Strava Privacy Zone

How to setup a Strava Privacy Zone (reference). This feature hides address start/stop locations from your rides on the Strava maps.

STEPS:

Load up Strava on your favorite desktop browser and hover over your profile located on the top right of the site (between the bell and the plus icon). In the drop down list, select Settings.

Select settings

Select Settings

Wait for the new page to load. Once complete, click on the Privacy selection on the left side of the page.

Select Privacy

Select Privacy

Scroll down to the section “Hide your house/office on your activity maps” and locate the text box located just below. Add the address you would like to hide and select how big of a radius you would like to hide around your privacy zone and click Create Privacy Zone. Make sure to add a zip code. In my case, Strava used another state for my address when I excluded the zip code!

Add address

Add address

Happy Cycling!

Golden Cheetah

I got a power meter (PowerTap G3) last season and looked for a nice program to help me track my activities. With the help of Google and various cycling forums, I stumbled on a great open-source software that fit the bill. Golden Cheetah worked really well to organize my data (by date) and track how my activity went (nice charts and graphs). Combined with Garmin Connect, I could see how I did and see what I need to do next.