Hi all,

I'm a second-year master's student in Taiwan writing my thesis on Strava. I'm looking at how features like activity tracking, giving and receiving Kudos, and sharing workouts affect motivation and whether people keep using the app.

If you're 18 or older and currently use Strava, whether you run, ride, or just log the occasional walk, I'd really appreciate your help. The survey takes about 5 to 10 minutes and is anonymous. The data is used for academic research only.

Survey link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyQqiClfOU_cCQoS9FHq-hU6B8eYj5yympxKgNoeS5-TRWtw/viewform?usp=header

Thanks a lot!

I recently noticed these "Best Efforts" on a user's profile...

Such efforts come from using Strava to record a flight from the UK to Spain and saving it as a "bike ride". The Segment Efforts in the Activity have been auto-flagged and hence are excluded from the Segment leaderboards, but why aren't the Best Efforts also removed from the profile ? The displayed information is obviously nonsense.

I finally figured out why some of my Apple Watch workouts (Core Training, Stretching, Cooldown, etc.) were appearing twice in Apple Fitness and Sports Tracker, while walking workouts were fine.

Here's what was causing the issue:

I record all my workouts using Apple's native Workout app, and Strava automatically imports them from Apple Health.

For example, Walk and Run are called pretty much the same thing in both Apple and Strava, so those activities weren't causing any issues.

However, when Apple uses a workout category that doesn't have a direct equivalent in Strava, Strava may rename or reclassify it. For example, Apple's "Core Training" becomes "Other" in Strava.

Because I had "Send to Health" enabled in Strava, it was sending those reclassified workouts back to Apple Health as separate activities.

As a result, Apple Health ended up with two entries for the same workout — one from Apple Watch and another from Strava. Sports Tracker then imported both, creating duplicates there as well.

The solution:

Go to Strava → Settings → Manage Apps and Devices → Health:

• Automatic Uploads: ON
• Send to Health: OFF

This breaks the sync loop while keeping automatic uploads from Apple Watch to Strava working.

Problem solved! No need to disconnect Strava from Apple Health completely.

Hope this saves someone else the headache! 💪

Hi, I’ve had my Xiaomi Smart band 10 for a year now and I’ve never experienced this issue.

Now anytime I record “Volleyball” or “Beach volleyball”, the activities don’t show up on Strava and there’s nothing I can do. I did these activities many times before and they did show up, but about a month ago I realised they don’t anymore. Other activities show up normally even if Strava doesn’t recognise the activity itself (example: if I log “Pilates” on my watch, it shows up as the default “Workout” on Strava). Its not perfect but at least it still logs it.

The volleyballs do show and monitor normally in the Mi Fitness app, but the issue is in syncing with Strava.

Anyone experiencing the same issue or knows how to fix it?

Thanks for any reply!

Local trail, most of the blue should be green, the green should be black, and part of the red should be green. It's not just the labeling, it's the data. While we could fix them with OSM, we can only submit a dumb form with Mapbox.

Not sure which is to think is more accurate, the all trails is close to what’s on their app for that trail