Comparison is the thief of joy they say. Thinking about deleting strava to just focus on my training and trust the process for the upcoming season. Anyone else not use strava? And if not what app do you use to track your monthly and yearly stats?
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I use TR and Intervals. I still use Strava but not really. Iām not so social.
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Can you link TR direct to intervals?
I gave up my strava membership. I donāt see the value in it except copying routes or the route builder. Besides that; you still know when you PR and can only see the top 10 on segments. I donāt care if Iām 47th on a segment anyways haha.
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You can unfollow everyone and still use the app as a portal between services.
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I have it. I just barely ever look at it.
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Strava is the default repository and I use it mainly to sync data. But I have stopped using the app and website for most things.
I subscribed for a month to create some routes since I am new to this place. But now I am just done.
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How do you know if someone left Strava?
Dont worry, theyāll tell you! 
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Not left Strava but default is all rides are private and I share stuff that is interesting, maybe half a dozen rides per year.
They need to use their "AIā to clean up the segment mess.
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I guess Iāve āquiet quitā, everything syncs up there, partially private by default, not subscribed, only really use it once a year for segments when in the Alps.
Itās a tool, you can be signed up and not need to doom scroll on there.
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No, not directly. But you can tell TR to export workouts to Dropbox and have intervals import them trough there. Then you just link whatever headunit you use directly to intervals and can track your progress there.
I havenāt shared indoor workouts on strava ever and only ever share grouprides public. Events/grouprides still get posted on strava and for that I just keep my non-paid account live. Just delete the app from your phone and from your mind and focus on yourself.
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I use a lot of the data from Strava because it feeds into my bike maintenance app (Pro Bike Garage) but I often find I try to take a month off Strava. I would like to walk away from it really. I donāt mind it having my data, because I use it (like I said) for lots of things such as signing into veloviewer and intervals.icu. I do agree with comparison being the thief of joy - but just because everything gets loaded to it doesnāt mean I need to use it as a social media site.
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Iāve always just used it as an interface between apps and as a way to see what friends are up to. I donāt ever compare numbers, because honestly, I donāt race, so I donāt care. I DO like to see when people ride somewhere interesting, win a race, participate in a big event, or share cool pics though, because they make me want to ride and travel.
When they offered one of the deep discounts, I signed up for premium this year for the first time just to see if I was missing anything. I really like the heat maps and routing tool, so I may re-up if I get a heavy discount, but I can do mostly the same stuff with Connect or RWGPS if not.
If it was causing me stress though, Iād delete it in a heartbeat. Life is already stressful and I just want to do stuff outdoors!
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I gave up my Strava membership after 12 years. No real reason, but given all the info in TR and Garmin connect, I didnāt really see a need to keep paying for the premium features.
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About a year or so ago I found myself a little bummed out whenever I would scroll through Strava and see a bunch of local guys who putting in 15+ hour weeks and getting out on these really long, epic rides. As a dad of 2 young ones I just wasnāt willing to sacrifice time with them to ride that much. But I would definitely get jealous seeing how much time others had to ride.
I deleted the app off my phone and changed my settings so all my activities are private. I think I might have hid a number of people off my feed as well which decreases my temptation to scroll when I do occasionally log in. I still keep my account active so I can go in and compare PRās after rides once in a while. And I could use it for tracking. Though Iāve been using a program called Rubitrack since 2009 so that remains my main workout log (and TR has been what I have used for more detailed bike TS and power comparisons and what not).
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I dont use strava, dont really need it
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Nope and not intention to. I find intervals interface is great for most things, but ironically, Strava+Sauce is far better at interval analysis.
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Of course, and thatās what Iām considering. Strava seems to have gotten a lot more paranoid, or something. Killing links? Blocking comments? Hawking meaningless features? Itās looking more desperate every dayā¦
(Sorry, thought your post was a question, 
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I tend to like Strava to give support to people I know that are older and still get out there and kill it. And do, somewhat embarrassingly, get miffed if I donāt get kudos for some rides and workouts. Iām too invested in Strava when that starts happening. I guess I could go private and still follow those people I know to give them support, of just save my money.
Garmin keeps advertising the āsocial aspectā of Connect. It does āsocialā? Never knew thatā¦
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Theyāre doing this now, and itās currently making things worse. Segments that previously ended before stop lights or stop signs now finish after/through them. Segments with no turns now extend through a turn. Their implementation is currently broken, Iāve lost many of my training segments. Luckily this happened right before my membership expired so while Iām not leaving Strava Iāll remain a free user for the foreseeable future.
The āCompare Effortsā tool is/was pretty indispensable for the training I was doing but it only works if the segment is good. If theyāre not, and proper replacement gets overwritten it doesnāt work.
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There is a rather long Des/DC video on YouTube that rakes Strava pretty hard. Like āWhat are they doing, and whyāā¦
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