Tag: strava
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A Run Recommended by Strava
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen you drive to a place you don’t have a place for it. That’s why it’s good to use sites to find recommendations. Usually I like to explore routing opportunities with Komoot, to look at routes, what they offer as sites and sounds, and how long the route is. Last night and…
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Strava July Cycling Elevation Challenge Success
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor seasons, or even years I saw the Strava Elevation Challenge and I thought "I won’t even try this challenge, because I will fail". This month I tried it, and I succeeded. Not only did I succeed to climb the 7000m suggested by the challenge but I got to 10,415m. I overshot…
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How to Share the Strava Flyover
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I was playing with Strava Flyoveers and I tried to share the videos of flyovers but rather than sharing the video as I had wanted to do it shared a hyperlink to the activities that were already shared. I then tried to share via Instagram but the result was a…
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On Meetup and Strava Cycling Events
Reading Time: 3 minutesMeetup and Strava are two sites filling specific niches. Meetup is a dinosaur of the web. It dates back to 2005 when the web was still looking for a way to be sustainable, and thus, more fun. Meetup was good for people in big US cities, London and other metropolitain cities. If…
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Playing With Strava Premium for a Free Month
Reading Time: 2 minutesYears ago, when Strava was newer, and more appealing I eventually decided to pay for Strava because I wanted to support the project. I wanted to help make them sustainable. The same is true with Zwift. When both of them got VC funding I ended my subscriptions rather than renewing for another…
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Public and Private on Strava, Komoot, Garmin and Suunto
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years I have used Sportstracker, and then Strava and Komoot and others. Whether I use one platform or another isn’t much of a concern. I can send my data everywhere. The question is whether I make that data public, private, or a hybrid compromise. With Suunto and Sportracker I usually keep…
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My Strava Heatmaps on a Rest Day
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I am resting. Yesterday afternoon I was planning to go for a bike ride with the easiest group and went with the hardest, after it was recommended that I do this. The result is that today I feel fine, but I’m still taking a rest day. Tomorrow I will have a…
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The Mature Smartwatch Habit
Reading Time: 3 minutesI see people. I see them say that they have given up on wearing fitness trackers and smartwatches because they hate the tyranny of the device. I have felt an intense dislike for Apple behaves in particular. At the same time I have been playing wit Sportstracker for eighteen years or so.…
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A Comment on Dating Culture on Threads and Strava
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I was trolled by three people on Threads because of a comment on dating culture on Strava. I said that for me Strava is about networking rather than dating and for it one person said she friendzoned me, and two others were hostile rather than commenting in a friendly reason. For…
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Strava and Our Data
Reading Time: 2 minutesA few weeks ago Strava decided that it would add AI functionality to it’s app. It is for this reason that I decided to restrict which apps talked with Strava. Now Strava is doing the reverse. It has blocked access to its API so that other apps cannot use its own data.…