Strava Cycling Blog http://blog.strava.com Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:41:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Going the Distance: Base Mile Blast Results http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Strava/~3/f1elPzkOprI/ http://blog.strava.com/going-the-distance-base-mile-blast-results-4183/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:30:27 +0000 Strava Admin http://blog.strava.com/?p=4183 From January 6-31, we challenged runners and riders all over the world to put on as many miles as possible. Our expectations were high, but we were blown away by what was accomplished.

1,201 runners participated in the Run Base Mile Blast, running a total of 63,582 miles. That’s more than 2x around the earth in under 1 month! 7,020 cyclists participated in the Ride Base Mile Blast, riding 2,506,492 miles. That’s more than 5 trips from the earth to the moon AND back.

Runners and riders set personal distance goals for January and worked hard to meet or beat them. Some made it to the top 100, some set PRs, while others focused on consistency. No matter the approach, we all suffered. Of the Challenge participants, we’d like to acknowledge a small handful for their extraordinary feats:

First Runner to Reach 125 Miles

  • Kathy Davies -Fremont, CA
  • Gerry Hoyte – Harsewinkel, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Congrats! Kathy and Gerry have earned themselves a Strava phone sleeve and run cap!

First Rider to Reach 1000 Miles

Congrats! Jennifer and Matt have earned themselves a Strava phone sleeve and socks!

Most Miles Run

  • Jojo Reuland – San Francisco, CA – 252 miles
  • Gerry Hoyte – Harsewinkel, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany – 333 miles

Congrats! Jojo and Gerry have earned themselves a Strava tech tee!

Most Miles Ridden

Congrats! Joanie and Matt and have earned themselves a Strava jersey!

Congratulations to all the Base Mile Blast participants for their extraordinary accomplishments. Check the Compete tab soon for upcoming challenges.

]]> http://blog.strava.com/going-the-distance-base-mile-blast-results-4183/feed/ 2 http://blog.strava.com/going-the-distance-base-mile-blast-results-4183/ Segment Explorer for iPhone, Points in the Red and More Sharing! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Strava/~3/hYoMGgWBRNY/ http://blog.strava.com/segment-explorer-for-iphone-club-updates-and-more-sharing-4120/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:55:08 +0000 Strava Admin http://blog.strava.com/?p=4120 Segment Explore for iPhone is Here
We’re thrilled to bring Segment Explore to the Strava Cycling and Strava Run apps for iPhone. Visiting a new city for the weekend? Use Segment Explore to find the most popular and competitive segments to ride or run and see how you stack up against the local crowd. The updated Strava Cycling for Android and new Strava Run for Android apps are on their way. Stay tuned!

Points in the Red for Premium Members
Premium members, get even more insight into your Suffer Score. Points in the Red is the portion of your Suffer Score that you earned in your Zone 4 and Zone 5 heart rate zones. Now get credit for your seriously intense workouts! Learn more about Suffer Score and other Premium features.

Easily Share Your Runs and Rides
Check out the Facebook, Twitter and Google+ sharing options on your run and ride pages on Strava.com. Now when you share your activities to your various networks, they’ll see an all new view of where you went and how you did. Sharing via mobile coming soon!

More Improvements for Runners
Good news! New improvements to the run experience are rife on Strava.com. You can now quickly search for runs that fit your criteria and easily create running clubs from the Explore tab. In addition, you now have the ability to set your default activity sport to running or cycling right from your profile.

Create Casual, Racing and Company Clubs
Club owners can now choose from a variety of club types including Casual, Racing, Company, and more.  If you already have a club on Strava, be sure to update your details.  Happy running and riding!

The Base Mile Blast is Now Finished
Congratulations to all those who participated in January’s Base Mile Blast. More than 8,000 runners and cyclists put in more than 2.5 million miles in just under one month! Stay tuned for the Base Mile Blast wrap-up and results.

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Highlights include:

  • FREE unlimited run uploads
  • Detailed run stats including distance, pace, time, splits and full map view
  • Segment leaderboards and ability to earn achievements for outstanding performances
  • View of your recent activities from all devices in your Feed
  • All time and year-to-date stats on your Profile
  • Ability to change your activity type to ride, hike, ski and more to easily keep track of your cross-training

There’s more!  The new and improved Strava Cycling app for iPhone is also here, and this latest update makes it easier to track your cross training, giving you the ability to change your rides to runs, complete with run-specific stats.

