How to create a Strava segment for Rowing.

Creating a segment is quite simple. Firstly you must record a GPS track of where your segment will be. So if you row up and down the river on the correct side you will then have a track of this recorded in the workout. Make sure you save your workout in Strava as  ‘Rowing’, cycling and running on water is very difficult.

Below is a video of how to set up segments on a road with cycling. It is exactly the same process to set up an on the water segment for rowing.

There are plenty more YouTube videos of the process and there is further support on the Strava website here

If your segment needs adapting you can edit it and move the start or finish points forward or back and then save. This comes in handy for regattas that do not have stake boats. I have sometimes needed to move the start position forward a few strokes so that timing starts in the same place for all crews.

Ross-On-Wye regatta last year I set up a segment for the course . I found an eight from another club also recording Strava workouts on the day which meant the difference in the length of the boats needed the start moving a little.

When setting the segment up rowing down the very middle of two lanes means that the segment will time for both lanes. I have found that segments are quite wide, probably at least 3 lanes of racing if not more. If anyone has tested it on multi lane it would be interesting to know if one segment can do six lanes or more?

You just have to be careful not to row over the start line in the direction you will eventually travel otherwise you can trigger the start of the segment prematurely. If this does happen you can then crop your Strava workout to get rid of the false start.

The segment is normally just a little shorter than the actual course because of having to have the start line far enough away from the where boats are starting to avoid false starts.

I shall add any further tips here at a later date.

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