Does anyone know if how I can adjust the default workout type that Strava uses when my iPhone sends a workout to Strava that apparently doesn’t identify the type of workout?
I feel like (hope) this is the sort of geek detail that Ray @Ray_Maker and/or @GPLama might have explored and be able to shed some light on.
Most of my workouts from my watch are correctly identified and import fairly painlessly, but when I use the MapRun app to record an orienteering run, it automatically records the run using my watch and then lets me send that track to Strava.
According to the MapRun instructions, Apple doesn’t support uploading automatically to Strava for data recorded by “third party” apps, hence MapRun provides its own menu to help send the activity to Strava, even though the workout IS actually recorded in the workout / health app.
So these runs don’t show up in Strava in the list of activities I can import.
Those run workouts are correctly identified in the health app as a run, but they get recorded by Strava as rides and I have to correct that.
Out of petty curiosity I just tried to work out where Strava was getting fixated on rides, and I can’t see a default workout type for workouts that might be imported without the type identified.
I also looked at the tracks recorded in my health data export and none of them have the type recorded in them as far as I can see, so how come Strava seems to know what most of my workouts are, but not these ones? I’m guessing that the health data is usually exported with additional tags that are not included in the gpx exports.
So is there any way I can tell Strava to assume unidentified workouts are RUNS not rides??
Thanks in advance, sorry for the long story as usual. 
I can’t find any ‘default’ sport setting within my Strava profile.
I’ve banged on about companies correctly setting the sub_sport flag in FIT files for years. Most don’t care. I’ve wasted my time. I’m still on that hill though. It’s going to be important when companies want to offer richer map overlays - heat maps based on activity type, route/re-route suggesting based on the activity, etc.
Anyhow… all things that can’t be changed easily.
What can be is your activities once they’re uploaded. I’d dig into ActivityFix.com and see if you can setup rules to automate the correct activity tagging once they’re on Strava.
Another good solution for iOS users is the RunGap app that lets you sync activities across all sorts of tracking apps and platforms. You can set up import/export journeys to keep everything in synch.
So this does the syncing instead of letting all the apps read & write to the health app?
It includes Apple Heath as a possible source or destination.
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I just discovered that Strava doesn’t let users change virtual rides to non-virtual, or vice versa. They say that rides will only be tagged as virtual if they are recorded using an approved trainer.
I was just trying to fix my Strava entries for a couple of indoor rides I did recently so I went to My Activities to show all Virtual Rides.
To my utter bewilderment I saw that the 2 latest virtual rides listed were actual real outdoor rides we did last May in Europe!??
The ride entries show that they were recorded on my Edge 1030+ and show the ride routes on the map, as well as photos taken on the ride.
It turns out I have to either delete and reload the rides or submit a support request for them to fix the rides for me (which is what I did.)
I then went digging further to see if Komoot or RwGPS showed these rides as virtual - and was surprised to see RwGPS DID say they were virtual, but at least it also let me simply edit the ride type.
So only then did I check Garmin Connect and saw that it also had them as virtual rides, but again it was easy to edit them back to real rides.
So now it seems I can’t really blame Strava, and my real question is HTF did these 2 rides get tagged by Garmin as virtual rides??
Hopefully Strava will simply fix my rides for me but if I don’t hear back I might have to delete them and reload them from Garmin.
Does the 1030+ have a virtual ride profile that you accidentally selected - or had selected from previous ride and you didn’t notice - when starting the rides? I’ve done that with my Explore 2 and 130+, albeit with different/wrong outdoor profiles (not sure either have a virtual profile).
On the face of it, you’d assume that because it had the GPS data the various services would recognise that it was real, but remember that the virtual platforms ‘spoof’ GPS location (e.g. a London route on Zwift actually plots to London once uploaded and viewed on a map).
I do have an Indoor profile on it, but I was using the map to navigate for both those rides so F knows what happened.
At this stage I’m just hoping to hear back from Strava support that they’ve removed the virtual tag.
It’s even weirder to me, given I was only looking because I wanted to make sure my recent indoor rides were tagged as indoor / virtual. At which point I found I CAN"T tag them as virtual myself - even when they were recorded with the indoor profile using my power pedals and rear wheel speed sensor on a dumb trainer.
I guess “virtual” is for riding in virtual worlds, “indoor” is for dumb trainers like me who hate riding indoors too much to consider paying for virtual riding.
That’s when I also noticed that the iOS app doesn’t even let me choose the indoor tag - I have to use the web interface to do that. I hate the way apps like Strava and RwGPS omit important functions from different versions of their interface.