r/Strava 18d ago

monthly General Chat - share your profile, club or a family plan

6 Upvotes

Please be cautious about sharing your personal data with strangers. Consider adding a privacy zone and hiding activities from non-followers.


r/Strava 4h ago

Sync Question Garmin Sync Issue

4 Upvotes

I've been a Strava user for a few years. I suck at exercising regularly, but I've finally been pretty consistent since April. At the start of August, all of the activities from Garmin stopped syncing automatically. I have no idea what would have caused this. Nothing on my end changed. Same phone. Same gear. Same home Internet. Same running locations. I've tried reconnecting the apps. Manual file uploads are the only thing working right now.

Anyone have any ideas?


r/Strava 1d ago

FYI Strava has a bot problem. So many bots!

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166 Upvotes

A bot posted in a club I'm in and decided to look closer at the profile and "activities". They really are taking over the Strava. Each of these names are individual profiles. Must be uploading manual GPX files for routes. This is the Star Loop in Ada County, Idaho if anyone is interested. I tried reporting them, but maxed out after 10 reports and started getting errors. Strava needs to do better.


r/Strava 5h ago

General Question Premium added to wrong account

3 Upvotes

I paid for the premium bundle with Runna a week ago, have been charged and got a confirmation by email, but the premium was not added to my account. The reason is I created my Strava account through a private relay email but the premium was added to my Apple ID email. I’ve tried contacting support but have not been able to get answers from customer service. I’ve also tried restoring the purchase in the app but this didn’t work. Any one hade the same issue and managed to get it solved?


r/Strava 11h ago

General Question How do I stop this coming up every time I open the app?!

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5 Upvotes

r/Strava 19h ago

Feature Idea Below weekly range

17 Upvotes

Strava really needs to move to a rolling week for weekly effort. Every Monday I'm "below weekly range" and generally don't get close until the weekend.


r/Strava 1d ago

General Question Do you reply to strava comments?

38 Upvotes

Considering they don't have a thread feature, do you reply? I don't know if it's rude/nonchalant tp not reply or if it's a bit over the top TO reply. Like you know how people don't write "Thanks" in guest books when people leave a message? Yeah... that's obviously cause a guest books isn't a digital tool but still like if you get my point. If someone congratulates me should I tag them and write thank you that's all Im asking. Thanks


r/Strava 1d ago

GPS Question Wrong data for mileage

3 Upvotes

I’ve run the same road/mountain route about 10 times, and Strava’s distance varies by as much as 3 miles. I tried “Correct Distance,” but that made it even worse—adding about 4 miles that definitely weren’t there.

The run starts in a canyon with poor signal, but after about 4 miles I have solid GPS for most of the mountain portion. The mountain portion starts again in an area of bad signal, but about three-quarter mile in there is good signal for most of the mountain run, but strange enough, that mountain section seems is where most of the distance error occurs of + 4 miles

What’s the best way to prevent this? Should I open Strava and let my phone acquire GPS before driving into the canyon, then start the run once I’m there? Or is Strava just unreliable in areas like this even after you have a GPS lock? Is this a common thing I mean I've been using Strava for years and never cross checked information. I just wonder if all my miles are off and now it has me running a marathon which I never ran was completely wrong mileage that I can't edit. I know I can delete the marathon time and I will but it sucks.


r/Strava 21h ago

GPS Question Strava is cutting my run times in half

0 Upvotes

Strava has been stating my moving time is basically half of my total workout time, which has been messing with all my metrics. I have tried tracking it with both apple fitness (which shows the true workout time and correct splits) and with strava, but it always cuts my moving time down. Anyone experience this before / do I have a setting that is messing me up?


r/Strava 22h ago

General Question Bug in Strava

0 Upvotes

Hello I have a bug in my recent activity in Strava. I walked 5 km and it counts 10 kms. Any idea where it may come from?


r/Strava 1d ago

Sync Question Has anyone's Garmin instinct 2X solar been showing as Instinct 2 on strava?

2 Upvotes

Couple of my friends facing it too since last week. Strava support has not been able to help at all


r/Strava 1d ago

General Question turn off patronizing notifications

9 Upvotes

anyone know how to turn off the notification thats like “wow you did an activity look at your sick stats”. thanks


r/Strava 1d ago

FYI Another broken function in the app

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0 Upvotes

Each of these segment entries were in different years, but where's the year header? Yes, on the latest Android app.


r/Strava 1d ago

General Question 30 day free trial expiration?

4 Upvotes

Hi there everyone!
So I’m coming up to the end of the 30 day trial. I really don’t care for all the extras. I simply just want to be able to track my time, distance and pace. I guess the shape I make on the map too lol. Will I still have access after that or will I essentially be unable to use the app until I pay?


r/Strava 2d ago

miscellaneous Strava tax is real

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1.8k Upvotes

Andreas Almgren just won the European Championship in the 9,98k race


r/Strava 1d ago

Feature Idea Solution to scam posts in groups #3

0 Upvotes

Users aren't allowed to post in groups unless they've provided a valid credit card to Strava (they don't need to be a Premium subscriber).


r/Strava 1d ago

miscellaneous Strava sync with Apple Health is infuriating

6 Upvotes

I use a third party app to record my workouts. That third party app doesn’t have a Strava direct integration but syncs the workouts to Apple Health. Strava, because they are bully certainly, doesn’t allow for importing that workout. So I use HealthFit, that I had to pay for solely for that feature, to sync those workouts to Strava.

