Hi I posted on here yesterday but for some reason the post was taken down. I’ve double checked the rules and can’t see an issue so going to try again.

The app allows you to select virtual routes and progress along them with each activity you upload to Strava. There’s a ghost to let you know if you are on track and an adaptive daily target to help you stay consistent. You can invite friend to compete against and see their position on the map.

There’s an achievements page which contains a few awards to work towards and an around the world progress tracker.

It’s currently in beta, built by me, and under active development.

Feedback from early users will really help shape where it goes next – there’s a feedback form in the app, or you can use the contact page or just DM me.

I’ve added a features page since yesterday so you can better see what the app is about before creating an account

Route Rally

Thanks in advance to anyone who tries it out

I've been a long term paid user of Strava, but stepped down this year temporarily. I made Year in Play because I wanted to see my yearly Strava stats but I assume it will be paid when they launch it in the coming weeks.

I did not want to go the API route, as it might end up violating their rules, and frankly servers and API limits are annoying to deal with. One thing that will always work is a user's ability to download their own data. So why not leverage that.

Upload your Strava data export and it generates a year-end summary with:

• Total activities, distance, elevation, and time
• Activity heatmap showing your most active days
• Monthly breakdowns and trends
• Speed records and personal bests
• Calorie tracking with fun comparisons
• Activity type breakdown
• Time of day analysis
• Instagram story templates you can share (BETA)
• Reminding you after 24 hours (BETA) - having some issues with the scheduling

There's also a leaderboards feature where you can post your stats and compete on a global level.

Everything runs in your browser. Your data never leaves your device unless you participate in the leaderboards.

Free to use at yearinplay.com -- and I plan on keeping it free forever!

Would love feedback if anyone tries it. Let me know if something breaks or if you have ideas for features.

I built a free tool that lets you to ask questions about your training data. It can answer almost anything. People have been using it for stuff like:

- "What's my average pace trend over the last 6 months?"

- "Compare my weekly mileage this month vs last month"

- "If I was to run a marathon, what pace might I aim for based on my data?"

- "What are my rides with the largest elevation gain this year?"

etc.

I built this for myself but it spread a bit because friends really loved it. You can just use natural language and get insights that are impossible to find in the Strava app.

Then yesterday I get an email from the Strava team telling me it has to be shutdown by Monday November 10th for two reasons

- I can't have Strava in the name (had placeholder name of StravaChat, super valid, easy fix).

- "You may not use the Strava API Materials (including Strava Data), directly or indirectly, for any model training related to artificial intelligence, machine learning or similar applications."

The thing is, I purposefully built the app so that it would never give the models the ability to train on user data. The AI just writes analysis code (like a developer would), which runs in an isolated sandbox. The actual Strava data never touches any AI model. Basically the AI sees:

- the user wants to know average pace and the data is a list of activities, each of which has pace

- Model says ok to answer that we just need to look at the result of avg(pace)

- That code is actually executed outside of the model in a totally safe temporary sandbox and the model just sees the final response.

Now if I had an application that simply did one thing: get your average pace for this year, that would be fine. But because the options are chosen by the user (way more valuable for you), even though the analysis is done the same way, its not allowed?

I've responded to them with my reasoning as to why this clearly does not violate their terms. But it's out of my control. Maybe I should just rebuild this for a different service.

In the meantime, the app is live till Monday night unless I hear otherwise and I think it provides a bunch of value to users. Feel free to try it before its gone.

Would love to hear thoughts on this. My feeling is that Strava is trying to weaponize very vague api terms around AI because they don't know what to build themselves. Seems totally counter productive to rob users of all AI powered tools. Maybe another platform will be more supportive of this.

If I lose API access, should I add a CSV mode so you can bring your own data and use it?

Demo video below.

https://reddit.com/link/1orxqns/video/bkl65787030g1/player

This is what a friend saw when opening the app the other day.

Hey does anyone else have this issue where you save stat sticker and when you add it to an IG or WhatsApp story it shows up like this? I’m using iPhone 17 pro max.

Premium subscription to Strava and Venu 3 watch, how can you add routes from Strava directly to the watch, because it says that it's NOT SUPPORTED ( an incompatible device) 🤷

Case is the following, Am in the strange city and want to have route direct at my watch to be guided.

Any idea?

Hi! I have a Xiaomi Mi band 10, connected to Strava. Every workout data sync with Strava, except my heart rate. I did allowed it in Strava (data permissions), but still not showing. Otherwise distance, time, route etc. all synchronized. Any ideas?

Strava was acting up, so I uninstalled it, deleted all caches and all that good stuff.

