Run for Life, Not Just for Today- Strava Founder Michael Horvath
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
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🗓️ 15 June 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Although running is an individual sport, do you sometimes wish you had the camaraderie of a team?
Michael Horvath, today's guest, founded Strava, an online community for runners and other athletes. Through tracking, Strava is able to help you connect to other athletes and also compiles some interesting data, such as what time of day people tend to run and which cities have the most active or fastest residents.
Michael got his start with rowing, then moved onto triathlon and running after he got out of college. He founded Strava (which, by the way, means "strive" in Swedish) in 2009 and now it is an international success.
Some of the topics we'll explore with Michael today include:
● Michael's journey to w [...]
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| 0:00.0 | So what does it mean to strive? It means that regardless of your ability, it's not about how good you are. |
| 0:07.0 | It's that you're striving to be better. |
| 0:09.1 | And it could be simply as I'm striving to be more consistent. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm striving to get more fun out of my workouts. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to the Runners Connect Run to the Top podcast, where it's all about learning from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:25.0 | So together we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. |
| 0:30.0 | Now, here's your host, Tina Muir. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello, this is Tina Muir. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello, this is Tina Muir. |
| 0:41.0 | Thank you so much for joining me for the latest episode of the |
| 0:43.6 | Run to the Top podcast brought to you by Runners Connect. So last week I talked to |
| 0:48.3 | Chris McDougal who talked about what he'd been up to since we talked a year ago, what book he is working on now, and if you missed |
| 0:55.6 | it, you'll have to go back and take a listen. They'll let you in on that little secret, and it actually |
| 1:00.8 | involves a donkey. Yeah, you did hear that right. So today |
| 1:05.0 | Strava is something we all know by now well most of us anyway. It was originally |
| 1:10.2 | started in 2009 but it's really exploded onto the scene in the last few years. |
| 1:14.8 | I only recently started using it but I have to admit that I kind of felt like I was out |
| 1:19.4 | of the club like trying to get in because everyone seemed to be on it and if you've not already |
| 1:24.0 | joined I'm sure you're going to want to. |
| 1:26.6 | Today I'm going to be interviewing the founder and president Michael Hovey and we're going to find |
| 1:31.6 | out more about the company, their values, some really |
| 1:34.4 | interesting stats about the data they have collected including which city has |
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