When we say #ownYourData we mean whatever data is important to you, like the data services aggregate about you and present back to you. Owning that data means extracting it into a form you can hang onto regardless of what the service does in the future (or disappears), and publishing whatever aspects of it you wish to, on your personal #indieweb site.
Speaking of year in reviews^1 and #Strava Year in Sport in particular, here are my brief notes for how to get the info from it (before it disappears after the 6th!^2) and save it locally so you can write and publish your own year in sport.
How to find your Strava: Year in Sport 2024
For 2024, the Strava Year in Sport 2024 is only available on the native mobile app (iOS and presumably Android) and not accessible via the website. Prior years which were available on the website e.g. 2018(.)strava(.)com and 2017(.)strava(.)com are long gone.
From the mobile app home screen, tap the "📋 You" button in the lower right corner.
At the top you should see:
"Play back your 2024" heading with an orange button:
[ See your Year in Sport ]
Tap that button.
Saving Seven Summary Segments
You should immediately see an animation start playing, with seven "segments" (like Instagram stories) at the top, gradually filling-in as progress indicators one at a time.
For each "segment" if you press the screenshot combination of buttons on your mobile (e.g. volume-up + power on iPhone 14), in addition to taking a screenshot it will put you in a "share" screen with one or more videos or still images to share in a carousel format.
For each item in the carousel (if there is more than one)
* tap the item in the carousel
* tap the "[↑] More" button at the bottom.
* scroll down the list of options up a bit
* tap "Save Video [↓]" or "Save Image [↓]" option to store it locally on your mobile.
The seventh "segment" is your overall summary, and shows all your sports combined.
Save it (as an image as noted above), then
* tap the "✏️ Customize" button
* choose an individual sport (e.g. "👟 Run")
* tap "Save changes"
* save that image (as above)
* tap customize again
* choose the next sport (e.g. "🚲 Ride")
* save changes again
* save image again
Strava seemingly only reports summaries of (up to?) two of your sports. Those were Run (presumably all running, street and trail) and Ride for me.
Cleanup Your Screenshots
After having saved all the videos/images for each "segment", you can:
* go back to your mobile’s top level Photos app/stream
* delete the screenshots
You should see all the videos/images you've saved. If anything is missing, go back to the previous steps and save them again, then remove any duplicates as necessary.
Post Your Year In Sport
Go through your saved videos/images, and either post on your own site as-is, or use your mobile’s built-in image OCR to copy the text bits into a plain personal year in sport note summary post on your own site. Or some combination of both if you prefer.
Add other summaries of your activities and sports as you see fit, like:
* 🧘🏻♂️💪🏻🪨 info on other sports (beyond running and biking), e.g. yoga, weight-lifting, bouldering etc.
* 🗓 total days active (of 366)
* 🪧 total distance (if applicable)
* 🆙 total elevation (if applicable)
* ⏱ total time
* other aspects of your activities (if you have the info)
* ⛰ mountains summited (new, per sport, and/or total different and overall)
* 🏔 snow-peaks summited (new, per sport, total different and overall)
* 🌋 calderas summited (new, per sport, total different and overall)
* personal leaderboards for your summited mountains
* top 5 most summited (per mountain)
* top 5 highest elevation mountains summited
* number of different cities, states, countries (new, per sport, total)
* 🏁 number of races you ran, biked etc. (and finished, if not the same)
* 🗓 total days raced (if different from number of races, per sport, total)
* 🪧 total distance you raced (per sport, total)
* 🆙 total elevation you raced (per sport, total)
* ⏱ total time spent racing (per sport, total)
* ⛰ mountains summited in races (new, per sport, total)
* 🏔 snow-peaks summited in races (new, per sport, total)
* 🌋 calderas summited (new, per sport, total different and overall)
* 🏅🏆 number of (or full set of) awards or trophies you earned at races
* 🖼 photo of all your medals and/or trophies if any
* any other stats that you think of that seem interesting to you
For each of these annual numbers, you could also compute (optionally display) the percentage change from 2023, if you happen to have those numbers around.
