From Suffer Score to Relative Effort
Written by: Chris Spada and Will Meyer
One of our most popular Premium features is Suffer Score, a way to quantify effort during an activity using heart rate data…
For our summer Strava Jam I used our new bulk access activity stream dataset to improve our current GAP (Grade Adjusted…
Over the past year, the Strava platform team has been working to rebuild the segment leaderboards system. This is the first in a series of four blog posts detailing that process. This first post aims to give…
Every time an athlete uploads an activity to Strava, the server analyzes the activity and calculates…
Grade Adjusted Pace (GAP) estimates the equivalent flat land pace for a given running pace on hilly terrain. Running uphill requires more effort than running on a flat grade, so GAP adjusts pace to be faster than the actual running pace. Similarly, GAP is slower than actual…
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