a text field, describing a pattern of intervals by some documented syntax. Examples: 5min;((1min;40sec)*5)2min)*3;4min - this pattern describes 5min warm up, the 3 sets separated by 2min slow tempo, each set contains 5 intervals separated by 40sec slow tempo. The result is 35 splits. Users can write in another way to avoid adjacent relaxing splits. It's up to users to decide. 1km;((300m;100m)*5)400m)*3;1km - similar pattern describing distances instead of times. 5min;((300m;30sec)*5)2min)*3;1km - combined pattern, both time and distances. Also, you may come up with some UI to handle this. ... View more

I'd like to have an option to set elevation gain to zero on an activity manually.  Currently, Strava uses either the device's data or map data. But if both is wrong, there's no way to get meaningful data on the activity. Typical example - run on a track. Flat as a pancake, but (especially if it's a longer run), it produces some surprising elevation gain numbers. Perhaps because of the arms swing... or because of a hilly area (despite the track is really absolutely flat). A simple zeroing button/checkbox could be a great solution.    ... View more

It would be useful knowing what ideas have actually been approved and are in the development pipeline. At present it seems ideas are given but nothing thereafter..   ... View more

I come across a number of segments that have bad data. Usually due to the person creating it has a bad GPS device or has the start and end points in the wrong position. Is there some way we can give people the option to edit a segment? Prerequisite would be using a GPS device that has the "All+Multiband" option. This is the best setting that gives very accurate crisp lines.    ... View more

Pool swims don’t have a map (Open Water swims do) or any other visual, so I screenshot the Workout Analysis chart, crop it and add it as Media - see below. This makes it much easier to see what type of session it was when recapping. My suggestion is that this be the default picture for a pool swim - or enable it via a button.    ... View more

I am using the route feature a lot. I took someone's route and followed it. It was 100+k off road. It would be useful if I could a) Compare how i did along that route compared to others. Currently, I have to open their route, measure where they were at a certain time, then open my route and see what time I hit the same location. - Having a similar flyover feature would be useful or the compare like you do in segments. I want to know if i am smashing the route, or being a slow coach. b) Compare my route to theirs. If you use a Garmin, off road you know that its easy to go in a slightly wrong direction and rejoin the route a little later.... I want to be able to overlay their map with mine, to see where we may have deviated so i can either adjust my route or not. c) Some kind of route repository where i can just browse local routes, you have it on the app but not on the desktop. I use the desktop almost exclusively because routing on a phone is a pain... d) More granularity on surface types...  prefer road (but i don't want main roads) prefer dirt (i don't want sand) there should be bike tracks only and more types in the prefer x options, maybe even specifying percentage of surface e.g prefer road with 60% track. ... View more

How about adding heart rate average or a view that shows over a period of time? this way you could look at your average HR from last month or last year ... View more

I am not a runner and am only walking currently. Each week I am walking between 40-80 miles and I would like the statistics category to include those numbers for members that only walk and don't run. Right now they only have biking, running and swimming. Would be great for others to see your stats.  ... View more

Hi, I'd like to add a message when I request to follow an athlete. The rationale is this: Quite often you make the acquaintance of fellow riders when doing a group ride together or start in the same race. It happened to me that I only remembered the chap's race number. At home I look their name up and request to follow them to keep in touch. But they may have no idea who I am. If however I could add a message like "hey, it's me to whom you talked to right after the finish line" or something similar they could relate. Best regards, Dominik ... View more

allow to filter leaderboard by BOTH age and weight classes at the same time.  this was previously requested below but incorrectly closed by the moderator and I couldn’t find a way to reopen.  https://communityhub.strava.com/t5/ideas/leaderboard-filter-by-both-age-group-and-weight-class/idi-p/7288 ... View more

How is it 2024 and you don't fully integrate with Google Fit? ... View more

I'd like to see the option for Gear that you can see each piece by year and the total distance and total time for each bike/shoe/etc. So for an example, you can currently see the distance this year, but I cannot see how that compares to last year for a particular bike unless I wrote down the number at the end of the year. This could simply be a drop down option or table view. I'd like to see this go further then for end of year stats so I can see how much was on a particular mountain bike. Many ppl have several bikes. Maybe an enduro bike vs a xc bike vs a fat bike yet they are all summed up under Mountain Bike. I'd also like to suggest that year end statistics should not come out until December 31. I have no idea why the year end stats are released near the start of December when there's a full month of activity to complete. I realize this is a social media app but I like to think many use it to track time, distance, progress, etc. No need to share the video prematurely. ... View more

Strava needs to add the ability to hide start times by default to followers. Currently, you can select after your run in the settings to hide the start time, but this can leave some time for followers to see the start time.  This feature would greatly improve safety and security. ... View more

Currently, the Local Legend status requires athletes to have the most attempts on a segment in the last 90 days. If a Local Legend can defend this title (continuously) for 90 more days, they should be given some basic administrative privileges over this segment.  This could include renaming a segment (as some are poorly named) or even the ability to delete a segment, where multiple near-identical segments exist. An athlete with this status has obviously been riding the same segments for 180+ days, and should be able to clean up their local streets. ... View more

Hello, The PR, KOM and Local Legend icons are very crisp. However, the climb category icons are very blurry. Can those icons please be updated? Must not even be an icon, could also be a simple red text. ... View more

I like achievements concept at Strava. One thing is how you have improved a performance. But something the biggest achievement is actually that I managed to do the training - simply because the motivation is low. So my idea is to have make "achievement" called "You did it" (naming is open for better suggestions) where you can identify a session as a session were you did "beat" the motivation and can celebrate that you did the effort - even though you were not motivated. ... View more