This is also a good reason to at least total up these numbers for 2024, whether you publish them or not, for figuring out the percentage change in 2025 next year.
When you publish your own year in sport post, might as well re-use the existing #YearInSport hashtag too.
I have already saved all the videos/images from my own Strava Year In Sport, and as I assemble the pieces into my own post, I’ll take more notes, and add to the IndieWeb year in review page^3 accordingly.
This post could also be improved with a few screenshots for a few of the steps above. I figured I’d publish my notes first to hopefully help some people sooner (since the Strava Year In Sport will disappear after January 6th as mentioned!). I might upload a few screenshots to the IndieWeb wiki later as well.
#yearInReview #ownYourYearInReview
This is post 3 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
← https://tantek.com/2025/001/t2/first-new-year-review-prior
→ https://tantek.com/2025/002/t1/indieweb-third-place-community
Glossary:
hashtag
https://indieweb.org/hashtag
own your data
https://indieweb.org/own_your_data
^1 https://tantek.com/2025/001/t2/first-new-year-review-prior
^2 https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/22067973274509-Your-Year-in-Sport#h_01HH5VW132BPDTEZJZDHBGJ6KM
^3 https://indieweb.org/year_in_review
The first of a new year seems like a good day to assemble, aggregate, summarize and publish various year in review posts for the prior year.
When various online services create a year in review for you many weeks before the end of the year (whether #Spotify #Wrapped or #Strava #YearInSport), it seems they are short-changing you.
No one asks for an 11 months in review (except HR departments, which is a different problem).
So why do people accept only an ~11 months summary when services provide such a premature “year” in review?
When people say things like “Make every day count” do they not also believe you should “Count every day”?
In this case, 2024 had 366 days. You should count every one of them, and every thing from every one of them.
Rather than “sharing” a premature year in review, request your “year in review” today on the 1st of the year from various services, extract the data you want, fill in any gaps, and post your year in reviews on your own site^1.
#yearInReview #ownYourYearInReview
This is post 2 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
← https://tantek.com/2025/001/t1/15-years-notes-my-site-first
→ https://tantek.com/2025/001/t3/strava-year-in-sport-how-to-get-info-save
Glossary:
year in review
https://indieweb.org/year_in_review
^1 https://indieweb.org/year_in_review#IndieWeb_Examples
Welcome to 2025!
15 years ago today I began posting notes on my own #indieweb site first, and only later on #socialMedia: https://tantek.com/2010/001/t1/declaring-independence-building-it
You can too.
I am once again encouraging you start the year with:
1. Getting a personal domain name
2. Posting on your own site first, then syndicating elsewhere: #POSSE
In 2025 there are even more neighborhoods with other people’s garages^1 to post into. Companies, servers, services, disappear all the time, taking all their posts and permalinks with them to graveyard 404^2.
This is your annual reminder to embrace #independent ownership of your online self, your creations, and their #longevity:
* Own your domain -> own your online identity
* Own your permalinks -> own your posts
Want help? Just ask: https://chat.indieweb.org/
#ownYourContent #ownYourData
Once again I am restarting a #100PostsOfIndieWeb #100Posts project for the year.
This is post 1.
Previously, previously, previously:
* https://tantek.com/2024/001/t1/restarting-100days-indieweb-gift-calendar
* https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
* https://tantek.com/2022/001/t1/12-years-notes-my-site
* https://tantek.com/2020/001/t1/10-years-notes-my-site
* https://tantek.com/2015/002/t1/notes-replies-faves-before-twitter-ownyourdata
← ✨
→ https://tantek.com/2025/001/t2/first-new-year-review-prior
Glossary:
IndieWeb
https://indieweb.org/
longevity
https://indieweb.org/longevity
post
https://indieweb.org/post
permalink
https://indieweb.org/permalink
personal domain name
https://indieweb.org/personal-domain
POSSE
https://indieweb.org/POSSE
syndicate
https://indieweb.org/syndicate
^1 https://tantek.com/2023/022/t2/own-your-notes-domain-migration
^2 https://indieweb.org/site-deaths
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