STRAVA - What???

If you are not familiar with STRAVA, have a Garmin GPS, iPhone, or Andriod "smart phone" and run, cycle, or even ski (either XC or downhill) and want to manage your personal fitness, hopefully you will like this post.

Ever wonder whether your performance along a particular section of challenging road (either cycling or running) Is getting better or worse? With STRAVA you can tell at the click of a button.

What is it? The answer is not simple:
A website, a social fitness portal, an "app", and a great means to track and manage your training and fitness. In my opinion, it is the biggest "game changer" in tracking how well you are doing fitness-wise in the last 15 years, and probably ever. Full disclosure: for the past 15 years I have tried to be at the bleeding edge of technology when it comes to tracking fitness with gadgets: P-brain bike computer in the late 90s (a bike computer that also monitored heart rate and altitude along with distance and speed); Polar 725 wrist watch that did the same but had a much better ability to upload and track performance on your computer; and now a Garmin 800 GPS that is a bike computer, HRM (heart rate monitor) and GPS all in one small package.

I had heard about STRAVA about a year ago, but was slow off the mark. I thought the Garmin was all I wanted.

Everything changed about 6 weeks ago when I dipped my toe into the STRAVA pool, and registered (for free) on STRAVA.com. Have a look, try it, you won't look back.