Starting This Week, Strava Will Give Cyclists Even More Data to Obsess Over
From Bicycling.com
BY MICAH LING
If you’ve ever looked at running data on Strava and wondered why runners get so many “best efforts” compared to the cycling side, wonder no longer. Last summer, Strava gave the runners a breakdown of their fastest times on everything from 400 meters to 50 km, and now the same is true for cyclists. Beginning this week, the app will expand the cycling categories of best efforts to include distance, cumulative elevation gain, biggest single climbs, power, and time for relevant intervals.
And don’t worry if you did the climb of your life a few years back, Strava retroactively pulls these efforts dating back to when you first started using the app.
The new feature can be viewed near the bottom of the athlete’s ‘You’ page on the Strava mobile app (paid subscriptions only). The feature tracks an athlete’s top three efforts in five categories and synthesizes the cycling data to help the rider contextualize progress and performance.
