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How Strava Got Me Into Bike Racing

I remember the conversation with one of my co-workers at Wired distinctly.

“You should download Strava.”

“What’s Strava?”

Thanks to a monthlong project using my phone as my wallet, I’d recently replaced my old MUNI bus ride with a bike commute, and I’d been telling him how I was passing so many other cyclists on my jaunt into the office each morning. I should check out the app to see how fast I really was, he said.

Strava, he explained, was an app for tracking your workouts—most commonly your bike rides or runs—and comparing your efforts with those of everyone else who’s traversed a particular stretch of road (also known as a segment). The fastest person,…

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