Firstly a plug of StravaRow’s club page.
Strava offers a social media style ‘feed’, listing your activities and the activities of anyone you follow. An extension of the social aspect of Strava is to join Strava clubs, like a club Facebook page the club can be private or public.
There is a club leader board, displaying total training time and distance for cycling, running and swimming.
A club only recent activity feed can be viewed so club members can catch up on other club members training.
Finally there is a discussion section in the club page. This lets you discuss topics as a group, training ideas, club events, hints and tips there is a lot of scope for rowing clubs to use this.
You can see Strava club would be great for rowing clubs if it could only display rowing workout totals as well. This is surely just a slight tweak in the code that programs the page. This is one of the first things Strava could improve when the number of rowers using Strava increases. There is a Strava feedback section that you can vote to get this feature added. On this page there is also reference to a service that can bypass Strava’s limitations with the use of a 3rd party website.
Even with the leader boards not working for rowing there is a growing number of rowing clubs making use of Strava clubs feature –
The most popular is Concept2 it is not clear if this is official or unofficial currently over 170 members. Strava are releasing a Beta Clubs feature for businesses rather than groups of people. It would be great to see British Rowing create an official Strava club.
Cancer Research UK’s ‘The Great Row’ is an example of a charity fund raising event making good use of a Strava club page. The Great Row has its own club page that you can find here – https://www.strava.com/clubs/TheGreatRow
Don’t forget to check out the StravaRow club we are hoping to start to develop the discussion tab on it with helpful feedback.
Garmin watches can sync with a Concept 2 PM5 monitor and record the data of your indoor row with the Erg IQ (Beta) Garmin connect IQ app. When on the water they can also measure stroke rate from the wrist without any need for any other sensors.
Garmin Forerunner 735XT GPS Multisport and Running Watch – Midnight Blue/Frost Blue
– £327.41
Garmin Forerunner 235 GPS Running Watch with Elevate Wrist Heart Rate and Smart Notifications – Black/Grey
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