Couldn’t agree more! I’ve been in a new job for the past 3 months, really senior role taking over my life for a while and training has suffered because of it. I’ve accepted this and I know it will get better, but when I go on Strava, it definitely gets me down seeing my friends doing loads of training and enjoying long weekend rides that I don’t have time for at the moment.
So, along with changing my subscription to the free version I have taken this as a catalyst to stop getting drawn in to looking at others rides. I’ve deleted all my followers and I’m no longer following anyone else. I’ve also deleted the Strava app from my phone. I think it’s also good for the converse reason: it stops me falling into that social media trap of “showing off” when I’m doing lots of rides in nice places, uploading photos of the views.
I’m not a fan of social media in general as I’ve seen what it can do to people’s mental health (a whole other topic!) and so I feel that removing Strava from my life can only be a good thing in this respect. Another positive for me, all driven my their decision with the APIs!
I’ve kept my free account for now until I make a final decision to delete it completely but these are all steps in the right direction for me personally and I’m looking forward to just using Garmin and TR (both of which I have set to completely private).
I am still friends with my Strava followers IRL as I didn’t ever have an open account where random people could just add me. So I know I’ll still see all my bike club buddies IRL when I’m back training again and joining weekend club rides.
I handle that manually. I never intentionally start or stop recording at my work, or my home or the homes of those dear to me. Sure I lose a few hundred metres to a km per activity, but pfft, distance is a vanity metric. If I forget to stop, I run it through Gotoes to trim it first.
As an armchair referee (disclaimer!) I don’t know why the privacy zone thing has to be so hard. All they have to do is permanently delete the offending lat & lon data from uploads that start within the zones, or replace it with copies of the first non-offending sample. Consider lost GPS when you ride through a long tunnel. The device keeps recording, & Strava shows all the HR, power, & cadence data regardless of losing GPS fix.
I went full cold turkey. Went full private. Deleted all my friends. Unfollowed everybody. Deleted all my pictures. My Strava feed is a ghost town. And I have to say, I have zero regrets. I don’t feel like I’m missing anything. Maybe partly because 90% of my feed was Zwift rides. At least by next spring I’ll have fully adjusted to my post-Strava life but I don’t see any real desire to go back for now. Garmin and Zwift push to TrainingPeaks which pushed to WKO5.
Yes - I have done this, but so long ago I can’t remember.
Try asking chat GPT how to automatically move files from one folder to another. Zwift completed workouts are always in the same place; you can move them to your dropbox folder for TR to pick up.
I did this with Interval.icu and also I think goldencheetah and it worked.
We have been working closely with the team at Strava and are appreciative of their partnership. At this time, we fully understand the implications and will be making a subtle adjustment to make sure that we continue to uphold the highest standards of data security and to ensure that we fully align with Strava’s API agreement.
The single change is that users who choose to share their data publicly within VeloViewer will now be asked to confirm consent regularly. Visibility will default back to ‘private’ if consent is not reconfirmed. Previously, it was a ‘one & done’ consent process, this change will help users to be fully aware of the data sharing that they have agreed to.
This change will be released in the next couple of weeks and all other functionality will remain unchanged. We hope that you will continue to enjoy exploring your data and planning your adventures with VeloViewer.
I feel like it would be so easy to say “we’ve heard your feedback and have updated our API agreement to clarify these use cases that people have expressed concerns about” instead of carving out case-by-case exceptions arbitrarily but that might require admitting that they messed this up in the first place. Then again, I don’t have a title as lofty as “VP of Communications and Social Impact” so what the hell do I know.
I believe you’re correct with this. All my strava activities that show up on my TR calendar are unedited and don’t have that greyed out bit. If my account weren’t private I believe the origin point for my rides/walks would be visible.
On the mountain bike side, heat maps make finding secret, new and otherwise off map trails trivial. People feel differently about if that’s a good thing or not.
This is my first post in months. I wanted to agree with you that stepping away from the social feeds or Strava can be beneficial to mental health, especially if you have to lighten the training load due to life (I’m also in a new career that scratches my competitive itch) and feel that FTP dropping daily!
I’m still paying for strava even though I have only ridden a handful of times this year. Mostly because many of my friends would compete on some longer segments and I like to see their progress. Strava was always a secondary concern compared to Trainer Road, Training Peaks, Zwift etc. If some of my friends drop off strava due to changes, it makes the segments worthless and I’ll drop it.
Just noticed (ok I’m slow and it sometimes takes a while for the penny to drop ) that the sauce for Strava plugin I had on my MacBook for safari no longer appears to be working or visible?
Presume it’s a consequence of this decision
I found that a really useful tool …
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I use it on Chrome, and the release notes have indicated Strava has been making changes that interfere with Sauce’s operation, and I’ve noticed intermittent working / not working:
Afaik Garmin Connect does not work as a hub. If you record an activity with an Garmin device, you can sync it to others. Everything that is recorded otherwise and synced to Garmin will just stay there and not sync to a 3rd platform.
) that the sauce for Strava plugin I had on my MacBook for safari no longer appears to be working or visible?
