Creating a manual ride that will be accepted by the BAFS sync

I don’t see why a ridewithgps.com gpx/txc export would not work.

@jrenaut 174202 wrote:

Doesn’t it need time info? Can you do that with ridewithgps? I thought I tried it once and couldn’t get it to work, but maybe that was user error.

Ah, I see your point. There is some concept of time (speed) in the GPX exports, I believe, but perhaps there is incorrect absolute time about when the activity was to occur. You could always pull open the XML and write a script to fix the timestamps. I haven’t looked at a GPX or TCX file recently, but I remember them being pretty simple in structure.

Well, if you wanted to make a tiny webapp in a Docker container that takes a GPX and just corrects the timestamps, we can put up a fixmyride.freezingsaddles.org utility or something.

But, yeah, there’s probably a way to do this that doesn’t require custom software.

@jrenaut 174202 wrote:

Doesn’t it need time info? Can you do that with ridewithgps? I thought I tried it once and couldn’t get it to work, but maybe that was user error.

In looking at TCX files, it looks like ridewithgps.com uses the time the file was created. But there are a few other elements in the RWGPS “course” that are not present for a “history” (ride) file — and vice versa. I haven’t tried uploading the course to strava, but if it complained, it’s probably because of these extra metadata elements that are present for courses.

You can download a gpx file of a ride the same milage as the one you need to replace or make up for, and then open it in notepad. Then use the notepad edit menu to find all instances of the date the ride was recorded [xxxx-xx-xx], and replace those with the desired new date. Then upload the edited gpx through the Strava desktop sites manual ride upload menu.

editing in step by step guide (windows computer)

1. In your strava profile click on Training > My activities and open the ride you want to duplicate
2. click on the “actions” box with the wrench icon on the left side and select “export gpx”
3. rightclick on the gpx file and open it with notepad
4. find an example of the date the ride was made in the wall of text (ex: 2018-02-01), highlight it and copy it. Don’t copy the timestamp part of the string (ex: T12:12:20Z), just the date.
5. from the menu select Edit>Replace
6. in the “find what” box paste the date you just copied (ex: 2018-02-01)
7. in the “replace with” box paste the date again but change the last digit to the new day you want (ex: 2018-02-06)
8. hit “replace all” and close the prompt
9. save the file
10. back to your strava profile, click the orange + icon on the upper right and select “upload activity”
11. chose “file” from the left, and upload the gpx you edited in notepad

    you should have a new ride that is an exact duplicate of the old ride, but on a different day
    if you didn’t find and replace the exact date characters (like messing up the year-month-day format) the uploaded gpx will give you an error

I’ve had to do this twice this year to replace commutes that the strava phone app decided to disappear on me.

Or they could just go out and do the ride all over again! HTFU! :p

@chuxtr 174237 wrote:

Or they could just go out and do the ride all over again! HTFU! :p

https://www.strava.com/activities/1346351377