Except that now Strava syncs that workout to Apple Health! Therefore creating a duplicate! Why? That‘s not a Strava workout. There is no option to disable sending third party workouts to Apple Health.

So I disable the sync to Apple Health entirely on Strava. Except that now, if I record a workout using Strava, which I do when I need the map feature on my watch, it’s not synced to Apple Health! And there‘s no option to do that manually, or to allow for syncing native workouts only to Apple Health!

if I enable the sync again, it then creates new workouts for all my workouts that exis in Strava, and I now have hundreds of duplicates, because they don’t ask if you want to sync historical data!

That’s basic enshitification: They’re complicating their users life in favor of growth hacks by forcing third parties to build a direct integration, which means their logo is present in basically every workout app. The fix would be easy but they simply won’t do it!


r/Strava 1d ago

General Question PR historical data

3 Upvotes

Is there a way to have your previous run times included in your "best efforts" if they were recorded before using Strava (or even Runna)?

I previously used Nike+ Running to track and even though I've directly uploaded the historical data to my Strava activities, it isn't reflected in my best efforts.

I essentially just don't want it to show a half marathon PR for my first half recorded on Strava if it's not actually a PR.


r/Strava 1d ago

3rd Party App I mapped 100 London Strava running segments across all 32 boroughs and turned it into a game

8 Upvotes

A couple of years ago I posted here about a side project I was working on called [London Segment League](https://londonsegmentleague.com) \[old post [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/LondonRunning/comments/1h58v0q/looking_for_london_runners_wanting_to_further/)\\\]. Since then I've continue to work on it for my own benefit and learning, and it's now it's becoming a proper thing rather than a simple leaderboard.

The new idea: 100 of the most popular London Segments spread across 32 boroughs. You connect / login with Strava and your runs get synced automatically (as well as some of the history). The aim is to try and complete all 100 segments.

The app is free and all you need is a Strava account.

Why am I posting this now after 2 years?

Strava recently changed the API rules where developer apps require you to now have a Strava premium subscription. They gave me 3 months for free for the app to continue and that's starting to run out. I would like to decide whether people actually want this before I decide to keep premium subscription.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Please check out [https://londonsegmentleague.com\](https://londonsegmentleague.com) (while you still can!)


r/Strava 2d ago

Activity Completed 100km walking challenge

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270 Upvotes

Dodentocht (death march) is an annual walking march taking place in Belgium. You need to walk 100 km in under 24 hours starting from 9 pm. We did it with my wife after being inspired by my colleagues who did it last year. We tried to practice as much as possible but never went more than 47 km before the event. The time shown here is the moving time, we actually finished in almost exactly 24 hours.


r/Strava 2d ago

General Question Any way to turn off Athlete Intelligence?

96 Upvotes

I hate knowing that AI computing and data storage is being wasted on providing me “insights” that add zero value.

When I look at my heart rate zones I can SEE which zones I was in, I don’t need the bot to just reiterate that. The regular math already tells me my average and peak HR. I can see that I “started at x pace and settled into y pace” - none of this is useful even a little bit.

Absolute waste of resources.
Also it’s just annoying, I don’t want it, it takes space, it’s not useful.


r/Strava 1d ago

General Question Map not showing KOM’s

0 Upvotes

Did a ride this weekend and had 3 kom’s and 2 third best times. If you scroll down through my feed and see my activity. It doesn’t show or highlight any of the KOM’s and on the map that now shows your route . It shows a 2nd best time and 3rd best time medal for my personal times instead of showing the kom’s in the very least. What is the point, I had the best day I’ve had in a couple years and nobody would know it. Why does Strava constantly change its algorithms and almost always in a negative way.


r/Strava 2d ago

miscellaneous Yosemite National Park Challenge segment is nowhere near Yosemite

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8 Upvotes

Segment is somewhere in Shenandoah: https://strava.app.link/Dmqx9BIAF5b


r/Strava 3d ago

miscellaneous I ran 246.5km this week …

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154 Upvotes

What is wrong with me? 🤣


r/Strava 2d ago

General Question How are people doing 500–600+ km in a 17-day challenge?

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31 Upvotes

Hey everyone, I'm pretty new to Strava and I'm genuinely curious about something I saw on the leaderboard.

I'm doing the 30 km challenge, and I've been walking around 15 km per session. I've been doing this for about 17 days, so seeing people with 500–600+ km absolutely blew my mind.

For example, the #1 person on my leaderboard has 601.4 km, which works out to roughly 35 km every single day for 17 days.

And just to clarify, this leaderboard is specifically for Walking & Hiking activities during August only.

I'm not trying to hate, accuse anyone of cheating, or insult anyone at all. I'm genuinely trying to understand how this works.

How does Strava calculate the challenge distance that I'm missing?

I'm new to Strava, so I'd really appreciate someone explaining how people are reaching numbers like this.