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What's New?
Below you can find details about the latest news, features, and improvements at Strands.com.
Strands.com Badges
Many people asked us for some Strands.com badges and we're happy to announce that they are finally here! You'll find selection of different badges for blogs, websites or other online profiles.
Check out the badges on the Strands Blog page!
Improved Full Screen Mapping with Google
Now, full screen mapping is even easier with the new out and back button! The button will return to your Start Point in the reverse direction of your route.
Advertisement-free, full screen mapping includes:
- Undo the last marker placed
- Center the route on screen
- Clear the current map
- Turn distance markers on or off
- Follow the roads
Try mapping out your run today. You can discover the elevation and other similar routes nearby your location.
Online Training Log Book
View your training log book, color coordinated for different workouts. Easily find your workouts all in one place. View your entire week of training, with detailed notes for each day. The log includes notes, distance, duration, and pace for each workout you've shared, and a recap at the end of each week.
New and Improved Profile View
With new sub-tabs, user stats views and widgets, we've given the profile view a whole new look!
View a summary of Strands activity: number of workouts, races, routes, gear, photos and videos. Easily edit your biography with sub-tabs, export and view a summary of your workouts with graphs now supporting all sports simultaneously. With profile summary widgets, you can view multiple stats without having to filter through various tabs.
Find events around you
Search your next race with our new event search function. Easily distinguish the feature you’re looking for – videos, images or online registration.
Customize your search with dates, location, type of event, and distance. With events calendar, you’ll be guaranteed to find your next race or discover new ones.
More support for exercise sharing
You asked and we listened! Strands now supports new and easier ways to share your training with Suunto, Polar, CSV and GPX files. Use our share bar to upload your files or download Strands Tracker to automatically upload your workouts from your GPS watches.
Threaded Comments
Tired of going through multiple comments to find what you’re looking for?
Now you can reply to a specific comment – ask a question and get your answer without all other information.
Strands for iPhone, Version 2.8 Updated
The full featured iPhone training log for endurance athletes and active people – Download here and read about the improvements below
New Features
- Improved Video Route Replay - share your workouts in real-time for others to track your progress. Let others track you during a race with your live location and route
- Who's Training - real-time view of everyone using the application, with their routes and workouts
- Camera integration - take pictures during a workout
Improved Features
- Real-time pace, speed and elevation data
- Video Route Replay (Satellite video mid and post-workout)
- Online Route Replay
- iPod and playlist integration
- History of workouts and routes
Hottest Posts
Strands makes it easier to connect with your friends' training and what they are talking about. Sort by user, location, category, or most recent post.
Strands Tracker Updates
Support for Polar and Suunto is finally here for PC users! The new version includes improved login process, desktop notification and filter notifications. Download today.
Strands is Now Open!
Many of our fans have been asking for it, so now we have made several types of posts on Strands.com available to non-members. Profile, event, group, and many other posts now have limited visibility to non-members, allowing users to share the things they post with friends who have not yet joined Strands.
Design Overhaul + Customizable Themes
Strands has a new look and feel, and now includes customizable themes! Choose from 8 different themes for your background on Strands.com. Whether you are a runner, cyclist, swimmer, skier, or another type of athlete, you can now find something that fits just your style.
Improved Nike Plus Integration
Many members of our community have requested better linking with their Nike Plus accounts, so we made some changes and think you will be impressed. If you use Nike Plus to log your workouts, you can import your previous training history to Strands at Preferences > Add Services > Exercise. Also, any workout that is added to Nike Plus in the future will automatically be added to your training log at Strands.
Export Training History as CSV
Users can now export their entire training history to a spreadsheet or CSV. When looking at your own profile, you can export by selecting the Export button on the top right of the graph. Then simply select the date range, and voilà!
New Tools for Triathletes
Triathletes can now add multi-sport details to any workout logged on Strands. Simply click the Details tab when sharing a workout to add the swimming, cycling, and running details.
RSS Feeds!
Many of you have asked for RSS feeds of your workouts, routes, and all other sorts of posts. From http://strands.com/downloads/rss users can now find RSS feeds for the recent workouts, routes, food, pictures, and more. In fact, if you look at the URL of each feed you might just be able to build the perfect feed you're looking for.
Once you find the RSS feed you're looking for, you can add it to your website or blog, link it to your Twitter, or embed it anywhere else on the web. If you have questions, feel free to check out the FAQ and Help pages or contact us.
Video Route Replay
Watch satellite view video replays of yourself and others in action. Workouts and routes recorded via GPS devices like Garmin watches and iPhones can be viewed in full-screen, and include instantaneous pace/speed, distance, elevation, and heart rate data when available.
New User Type: Nordic Skier
We've added support for a new athlete type: Nordic Skier. Along with this new type of user comes new types of workouts. To change your user-type, go to your profile and click to update your Bio.
Last and Next Posts From Each Person
Whether you are looking at a workout, route, video, or any other kind of post on someone's profile, you can now easily navigate to their previous or next post of that type. Find the post carousel located just under their profile picture, and easily navigate to another post.
Improved Group Pages
Groups can now have more than one owner, giving multiple users the ability to update the group's page.
Widget Dashboard View
Over the past months we have created many helpful widgets for the sidebar of pages on Strands.com, and now users can see them all in one place! To see them in the expanded view, simply click the expand arrow located at the top left of the sidebar and watch them move into place.
New Widgets
- Hot Posts
- Top Athletes
- My Last Workouts
- My Gear
- My Last Routes
- My Pictures
- My Videos
- Race Prediction
To enable some or all of the widgets, simply click Personalize at the top of the sidebar and tick the boxes for the widgets you'd like displayed for each page.