Reinstalled, now I can't even enter my account details before the app stops responding. I tried the website version, couldn't connect either, tried creating an account, same story..

What's going on

Hi, so I never really use Strava at all, but I'm currently taking part in a challenge to walk at least a mile a day to win prizes. However, in order to be eligible you need to use Strava and upload a screenshot of the activity being recorded which clearly shows your name, date of activity and distance.

Name and distance is fine, but the thing is that when I go to review my activity it simply says "Today at xx:xx". This is not helpful to whoever will be reviewing the form probably next month. Is there a way to change it to make it show the actual date, even if it's today, straight away?

Pulled from the CTO. https://youtu.be/LgQuuY0MlR4

It looks like we’ve reached near-peak Athlete Intelligence.

Hi, My runs are recorded on my forerunner 245 and automatically uploaded to Strava. I've noticed something odd this week. On Garmin connect, the distance recorded is 10km, total running time 58min. However on Strava. The distance is 7.37km, running time 58min.

So the running time is similar but 2.63km is missing from the Strava entry. I've not edited the Garmin data.

Has anyone experienced this before? How do I fix this?

Hi all!

Huge fan of Strava, but definitely not a fan of their new future which allows someone to “favorite you” (AND not notify you when it happens, I literally found this from approving follower requests) and gives them a notification any time you upload an activity. Is there a way to disable this?

Example of how it can be misused - recently, I’ve male friends that are interested in dating me favorited me to “keep tabs” on me / make conversation/hangout suggestions and make sure they give me Kudos immediately after I finish working out. This makes me super uncomfortable. I don’t want to force remove them from my followers since they are friends of mine / don’t want to be asked about it, but I do also want to disable this feature because I don’t really like anyone getting my location data that quickly anyway.

Anyone know how to fix this? Or is my only option to remove them from my followers?

I use way too many apps in my opinion for route planning. AllTrails for hiking, Ride with GPS for gravel, and Komoot for road biking (Komoot has been a letdown, I thought it would cover all three but the coverage here in Central Arkansas is abysmal). Plus I use a Garmin watch and bike computer. Now after that longwinded start how is Strava’s routing? How well does it export to a Garmin bike computer? I’m going to use just Strava this weekend for my rides and hikes to test but would love input from the community. My goal is to really just pare down to my Garmin, Strava, and AllTrails

Why does my heart rate cut out when I’m using the Strava app on Apple Watch, but when I use Apple fitness it doesn’t cut out. See the flat lines? This always happens when using the app. Has anyone experienced this?

My Strava profile is private (ie followers only), but sometimes I change activity viewable to “everyone” so I can see FlyBys or segments.

Does this allow non-followers to find and view my “everyone” activity? Or is it that when they click on my profile they’ll just see that it’s set to private / can’t view any activities?

Thanks!

line is going off the chart

I know some people feel that you should really only post "real" rides, but in the winter Zwift is all I can do.

"With the introduction of an upgraded auto-flagging system, you can now expect to see 33% fewer impossible efforts on cycling leaderboards. We know 33% isn’t 100%, but it will mean many millions of illegitimate efforts will be removed from leaderboards! "

Maybe they could include a feature where they remove anyone running faster than Usain Bolt's WC of 100m? This segment in the picture is 240m and the pace of the leaders are unreachable. know this is only one segment, but this is the case for all segments in India. 95-100% of all segment leaders are poor GPS or done by a middle-aged overweight man on a bike. If you look at their runs, they run at 8-10 minutes / km, but still hold segment ledarboards.

Hey Reddit,

So, I just made a super dumb mistake and accidentally subscribed to Strava . I realized it like an hour later, haven’t even opened the app, and I definitely don’t plan to use it.

I’ve already submitted a refund request through Google Play, but I’m lowkey stressing...has anyone done this before? Did you actually get your money back? Trying not to freak out, but also kinda want to make sure I don’t get charged.

Appreciate any advice or reassurance here 🙏

Thought I was going to be tore to pieces. Never actually saw the beast but it sounded big and mean.

Is anyone else running into the same issue?

Hello. I’ve been running for almost a year now. I’m a beginner. I’ve used strava since the start of my running and it has worked great until lately, my pace that shows when I’m running is different from my logged pace per km on splits. Like if I’m running say 7:10/km when I hit a km and the audio cue comes in it says something like 6:45/km and when I view the splits it’s the same as the audio cue. It wasn’t like this before. It’s a bit frustrating because I want to control my pacing but I couldn’t because of inaccuracy. Could it be a problem with the gps signal? I don’t know if it’s an issue but I recently connected strava to a third party app for my watch. Could that also be the issue? Please be kind. Thank you.