# Ditching Strava, the wrong way -- and the right way?
**URL:** https://community.citystrides.com/t/ditching-strava-the-wrong-way-and-the-right-way/28765
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 3, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/ditching-strava-the-wrong-way-and-the-right-way/28765 "2025-02-03T19:31:27Z")
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### Author:  [@navratil](https://community.citystrides.com/u/navratil)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/ditching-strava-the-wrong-way-and-the-right-way/28765/1 "2025-02-03T19:31:27Z")
🔗 My profile link : [https://citystrides.com/users/5006](https://citystrides.com/users/5006)
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.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/u/JamesChevalier)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/ditching-strava-the-wrong-way-and-the-right-way/28765/2 "2025-02-03T22:59:18Z")
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?](https://community.citystrides.com/t/where-are-my-older-garmin-activities/23687) - 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
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### Author:  [@navratil](https://community.citystrides.com/u/navratil)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/ditching-strava-the-wrong-way-and-the-right-way/28765/3 "2025-02-04T16:41:50Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/u/JamesChevalier)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/ditching-strava-the-wrong-way-and-the-right-way/28765/4 "2025-02-04T17:06:16Z")
You could [Request Data Export](https://www.garmin.com/en-US/account/datamanagement/exportdata) 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](https://community.citystrides.com/t/manual-upload/19965) 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_.