Strava API Agreement Update

Thanks @Nate_Pearson for the update. I know this came as much as of a shock to your team as it did to us so thank you for expediting integrations.

Is it possible to an integration to Intervals.icu? I would love to make that my new cycling data “hub” as I imagine other would as well.

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TR does not record in-activity HRV logging, like AI Endurance and Athletica.ai do as it requires a device that is capable of logging that (in my case that’s an Edge 1030 Plus)

In lieu of @dcrainmaker’s video it is literally this. 30 days, during the holiday season, to become compliant to their new policy is bananas.

Disappointed in Strava is an understatement. I thought they were a good app and I was very pleased with their new features The worst part is this new policy is anti-competive behavior under the guise of protecting user data.

This might be an easy decision coming up:

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There are some more questions for me on the thread.

Once I have solid answers I’ll let everyone know. I might be silent on this for like 20 more days though.

We’ll make sure TR keeps working for everyone, though.

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Much appreciated for the updates and work behind it! :smiley:

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Ye I was wondering this as well. I use garmin but for some reason I had the garmin sync to TR turned off and was essentially using strava as the middle man. I think because I was using a Coros watch for quite some time so had to have strava as the middle man. I am back on garmin fully now but will those past activites that just say sourced by strava be exlcluded from AI?

It’s good to know it can be rapid - thanks!

I checked the right email address, so looks like something must’ve gone awry. I’ll request the download again…

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Crazy news.

TrainerRoad and intervals.icu connection would solve a lot of our problems.

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Perhaps unusual question, I don’t mind TR importing rides directly from Connect (currently using strava) but I wouldn’t want to have my indoor rides show up in G connect.

Is there a way to sync only in one direction (from garmin to TR and not viceversa)?

Other question, I don’t have much of use for TR’s adaptive plan, so if I keep Strava as the information hub what info am I going to lose that I have currently within TR?

TrainerRoad probably haven’t decided themselves yet… but it could very well be the case that the easiest way for them to deal with this is no not accept data from Strava at all.

Hopefully they figure out a way - but it could be hard for them to prove they aren’t using Strava data to train AI for example.

I will reiterate my votes for full TrainingPeaks support - e.g., strength, walks, yoga, etc

Full Apple Health integration

I’m lucky as I only post outside rides to Strava. This feels like a major self inflicted wound by Strava - Strava isn’t the source for 99.xxx% of the data on Strava, all this does is get people to find ways to send Strava less data, and find other services

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Yes, see Garmin Connect:

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I’ve just downloaded my historical data and cancelled my Strava premium. I didnt get a whole lot of value from premium anyway and these heavy handed changes are just the kick I needed to cancel. I let them know exactly why I was cancelling via the ‘other’ option during the cancellation flow too. Hopefully someone will read it and the dissatisfaction gets reported back up the chain.

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Seems reasonable that they monetize the API, either make it a subscription feature or charge 3rd parties. This nuclear approach makes no sense to me. May be the last straw for me.

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That’s it for me. The only reason to subscribe were leaderboards, and I’m not fast enough to get near the top anyway :smiley:

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I’m struggling to think of another corporate dumb idea on this scale / magnitude that isn’t a recall

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Nate will we loose all our historic Strava data that’s used to map our training?

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You’ll still be able to see the top 10 and your PR for each segment. I left my subscription a few months ago, I don’t need to know I’m 22nd place on a segment.
“If you ain’t first, you last” Ricky Bobby

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Yep, i’m not top 10 on anything! I don’t really need to know I was faster in 2016 either…

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I’ve looked into this a bit and sorry if this is repetitive. Wahoo does not currently sync directly to TR which is why most people go the Wahoo → Strava → TrainerRoad route, which won’t be useful anymore if you’d like the TR AI analysis. From what I’ve read from earlier forum posts the best workaround might be to go Wahoo → Dropbox → TrainerRoad Manual Upload. This would give TR a clean file to work with.