What is Strava and Why Should Mountain Bikers Care?
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Singletracks podcast, we explain what Strava is and how mountain bikers are using the service for good (and sometimes evil.)
Editor’s note: After recording this episode, we realized we forgot to explain why a rider might yell “Strava!” while passing other users on the trail. Basically it means the person doing the passing is competing in a virtual race and is warning (demanding) you to move out of the way. People who yell this on the trail are being inconsiderate and reckless.
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| 0:00.0 | Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. |
| 0:03.0 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the Ultimate Collab. |
| 0:08.0 | Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure. |
| 0:11.0 | Some fun, some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal. |
| 0:16.0 | Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst it's last. |
| 0:20.0 | Strava! |
| 0:25.5 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:28.3 | Today is me, Jeff, and I'm here with Aaron and Greg. |
| 0:30.8 | And today we're going to be talking about Strava. |
| 0:36.3 | So Strava is an app and a website that a lot of mountain bikers use, and we've had some of our listeners suggest that we talk about it on a podcast. |
| 0:40.7 | So Greg, Aaron, and I, we all use Strava, |
| 0:43.6 | so we're excited to talk about what it is and what it's all about. |
| 0:47.2 | So I wanted to start off by asking, what is Strava? |
| 0:50.5 | At its most basic, I think Strava is a training log. |
| 0:53.8 | And with Strava is a training log. |
| 1:00.6 | And with Strava, you can log all of your mountain bike rides and any other physical activities that you do. |
| 1:04.8 | So the concept of a training log isn't exactly new. |
| 1:08.4 | People have been doing this on paper for literally decades. |
| 1:13.6 | People have been doing it online for many, many years. But one of the new things that Strava adds to the equation is that it's also a social network. So instead of just logging |
| 1:21.5 | your rides in isolation, you follow your friends who also ride on Strava and you can see |
| 1:26.8 | what everybody's riding, |
| 1:28.7 | where they're exploring, and if you're competitive, what the competition is up to. |
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