Even Wahoo users, like me, have been scouring the interwebs for ways to get our Wahoo devices into the Garmin Connect ecosystem - - positioning for a Strava-free future.
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Iām trying to break away from Strava, but Iāve run into a roadblock.
Intervals.icu is most important to me, which works great through Dropbox, but Iād like to get Apple Health integration without Strava. Problem is, I run TrainerRoad on an Android phone, and doesnāt sync activity to Apple Health at all.
Is the issue the activity has to be completed on an iPhone to sync? Please advise.
Set up TrainerRoad to upload the FIT file to Dropbox, then use the HealthFit app to import it into Apple Health. Itās a manual process, but if you have the Dropbox app in your iPhone, it only takes a few taps.
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Run Gap has been my primary activity aggregator for TR/Wahoo/Apple for a while, but they donāt sync directly with TR. as of now Iām still going TR>Strava>Run Gap, but Iāll probably look at some other options.
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You own a hard drive. Connect it to a computer, extract the files, upload.
Yep youāre 100% correct - Iām wrong ā¦ my excuse is Iām getting old 
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True, but you can have Garmin Connect account without owning a Garmin device. Thus they could still access the event info and grab the matching fit file.
you can have Garmin Connect account without owning a Garmin device.
I spent a little time looking over the Android options as RunGap seems to be iOS only. This was to send (push) my Wahoo Elemnt data to Garmin Connect.
I found āSyncMyTracksā in the Google Play Store, for about $3.75. It doesnāt do it automatically, but itās just one keypress on your phone.
My motivation was that my cycling circle seems to prefer Connect over Strava. I would sometimes miss communication updates and posted routes. I expect that the side benefit will be that, down the line, it will be easier to remove the dependence upon Strava.
Is that genuine?
I honestly cannot believe they would post that after what happened with their recent assault on data collectors
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So basically Strava tried to claim āOur Dataā as āStrava Dataā and Garmin said no way āOur Dataā is āGarmin Dataā and now Strava is saying that they are sueing Garmin over something unrelated in order to protect āOur Dataā as āOur Dataā because its ours.
Did i miss anything?
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Personally I think this all comes down to training AI models.
Strava made a big thing about ensuring Strava data could not be used to train 3rd party AI models seemingly forgetting that the vast majority of Stravaās data comes from other sources. Theyāre probably scared of Garmin putting the same stipulations in place as they start to compete with each other in the AI training space - especially with Stravaās acquisition of Runna.
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RWGPS is well set up for all of this, you can have a club page with events/routes/etc. As far as I know it also syncs with all types of device.
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For what itās worth, if you have the FIT file in your phone (which should be easy if you tell Wahoo and TrainerRoad to upload it to Dropbox) you can manually upload it to Garmin Connect from the web version. The app doesnāt have an option to upload the FIT file, but the website does:
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I primarily use Strava to keep up with what rides my friends are doing. Sometimes itās interesting to see if I PRāed on some segment I wasnāt aware of. But not exactly critical.
But RWGPS added segments at some point and I use it more to find routes. So thereās not big reasons to stick with Strava. Itās a bit annoying that every couple of years Strava decides to do things to annoy its user base
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I agree, having the bundles was great but removing them made me not want to pay for stuff I didnāt need. Iād bet I wasnāt the only one to loose a specific feature over the last few years.
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I sure much to the disappointment of my 12 or so followers, I have disconnected all my apps from Strava (Garmin, Rouvy, and intervals) and unfollowed everyone. Strava needs our data more than I need a judo or two.
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In a run-up to a potential IPO, Iād bet Strava is trying to boost revenue to show growth, under pressure from PE investors to monetize their massive user base. Iād bet their management team brainstormed all the potential levers they could pull to move the needle, and lawsuits to generate royalty payments (from companies like Garmin) was one of the things they came up with.
I wish theyād invest more energy on innovating their product to deliver new features customers want. They have a good core platform. Seems like they are struggling to identify ways to make it more valuable for customers, and are pulling stunts like this because of a possible IPO.
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No doubt.
And you must assume that all your private data will be for sale as well as a new revenue stream.
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Someone from Strava went on Reddit to post, and the most predictable result happened.
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Thatās honestly the most fun Iāve had on the internet in a while reading the responses to the Strava guyās post. How in the world do they keep miscalculating things so badly?
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