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Strava Live Segments as Walk or Hike activities

Tim_B_
over 4 years ago

I have a Fenix 6x Pro, just started using it. Also have an Edge 510/530 and have been using Strava segments for years.

My bike segments have all synced across to the watch fine but there doesn’t seem to be the option for Strava segments under Walk or Hike profiles?

Trail run DOES have a segment option but there is nothing in it. I have some activities on Strava categorised as “walks” and have starred a segment on an activity, it shows in my Garmin Connect dashboard. The bike segments all have a little bike against them, the walk segment has nothing. Do I need to match activities in Strava to match an activity type on the watch? (Walk = Walk, Run = Run etc).

The activity was recorded with a Samsung Galaxy watch before I got the fenix.

I’m still trying to get my head around the activity profiles ie: is a walk in a hilly national park a walk, or a hike, or a trail run, even though I’m just walking etc?

  • +1 over 4 years ago

    Ok, sort of answering my own question here but I found

    • I had to change my Strava Walk activity to a Run activity
    • I had to delete the segment I created (was created as a walk segment) and recreate it as a run segment and star it again.
    • The segment now shows in GC with a little run symbol (like the bike symbol above)
    • Strava Live segments now show the new segment under Trail Run (and Run etc)

    I’m sure it probably makes sense, but seems a bit convoluted at present, I still don’t know why walk/hike cannot have segments.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Tim_B_

    I think the logic is simply that when people hike or walk speed is usually not the end goal and most simply would not want to be bothered with segments. Shen you trail run you may be interested in beating a target time. But this is a generalization of course and on some challenging hike routes hiking against the clock may make since. They have to grow a line somewhere.  Now nothing stop you from pretending a trail run on a specific hike you want to race. Have fun out there.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Martin868

    Thanks, this is basically the same conclusion that I came too.