Reply Here If You Have Missing Activities

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Everyone

  • YOU MUST include a link to your profile page in your reply, I don’t have time to search for you in the site
  • Only running/walking/hiking type activities are brought into CityStrides, so if your activity is not categorized this way it will not arrive in CityStrides
  • Replies on this topic are automatically deleted … I don’t always reply in the thread, but I do always look into issues reported here
  • Visit your Settings page to ensure that the connection is not paused
  • Revoking access from your tracking service will result in all of your data in CityStrides being deleted - it is never the solution to any issue you’re experiencing … do not revoke access unless you want to leave CityStrides

Supporters

For non-Garmin accounts: please use the Sync Now menu option in the top right menu before posting here. That will start a sync for your account (except for Garmin accounts; I cannot re-sync Garmin accounts).

There is a single activity sync feature in your Settings page. If you’re missing a single activity, you can try using this to sync it in.
That said, you should not have to rely on continuously using the single activity sync. One time? Sure, computers were a mistake. :laughing: Every time you save a new activity? No way, ask about it here.

Garmin users

Garmin added a limitation to their API that breaks re-syncing activities. They only allow activities to be requested once. When you first sign up to CityStrides, I request your full history of activities - none of those activities can be re-requested, so do not delete old activities from CityStrides.

They have an additional limitation of not returning activities older than 5 years from the date you connected to CityStrides. You can read more about that in Where are my older Garmin activities?

Please see How to edit a run from Garmin if that’s what you’re looking to accomplish.

I’d suggest, before posting here, you try the single activity sync feature in the Settings page. If that displays an error about a duplicate request, then post here with a link to your CityStrides profile and the date of the missing activity.

MapMyFitness users

It’s rare, but CityStrides can lose access to your MapMyFitness account. If you are missing activities, you can take these steps once (single log out/in is enough, multiple log out/in does nothing more):

  • Log out of CityStrides
  • Log back into CityStrides
  • Visit your Settings page to ensure that the MapMyFitness connection is not paused (it is automatically paused if the connection is lost, so I strongly suggest you do this even if you don’t think you have to)
  • Use Sync Now in the top right menu (if you’re not a subscriber, share your CityStrides profile link in a reply here and I will run that sync for you)

Strava Users

The Strava API has 15 minute and daily limits. I reserve some of the allowed API requests for Supporters. If your activity does not immediately arrive in CityStrides, check again after the next quarter hour. You probably shouldn’t have to wait more than 2 or 3 rounds of the 15-minute limit.
However starting on August 24, there have been a lot of new signups. This has caused CityStrides to repeatedly reach Strava’s limits. As of right now, there are ~100k activities in the queue which I’d guess is about an 18 hour delay. The system isn’t exactly first-in-first-out, though, and Supporters are favored, so I’d expect actual time in queue to vary.

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Show of hands…how many of you are checking your account several times a day to see if you’re missing activities haven’t appeared yet? :wink: :raised_back_of_hand:

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Thanks. Just completed that. Can you give me a sync?

Just started a sync for your account, but so you’re aware - the top right menu has a “Sync Now” entry that Supporters can use. Since you’re using MapMyFitness, it shouldn’t be something you need to do regularly, but it is there just in case.

Missing my September 18 run, please and thanks.

Settings for Dawn Branton - CityStrides

Hi, I’m using MapMyFitness and CityStrides hasn’t picked up anything since July 2024. Every so often I make sure it is (allegedly) syncing. log out and in again and cross my fingers. Nothing ever appears. Shall I just delete the account and create a new one? This has happened to me dozens of times.

No, you do not need to delete the account. There are very few instances where that’s the best path forward.

I just started a sync for your account & I’m seeing your activity count go up. I also did some spot-checking with the data, and I can see some recent data … So, I’m hopeful that the automated process can bring it all in.

Ah … That “Sync Now” feature is for Supporters - that’s the key piece to get the old activities brought in. Since I started the sync for you, that’s working as expected now. Just logging out and logging back in doesn’t cause any syncing to happen - it just reconnects the account to ensure access is still allowed.

I haven’t nailed down why the MapMyFitness access gets lost … I’ve got code in place that I expect to be ensuring good connections for all accounts, but there’s definitely something that’s not working right in there.

Hi - I am trying to import my old Garmin runs. Activity tracker shows Garmin is connected but I don’t see any progress with import. I tried importing one manually and it worked. Many thanks for your help

It started coming in - I guess it just takes time.

Hi

I am missing Mapmyrun activity since April. Have unpaused, please can you you resync

Thanks

Hello James & CS Team,

I recently traveled to Svalbard, Norway :norway: and even the tiny hamlet of Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland :greenland:. Everything got recorded :+1:t4:.

Strangely, none of my walks in Reykjavik, Iceland :iceland: got recorded. It’s been a few weeks now. I also went back to the streets that I did and marked them ‘manually completed’ but still nothing. Thoughts? Thank you in advance for your assistance!

A link to the Strava activity might be helpful

Yes, of course. Sorry.

Check out my walk on Strava: Rekjavik walk. Hallgrìms Church and the Iceland National Museum | Strava

Check out my walk on Strava: BSI bus stop | Strava

Thank you

Your Lifemap looks a bit strange. Did you just pause the watch between countries? I seem to remember a runner with a similar problem, so for ”over-long” activities only the first (or last?) part is calculated for CS. Could that maybe cause this? On the other hand I don’t see the same long activity in your Strava history. Have you done any editing in Strava?

Found the old discussion I mentioned: Progress calculation in a very long activity - #2 by JamesChevalier

These activities are present in CityStrides (these links will only work for you, due to Strava’s terms):

It does seem like the first one should have at least progressed some streets… I’ve sent all your activities in for reprocessing, hopefully that helps.