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When I added my new Saucony Endorphine Speed 3 to my list of shoes, Strava makes the s lower case. I have tried numerous different tricks to get it to make that letter upper case as it should be, but it always winds up going back to lower case!


For example, I tried renaming the shoe Endorphine PSpeed 3. That stays upper case. But when I remove the P the s goes to lower case. When I added a second space before Speed, then it worked. This does not happen with any of my other shoes.


It seems as if Strava has a list of shoe names that it tries to match and the Endorphine Speed 3 is typed with a lower case 's' in that list. The double space didn't match anything so it kept my spelling. If this is the case, that is a feature that should be removed. Just use what I type in.

Hello @dethier1958 


Thanks for posting about this.  When you enter shoes in the system, the capitalization and formatting will revert to the formatting in our database. Unfortunately, there isn't a way to adjust this at this point in time.


Sorry for the confusion!


 

It should take about a minute for someone to correct that entry in the database. Surely you can do that.

This issue has persisted, and I noticed that previous feedback has been archived. Why? This is clearly a bug! For example, the shoes name "Vaporfly 3 Volt" changes to "VaporFly 3 Volt" after saving, and "Novablast 3" changes to "NovaBlast 3". These are the official standard names. Please do not arbitrarily change the letters to uppercase!

The workaround for this is to use a different space character in the name of your shoes. Try using this one instead (between the periods):

. .

If that doesn’t work, visit this page and copy the Punctuation Space character, which should be the width of a regular space. If your shoes don’t have a space in their name, but a dash, you can use an en-dash instead (⇧⌥- on a Mac keyboard; can’t remember on Windows).

Things do get more complicated for first-generation products that are made up of only letters, but Unicode is full of lookalike letters you might be able to sub-in.

Obviously, I too would prefer if Strava could fix the names in the database, but I guess that could result in a lot of overhead for them, especially if people become vocal in their disagreement of what the “official” name is.

I already did something similar, using two spaces instead of one. I can't imagine it would be a "lot of overhead" to fix their list of shoes. More like 5-10 minutes work for one of their web developers.

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