If you like what you see, please rate the Strava Run and Strava Cycling apps for iPhone and help us take them both to the next level.  For our Android users, thank you for your patience!  Strava Run and Strava Cycling for Android are on their way.

GET READY FOR THE BASE MILE BLAST

Resolutions abound at this time of year, and what better way to keep them than a new Strava Challenge?  Accumulate as many miles as possible from January 6-31 with the Base Mile Blast.  Join the challenge for cyclists or the challenge for runners, or if you’re feeling really ambitious, try your hand at both.  It may be winter, but that doesn’t mean you have to slow down.  Set your personal goal and see how you stack up – now is the time to build your foundation!  Surprises are in store for our most dedicated athletes.

We are excited to be transitioning our event format to a new Strava Challenges format for 2012, retiring Strava Events from the Explore section of Strava. New challenges, including mileage-, elevation-, segment-based and more, will be introduced all year long to keep runners and riders alike engaged in healthy competition.

KUDOS TO ALL KOM CHALLENGE PARTICIPANTS

Congratulations to everyone who pushed themselves to the limit in the 2011 Studio Velo KOM Challenge.  Check out our full recap here.  Here’s to a great year of training ahead!

]]> http://blog.strava.com/strava-run-for-iphone-is-here-get-ready-for-new-challenges-in-2012-4022/feed/ 2 http://blog.strava.com/strava-run-for-iphone-is-here-get-ready-for-new-challenges-in-2012-4022/ The Epic Battle Concludes: Congratulations to KOM Challenge Participants! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Strava/~3/yvlG_tvQ7js/ http://blog.strava.com/the-epic-battle-concludes-congratulations-to-kom-challenge-participants-3997/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:06:12 +0000 Strava Admin http://blog.strava.com/?p=3997 With the end of 2011 comes the end of the Studio Velo KOM Challenge.  It’s been an amazing competition, and we’re thrilled to recognize the winners and top performers of this epic climbing battle.  More than 8,000 riders from more than 20 countries rose to this challenge, racking up astonishing elevation feats and surpassing all expectations.

In the Club category, the 136 riders from mtbr.com came in first place with nearly 24 million feet climbed.  Not far behind were the 71 riders from TECATE and the 88 from Mission Cycling.  Kudos to all Club teams for an awesome showing!

In the Bike Shop category, the 101 riders from Studio Velo took first place with almost 20 million feet climbed, while the 109 riders from Mike’s Bikes took an impressive second place with over 18 million feet climbed.

No one could stop Brian Toone from the Alabama Riders — he swept the Men’s competition with over 2 million feet climbed.  Patti Whyte from the Mornington Cycling Group MMM dominated the Women’s competition with more than 1 million feet climbed.

Thank you to each and every one of you who participated in the 2011 Studio Velo KOM Challenge.  To thank you for competing, Studio Velo has created a custom KOM Challenge badge: choose from the 100 Vertical Miles, 100k Vertical Feet, 100k Vertical Meter or Participant Patch. Please click here to obtain your free badge.  There is no charge to you.

And finally, a huge thank you to Studio Velo and the KOM Challenge sponsors: Capo, Lezyne, Independent Fabrication, and Rudy Project.  We couldn’t have done it without you!

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You have from December 23 to December 31 to ride 500 kilometers (310 miles), be it through howling winds, heavy snow, or frigid temperatures.  Join the Challenge today and start planning your rides.

Once you’ve gone the distance, submit photographic evidence to Rapha for your chance to win coveted prizes and a Festive 500 Roundel (patch).

For those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area, kick things off this Friday at 8:30 AM – Strava will be leading a group ride departing from the Rapha Cycle Club.  Battle it out on a special segment – the winner will score a great gift from Strava.  We hope to see you there!

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Strava Ambassador Badge
Greetings fellow Strava athletes across the globe! Do any of the following behaviors sound familiar?

  • You can’t stop telling all your friends, colleagues, acquaintances and random strangers that they should join Strava
  • You create a new segment just about every time you get back from riding or running a new route
  • You comment on rides and hand out kudos on runs like there’s no tomorrow
  • You post and tweet your monster rides / runs, showing off crazy mileage, vertical, and effort
  • You love endurance sports, and you want to help others in your area to find that same passion

If they do, then you should submit an application to become a Strava Ambassador. Simply put, Strava Ambassadors help spread the word about Strava to their local community because they know Strava gets better and better as more local athletes use it.

