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Hardloopsessie
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Trailrun
Endurance of the Mind: How UTMB Shaped Lewis Robling
Lewis Robling's UTMB journey highlights the power of mental resilience, pushing limits and how running helped him overcome personal struggles.
Hardloopsessie
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.
Hardloopsessie
10 Tips For Nailing Your Longer Run
The long run is one of the most important training sessions in your week. There are a few simple things that you can do to make sure you get the most out of it.
Fietsrit
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Fietsrit
Bikepacking in Iceland: The Gift
Our 12-day bikepacking journey through Iceland’s Westfjords wasn’t just an Arctic adventure; it was a crucible for life-changing learning and transformative meditation.
Multisport
Explaining the “Strava Tax”
Why 10.00 miles on your device became 9.99 miles on Strava
Fietsrit
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.
Training
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Triathlon
Stronger Is Faster: Why Strength Training Matters for Triathletes
With three sports to train for, adding time in the gym might seem tough, but it can bring huge gains for triathletes willing to invest the time.
Triathlon
How to Optimize Recovery from Triathlon Racing
Taking a break after major races isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s essential for your mental and physical health and longevity in the sport. Find out how to do it right.
Hardloopsessie
Run Sessions: How To Manage Your Effort Levels
If you want to see real progression in your run training - and race times - it’s important to manage the intensity of your training sessions.
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Strava Updates
New! Say Goodbye to "Morning Run" and Hello Kudos with Quick Edit
Someone needs to say it: your activities deserve more than the generic “Morning Run” or “Afternoon Ride”. That’s where Quick Edit comes in.
Strava Updates
Want More Out of Maps? Try ‘em Out on Desktop 🖥️
To help you chart your next expedition, we’ve made improvements to our route builder. It’s now easier than ever to fine-tune the details of your route – in a way that you just can’t on a phone.
Multisport
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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Multisport
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.
Multisport
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.
Multisport
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.
Multisport
What’s New on Strava: Follow Routes From Your Wrist and New Tools for Club Events
Welcome to our new 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.
Fietsrit
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
Multisport
You’ve got the route. Here’s how to rally the crew.
We know club organizers wear a lot of hats. You’re not just planning the route – you’re marketing it, too. That’s why we built Event Flyers.
Multisport
Explaining the “Strava Tax”
Why 10.00 miles on your device became 9.99 miles on Strava
Multisport
Using machine learning to remove Cars from Run and Ride leaderboards
Learn how our new Machine Learning model stops activities recorded in vehicles from hitting Strava leaderboards.
Skiing
Annika Malacinski on What It Takes to Be a Pro in Two Sports
Annika Malacinski shares what it takes to compete in two sports at a professional level and what the future of Nordic combined looks like for women.
Fietsrit
The Difference Between Overreaching, Overtraining, and Burnout
These three conditions have distinct definitions, and knowing each can help you train smarter.
Hardloopsessie
Want to Progress? Don’t Fall Into the Trap of 'Lifestyle Training'
You hear run coaches say it again and again: if you train the same way day after day, you’re unlikely to see much progression.
Multisport
How to Optimize Endurance Training for Female Athletes
There has historically been little research into how female athletes should train to best suit their physiology. That’s changing—and women are fast learning how to get the most from their bodies.