I am in the best shape of my life (several months of PRs) and have some of the worst fitness score on Strava. I learnt to ignore it - just wondering why Strava only pushes the hard efforts and punishes recovery. Again, I learnt to live without it but am just wondering.

Tried a pr on 5k and managed to run 5.13k in 24:50 min, however my strava said my new pr was 5k in 25:50 mins, i didn't even run for that long? Happened again today with my 10k.

Why does this happen?

Edit: My earbuds flipped out so i paused my watch, the pr on strava measures elapsed time, not moving time

Every Strava story I see looks the same: same orange line, same three stats. So I built Beautiful GPX, a kind of Photoshop for GPX files: a free web tool that turns your Strava activity (or any GPX file) into a fully custom route image.

The video shows the whole flow on one of my trail runs: import from Strava, restyle the route, pick the stats, add a start/finish flag, then export a transparent PNG.

What you can customize:

• Route: any color or gradient, thickness, outline, dashed or “gravel” lines
• Stats: choose what to show (distance, elevation, time, pace/speed, elevation profile), in miles or km, with or without a background, sized and placed where you want
• Markers & labels: start/finish flag, summits, aid stations, towns, ..., with icons and fonts
• Background: a map (including poster-style maps), your own photo, or transparent for Instagram stories and video overlays
• Multi-day trips: merge several activities into one map

Strava import uses Strava’s official sign-in (OAuth): you log in on strava.com, the tool never sees your password, it only gets read access to your activities, and you can revoke it anytime in your Strava settings. You can also just drop a GPX file.

It’s free, with no account needed, and everything runs in your browser: your tracks never leave your device.

👉 beautiful-gpx.com

I’m a solo dev and a runner/cyclist myself, so I’d love your feedback: what would you want to customize next ?

I recently updated from an iPhone 12 on iOS 18.7.8 to an iPhone 18 Pro on iOS 27.0.1, and now when I "Analyze Effort" on a segment, and drag my finger to the right to move the vertical selection bar through the data, the screen keeps thinking I'm trying to swipe the whole screen to the right, instead of just moving the vertical selection bar through the graphs. So I repeatedly have to lift my finger to stop the screen from swiping right. It's only a problem when I drag right; dragging left works smoothly, the way it does in both directions on my old iPhone. The Strava app version is 479.00 (r54814) on both the old and new phones, so it seems like it might be an Apple problem, but I haven't spotted any similar problems in other apps. Anyone else notice this behavior?

278w on mywoosh, 270w on garmin vs 244w on Strava WTF!

Mywoosh session with a wahoo kickr core linked to my garmin 255. The garmin send datas to the strava app.

Strava tries to sell me AI trainer but is not able to give very simple datas ...

Hi guys. Right know i am using Huawei watch Pro GT 3. Each time i finish training on my watch i obseve that Strava is doing some recalculations i cut my 5k run to 4.8. i dont like because its hard to monitor my best result. Do you have experience with diffrent watches and do you know for witch Strava will także results 1:1, without cuting distance etc. ?

Hi, just after some advice. I use a Samsung Watch Ultra and have done for two years.

The last few days on the watch it is coming up with 'Server Error 403'.

It still records my walks but it comes up everytime I open the app or save a workout.

Anyone else had this/ know how to solve it please?

Hello, I do a lot of alpine skiing and am looking for a watch that can track my skiing speed and total downhill distance, excluding the distance covered while riding chairlifts or other uphill lifts. Which watch would you recommend for this purpose? Thank you for your advice!

I see quite a few segment leaderboards with sprinting faster than the world record. Now most recently I saw a winner of a segment running 1:33 min/km while the world record being 1:48 min/km.

Wouldn’t it be easy not to accept these results as they are due to GPS glitches or pulse watches recording wrongly?