We don’t want the opportunity to feel like a job by any means, we want it to be a fun extension of your active lifestyle. Continue riding and running, use the gear we’ll provide to spread the word, help us to get in touch with local shops, and be the Strava point-person for us in your community!

]]> http://blog.strava.com/ambassador-program-2012-3928/feed/ 4 http://blog.strava.com/ambassador-program-2012-3928/ 2011 Velo Awards: Strava is the Technical Innovation of the Year http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Strava/~3/qqADN-ylBQ8/ http://blog.strava.com/2011-velo-awards-strava-is-the-technical-innovation-of-the-year-3941/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:21:10 +0000 Strava Admin http://blog.strava.com/?p=3941 It’s been a big year for Strava, and we’re wrapping it up with a bang.  We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been selected as the 2011 Technical Innovation of the Year by VeloNews.  Read all about it here.

We wouldn’t be where we are today were it not for our community of dedicated athletes – check out our collective feats and accomplishments below!

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Riders wordwide, you will now see your elevation gain and estimated power on your ride page, and runners worldwide, you will now see elevation gain and grade adjusted pace on your run page. What’s more, this elevation data lets you compete in future Strava challenges having to do with gaining elevation, so let the global climbing competitions begin!

We hope that this new and improved activity analysis is as useful as we think it’s going to be. If you have any feedback, please let us know by visiting support.strava.com.

Our international data is licensed from CIAT-CSI.

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Thanks to your feedback and ideas, the latest version of Strava Cycling for iPhone is fast, fresh, fun and ready for you to install or update now.

GET MORE OUT OF YOUR RIDES
This latest release of Strava Cycling for iPhone was focused around improving performance, polishing the look and feel and adding more user controls. Features include:

MORE DETAIL

  • Monitor your performance and see where you stack up with segment and achievement details.
  • Enjoy more ride analysis and full map view from Ride Detail page.
  • See all time and year-to-date stats on your Profile page.

MORE CONTROL

  • Pause and resume rides with ease.
  • Easily make edits to your Profile and Settings pages.
  • Title your activity and change your activity type to run, hike, ski and more. Your changes will automatically sync to Strava.com.

MORE ACCESS

  • Ability to login via email or Facebook Connect.
  • Faster location initialization and faster upload.
  • See all of your recent activities from all devices – not just those recorded with your iPhone.

MORE TO COME
Strava Running for iPhone and Strava Cycling for Android are on their way! As always, we appreciate your feedback and ideas. Help us take Strava to the next level and send us your feedback.  If you like what you see, please be sure to rate our app!


NEW TRAINING CALENDAR ON STRAVA
From Strava.com, select TRAINING in the top navigation to see your new training calendar! Now you can see the activities you’ve logged in a month and in a full calendar year. Get your totals and see trends and activity details to help fine tune your training. Select “Activity Log” for a full list of uploaded activities along with your main stats.

]]> http://blog.strava.com/available-now-new-improved-strava-cycling-app-for-iphone-new-training-calendar-3839/feed/ 20 http://blog.strava.com/available-now-new-improved-strava-cycling-app-for-iphone-new-training-calendar-3839/ Take the Rapha Turkey Takeoff Challenge, November 23-27 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Strava/~3/HuOp-cTV1NU/ http://blog.strava.com/take-the-rapha-turkey-takeoff-challenge-november-23-27-3831/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:54:35 +0000 Strava Admin http://blog.strava.com/?p=3831 Getting ready for your delicious Thanksgiving feast? This year, Strava and Rapha are challenging you to earn every last bite!

Riders, you are challenged to burn 9000 calories in 5 days. Can you hang? Join the Challenge now and get ready to compete from Wednesday, November 23 to Sunday, November 27.

Burn those slices of pie in a day, or tackle it over a few — the choice is yours — just get your riding in and the job done.

Riders who complete the task in the allotted time will earn a custom Rapha Turkey Takeoff badge, shipped to your home and ready for jersey adornment. See the Challenge page to learn how to redeem your well deserved badge.

Gobble, Gobble!

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