How do I get the wind on my Strava rides?
Updated
Go to windline.tech/strava and tap Connect with Strava. After every outdoor ride you upload, Windline adds a short summary of what the wind did to it to the end of the ride’s description, worked out for each stretch at the time you rode it. Free, with no Windline account.
Connect once
- Open windline.tech/strava and tap Connect with Strava.
- On Strava’s screen, keep both boxes ticked: Windline reads your ride to work out its wind, and adds the summary to its description.
- That’s it. Upload rides as usual, from Garmin, Wahoo, Strava on your phone or anything else.
What gets added
Within a minute of an upload, three short lines appear at the end of the ride’s description, after your own words:
- The wind’s story: for example, a headwind that made the ride about 18% harder, and where it was worst.
- The weather: the wind’s speed and direction, gusts, the temperature (and how cold it felt at speed) and any rain.
- Where it’s from: Windline, with Apple Weather data.
The wind is worked out from your ride’s own GPS track and times: each stretch of road gets Apple Weather for that place at the hour you were there, compared with the direction you were riding.
Which rides
Outdoor rides with GPS, 5 km or longer: road, gravel, mountain bike and e-bike. Indoor and virtual rides, and rides only you can see, are left alone. Each ride gets the summary once; edit or delete it in Strava like any other text.
Units
They follow the country on your Strava profile: miles, mph and °F in the United States, kilometres and °C in most other places.
Stop any time
Disconnect at windline.tech/strava, or in Strava under Settings → My Apps. Windline deletes the connection straight away. See what Windline keeps.