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Heatmaps are for me great for exploring unmapped or lesser travelled trails in my area and I often find myself creating routes based on data from heatmaps. My frustration comes when I'm mapping a longer route and have to use manual mode to place waypoints along the trail. It would be great if the data from heatmaps could be used to map new routes so i don't have to place what feels like hundreds of waypoints manually. This would save a lot of time, make routes more accurate and would encourage exploring lesser travelled trails.  ... View more

I would love to see Flybys also integrated in the STRAVA app. I guess the app is the most used interface to the STRAVA data. Everyone has their mobile phone always available. Wouldn't it be great if I could check my flybys quickly and without a computer while I'm on the road? ... View more

Would love to have Strava use sleep and weight data to factor into Fitness and Freshness. The main reason i pay for a Strava sub compared to the excellent free product is to record all my exercise in the one place and to track my fitness over time though Fitness and Freshness.  I believe the other two metrics to accurately calculate a fitness and freshness level is sleep, and less so weight. The market appears to also be saying the same if you look at the take up of other health and fitness trackers such as Whoop, Samsung, Apple, Fitbit etc I'd love it if Strava would: Take sleep and weight data and track it over time on a chart along with the Fitness and Freshness score. Since there are no good standards or formats for collecting and sharing such data this data could be manually input or imported via CSV if required. Perhaps Strava could take a lead here and set a standard that can be easily imported via CSV collecting more subscribers as a do-it-all platform. Manual import would allow users to massage data from other services or devices without waiting for an all-encompassing API which is unlikely ever to eventuate due the big guys not wanting share their customers or make it easier to move between devices e.g. Garmin, Apple, Samsung, Fitbit etc.  Include the ability to add current weight as a minimum and additionally other weight related metrics available from devices such as Samsung and Apple watches e.g. Total Body Water, Muscle Mass, Bone Mass. Include the ability to add current total sleep per day in minutes. Additionally allow the storage of other sleep metric such as minutes of deep, REM, light and awake during this period. While each sleep tracking vendor has slightly different values the point isn't to compare between vendors its only so users can compare their own values over time. Use the data to create a "v2" Fitness and Freshness level keeping existing Fitness and Freshness calculations and data not adding sleep and weight data (or for periods where data is missing). Show the new values on any activities that were carried out at the same period. Given user don’t want to pay for multiple subscriptions and want to have all their data in the one place (Strava strong point), i feel like i'm going to have to make a choice about which service is going to use all my existing health data to improve the level of fitness tracking.   Thanks ... View more

I use fitness and freshness to check my prepararedness for big events going back for years. I like to compare exact status just before a big event from 5 years ago. The current view levels of (3M ,6M ,1Y, 2Y & All time) dont allow for this (see the image of how busy the chart is). At All Time, 1Y and 2Y its virtually impossible to put the mouse on a specific date you want to check to see your stats or see pre-training events.  Fitness and freshness is one of the main reasons i subscribe to Strava rather than use the free service. I like to have a rough guage of my fitness level without having to resort to paying for another tool or device to do so e.g. Training Peaks, Whoop etc, As work arounds I've tried zooming in the browser and using the keyboard once an item is clicked on to get better definition and selection of specific dates but none of these options work. The alternative of using the Training Calendar are no good as they dont show Fitness and Freshness scores.  A few suggestions to improve the experience of Fitness and Freshness : Update the UI to allow 'drag and zoom' on the chart. I've tried various browsers with no sucess. Allow the keyboard arrow keys to be used to move left or right one day at a time after having clicked on an approximate date with the mouse. Show fitness and freshness values on each activity in other areas of Strava (including the training calendar). Allow the export of Fitness and Freshness data so it can be graphed in Excel etc. Thanks   ... View more

The Training Log (https://www.strava.com/athlete/training/log) defaults to showing all activity types. However, some activities like Walks may not reflect actual "training", so I usually filter them out and just show Rides/Runs/Swims.   Unfortunately, this filtering does not persist, and once you refresh the page, it goes back to showing everything. Additionally, the current settings are not reflected in the URL either (eg, in a query string), so there's no way to bookmark a particular filtering setup, and I have to manually select ride+run+swim each time I use the page. ... View more

