How to brand Strava segments: Beat your friends during your solo ride

Zwift is not the only solution to beat your friends. You tin beat them outdoors too, even during your solo ride. How? You tin can brand your own segments in Strava.

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We volition explain how to make your own segments. For example, we made the TrueKinetix Road in Strava. This segment is located on the road adjacent to our role.

Footstep 1. Log in to your Strava account on the desktop version

You lot tin can't brand segments with Strava'south mobile app, so log-in with desktop on your laptop/tablet/PC.

Pace 2. Cull an activity to make a segment

Y'all tin just make a segment from the activities you already did. At offset, you go to > profile > ringlet down to see your different activities > click on a road you did > curl down to see all the existing segments > click on the button below on the left 'create a new segment'.

Step 3. Create the new Strava segments

Now you become a very nice overview of your activity. To select your new segment, y'all can choose a start betoken and an endpoint. Below you lot'll run across where the points are marked on the map. Very easy! Are you lot happy with your choice? Click on the push: 'side by side'. Strava volition check if at that place's already an existing segment. This is a dainty characteristic because that means that your segment volition always be unique!

Footstep 4. Name your segment

If Strava accepts your unique segment, you can name information technology. You lot tin can choose if you desire a private or public segment. It'due south fun to brand it public, and so you tin can share it with the whole Strava customs. Give information technology an original name that'south fun for other cyclists too.

Step v. Race!

You can challenge your Strava friends past invitation. Select the segment and click on the button 'challenge'. Your friends will receive a notification in their Strava account.

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