Strava’s enshitification continues. It’s basically useless now without an expensive subscription. I mountain bike. All I want is to track my lap time, segment time, and compare against personal records.
I tried MapMyRide today, which pretty much just tracked my lap time. Not ideal.
Are there any decent alternatives?
Thanks in advance.
** Thanks for all the suggestions. I’ve got some research to do. Fingers crossed. **
Geoactivity Playground is a great way to get away from Strava - it offers Strava Sync, but you can also use your own GPX files. I don’t think that it does allow you to do segments:
@AlternatePersonMan You can try @endurain and @FitTrackee
Fittrackee: https://docs.fittrackee.org/en/index.html
Endurain: https://docs.endurain.com/
So, I dropped Strava about 6 months ago, and just use Garmin to check my stuff. But RideWithGPS is probably worth checking out for yourself.
It has access to good metrics, there are some segments but might not quite fill in for your needs though.
They do have a sub, but shouldn’t need it for what you want.
Garmin is definitely what I would have recommended until a month ago when they started pulling subscription crap.
They’re still better than Strava though, so if that’s what you’ve been using so far it could be worth it. Polar also introduced subscriptions in the last month. I’m not sure about Wahoo, Hammerhead, or other fitness brands.
Hammerhead is at least subsidized by SRAM.
I have a Garmin watch. I haven’t ever seen any segments or personal record tracking, but maybe I’m not looking in the right spot?
Records should be here: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/personal-records
Segments are much less used on Garmin than Strava, but they also exist, here: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/segments
I haven’t used strava but perhaps OpenTracks?
Haven’t tried it, but this sounds like it could be what you’re looking for: https://github.com/joaovitoriasilva/endurain
Endurain is very very cool, but I’m not sure if it does personal records or segments yet. Strava segments, especially, will be hard to match since they’re crowdsourced.
I’m poking around and don’t see a segments option or anything similar in Endurain at the moment. I could be missing it, though.
My Endurain instance is single user, so I’d just create segments that interest me (probably based off what Strava users have come up with). I usually ride the same 1 or 2 places so it would be pretty easy!
I no longer use it but when I moved away from Sports Tracker the best lightweight alternative I found was Caynax Sports tracker. It’s about as bare bones as it gets but it did everything I needed it to and nothing else.
I use FitoTrack for running and hiking and am very happy with it.
FitoTrack is soo good I love it
Have you looked at intervals.icu? It lets you track all of the data you can think of and a lot more. Especially useful if you have a Powermeter and heart rate sensor
Kamoot is my go to inexpensive one off payments for maps, good plotting for adventures
Let’s see how that turns out, now that they have been bought recently.
A head unit from Garmin or Wahoo will let you track a lot of data. While it’s an extra expense i think it’s definitely worth it.
