I didn't renew my subscription this year because I wanted to re-evaluate why I was using Strava. The social aspect of it is becoming less and less interesting for me. It doesn't matter if I take a quick 20 mile ride after work or a metric century ride on the weekend, the same people always give me kudos. And for some reason I'll occasionally get a random kudo from someone in Brazil or Germany or California. No idea why that is unless they see me from some club I belong to.

My feed has become clogged with lots of stuff I'm not interested in. If anyone I follow joins a challenge it shows up in my feed which is really annoying especially if multiple people sign up for multiple challenges at the same time. Someone I follow has a Peloton and each time he rides it there are about 5 entries under his name in my feed, one each for stretching, warm up, the ride itself, cool down and post ride stretch. All take up the same amount of real estate on the computer screen. I don't really want to see anyone else's virtual rides anyway. I'm just interested in seeing the folks I know ride the roads I'm familiar with.

I found myself checking the status of all of my segment efforts after each ride and decided that was taking away from my pleasure of cycling. The feeling trying to compete with everyone else while out on a ride was always in the back of my mind, so I turned off the live segments on my Bolt.

Even if I were to subscribe to Strava, they don't have a major piece that I would be interested in and that is being able to do ad-hoc reports. Something like show me all rides I've done this year solo versus a group ride (driven with how I've tagged them with my own tags). Show me all rides I've done with more that 3,000' of climbing. How many time did I ride with my wife? Stuff like that. As far as I know, there's no way to export that type of data into a spreadsheet. If Strava doesn't have that yet, I know that it would be a major lift to bolt on a reporting suite.

I've been looking into RWGPS and supporting them with a subscription rather than Strava. I like their route planning module, it syncs automatically with my Bolt, there's not the social "fluff" aspect that I'm not interested in and I can create private segments if I want to see how I progress on stretches I'm interested in (I know that you can do that in Strava).

I do like Strava's maintenance module with the ability to track mileage on individual components. I'm not sure if RWGPS has that ability or not.

So far this year, I've survived with out paying much attention to Strava.