How To Upload From Garmin To Strava

Strava I'm kind of on-once more, off-once more with use of social preparation websites. I'g a long-time user of dailymile.com, only have periods when I lapse simply due to the fact that I need to manually enter my workouts if I'k recording them with my Garmin 620 (I tin can't become the 620 to sync with dailymile). Manual entry means that sometimes I only don't get effectually to it, and if I miss a few days that's sometimes plenty for me to lose steam on keeping the log upwards.

A few weeks ago some friends in the Running Shoe Geeks group on Facebook started a Shoe Geeks club/group on Strava. I've played with Strava a bit, only haven't really dug into it in a major way, then I decided to give it another try (yous can connect with me on Strava here). On the plus side it was successfully syncing directly from my Garmin 620, only information technology still required a trip to the Strava website to do so.

Yesterday I was filtering through my Feedly RSS feeds and came across a mail service from DC Rainmaker on a new auto-sync characteristic between Strava and Garmin Connect. In brusque, information technology allows Strava to pull workouts directly from Garmin Connect without the need to upload directly from your device to the Strava site. Information technology basically works on the fly – your workouts upload to GC in the normal manner (east.g., wi-fi, Bluetooth to phone, USB upload via computer), then they automatically feed over to Strava (supposedly within 3-5 minutes).

I decided this morning to try and set this upwards using DC Rainmaker's directions. It'due south really a very easy procedure. You lot merely go to your Strava business relationship and click the UPLOAD push button on the height right of the screen. This brings you to this folio (note – I did not take my Gamin connected to the estimator while doing this):

Strava Garmin 1

Near the lesser of this page you lot can see where it says "Enable seamless syncing past linking your Strava and Garmin Connect Accounts. Get Started."

Click "Get Started" and you see this:

Strava Garmin 2

Under the Garmin logo click "Get Started" and y'all go a pop-upwards box:

Strava Garmin 3

Click the orange "Connect with Garmin" button, and yous get a popular-upwards window asking for your Garmin Connect sign-in info:

Strava Garmin 4

Enter your data and you're done!

Strava Garmin 5

Y'all tin can see hither that information technology quotes 3-5 minutes as the typical fourth dimension for a workout uploaded to GC to sync with Strava. To examination this I went exterior and recorded a short walk up and down my street. Upon entering my house the workout uploaded to Garmin Connect via wi-fi immediately (this used to not piece of work for me with the 620, just seems to have been fixed recently with ane of their firmware updates). I and so logged into Strava less than 5 minutes later and the "conditioning" was indeed there. Very cool! Ray on DC Rainmaker says that upon uploading your offset new conditioning it should pull workouts from the last 30 days besides, just my run from yesterday (which I loaded to GC before enabling Strava sync) did non show upward. Maybe this part takes more time? Anyone accept success with this office?

There you have it, pretty piece of cake and saves me ane more step from my daily on-line life. The more I can streamline the better!

This motorcar-sync characteristic is also available for Grooming Peaks, RunCoach, and should exist available soon at MapMyFitness and Endomondo. DC Rainmaker provides more than item for those services (I've never used any of them myself, though I need to try Training Peaks since my jitney uses it for his athletes – for details on Preparation Peaks sync run across DC Rainmaker's post on the topic).

I'd dear to encounter car-sync added to dailymile as that site has my data from the past 5 or so years. They've obviously been working on a site update (and app) for awhile then here's hoping that information technology's among included features when that rolls out.