All right, everyone, welcome back to another episode of Up Tempo Talks. I'm Coach Roy Moynihan and I'm Coach Delen-Belle. Today we're

going to be talking Straba. Part one we're going to start off talking about the

basic pros and cons of Straba as we have both been users like many runners for what

maybe four to five years or so yeah I'd say four or five years obviously huge

platform really big for mainly runners and cyclists. There's actually about

55 million users. Not quite sure how many of those are runners but I'm willing to

bet it's at least half. So we're gonna first talk about just drive in general.

Then we're going to get specific because as you may know,

if you use it, they've had some changes to the platform

and you have to pay more for features that were previously free.

I'm currently trying out the free trial, so we're going to talk about just if it's going to be

worth paying extra for that annual subscription.

Right on. Yeah, so I'll get things started and kind of start talking about the what I think are the pros at least to myself as a user of Strava. So personally I use Strava as my complete training log. So I don't really keep any of my

information anywhere else. I put it all there so that I can basically go back in time

and see the workouts that I've done and be able to track it over time as well.

I do find that I wear a Garmin, I have a Garmin 235 on my wrist at the moment, and I find that sometimes Strava corrects my data from

Garmin a lot of times it's more favorably I don't know which one's right or wrong but I

do appreciate the the metrics that I do get with Strava itself. I like to be able to go and see the

change in elevation over the course of the run. I like just having it be an all in one type of place.

And I like following other people and learning from some of my peers as well.

I don't use it necessarily for the comparison sake, but I do like to see what

other people are doing and just kind of keep track of whether it's some of my

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