Seeing the new features rolled out is great, but there's still work to be done matching functionality between app and website.  Ideally, if it's important enough to exist in one, it should also be in the other.  Examples: 1. Adding Gear: Given that STRAVA now has so many activity categories, it would be nice to add gear other than shoes and bikes; I log roughly 20 miles per week on a Concept2 rower, and would like to aggregate that data in the app/website. 2. Segment creation/searching/exploring:  Searching is clunky on the app, but very intuitive on the website, and creation of segments is only available through the website. 3. Course Creation/searching/exploring: Similar to Segments, creation is somewhat cumbersome on the app to the point where folks just don't use it; I make it a point to only create routes on the website for the sake of my own sanity.  In dire straits, I actually prefer the CityStrides route builder over that of either STRAVA or Garmin Connect apps. 4. FlyBy:  This was once an awesome function, albeit only really viewable from the website, and since STRAVA changed their privacy policies making the user default as 'opted out', it's essentially unused.  Also, FlyBy isn't widely advertised as a feature, and not obvious to app users that it even exists. 5. Muting Activities:  An activity can only be muted through the app, and not the website. DELIVERED: Enable Muted activities on web 6. Managing Goals:  Currently only Running, Cycling, and Swimming distance goals can be viewed/managed through the website, but other activities like Rowing can be viewed/managed through the app. 7. Choosing Favorite Athletes/Activity Alerts:  Designation of specific friends/athletes as "favorites" and opting into notifications of their activities is only available through the app. 8. Although not available on either the website or the app, the ability to simply edit your comment on someone's activity would be very helpful, and seems like pretty low-hanging fruit. ... View more

It's 2022 and most apps have Dark Mode nowadays. It might be a bit weird to use Strava when not working out... But looking at the segments the night before to plan out the next run is a thing. Please make us literally lose less sleep when doing this, or when recording an activity in the evening. This has consistently been the top request on reddit.com/r/strava Reposted from features chat board to request board Update from Strava:   Dark Mode has been implemented. Visit this link for more information ... View more

I would really like to manage my favorite (starred) segments separately from segments that I want to sync to my Garmin device. There are a few reasons for that: 1) Garmin devices can handle only a relatively small number of segments. Theoretically the limit is 100 but in practice Garmin's implementation is glitchy - when the number of synced segments is large, it randomly fails to sync some segments and the sync time becomes too long (e. g. up to 10 minutes when on mobile network). 2) There are some segments that are extremely difficult or impossible to discover because they are long and have little popularity. I stumble upon segments like that by seeing them in someone's activity. I star as a way to bookmark them, so that I can run them some time in the future. 3) Starring a segment is a popularity booster. I star some segments because I don't want them to get hidden and deleted. Basically I want to keep more segments starred, but Garmin's issues force me to unstar many segments and keep the list of starred segments short, which is opposite to the original intention of starred segments. Ideally there should be a separate flag for whether a segment is synced. Synced segments should be a subset of starred segments. I would really prefer to go thorough a list of starred segments and select or unselect which segments should be synced. That would be great!  ... 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

If I am looking at someone else's activity on the iOS mobile app, and tap into a Segment they matched with, I only see my own position on the leaderboard. If I have no times on that segment, then I see just the Top 10, which isn't very useful information. This does not match the user's expectation - since I am looking at my friend's activity, I should be able to see their rank on the leaderboard, along with my own to see our relative positions on the leaderboard. This feature would help me know how to encourage my friend (eg, they were in the top 1% of people on the segment, I could shout that out; if they were #11, I'd tell them to work harder next time..) Note that this information is available on Desktop Web - on a friend's activity, I can see their position on a segment's leaderboard, and compare it to my own. ... View more

Ten year age bands are fine for younger athletes but as you get older these bands need to be narrower (suggest 5 years) to allow for the more rapid degradation in performance expected at this age. Surely a 64 year old can’t be expected to compete at the same level as a 55 year old. So perhaps after the 45 to 55 band it should go to 55 - 60 and 5 year increments thereafter. ... View more