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5 Tips for Managing Your Race Week
You’ve followed the plan and you’ve done the training. As the days tick down towards your race - whatever the distance - what are the key things you should focus on?
Multi-Sport
Explaining the “Strava Tax”
Why 10.00 miles on your device became 9.99 miles on Strava
Run
The Rise of the Vertical Kilometer
The vertical Kilometer can be a brutal and bruising yet unbelievably rewarding event. This is how to tackle it.
Ride
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Ride
Reviewing Your Season: Look Back to Move Forwards
Sometimes, you have to look backwards to move forwards. With Winter fast approaching, it's the perfect time to review your season and start planning for next year.
Ride
The Difference Between Overreaching, Overtraining, and Burnout
These three conditions have distinct definitions, and knowing each can help you train smarter.
Ride
Rebecca Rusch: A 7x World Champion’s Road to Concussion Recovery
Rebecca Rusch opens up about her journey recovering from a concussion, sharing her experiences, challenges, and insights on healing and brain health.
Training
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Triathlon
How to Train for Olympic-Distance Triathlon
Are you thinking about entering your first Olympic-distance triathlon? Check out our guide to training for your first race, the equipment you need, and how long it takes to be ready/.
Ride
Cyclocross Workouts That Bring The Fun
By making cyclocross workouts interactive and engaging, you’ll limit their pain and improve their productivity. Chris Case explains how to do it.
Run
How To Run Faster at a Lower Heart Rate
Many runners want to know how to run with a lower heart rate. Training for a slower heart rate will make your runs more comfortable and let you push higher speeds for longer.
What's New
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What's New on Strava: Physical Therapy, Updated Strength Training, and Route Deviation Alerts
Every update we ship starts with the same question: how do we evolve how athletes track, understand, and share their movement? This month, the answer spans recovery, the weight room, and the tools that help you stay on course. Here's what's new.
Multi-Sport
What's New on Strava: New Languages, Annual Best Efforts, and Weekly Streak Stickers
Welcome to our series, where we share highlights from the latest updates across Strava—made to help you move better, train smarter, and stay connected with your community.
Multi-Sport
What's New on Strava: Muscle Maps, New Sports, and Expanded Training Tools
Strava continues to evolve how athletes track, understand, and share their movement. Over the past few weeks, we've rolled out a series of updates designed to make the product more reflective of how people train today.
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Multi-Sport
What's New on Strava: Physical Therapy, Updated Strength Training, and Route Deviation Alerts
Every update we ship starts with the same question: how do we evolve how athletes track, understand, and share their movement? This month, the answer spans recovery, the weight room, and the tools that help you stay on course. Here's what's new.
Multi-Sport
The For All Mothers+ x Strava Childcare Grant Is Helping Mothers Get Back to Running
The 2026 For All Mothers+ Childcare Grants presented by Strava will award 25 U.S.-based mothers with $2,000 to offset the real costs of getting to a race — childcare, travel, training.
Multi-Sport
Strava's New Strength Update Is Built for Athletes Who Do It All
Hybrid athlete Tanvi Lonkar doesn't separate her running life from her lifting life. Strava's new strength experience is now offering the full picture.
Multi-Sport
‘You Are Not Your Results’: The Story Behind Strava’s New PT Sport Type
Physical therapy as a sport type isn’t just a new logging option. It’s an acknowledgment that Strava has captured the peaks while leaving the lulls unrecorded. Strava should account for all of it.
Ride
What Strava Data Reveals About Cycling Trends Worldwide
First-ever Strava Metro: Commute Report reveals that cyclists worldwide logged 550 million miles of bike commutes in 2025.
Multi-Sport
What's New on Strava: New Languages, Annual Best Efforts, and Weekly Streak Stickers
Welcome to our series, where we share highlights from the latest updates across Strava—made to help you move better, train smarter, and stay connected with your community.
Multi-Sport
Bay Padel Club on Strava: Building a Community Around a Fast-Growing Sport
How Bay Padel Club is using Strava to grow padel
Multi-Sport
What's New on Strava: Muscle Maps, New Sports, and Expanded Training Tools
Strava continues to evolve how athletes track, understand, and share their movement. Over the past few weeks, we've rolled out a series of updates designed to make the product more reflective of how people train today.
Multi-Sport
Keeping Strava’s Segment Leaderboards Fair: An Engineer’s Perspective
A Strava engineer explains how Strava approaches these integrity challenges, the systems behind detecting anomalous activity, and the ongoing work required to ensure leaderboards reflect real effort.
Multi-Sport
STRAVA GUIDE: How to Protect Your Privacy and Control Your Data
Here's how Strava helps athletes stay safe, protect their privacy, and stay in control of their data.
Multi-Sport
What’s New on Strava: Follow Routes From Your Wrist and New Tools for Club Events
Welcome to our series, where we share highlights from the latest updates across Strava—made to help you move better, train smarter, and stay connected with your community.
Ride
Cycle Sundays: Celebrating Everyday Cycling in London
This summer Transport for London (TfL) has launched the 'Cycle Sundays' campaign, to encourage more Londoners to explore the city on two wheels