Spring is in the air and that means, Strava pushed a new batch of updates this week, and while none of them are earth-shattering on their own, together they paint a picture of a platform that’s getting sharper about how serious athletes actually use it. Here’s what’s new.

Annual Best Efforts

This is the headliner of them all, and we’ll applaud it as a good one.

The old PR system had a real flaw in that your half-marathon you ran at peak fitness two years ago shouldn’t be the benchmark you’re measured against forever. Especially for those that got injured or life just got in the way.

Annual Best Efforts fixes that by letting you track your fastest times by year, so you’re always measuring yourself against a relevant version of you.

Subscribers get the added layer of multi-year comparisons to see exactly how fitness is trending over time. For endurance athletes tracking long build cycles like us, this is genuinely useful, so bravo.

Activity Tags on the Web

The full suite of activity tags — Race, Long Run, Commute, Workout, Recovery, With Pet, and more is now available to add, edit, and filter on the web.

This one sounds small but not everybody is on their phones 24/7, so it matters if you’re doing any serious training log review from your desktop.

Being able to pull up every race from the last 18 months, or isolate your recovery sessions to spot patterns, gives your data a lot more utility and personal worth. It’s the kind of organizational feature that makes Strava feel less like a social feed and more like an actual training tool which is something we’ve always had issue with.

Event Browse

Finding group rides and local run clubs just got easier. The new Event Browse feature lets you search and filter Club events by sport type, location, date, format, and distance. All of which is within the Groups tab.

Event Waivers

Club organizers in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia also gained the ability to add event waivers, which is a practical addition for anyone running anything at scale.

Weekly Streak Stickers

This is very fluffy but four new sticker designs are now available in the Progress tab. Athletes can pick your streak, pick your design, and share it with your feed. It’s simple, social, and exactly the kind of small motivational loop Strava has always been good at and wants you to continue to use.

Going Global

Lastly. Strava added 10 new languages including, Thai, Turkish, Tagalog, Polish, Vietnamese, Malay, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and Czech; bringing the platform to 24 languages total.