As a fairly recent Strava convert, I was quite surprised to discover that it’s not possible to export GPX files of other people’s rides.
You can export your own routes, no problem, but not those created by others. Garmin Connect and ridewithgps.com both allow users to download gpx tracks, so why not Strava? Here’s a workaround…
It’s a very useful thing to be able to do. Imagine: you’ve missed the Sunday club run and the route looks awesome, covering some areas you’re not familiar with. It’s so easy to grab the gpx and use a Garmin to navigate the course on your own.
(Of course you could just print off a map… but paper is so last millennium)
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I poked around on the net and found lots of people dissatisfied with this lack of functionality in Strava, and then I poked around some more, and struck gold at
http://cosmocatalano.com/strava/export/index.html
Update: this tool appears to no longer work.
Try this one instead: http://strava-tools.raceshape.com/vpu/
This site allows you to paste in the URL of a Strava ride, whereupon it magically creates a crs file of the route for you! (Just copy it over to your Garmin > New Files folder)
This kind of geekery amazes me, and it’s part of why I love the web. Not to be geeky just for the sake of geekdom, but because it’s a hotbed of creativity and generosity.
People helping people, in the pursuit of perfection.
Strava do allow Premium users to download GPX files in this way, so the best thing to do if you want to help Strava to develop their awesomeness would be to sign up for a premium account.
Ok guys I have just finished a ride and save it on my garmin edge 1000.
After that, for some reason I created a course with that ride and now it does not display as an activity in the history folder.
Is there anyway possible to change that course back to an activity so I can upload it to strava?
I can still see all the data under courses but I don’t seem to be able to send it even manually.
Got some good segments on that ride and any help would be very much appreciated.
many thanks
Gus
may i ask a question which is about strava premium. is there any limited data to get when we buy premium strava using gpx export? for example, when we need data from other athelete is there has a limited gpx export when we already using premium strava.? please give a respond as soon as possible.
The alternative site doesn’t work anymore either!
have you found anywhere I can download all of the riders information for a segment? I am wanting to look in to cadence and speed for a particular segment and see who has that data and what the pattern is.
any help would be appreciated. At the moment I don’t think it can be done.
H10/1 is the segment name ;)
Interesting idea. I’d been tempted to ask Ben if Veloviewer can do that (at least for the people you’re connected to on Strava, if not everybody who has ever ridden the segment.)
Hey, you can try my strava_traces_downloader.py script, for download you track as GPX without premium.
https://github.com/dalacost/strava_hack_tools
anyway, it works at terminal, but may somebody can use it idea for a web service.
Many of the links you posted do not work anymore. I was really looking forward to getting a .crs converter for .gpx files but it looks like the link to race shape tool doesnt work anymore. Hoping someone can help me.
Have you tried https://www.alltrails.com/converter?