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It's the yearly pump-'em-up-with-stats.

Buddy and I were just chatting on how strava says we were more active than 98% of the other users and all I could think was, “Sorry to hear about your inactive accounts and bot problem Strava!”

1,300 of those miles were virtual, which would have been during recovery the first few months of the year. The new gravel bike clocked 1,100 miles, I really enjoyed that. I've only been running for a couple of years, 55 days for 255 miles and 30k feet is an OK year for me.

Cobbled together Strava stats for 2024. They say I'm “1,888 mi ahead of pace” for biking. ":^)
I started the year off recovering from big gut surgery, so no strenuous activity. First time using an indoor trainer (Zwift), unfortunately I can't figure out easy way to differentiate between real rides and virtual. As soon as it got warm out I bought a gravel bike and switched to that and put on a lot of miles. I've only been running for a couple years, so for me this was a lot! Hiking and walking are mostly the same thing, heading into the woods for an hour or so, wandering, taking photos of mushrooms and ice.

In order to sign up for the #Garmin Connect API you need a privacy policy hosted on your business website, which makes two things I don’t (currently) have.

So…am I going to write/find a minimal privacy policy just to poke around at the API? 🤔

With the recent #Strava API policy changes I’m considering making myself some tools for processing my GPX files from my run, which are all published from my watch to Strava by Garmin.

Bike Tooter, if you’re looking for an alternative to Strava, now is the time to subscribe to Ride With GPS. Through the end of the year you’ll get 15 months for the price of 12. I’ve used Ride With GPS for years and it’s the best app I’ve tried for creating routes and cataloguing my ride data. They’re a small, but very capable team of passionate bike folk. I’m not affiliated with them in any way — just a very satisfied customer.

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Especially for the "works only on web" part: You have to build the feature _at least_ 3 times if you don't go with #PWA. And if you decide to _not_ build it in native, then frankly that's just super crap User Experience.

Looking at you #Strava. Your excuses are pathetic for some of the things that are missing.

In conversations I’ve had today, it’s apparent there is a lot of misunderstanding re this #Strava crap, which actually just exasperates what an awful comms job they’ve done around a rotten decision. Most users aren’t gonna be affected.
I can’t see why they would as they’ve own standalone business models, but if the big players decide to ‘withdraw services’ it could get fun, mind.

In conversations I’ve had today, it’s apparent there is a lot of misunderstanding re this #Strava crap, which actually just exasperates what an awful comms job they’ve done around a rotten decision. Most users aren’t gonna be affected.
I can’t see why they would as they’ve own standalone business models, but if the big players decide to ‘withdraw services’ it could get fun, mind.