Strava keeps trying to persuade me to sign up for the paid version. Does anyone else? Do you get lots more really useful information? Is it worth it in other words! Thanks 😊.
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I get ads too but not interested in getting the premium services. The basic seems good enough to me.
The free version is good enough for me 😁I've also recently cancelled Spotify premium 🤣
You've cancelled Spotify? 😱 I love my playlists
Will see how it goes 😁!
I use spotify at home as well as when I'm out running, and for podcasts. I used to buy loads of CDs so it works financially and storage wise.
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The rest of my family are keen cyclists and belong to clubs etc. They all have premium but I just have the free version. Two of my sons live in other parts of the country and I like being able to keep in touch and share kudos.
Less money spent on Strava = more money to spend on running kit 🥳 no brainer Frenc
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I had it for a year or two. It was cheaper back then. When the price went up I didn't renew it, and I'm not tempted to go back at that price to be honest (and I do like my stats!!!)
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Garmin’s stats are more than enough for me 😊
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My husband is a cyclist & has premium. He uses it to plan and navigate routes. I only have the free version. It has been useful for trail running for us. You can see the routes others run & hit save to your Garmin. We will certainly be using it to run Rottnest on our holiday.
Hi Frenc. I have the premium version and think the routing facility is great and, for what it costs per annum, is good value.
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I use the free version. While route planning sounds interesting, many of the paths I run on don't exist in Strava, and round here I've met precisely two other runners in almost 20 months of runnning.
Garmin Connect has route planning, too!
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I like the route planning function which I use a lot and enjoy being able to follow along on my phone. I originally got it for the beacon function but use Garmin livetrack now.
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I have premium but I don't really use a lot of the premium features. For the majority of folksI think the free version is super.
There were only a couple of things that I kept with premium for, struggling to remember now, I'll have a look
Personal heatmap - I love being able to see where I've been
Training log, all my activities in one place, yes I could use garmin but I barely look at that! 🤣
I don't use the routing. Its useless for the kind of stuff I like. I use os maps.
Thank you for the insight GoGo_JoJo, the heat map sounds interesting. OS maps sound a good idea, I have my eye on adding to a route but it’s quite hard to work out what and what isn’t possible on Google maps - it’s in the middle of nowhere and I don’t want to get lost! 😃
Google maps is useless for routes!! You need os quality mapping with trails/bridleways etc. There are some free apps out there but I pay 24 quid a year for os (there's usually av free 3 month trial) and I more than get my moneys worth 👍🏻
I love the paid version, it is so helpful it gives an indication of the effort of every run, gives points, so in any week I can see how taxing my running program has been, interesting a particular route I walk is 10 points but can be 70 points if I run, depending on the effort. Many other features which are very helpful.