The Fix Is In

[ornoth_cycling]

If you log your rides to Strava and find yourself making the same changes to every Activity, you should know about the free ActivityFix utility.

After you set it up, whenever you upload a new Activity, ActivityFix will automatically make whatever changes you’ve asked it to do.

What can you ask it to do? A ton! Almost any change you can imagine doing by hand to an Activity, except for changing its privacy settings. You can set up Rules to update the Activity Title and Description, Activity Type, Gear (bike) used, Map Type, and more.

You can include dynamic data derived from your Activity itself or set up custom counters. And each Rule can be triggered conditionally based on all kinds of criteria, giving you the ability to program all kinds of really powerful possibilities.

For example, here’s the Rules that I am currently using:

1. For all Activities, automatically prepend the current date to the Activity Title, in my preferred abbreviated YYMMDD format.
2. If Strava recognizes the Activity as a “Ride”, set Gear Used to my 2013 Specialized Roubaix road bike. But if the Activity is a “VirtualRide”, set Gear Used to my Wahoo Kickr CORE indoor trainer.
3. If my Activity contains Wattage data from a power meter, set my Strava Map Type to show power; if there is no power data, set the Map Type to show heart rate.
4. If the Activity is 100 miles or greater, append text to the ride description, using custom counters to say what lifetime century number it was, and what century number it was for the current year. The latter counter automatically resets when a new year begins.

And all of this happens instantly and without any intervention from me.

And that’s just a tiny smattering of what ActivityFix makes possible. Want to automatically add your annual total miles to date to the ride Description? No problem. Include the number of days counting down to a major event? Add your normalized power and average W/kg, but only for outdoor rides after 6pm on Tuesdays? Automatically hide commutes from your public feed? Or hide short warm-up rides on your indoor trainer? Hide all rides where your average speed was below 20 km/h? Yup, all of that and more. The unattainable is unknown at Zombo.com!

And ActivityFix is free like a free thing.

Want to hear moar? Here’s GPLama’s original 2021 review… But bear in mind that a ton of additional new features have been added in the seven months since this video was posted.

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