Garmin has announced that it is now partnering with Strava, MapMyFitness (including MapMyRun and MapMyRide) and Endomondo, allowing Garmin Connect users to view their data in these applications. Garmin is continuing to work on partnerships with other training applications.
When you’re logged into Strava, MapMyFitness or Endomondo you can opt to have your Garmin Connect account automatically sync. Once the accounts are linked, your activities are viewable on these platforms immediately after they are uploaded via Garmin Express, Garmin Connect Mobile or WiFi. You can already link with a Strava account while linking to MapMyFitness and Endomondo will be coming soon.
Garmin Connect, if you’re not in the know, is a free online fitness tool that allows you to log and analyse your training, set and track goals, and share activities with other users or on social media sites. You can also plan your training sessions, or grab an existing training plan to send directly to a compatible Garmin device.
Strava also tracks your bike rides and other fitness activities. It’s probably best known for its segments, where users can compare their times over sections of a ride with other Strava users. Garmin recently introduced segments to Connect.
41 thoughts on “Garmin partners with Strava, MapMyFitness and Endomondo”
My Garmin Edge 510 was
My Garmin Edge 510 was delivered yesterday, so the timing of this is rather good!
I finally set up a Strava
I finally set up a Strava account on Sunday and spent all day manually transferring old ride data to it from my Garmin Connect account.
The timing of this is rather bad!
PantanAYEMAN wrote:I finally
..should have used: https://tapiriik.com. would have taken all your stuff from Garmin connect and loaded it into Strava free of charge..
I don’t know many people who
I don’t know many people who prefer connect over Strava anyway.
Is this an admission from Garmin that they realise Strava is more popular than Connect?
Great! As long as Strava
Great! As long as Strava doesn’t keep going down as it has done recently
I’ve been using tapiriik to
I’ve been using tapiriik to do this up until now but it can be a bit hit and miss. Just linked my Strava and Garmin Connect accounts so looking forward to see how this works.
How did you connect them?
How did you connect them? I’ve looked inside the Social connections in my Strava account, and Manage social networks in mygarmin account. Both on the full website. Neither had a connection to the other.
Could this be a phased option and hasn’t reached me yet perhaps?
Login to Strava and follow
Login to Strava and follow this link: http://www.strava.com/upload/device
bris_f_stopper wrote:Login to
Did the job. Thanks.
George_d wrote:bris_f_stopper
Still didnt function.
It says my garmin is connected and that it will sync but I had to manually upload my last three activities.
… actually, I’ve just
… actually, I’ve just logged into Strava and can’t see how to do this!
To link: On Strava, go to
To link: On Strava, go to upload, device, then click on Get Started under the Garmin logo and follow the instructions.
Garmin just buy strava, you
Garmin just buy strava, you know you want to.
cub wrote:Garmin just buy
I’d guess that Strava is worth a lot more than Garmin could afford, and quite possibly more than Garmin itself. (Or if it isn’t now, it will be.)
byke.com.au wrote:cub
Not really. Garmin sells GPS’s for bikes, cars, walking and even ships. Strava is about 1/10 the size of Garmin at most.
cub wrote:byke.com.au
Not really. Garmin sells GPS’s for bikes, cars, walking and even ships. Strava is about 1/10 the size of Garmin at most.— cub
Exactly. You’re delusional if you think Strava is even close to worth more than Garmin. The sports equipment part of Garmin’s was only around 16% of their total business in their last shareholders report too if memory serves. As cyclists we assume the sports part of Garmin’s business is much bigger than it really is. The price of Strava would likely not be the problem for Garmin. Garmin’s total business is extremely large.
The more pertinent question is would Strava as a privately held company sell out to Garmin. I can’t see a typical San Francisco tech startup mentality company like Strava wanting to end up at somewhere like Garmin.
cub wrote:Garmin just buy
More likely that Strava could buy Garmin.
dodgy wrote:cub wrote:Garmin
It really, really isn’t.
We don’t know Strava’s financial state as they are privately owned. However their LinkedIn page puts them at around 50 employees.
Garmin employs 10 thousand people world wide, with revenues of nearly 3 billion dollars.
Just a small discrepancy in size…
giobox wrote:dodgy wrote:cub
It really, really isn’t.
We don’t know Strava’s financial state as they are privately owned. However their LinkedIn page puts them at around 50 employees.
