Way back in the dawn of time (2017) I joined CityStrides by linking my Strava account.
When the option became available to go with Garmin instead, I added my Garmin account.
A week or two ago (maybe?) I realized it’s time to retire my Strava account everywhere, and from within Strava itself I turned off access to almost every app including CityStrides.
A friend just pointed out that I had lost a thousand-ish streets, so I reattached Strava and they all came back – but I still want to close down my Strava account as soon as possible.
Am I right in thinking that:
The reason I lost so many streets is because all those runs – which were in both Strava and Garmin – were discarded as duplicates in my initial Garmin sync and therefore turning off Strava and deleting all Strava activities nuked 'em?
In that case, would the best way for me to “properly” fully migrate to Garmin be to Remove Strava => Remove Garmin => Reattach Garmin => Wait for the Garmin full sync to complete?
I understand I’ll probably lose a handful of streets that happened to be only in Strava, but I’m pretty sure 99%+ of my runs are already in Garmin Connect and I really want to close down my Strava account as soon as possible.
Basically, yeah, that Strava data was removed when you revoked access & there wasn’t other data present in CityStrides that would make up that progress.
There’s a lot to consider…
Garmin limits access to old data - see Where are my older Garmin activities? - so be aware that if you revoke access and then re-add your account, that 5 year limit is based on the date that you re-add Garmin to CityStrides not any other date
I might be able to get Garmin support to re-run the full sync for your account, so you wouldn’t have to do anything other than remove Strava … I say “might” because I’ve never asked for a full sync … oh, and the background info here is that they also only let me request data once so I can’t just run a full sync again like I can for every other service
Deleting data is pretty slow/“expensive” so if you do revoke Garmin access, you must wait until all of that data is gone (their logo is removed from your profile page) before trying to reconnect
You must keep Runkeeper connected during this process because if you get to a state where you have zero connected services, then your entire account gets deleted
That five-year thing is a non-starter (I’ve got ~8-9 years of data and would rather not lose everything before 2019), so it sounds like I’m stuck with Strava unless and until I upload everything to Runkeeper – thanks for the reply!
You could Request Data Export from Garmin…
They’ll send you a zip file full of which will have a folder structure like: DI_CONNECT/DI-Connect-Fitness-Uploaded-Files/UploadedFiles_0-_Part1
(with Part1 continuing in other folders like Part2 etc)…
Those UploadedFiles_0-_Part* folders will contain fit files that you can semi-bulk upload into Runkeeper (I think it’s 100 at a time)
There’s this idea of Manual Upload in Ideas that could use votes… it’s an old thread that came up at a time when I was really running up against Strava’s API limits, so a lot of the conversation in that thread is tied to that issue. I don’t have a good sense of the work to impact ratio on that so the vote count helps a lot.
My profile link : Joe Navratil - CityStrides
which will have a folder structure like:
so the vote count helps a lot.