Strava Continues To Accelerate Innovation With New Features Designed For Cyclists and Runners
The new subscriber features will add further capabilities to explore, level-up training and competing, and make friendly competition fairer among Strava’s global community.
SAN FRANCISCO – August 27, 2025 – Strava, the app for active people, today announced a series of new features that will further support subscribers in pursuit of achieving their goals this summer and optimizing their performance. The updates follow a period of accelerated innovation from the brand, and is a further demonstration of how it is investing in enhancing the Strava subscription for its growing and evolving global community.
Explore Easier
Route Builder: Available tomorrow, Strava is introducing a significant update to its Route Builder tool on Mobile. The interface has been fully redesigned to be more dynamic, making planning with precision faster than before. Powered by billions of activities, Strava’s Heatmap shows where fellow community members have actually cycled, run, hiked, or otherwise been active—users can therefore create routes with the confidence that they are informed by real, human-powered activity data.
The update will be rolling out over the next few days, and also brings with it brand new functions:
Enhanced Route Details: Users can move their finger along routes to see elevation, distance, surface type and grade, so they know what to expect when out on the roads, trails or paths.
Route Adjustment: It will be possible to add, move or delete waypoints— specific markers on a route, such as Tappable Points of Interest (think cafe stops, restrooms or viewpoints)—so that routes fit the exact needs of users.
Switch Sport-Types: The latest update makes it easier to transition from one sport type to another (such as road to gravel cycling) when creating routes to make planning that much simpler and more intuitive.
Train Smarter
Both Power Skills and Training Zones will launch in September and enable cyclists and runners to view heart rate, pace and power zones over time, providing a personalized view on their current performance levels and how to progress in the short and long term.
Power Skills: In the Progress tab on Strava, Power Skills is the first piece of The Breakaway being fully integrated into the Strava ecosystem after it was acquired earlier this year. This feature will enable cyclists who use a power meter (either on their own bikes, or through indoor cycling platforms) to receive individualized insights to train smarter and perform stronger through a visual breakdown of their all-time Power PRs across 12 notable cycling intervals, analysis on strength and growth areas, as well as skill and progression indicators. We’re also iterating on Power Skills: soon cyclists will be able to overlay their last 8 weeks of best efforts against their lifetime records. This will provide cyclists with greater understanding of their performances through power-based training—a precise, real-time measurement of cycling output—enabling them to fully optimize training and competing.
Training Zones: Removing the guesswork from training, the new Training Zones feature will provide cyclists and runners with easily understood insights into how much time they’re spending in each power, pace or heart rate zone, such as Zone 2, across a week, month or 3-month time period. This level of insight will help users balance effort and recovery to get in peak performance mode.
Compete Fairer
Leaderboard Integrity: As a result of introducing new machine learning models aimed at detecting irregular, improbable or impossible efforts, 4.45 million activities were removed from Strava’s leaderboards earlier this year, rightfully restoring KOMs and QOMs to reflect true performances of the global community. Since then, the company has continued its work to protect the authentic activities of its users. This latest update sees the detection and removal of E-Bike rides uploaded to ride or run Segment Leaderboards, so they only appear on E-Bike leaderboards instead. The result is E-Bike flag reports are down nearly 85%, as are overall flag reports on activities year on year.
“The introduction of these new updates, and fast integration of The Breakaway into the Strava ecosystem following its acquisition, is a demonstration of how we are investing in our global community of cyclists, in addition to runners,” said Matt Salazar, Chief Product Officer, Strava. “From deeper and more analytical personalized training insights, to enhanced routing and a fairer platform where competition can take place, these features now enable cyclists and runners to fully optimize every pedal stroke and stride they take in pursuit of their goals.”
About Strava
Strava is the app for active people. With over 150 million athletes in more than 185 countries, it’s more than tracking workouts—it’s where people make progress together, from new habits to new personal bests. No matter your sport or how you track it, Strava’s got you covered. Find your crew, crush your goals, and make every effort count. Start your journey with Strava today. Join the Strava Club or follow Strava on Instagram, X, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn. Visit www.strava.com for more information.