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In addition to seamlessly viewing the top three Best Efforts, the feature visualizes your top five efforts historically for each year of your tenure on Strava. To access this, click on “View analysis” from any category to see year-over-year progress with a graph. Credit: Strava
Strava has introduced a new feature called Best Efforts for Ride for its mobile subscribers. This addition aims to assist users in tracking their progress and pursuing new personal records in cycling activities. Last summer, Strava introduced a similar feature for runners, which has been widely adopted by athletes. The feature tracks Best Efforts for runners ranging from 400m to 50K.
According to research conducted by Strava, 77 percent of active cyclists achieved a Best Effort in 2023, with 33 percent accomplishing the same feat in February of this year. Expanding on the existing Best Efforts experience for runners, the latest feature widens the categories of Best Efforts to include distance, cumulative elevation gain, biggest single climbs, power, and time for relevant intervals.
Accessible through the Strava mobile app for paid subscribers, the Ride version of Best Efforts appears near the bottom of the athlete’s “You” page. This feature tracks an athlete’s top three efforts in five categories, allowing riders to contextualize their progress and performance.
Subscribers can now chase progress in new categories such as longest rides, rides with the most elevation gain, biggest single climbs, and best power outputs at various intervals from 5 seconds to 1 hour. Additionally, users can easily access their current Best Efforts to review specific activity details and track historical data dating back to their tenure on the platform.
Furthermore, the feature provides a deep dive into activity data by visualizing the top five efforts historically for each year of the user’s tenure on Strava. Cyclists can view year-over-year progress through a graph by clicking on “View analysis” from any category.
Best Efforts for Ride encompasses intervals for measuring top performances across indoor and outdoor activities, including distances ranging from 10 km to 180 km, and power/time intervals from 5 seconds to 2 hours.
Since the beginning of the year, Strava has updated additional subscriber features, including goal setting and Flyover. The platform also announced new integrations with Open and ŌURA, and Fi.
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