Garmin employs 10 thousand people world wide, with revenues of nearly 3 billion dollars.
Just a small discrepancy in size…— cub
And yet Facebook is worth more than Vodafone.
You don’t value a company these days, it seems, by totting up their assets and employees. In the tech sector, it’s number of active users, we don’t have to agree on why that is, but that’s what’s happening.
There is a banner when you
There is a banner when you log into Garmin Connect:
Maybe this will be an update to the API that allows it.
I think everyone needs to calm down a bit really because theyve only just announced the partnering, not the implementation!
zanf wrote:There is a banner
It is implemented now, just click the link the link above, it works you just need Garmin express.
Will Strava go and find ALL
Will Strava go and find ALL old Garmin ride records and put them into Strava if not already there? I have some 2012 rides in GC that are not in Strava and would love them to magically appear…
Hopefully Garmin will start
Hopefully Garmin will start supporting Unbuntu/linux os. I had to jump through a number of hoops to make Garmin connect work on my laptop 🙁
Right. I’m just back from
Right. I’m just back from putting my life savings into Tapriik shares. Did I miss anything?
Oh.
I’ve seen a few references to
I’ve seen a few references to tapiriik recently. Looked on website and have seen I can connect several apps. But what does it do?
“I’ve seen a few references
“I’ve seen a few references to tapiriik recently. Looked on website and have seen I can connect several apps. But what does it do?
posted by Izaak30 [75 posts]”
It syncs them all. And to be fair, it’s pretty good (much better than copymysports, which is very iffy). The only time it hasn’t worked, it turned out that Strava was down.
I quite like GC for the
I quite like GC for the training, its better is some ways over Strava, for example Avg speed over months or Fitness reports, Strava is pretty crap at this.
Not sure why they are claiming Endomondo is linked because they havent even started working on it yet.
Leodis wrote:I quite like GC
Have you tried veloviewer?
DaveE128 wrote:Leodis wrote:I
+1 for VV, its amazing 🙂
I share a Garmin so how is
I share a Garmin so how is that going to work… it’s a bit of a pain now !
Is this why it has suddenly
Is this why it has suddenly become a pain in the arse to upload stuff onto Strava from my Garmin? It took me a day to upload a ride last week when it used to take seconds ~X(
SideBurn wrote:Is this why it
It’s been down twice in the last fortnight or so. Infuriating!
About Feckin time. That times
About Feckin time. That times that Garmin/STRAVA have given me grief i couldve been doin summit useful like Riding. And they say dolphins are stewpid for living in igloos
VeloViewer for the
VeloViewer for the win!
Haven’t you always been able to upload garmin routes into Strava? I’ve been doing that since last year…
Another +1 for veloviewer
Another +1 for veloviewer
Doesn’t work… connected my
Doesn’t work… connected my account and stuff but nothing has happened for ages… ~X(
The partnership is
The partnership is interesting but at the moment all this means is you only have to upload from your device once into Garmin Express rather than twice. So not a big step forward (unless you happen to have other training in GC that’s not on your device).
I have an Edge 800 but find my laptop is so slow that it’s a pain to upload regularly. So I upload infrequently with Garmin. I use Bike+ and a Pebble watch and upload via my phone straight into Strava. The Garmin is really just a backup, although it will come into its own on longer rides and/or when I need the mapping. This way I can have the map or turn-by-turn displayed on the Garmin with ride data on my watch and still get IOS notifications through whilst my phone stays tucked away. Seems to work ok.
Is this by design?
I’ve set
Is this by design?
I’ve set up syncing between Garmin and Strava. All my uploads to Garmin are set to private by default, partly because Garmin haven’t implemented a ‘privacy zone’, yet, but mainly because that’s just how I like it.
Anyway, a few private rides from Garmin have shown up on Strava but set to public.
Anyone else seeing this?
Garmin is a public company
Garmin is a public company traded in the US valued at over US $10 billion.
Strava is private and getting by by selling merchandise and some collated data and a few subs. It would really have to pull a few rabbits out of the hat to be worth more than garmin. It’s not impossible, just unlikely on current plans
Garmin should concentrate on
Garmin should concentrate on getting the Manual import to work. The only way to transfer courses to my Forerunner is via Garmin Connect, however I cannot upload .gpx files for routes I want to ride, so I can create courses & then use Forerunner for navigation. Pretty basic failure on Garmin’s part :W
worked this morning .
worked this morning .