Connect Strava and manage the apps and devices your rides come from.
Last updated September 8, 2026 · Reviewed by Eric Lynn, Founder
Connect your Strava account to automatically sync rides to Riding Places.
Once connected, future rides recorded in Strava are automatically imported via webhook. GeoZone completions are detected from the ride GPS data.
Only New Rides Sync
Past rides are not imported. Only rides recorded after you connect will sync to Riding Places.
Read-Only Access
Riding Places only reads your Strava data. It never posts, modifies, or deletes anything on your Strava account.
Rides Need a Route
Any kind of ride syncs, including indoor trainer rides, as long as the ride has a GPS route. Zwift and other indoor platforms record a route as you ride, so those rides come across and count like any other. An activity you type into Strava by hand has no route, so it will not sync to Riding Places.
When you save a ride in Strava, it tells Riding Places to:
This typically happens within a few seconds of saving your Strava ride. A synced ride also advances the live Rambles in your groups (some Rambles ask you to confirm before they count your rides) - open the ride and check its Rambles dropdown to see what it moved.
If you record with a Garmin, Wahoo, or Apple Watch, you can still sync to Riding Places:
Your device syncs to Strava, which then syncs to Riding Places automatically. This chain works seamlessly in the background.
The same ride can reach Riding Places from more than one place - your phone and Strava, or your Apple Watch and Strava, for example. When that happens we keep both copies together as a single ride and count only one of them, so your points, leaderboards, and donations are never doubled.
You decide which source wins. In Settings, open Integration priority and use the up and down arrows to order your sources from most to least trusted - for any ride recorded by more than one, the highest source in your list is the copy that counts. Integration priority only appears once you have rides from two or more sources; if you always use one, there is nothing to set.
You can also override a single ride: open the ride and choose which recorded copy should count for that ride alone.
There are two ways to bring watch rides into Riding Places:
If your watch already syncs to Strava - an Apple Watch through Apple Health, for example - connecting Strava brings those rides across automatically, as described above.
The Riding Places mobile app can import completed outdoor cycling workouts recorded with the Workout app on your Apple Watch, through the Apple Health app, without Strava. In the app, go to Settings > Integrations > Apple Health and tap Import from Apple Health; when the Health app asks, allow Riding Places to read Workouts and Workout Routes. It brings in workouts from the last 30 days, then new ones when you open the app (or when you tap Import now on the Apple Health card); indoor rides without a GPS route are not imported, and Riding Places never writes to the Health app. Watch import is set up in the app, not on the web.
Android watch import is coming soon; it will work the same way, through Health Connect.
Rides synced from Strava don't include commute details. To track CO2 savings:
Go to Settings → Integrations and click Disconnect. Previously synced rides remain in your history, but future Strava rides will not sync.
If your Strava rides aren't appearing in Riding Places:
If a GeoZone completion wasn't detected:
Learn how to connect Strava to automatically sync your rides to Riding Places, including Garmin and Wahoo devices.
How to manage your Riding Places account on the website: profile and image, units, email and password, email preferences, integrations and account deletion.
How to view and filter your ride history on the Riding Places website, edit a ride, see its CO2 savings and how commutes are detected, or delete a ride.
