I am currently an intern at a professional cycling team that competes at the highest level in races such as Paris-Roubaix, the Tour of Flanders, and the Tour de France. I thought it would be a fun idea to create an active Strava community around the team. We would set up a Strava club with as many members and fans as possible. We aim to engage them through challenges and tasks, giving them the chance to win exclusive prizes, and so on.
Unfortunately, Strava is so limited that it is not even interesting to pursue this further. For example, I wanted to create a challenge called "To the Moon and Back," where our members work together towards a shared goal of cycling 384,400 kilometers in a year. Sadly, you cannot create such challenges as a club owner—only Strava can do this. How ridiculous is that?
Additionally, I thought it would be nice to create monthly challenges, or even weekly ones where you evaluate the results after a month. But guess what? You can only view weekly leaderboards. Or take, for example, rewarding the most active rider in your club over the past year with exclusive prizes. Again, this is not possible because you only have access to weekly leaderboards.
How is it that Strava is so limited? Why don't they add such features? Strava clubs have so much potential and could be so engaging, but Strava holds everything back and makes nothing possible.
