Strava Routes Could Help You Find Isolated Places

Strava has launched Strava Routes, a new feature that will help users find new places to run and cycle.

Strava Routes will be available to Summit subscribers; the company's premium service. It works using some of the features we have already seen with Strava. Including heat maps or OpenStreetMap data. It can then be used with peripherals, including the Garmin Fenix ​​6.

From your selected preferences on the type of terrain where you want to run or cycle, and if you want to avoid the hills, Strava Routes will use the activity of its 3 billion workouts to suggest a route that you could take. .

It will also tell you the duration of the route depending on your pace and the terrain you will encounter. Finally, it will give you a topographic view of the elevation.

You can also overlay the heat map to see how busy the route could be; an interesting function in these times of social distancing.

Some of these functions will be familiar to you if you use the Route Builder web tool in Strava; although this only shows the most popular segments.

“Routes” uses Strava's recorded activity pool to provide high-quality route recommendations, personalized according to athletes' preferences in terms of location, distance, type of surface (paved or earth) and hilly or flat terrain.

Of course, the question that naturally arises is how to use the route once it is created; and if it works with GPS watches running.

It seems that Wahoo users will have the choice of functionality to start with; with automatic synchronization on company bike computers.

If you are a runner equipped with a Garmin, use this function on your mobile phone, save the route and go to your desk. You can then synchronize the GPX route with your Garmin as usual.

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