How To Upload Route To Strava

How to create a Strava route without a subscription

We all know how convenient it is to employ Strava to follow a route with a smartphone and tape the activity at the same time. Nevertheless, Strava's road builder is non included in the free plan anymore. In this short guide, nosotros'll see how users with a free account can create a Strava route anyway.

There are ii cases: either yous desire to run or ride the same route as a past action, or you desire to explore new terrain.

From a past activeness

This is extremely elementary since this feature is bachelor to all Strava users. Here are the steps to exercise it:

In the list of by activities, notice and click on the one you'd like to do again.
Scroll down to the map and click on Create Road.
Click on Salve to My Routes.
Your new Strava route is fix!

Creating a Strava route from a past activity.

Since recently, y'all can practise exactly the same with any other athlete's activeness.

From a GPX file

Most of the time, you want to use your smartphone to follow a route that you take never done before. The most common mode to create and share an itinerary is through a GPX file. GPX stands for GP S e X change format and it simply contains a drove of GPS coordinates.

There are endless ways to practise get a GPX file:

Create it from scratch with a website like gpx.studio.
Take hold of it from a website where people share squeamish routes like Wikiloc, AllTrails, Bikemap, Komoot, Ride With GPS or even on your local bike shop'south website.
Download someone else'southward Strava activeness for free with a tool such as Strava to GPX or Strava GPX downloader.

Optionally, yous can edit existing GPX files with gpx.studio to make the road start from your domicile, avoid a steep hill, etc.

Faking a recorded activity

Every bit explained for the showtime case, Strava allows you to create a route from whatsoever of your by activities, even without subscription.

And so the fob is to upload your GPX file to Strava similar it was a real activeness you had recorded.

To exercise so, the simply affair your GPX file is missing is timestamps. Here's how nosotros can ready this:

Head to gpx.studio.
Import your GPX file by clicking on Load GPX or drag-and-driblet it.
Click on the stopwatch icon to open the Edit time tool.
Gear up any average speed and click on Ok.
Consign the file by clicking on Consign and then Download.

Calculation timestamps to a GPX file with gpx.studio.

Uploading it to Strava

Now that your "false activity" is ready, you can upload it to Strava and catechumen it as a road as nosotros did in the beginning scenario. Here is the total process:

Upload the GPX file with timestamps on Strava with the file upload tool.
When the activity is loaded, click on Salvage & View.
Scroll down to the map and click on Create Route.
Click on Salve to My Routes.
Your new Strava route is ready!

Uploading to Strava and creating a road from the activity.

When you're done, don't forget to delete the "simulated activity".

Relish the ride!

(in instance you lot don't know, here's how to follow a road from the Strava app)