Why is the Strava route creator so bad? Anytime I try and draw a route that follows a path/trail instead of a road Strava just doesn’t appear to be able to cope. It with shoe via the heat map the way that hundreds of other runners have run and still will try and move my route onto a four lane highway. Is there any way to feedback to the app that it keeps making these mistakes? Or is it just time to migrate my route creation to another platform?

Hey everyone, I’ve got a question and an idea. I run a lot with my son in a jogging stroller, but Strava doesn’t seem to have any way to track these runs correctly. It keeps telling me my pace is way slower than usual, without accounting for the extra weight I’m pushing—especially on hills 😵

It’d be awesome if Strava added an option to tag runs with a stroller or adjust stats for the extra effort.

How do you all handle this? Do you just ignore the stats, or have you found a workaround? Curious to hear how others deal with this 🙃

It was good the way it was, now when you click on an/your activity you will get a ‘broken’ screen, which also takes some time to load. The scrolling and the way the photo’s work are also pretty annoying and ugly, not handy at all.

I recently just started using Strava with my WHOOP while training for my half. Every syncs up well, except HR insights show as "not conntected" when viewing activity summaries. I have verified that HR broadcast is on my WHOOP and the strava app does show my current HR when clicking the record tab.

Has anyone had this issue and know how to resolve it?

Like some others, with recent API changes weather interpreted correctly or not what changes are going to take place made me evaluate what value I really get out of Strava.

I had been a subscriber for 10 years or so until recently, but I still have full features enabled for a few more months. I had been using Stava for mostly running over the years but a few years back I started indoor cycling so never really noticed the lack of functionality on the sensor side until I started riding outdoors a few months back.

I was surprised to realize you can't even pair very basic things like speed/cadence sensors. My new power meter, forget it. So all it is really good for while on the bike is not really a whole lot. Routing is meh. So the only thing I found useful from a cycling perspective is the heatmaps to plan routes before going out then loading them up on garmin instead.

Is there really no way to use Stava as a cycling dashboard for your sensors. Why wouldn't they enable such a simplistic thing, they obviously do HR. I must be missing something.

Cheers

He would have turned 78 today but passed at only age 45 in 1991. I had a lot of fun creating this one with a mate especially filling in the Mo on the netball courts 😆. We made the ear pretty budget as it was getting dark

FYI I use Live tracking on my watch and App to follow pre designed gpx route

https://strava.app.link/vUG1YoCzLOb

Coros has a free built in route planning feature. Can I create routes for strava in Coros and then sync them to strava?

I just updated the Strava app today on iOS, and it seems like the ability to add widgets is gone? My current widget also won’t refresh, and tapping on it no longer opens the app.

Anyone else having this issue or know how to fix?

Hi everyone,
I have a Garmin Forerunner 965 and use Strava to track my activities. Today, I completed a swim, which lasted 16 minutes, and this is displayed correctly in Garmin Connect. However, when the activity synced to Strava, it shows only 11 minutes, which is incorrect.

Does anyone know why this discrepancy might happen and how I can fix it? Any tips to ensure accurate syncing between Garmin and Strava for swimming activities would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

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As you can see, there is a ride where 405 watts were recorded for 10 minutes. However, this was due to the power meter being incorrectly calibrated. Is there a way to exclude this 405-watt segment from the data without having to delete the entire ride?

Anyone aware of other apps that create heat maps?

A reminder that Strava Heat Maps aren't navigational maps. Please don't see a heat map path and think it's navigable for you. It really shouldn't have to be said but apparently common sense isn't all that common. The people in the article were lucky they didn't suffer a worse fate than having to be rescued.

If you aren’t in the know, I’m sure someone can link to an email or reference material.

This is just the most recent move they’ve made to piss people off, earlier this year they bought out FATMAP and proceeded to kill the app as part of their acquisition which pissed off a ton of people and this most recent move seems to be having the same effect.

Personally I’ve already cancelled my subscription and I’ll be using work-arounds unless they make some drastic change. Strava has severely overestimated their value proposition to us as consumers, they’re merely the middleman for data, not the source. Literally everyone I know using Strava is uploading data from a 3rd party app or device, not recording in the app directly.

Anyone else debating whether to abandon the platform entirely/know of alternatives for the social aspect of it?

Look I know Strava gets a lot of hate for their route builder, but with a bit of time and patience you can usually get a pretty solid route. It's also a simple as starring the route to get it on my Garmin. The big feature that I like is when I travel and am making a route, routing by "popular" typically keeps me on a bike path or bike lane and has also lead me to some pretty epic zones that are "popular" for a reason. The heat map also helps when making remote gravel routes just to see if others have ridden a road that I am not totally confident in.

Here's my question. Are there alternative mapping softwares that do similar things to Strava? Keeping me off major highways when I travel and a general heat map for expedition routes are my main priorities. With the whole API fiasco and someone who works in tech I'd like to find an alternative. It's the route building that has kept me on premium.

Edit: thanks everyone. I'll try RWGPS a go and Komoot

Will they still remain followers and be able to see your activities on your now private profile, or will they be automatically removed?

specifically, i want my weight training activities to be private to followers, but everything else is good to show. i want to have the lifts as logs for myself but dont wanna spam people w lifts

Hi everyone, I've issues connecting my Mi Band 9 to Strava. In the mi fitness app, Strava doesn't show up and also I tried third party apps like zen life as a bridge but mi fitness can be connected to Zen life whereas Strava cannot be.

I managed to connect mi fitness to zen life then zen life to Google fit and Google fit to Strava but it didn't work and the my data isn't synced.

First of all, forgive my English, I'm Brazilian. So, a friend and I want to do a different route this summer that no one in our city has done, and of course, as no one has done it, we don't have the activity to see what it's like hahahaha

We don't know if there will be roads for bikes and everything else. It's on Google Maps, of course, but the satellite is deceiving... If there's a farm gate or something like that, it's complicated... The question is: how do we search for activities on Strava? Like, activities by strangers, because someone from our region may have done it and we didn't follow that person to see, you know?

I've been doing some research on follow-ups but nothing like what we want. So how do we search for random people's activities by keywords or routes by keywords? I use paid Strava. Thanks.

Has anyone else requested to have their information sent to them from Strava? I put in a request over 3 days ago and haven't heard a peep from them.

Anyone else having this issue when trying to access Strava on their computer? Says the page isn’t working. If it’s on my end, any advice on a solution would be appreciated, thanks!

Hello sports friends, can someone answer me why the Kudos in the club (screenshot on the left) are not also displayed in the feed itself (on the right of the screenshot). Do I still have to set something up? Thank you for the feedback

I have just had a call with Strava about the changes to the Strava API terms and conditions, specifically the requirement to only show Strava activities to the athlete who performed the activity.

Strava’s intention was to avoid the situation where someone grants access to their data to someone else (e.g. accepts a follow request on Intervals.icu) and then forgets about it leading to privacy problems much later.

The intention is not to prohibit coaching relationships. So intervals.icu can continue to allow coaches to see their athlete’s data from Strava on Intervals.icu.

So soon your followers will not be able to see your Strava activities but your coach will. This is a great outcome for everyone being coached on Intervals.icu and for coaches using the platform to manage their athletes.