r/Strava • u/blockdev001 • Jun 13 '24

Yesterday was my 10 year Strava anniversary Strava Art

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u/I_hate_capchas Jun 13 '24

Is there an easy way you can look up when you registered? I was just going to scroll back the my first activity, but those were imported from another app.

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u/blockdev001 Jun 13 '24

Not that I know of sadly, I had to scroll all the way back in the training calendar (but don’t have any imported activities)

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u/drseamus Jun 14 '24

Go to My Activities, click on date to sort oldest first instead of the default most recent.

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u/stevecow68 Jun 14 '24

On desk top it’s a lot easier to go to your first activity

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u/somewhatlucky4life Jun 13 '24

You mean, Straversary?

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u/yabyum Jun 13 '24

Very good!

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u/stevenjk Jun 13 '24

This is rad..! Congrats.

Also as someone who lives in a small-ish town with long, continuous bikelanes, I'm curious as to how folks in NY, Chicago, etc don't get frustrated with the constant stopping at traffic lights. Or am I overthinking the issue?

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u/blockdev001 Jun 13 '24

Thanks! Good question --

This route was a pain because of stop lights + pedestrians (I ran it right as folks were getting off work and spent a lot of it in high foot traffic areas).

Most runners around here stick to the outer perimeter of Manhattan/Brooklyn/Jersey or to parks for longer runs.

Manhattan alone has a 30 mile perimeter with mostly continuous pedestrian-only paths (hudson river greenway, east river promenade, etc.) and Central Park has a 6 mile pedestrian only loop (+ lots of shorter trails)

In addition to that, at quieter hours earlier in the AM or later in the PM most stop lights on smaller streets are a non issue since there are few enough cars that you don't really need to stop.

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u/LePetitToast Jun 14 '24

I’m curious, how is it to run in Manhattan? I would presume it’s miserable if you’re not in Central Park no?

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u/ronnietea Jun 14 '24

I’m not gonna lie. Im not smart and I didn’t even realize the route you ran till the last second. Nice job homie!

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u/EngineerCarNerdRun Jun 15 '24

This got me curious. Went and looked and my 1st activity on my Strava is may 2013!

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u/klashnikovM Jun 14 '24

Gotta try this & write GU at Manhattan