The biggest change, at least in terms of the amount of code changed, is that different sports can now have separate FTP histories and power zones, which means runs with running power (and rowing etc.) can now comfortably co-exist with rides with power data. To get started, go to the bottom of the power management page and set up the power for another sport (the options only exist when there are non-cycling activities). Where relevant, analysis charts, like the power curve chart, now have buttons at the top to filter by sport when there are multiple sports. They default to showing the most frequent sport of the previous six months, and there’s also the option to filter by a custom expression.
You might notice a little button on the left of the calendar saying something like “New rides (3).” Clicking this brings up a little editor to change the title and description and a few other things of recently added activities. This is just like the interface that comes up when manually uploading files (which now works much better on small screens), and gives a convenient way to set some basic details for rides that get into this system through automatic uploading. Rides are considered new for two weeks from the time of the activity. If you don’t want this new button, there’s an option to turn it off from the “options” button underneath.
To go with the above, the way titles are sent to Strava has changed a little. If you have “custom titles” set for Strava on the linked accounts page, the title you enter on the upload/new rides editor or from manually editing on the ride page will be sent to Strava to use for the same activity there. Titles aren’t sent from the upload/new rides editor if you don’t change them from the default. Changing the title on the ride page has worked like this for a while, but the upload tool previously had a separate option for titles that only allowed titles to be sent if the file itself was only sent to Strava when the checkbox on the upload form was checked.
This update has many other bits and pieces, although they generally aren’t very exciting. There’s a lot of tweaks and fixes. The rides table page works better on mobile. The next updates should have some more interesting new features.
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