This week
We see a new feature added to the Strava mobile app. That new feature being activity cropping!
Activity cropping has been on the Strava web version for a while
But it's always
Inconvenient because if you're uploading out in the field say from the Strava mobile app on the phone, from the watch, or from a bike computer
And you accidentally have driven somewhere in the car. You need to crop that off
You need to do that at home on a web browser or on a computer and it's just not convenient.
People just typically forget about it
They'll upload their rides or runs or activities and they'll snag a heap of KOMs in their car and not worry about it
It's the honest users of Strava who have to go through and flag that activity because they'll snag KOMs
I myself have a few legit KOMs near some busy roads and as such I get quite a few
Notifications in my inbox. Quickly jumping over here and having a look at what I've got. STOLE your MOM?!
Google, That's just kind of weird!
It's not what I meant at all, but you can see there are quite a few
Notifications coming through and a large percentage of those are people who have ridden somewhere
Jumped in the car driven home or driven to the coffee shop and then hit stop
Those activities need to be trimmed because we've got to go in and flag those to keep the Strava data legitimate.
This new App feature makes the process a lot easier and hopefully a lot more common for people to use
So yesterday the family and I put this feature to the test
We went for a six kilometer walk around the lake (not quite the llama lab, but a llama lab test outdoors)
so Von and Max joined me for a six kilometer walk or hike we jumped in the car and drove to the fish-and-chip shop, at
Which point I hit stop. and now I did record this with the phone
I also recorded it with my watch at the same time and I did put the privacy to
Private so I didn't snag anybody's KOMs, or hiking KOMs or anything like that, so that didn't take place
But what I'll show you here is trimming the car part out of this ride (walk).
So what we have here is my feed. We click on the activity
We go to the dots on the top corner and we hit crop
And the way they've done this is pretty neat
It's quite simple so you can only crop the start or the end of a ride if you've gotten a car
Assistance in the middle of a ride. You can't crop that out
It's only the start and the end (same as the web version), but from here you can see you can
That's our walk
So I'm not going to crop any of that or you can go
From seconds if you tick or you press on the little arrows
But it's the end that I want to cut off so you can see there
There's our car trip down the main road to the fish-and-chip shop
But we can also zoom in and find out when exactly we walked to the car.
GPS it will be a little bit all over the shop, but
right
Probably what
There and I can trim that with seconds
Going forward and back you can see there. So I want to probably stop that as I'm walking up to the car right there
All the blue was obviously the car trip. We can pinch zoom back out, hit save, now
Once this is done its permanent on the ride that you can see, but the original isn't modified
So if you do screw this up
You can go back export original, re-upload that and then re-trim (just as a tip for advanced players there) hit save
Crop submitted excellent. We are processing the activity in the background. Okay good stuff, and that might take a few minutes
Boom. Done, refresh and we are there. That's kept it legit. Max speed is now from 80 km/h
Was there an 80km? Shh! so there we go. That's it in action
That's how to do it and hopefully it'll stop a lot of stolen MOMs/stolen KOMs happening out on Strava
So there we are for today and who said Strava don't implement new features. There we go
We've got a new feature on the mobile app. Good stuff as always remember to hit thumbs up if you've liked this one and hit
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