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What’s a segment?
Your GPS-based activities can be broken down into smaller sections called segments. Segments designate specific features or portions of a route – such as a climb, a tricky stretch of trail or part ...
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Relative Effort (Summit)
New Release in April 2018 How does it work? Relative Effort, found on the activity details page, measures how much cardiovascular work went into any activity that has heart rate data. A short and h...
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Privacy Controls
As of September 26th, 2018, we simplified our privacy settings so the controls are easier to understand. Below is a brief overview of our privacy controls. If you’d like more detail on a particular...
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Elevation for Your Activity
Strava uses a variety of methods to calculate elevation How elevation is calculated on segments, activities, and routes The details Elevation databases Barometric altimeters Known issues and prob...
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TomTom and Strava
You can automatically upload your activities to Strava from TomTom MySports Connect: Go to mysports.tomtom.com/app/settings/exporters. Click the "+" icon next to the exporter you wish to...
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About Strava
Strava is a community of athletes from all over the world. Alone or together, we strive. Strava lets you experience what we call social fitness - connecting and competing with each other via mobile...
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Pairing Sensors with the iPhone app
The Strava iOS app supports heart rate monitors, cadence sensors, power meters, and external displays. When using an iPhone 4S or newer, the Strava app can detect and connect to Bluetooth Low Energ...
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How Strava Uses Health-Related Data
If you've denied Strava consent to process and store your health-related data your heart rate will be removed from activities uploaded on and after May 25th, 2018. Activities uploaded before this d...
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How Distance is Calculated
Distance is the most basic training statistic - therefore, being confident in your distance data is important. There are a few ways to gather distance data while recording a GPS-based activity How...
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Soleus and Strava
Use Soleus SYNC to upload your activities to Strava. Download and install Soleus SYNC here, then follow the Software Download Instructions.