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New tools to explore, optimize training, and ensure fairer leaderboards within the global Strava community.
Strava, the platform dedicated to athletes, is unveiling a series of new features to help its users achieve their summer goals while optimizing their performance. These innovations are part of a wave of continuous improvements, reinforcing Strava’s commitment to enriching its subscription for its expanding global community.
More precise exploration
Redesigned Route Builder: Starting August 28, the mobile route creation tool gets a makeover. With a more intuitive and dynamic interface, planning a route becomes faster and more precise. Thanks to Strava’s Heatmap, powered by billions of activities, users can access the most frequented roads and trails by the community, ensuring reliable and suitable routes.
This update, deployed progressively, includes:
- Enriched details: visualize elevation gain, distance, terrain type, and gradient in real-time while exploring the map.
- Advanced customization: add, move, or delete points of interest (cafes, viewpoints, amenities) for a tailor-made itinerary.
- Multi-sport flexibility: easily switch between activity types (road, gravel, trail) during creation.
More effective training
Starting in September, two new features, Power Skills and Training Zones, will offer runners and cyclists a detailed analysis of their performance to progress intelligently:
- Power Skills: stemming from the acquisition of The Breakaway, this feature is for cyclists equipped with a power meter. It provides a visual analysis of personal records over 12 key intervals, highlighting strengths and areas for improvement. Soon, it will be possible to compare recent efforts (last 8 weeks) to historical best results.
- Training Zones: this tool displays the time spent in each zone (power, pace, or heart rate) over various periods (week, month, quarter). Objective: optimize the balance between effort and recovery to reach peak performance.
Fairer leaderboards
Strava is strengthening the integrity of its leaderboards with advanced artificial intelligence models. This year, 4.45 million unrealistic activities were removed, restoring KOMs and QOMs to legitimate performances. A major new feature concerns e-bike rides: they are now automatically detected and classified into dedicated segments, excluded from running or classic cycling leaderboards. Result: an 85% decrease in reports of inappropriate activities in one year.
Reinforced commitment to the community
“These new features, combined with the rapid integration of The Breakaway, illustrate our desire to best support cyclists and runners worldwide,” says Matt Salazar, Chief Product Officer at Strava. “From optimized route planning to detailed performance analysis, and fairer leaderboards, Strava helps every user maximize their efforts to achieve their goals.” With these innovations, Strava continues to position itself as an essential partner for athletes seeking performance and enjoyment.
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