Strava Integration Guide: Connecting Your Training Data

Why Connect Strava?

Strava is where millions of runners, cyclists and triathletes keep their workouts, whatever watch or bike computer they use. Connecting it to Strilab means every activity you record becomes training load, interval analysis and context for your AI coach, without typing anything.

How to Connect Your Account

It takes under a minute:

1. Open Strilab and go to Settings → Connections (you can also do it during onboarding).
2. Click "Connect with Strava". You will be taken to Strava's authorization page.
3. Authorize read access. Strilab asks for permission to read your profile and your activities, including the private ones, so your analysis is complete.
4. Done. You are sent back to Strilab and your history starts importing.

Strilab only reads. It never posts to your feed, edits your activities or touches your social data.

What Gets Synced

From each activity Strilab imports:

• Sport, date, duration (total and moving) and distance
• Heart rate, average, maximum and the full stream
• Pace and speed, and power if you use a power meter
• Cadence: running cadence is stored in steps per minute of both feet, as most watches show it
• Elevation, the GPS track and the laps of the activity

With that, Strilab calculates the training stress of each session, detects intervals and updates your fitness, fatigue and form.

Your History From Day One

When you connect, Strilab imports the last 90 days of activities. That is enough to estimate your current fitness (CTL) and fatigue (ATL) straight away, instead of waiting weeks for data to accumulate. Your fitness model is ready the same day.

New Workouts Arrive on Their Own

Strava notifies Strilab when you upload, edit or delete an activity. A new run usually shows up in Strilab a few minutes after it reaches Strava, and if your plan includes it, your coach comments on it shortly after.

Strava and Garmin Together

If you connect Garmin as well, the same workout can arrive twice. Strilab recognises it (same start time, same sport, similar duration) and keeps a single copy, preferring the one from the original device. You still get the link to see it on Strava.

Troubleshooting

If an activity is missing, check that it is on Strava and that your connection still appears in Settings → Connections. If you revoked access from Strava's settings, just connect again. Activities you delete in Strilab stay deleted even if Strava sends them again.

Privacy

Your training data is used only to power your own analysis and coaching. It is not shared with other users. You can disconnect Strava at any time from Settings → Connections.

Get Started

Create your free account, connect Strava and your coach will have your last three months of training in front of it in minutes. Read more on how Strilab works.