I know it’s not everyone’s favourite but as I’m mostly riding by myself these days I’ve found strava useful for gauging how my riding is progressing and to encourage me to push on a bit. However, since littleginge 2 arrived my fitness has dropped off considerably so i’m not setting any times close to what I was riding last year.

To help me set a new baseline to build back up from it would be really nice if I could reset all of my best times (and medal things). I could then use this to see how I’m improving again rather than just thinking that I’m riding a lot slower than last year still.

Short of creating a new user profile is there a way of doing this (or something similar) without deleting all of my old ride data?

The nearest I know of is an add in from a guy called Thomas Champagne (great name!)

It looks at your time for this year and compares it to your best (as well as a lot of other stuff)

Might that help?

Have a look at Veloviewer. That will let you filter all of your Strava data by year.

If you don’t fancy making a new strava account you could just move house and then ride on new trails.

If you don’t fancy making a new strava account you could just move house and then ride on new trails.

I like that! Viz top-tip-tastic!

What SR says or new account.

If only for personal use could you log them as a different category (i.e. ebike)

The nearest I know of is an add in from a guy called Thomas Champagne

Yes if this is what you’re using Strava for then I would highly recommend getting that in any case. Elevate App for Chrome, it’s called. Brilliant additional info.

You can look at your individual times for segments on Strava both as a personal leaderboard, so result based, and as a graph which is calendar based.

Click on an activity that has the segment you want to analyse then click on the segment name. Below the list of times on the leaderboard click on “See full leaderboard”. This opens a new page. The graph will show your times on the segment. To get just your times on the leaderboard click on “My Results”.

Whilst this isn’t a full reset it does allow you to compare current and historical times. The biggest problem with this is that it has to be done on a segment by segment basis. If you want an overall view of a time period then go with Veloviewer, it’s only £10/year to get full synchronisation with Strava – https://blog.veloviewer.com/veloviewer-free-vs-pro/

As above, the Elevate strava extension expands the segment information, and while it still shows your best ever time, and compares it to KOM, it also compares your effort against your best in that calendar year.

I prefer to just copy the Strava data into Excel and use that. The reason is that my performances vary massively by season, I’m much faster in spring than in the middle of summer, so comparing times with an overall average or personal best isn’t really very useful. This moving average shows the seasonal variation over several years, along with a fairly big improvement in fitness. Most recent times on the left.

I use the Strava Summit relative effort as a way of tracking fitness. Then it doesn’t matter if its running or riding, new or old trails. I find it a really good motivator as it flags which weeks I’m slacking. It uses a heart rate monitor.

Thanks for all that, I do particularly like the idea of moving to some new trails for a fresh start.

I’ve had a play with elevate, and took a look around Veloviewer, today but I don’t think they are quite what I’m after. Due to family time commitments I normally just chase things up on my phone these days and I’m not sure I’d every really get the time to pour over all the data that these two provide (never mind getting round to entering all of the extra info on me).

I hadn’t thought about adding a heart rate monitor to get relative effort figures in strava before. I think this might be an option if it doesn’t work out to be too expensive.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a heart rate monitor to use with strava? Would something like a garmin forerunner with a heart rate monitor be ok or would a more specialist chest strap thing be the way to go (assuming I can find one to pair with my iPhone).

Would something like a garmin forerunner with a heart rate monitor be ok

Yes. Just install Garmin Connect on your phone and connect Connect to Strava. When you finish a ride, the watch will sync via your phone and Connect will sync with Strava. Usually takes a couple of minutes.

Strava won’t connect to HR monitors directly now.

For a heart rate monitor, try one of these…

https://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductMobileDisplay?catalogId=10151&langId=-1&categoryId=293503&productId=1462778&storeId=10001

.. hooked up to my Garmin Etrex 35 touch really easily, so Bluetooth to an iPhone should be straightforward

Edit: forgot about strava dropping HR monitors 🙁

I have the Garmin Forerunner 35, which I really like. For cycling I just turn it on and off. For running I can use it for pace and interval training.